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.

 

[Frozen_Heart]

What a timeline we're in... What sort of team would Musk assemble? My guess (sarcastically)...

D&D 6E
President: Elon Musk
Lead Designer: Alexander Marcis
Design Team: RPGPundit, Greg Gillespie, and James Edward Raggi IV.
Sensitivity & Exclusivity Experts: Jordan Peterson and James Lindsay.
Public Relations: Joe Rogan

Come on, we all know it won't be called 6th Edition.

It will be Dungeons and Dragons - Edition-X.

 

[Horwath]

Prepare for the Cyber-Ranger.

we'll call it Xanger.

 

[M_Natas]

But to be honest, Musk is just acting like a bully and is rattling everyone's cages, just for fun/spite. I'm not saying it's impossible, but unlikely.

It is not for fun. It is a scare tactic. Like bullying. But just on a national level. He doesn't need to buy every company he threatens, just one or twice and the other will fall in line.
Like a bully just needs to beat up one or two kids before the others freely give him his lunch money.
Twitter was just his first victim.

 

[Horwath]

Come on, we all know it won't be called 6th Edition.

It will be Dungeons and Dragons - Edition-X.

DXD 1st edition.

 

[trappedslider]

God, fine it's doomed Musk will buy hasbro...D&D is doomed..again. But SOMEHOW MTG still lives on because everyone forgets that it's also part of WotC and hasbro

I'm out.

 

[Corinnguard]

He's going to need to learn to cast Wish in order to get 1/10th of that into reality?

Is he capable of carefully wording that Wish? Let alone critically think about the unintended consequences of that Wish.

 

[trappedslider]

Musk could easily buy WotC or the D&D brand. Just money. And Hasbro needs money.

then


Close the thread, open up a new one for reactions/predictions.

 

[Cergorach]

Xanathar the new iconic bad guy?

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I hope not: at the end of October, I was really looking forward to never having to think about Elon Musk again, now all...this.

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Your going to be having a rough time over the next 4 years.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Think about every corporate purchase choice Musk's made so far. It's all about his dream to get to Mars: Boring company, to drill tunnels on Mars; Hyperloop, for transport on Mars; SpaceX, to get to Mars and launch satellites for communications with Starlink; Tesla, for electric engines to power things without oil and coal and gas; Solar City, to generate electricity and Powerwall to reinvent batteries to be higher capacity to run all night even when solar cannot collect; Neuralink, to pilot a variety of things from a distance from anywhere; AI, to cover a variety of jobs humans can't do in that environment; and Twitter, to gather political communications power to promote all these things.

Now how does Hasbro, an ailing $8B toy and games company, fit into this? The answer is it simply doesn't. He's just yanking your chain. He does this.

Hasbro builds toys and video games that can be used to inspire children to dream of going to Mars, so they grow up supporting Musk's vision. Imagine Pippa Pig goes to Mars or Transformers building a base on Mars, Exodus is mostly already there with themes of space exploration and colonization of new planets. Mars could be done up as a Sci fi setting for D&D, putting the idea in D&D players heads. MtG could do an Invasion from Mars set.