D&D General Elon Musk Wants To Know 'How Much Is Hasbro?'

Following the richest man in the world's attack on Wizards of the Coast for two paragraphs in the 500-page celebration of D&D, The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons 1970-1977, Elon Musk--who bought Twitter not that long ago--wants to know how much D&D's owner Hasbro would cost.

After the public sharing on Twitter of Jason Tondro's (who wrote the book’s foreword) private Facebook posts, Musk replied "How much is Hasbro?"

Hasbro's estimated capitalization is currently $8.71 billion, with $3.95 billion of debt.

It was on 21st December 2017 when Musk similarly enquired "How much is it?" before proceeding to make a bid for Twitter. He later tried to back out of the deal, but was forced to buy the platform for $44 billion in June 2022. Current estimates by investment firm Fidelity put the platform at a value 80% less than when he bought it, with a worth of only about $9.4 billion.

 

[Parmandur]

Hasbor might cost $8B... I'm not sure it's worth it.

Not to the banks Musk would need to actually give him the tender, nope.

 

[payn]

Will wait for "rich guy wants to buy hasbro and I refuse to care" thread.

 

[overgeeked]

I could give you examples, but I might get smacked for introducing politics into the thread.

You wouldn't need to. Look at Twitter before Musk bought it and Twitter now. Easily 1000x worse.

 

[cranberry]

Don't sell the man short. He'd be so much worse than that.

I'd give you more than 100 likes for that comment if I could.

 

[OptionalRule]

Is it just me or is this turning into EloN World?

 

[overgeeked]

Sorry to be that guy, but. Called it.

Elon Musk Calls for Wizards of the Coast to "Burn in Hell" Over Making of Original D&D Passages

Elon Musk, the owner of the app formerly known as Twitter, is calling on Wizards of the Coast and its parent company Hasbro to "burn in hell" for the publication of Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons. On November 21st, former gaming executive turned culture warrior Mark Hern posted several...

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[overgeeked]

Is it just me or is this turning into EloN World?

After the purchase is finalized, then it's Elon's World.

Silver lining. Well, maybe this is what it takes for D&D to finally stop dominating 90+% of the RPG market.

 

[Oofta]

My prediction of what would happen?
Step 1: Rename D&D to X2.
Step 2: Fire everyone who knows what they're doing
Step 3: Return X2 to it's glory days of misogamy, racism and biases
Step 4: Publish only AI generated product in the name of efficiency
Step 5: Brag about the ashes created by the burning corpse of the company

 

[Morrus]

Is it just me or is this turning into EloN World?

I mean, there's two whole threads about him!

 

[EthanSental]

Worst bit of rumor and tweet info but I’m not letting his idiotic junk ruin my Thanksgiving. He can go back to trying to spin why the telsa trucks unbreakable window broke….revisionist history that one big boy!