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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 7877440" data-attributes="member: 6988941">As per Wikipedia, D&D had moved a billion dollars in product by 2004, primarily in the form of books. The Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings fantasy brands each have about half that in book sales. As fantasy entertainment properties go outside of film it is almost certainly the most successful grossing brand of all time. Of course film properties (which it may be again soon) often have income and expenditures an order of magnitude higher than their underlying written media (the Aquaman movie took in about as much as the entire industry of actual comic books did that year, and it was only freaking Aquaman). Net profits are obviously a very different matter for all these things but so far as brand value it is pretty high up there for anything printed on pages. Now, as for the costs of a AAA title "could probably buy it", yeah, probably. TSR in it's entirety was sold to Wizards of the Coast in 1997 for $25 million, about $40 mil in todays dollars, but then again that was a bankruptcy fire-sale and sales were in an ongoing decline at that point. Who knows what it would take to talk Hasbro into parting with the brand the now much healthier brand, but yes, I would guess probably not as much as the very most expensive games.</blockquote>