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Elon Musk VS WotC on their Trashing of Gary Gygax

Started by jeff37923, November 22, 2024, 06:12:36 PM

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ShieldWife

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November 22, 2024, 11:22:18 PM
I have an idea, Elon Musk should just buy Dungeons and Dragons from Hasbro!

HappyDaze

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November 22, 2024, 11:46:51 PM
Quote from: ShieldWife on November 22, 2024, 11:22:18 PMI have an idea, Elon Musk should just buy Dungeons and Dragons from Hasbro!
To what end?

zircher

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November 22, 2024, 11:51:57 PM
Don't cha know? Elon is one of the cool kids now.  :-)
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WERDNA

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Today at 12:55:06 AM
Quote from: HappyDaze on November 22, 2024, 11:46:51 PM
Quote from: ShieldWife on November 22, 2024, 11:22:18 PMI have an idea, Elon Musk should just buy Dungeons and Dragons from Hasbro!
To what end?
To the ends of the current owner not having it. At least Musk doesn't hate on the origins of the game. The bar has gotten so low.

jeff37923

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Today at 12:56:13 AM
Clownfish TV is also covering this and have produced a much more informative video.

"Meh."

ShieldWife

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Today at 01:32:19 AM
Quote from: HappyDaze on November 22, 2024, 11:46:51 PMTo what end?

Quote from: WERDNA on Today at 12:55:06 AMTo the ends of the current owner not having it. At least Musk doesn't hate on the origins of the game. The bar has gotten so low.

So many major corporations, especially ones that relate to entertainment and media, have been taken over by woke fanatics. It's hard to find a show or movie to watch that isn't woke craziness.

If Elon can take D&D and make it a-political, that would be a great accomplishment. Maybe he could even improve on it - preserve some of the streamlined new rules but recapture the soul and excitement of D&D of the past.

Rhymer88

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Today at 03:11:33 AM
Quote from: ShieldWife on November 22, 2024, 11:22:18 PMI have an idea, Elon Musk should just buy Dungeons and Dragons from Hasbro!

Hasbro won't sell off that IP. However, Elon might be able to buy Hasbro as a whole and then divest himself of the bits he doesn't want (probably at a loss). I don't know how many people WotC still employs, but most of them would probably have to go.

SHARK

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Today at 04:19:47 AM
Quote from: jeff37923 on Today at 12:56:13 AMClownfish TV is also covering this and have produced a much more informative video.



Greetings!

Great video, Jeff! Clownfish is great! Man, Sparkle Girl just WENT OFF! She's awesome!

WOTC has so thoroughly corrupted D&D it is disgusting. I think many fans are quite happy to play D&D using some other modified OSR system, and just leave WOTC in the dust with their Woke version of D&D. With every scandal, every horrible interview and Twitter quote WOTC makes, they simply become more and more irrelevant and divorced from the hobby. All of that is even further cemented with every terrible book that WOTC produces.

There are tens of thousands of gamers, maybe more, that have left WOTC in the rearview mirror. WOTC has hugely and severely insulted their actual fanbase--the people that have played D&D for years and consistently spend money on WOTC products--and those results in response are I think having a severe cascading effect upon WOTC. Certainly a strike against their profitability in the short-term, but while the Woke WOTC people smugly congratulate themselves on a new digital D&D, such cascading effects are surely eating away at future profitability and market reputation in irrevocable and devastating ways.

Elon Musk is awesome, too! It would be fantastic if Elon Musk bought WOTC. *Laughing* Just knowing that Elon Musk would certainly fire 75% or more of all of these Woke idiots at WOTC makes me smile. It would be glorious to see! Truth be told, I don't expect Elon Musk to buy WOTC or HASBRO, but this marketing face-plant by WOTC in getting Elon Musk's attention just contributes even more to the market disgust against WOTC.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK
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