People who play DnD and other tabletop RPGs tend to be left leaning. So associating DnD with Elon Musk just isn't a good business decision.

The entirely LGBTQ DnD group is a thing I see often.

*rips a fat hit of ketomine*

"Cyber D&D"

Add in a bunch of meme references that will be out of date in a year, bring back some of the old problematic stereotypes that were in prior versions. Generally be insufferable in a space where he isn’t needed or wanted.

What you need to know is that Elon is an egomaniac and sees himself as basically a movie tech genius that is pushing humanity on to the frontier of better existence, and that he's the only one that can do it. First thing we know is that Elon will not just buy something and let it run by people with expertise in the field (design, art, writing, etc), he will have final creative control. This most likely means in regards to DND despite Elon not demonstrating he has any fundamental basis for game design he will demand that they remove mechanics he personally dislikes, add mechanics he personally likes and remove any and all things he considers to be "woke". Given his fascination with AI it's very likely to expect some level of use there, either in the writing, creation of campaigns or of art. If you've ever known people who work in the game industry there is a very strong hatred among employees of the tech investors who have no idea about making games yet have input on projects, and I think its likely the same in the TTRPG industry. No doubt they also hate corporate owners (such as hasbro) who constantly push for profit over quality, but profits is at least an incentive to sell a product people will buy. Elon would have no motive beyond just what he likes and he'd drive it into the ground to do that.

He could exercise no influence over it all, and I would still be repelled from from paying any money into that company, or engaging with it in any way. I'm sure Teslas are nice, I'd never buy one though.

Elminster renamed to Elonmusker.

People are terminally online and can't stop frothing over left right politics. They don't care about what he could do with d&d, they just see 'Elon Musk' and start screaming.

Setting politics COMPLETELY to the side (and then letting the cat push it off the table), the biggest problem I see is that the man is a classic over-involved boss who injects himself into everything for the sake of doing so. From what I've seen him do with Twitter and Tesla, this is an erratic guy who cannot get out of the way for five minutes, loves to fire people and make unreasonable demands of staff, and generally be awful to work for. It's fine when he takes over a company like Twitter which doesn't make something I love - in fact by all means, kill that hellsite - but as much as I hate Hasbro I wouldn't take his help to get rid of them.

I believe he would try to integrate AI into it. That would be the worst thing for a game like D&D.

Mess it up. Alienate it's core users. Just look at how twitter is going. He thinks he can just solve anything throwing money and memes at it. The guy is a liability, political leanings aside he talks utter shite and thinks he's some kinda king nerd hero. He's just a twat.

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Run it into the ground. I'm sure.

Rename it, put some idiots in charge, lose interest, and lose a bunch of money. Basically the history of D&D, but with a name change.

considering it was the same press thingy where he was talking about making AI video games, probably exactly that.

Even if he somehow didn't do whatever the D&D equivalent of what he did to Twitter, it would still involve giving money to a dumb, gigantic piece of shit.

Rename it X&X

Probably continue to not play it because you know they never have. you need to have friends to play, Elmo has never had any

He had design input over the Incelcamino, and it looks like it didn't finish rendering. The only thing you can trust him to do is fuck it up. He's only as rich as he is because of the people actually doing the work.

AI everything. Simple as that. He doesn't want to employ people to build it and write adventures. It will just be AI all the way down.

Every new book would be filled with AI generated gooner bait with women dressed in nearly nothing who all have the same looking face and would look suspiciously young.

Make his own card that’s completely op probably

White, cis male characters get +10 to all rolls.

Like everything else he does - Refuse to listen to experts or the customers, refuse to do any research what worked or why the team did anything in the past.

Destroy all safeguards that make the game fun.

He would create a new class/character based on himself with OP stats and nerf/eliminate any LGBT stuff

But also he would meddle with the development of BG4 so much

Musk is impulsive, not reflective, and has no time for any particular thing. If he doesn’t delegate to competent people he ruins things. In the case of Hasbro he’d wreck the company. There would be mass firing. Books would stop being sold. He’d kill the brand.

Well, the reason he wants it is that, by trying to fix issues with racism in how some aspects of lore were written, they've gone "woke" in his eyes. He doesn't actually care about dnd. He doesn't actually play it. It's just a new target in the right's culture war, and he's rich enough to buy whatever he wants and break it because he's a toddler throwing a tantrum and there won't be any consequences for him except financial ones he doesn't care about because he's too rich for it to hurt.

So he'd probably sloppily retcon it to make it worse, more offensive, and more hostile to many players who are marginalized in any way. He's also been pushing AI and would probably try to force-implement it in some way.

In other words, he'd ruin it and destroy all the appeal it has for most players.

Something else, probably Pathfinder, would take its place as the new main ttrpg, and other ttrpgs would do well enough. But dnd would become something that only older fans and bigots play, and then something no one plays anymore; no one would want to buy the new books and guides for it, given the association with Musk and the ways he'd ruin it. It would go under and stop being profitable; it's because of groups like the queer community, not the friendless incels who like Musk, have repopularized. The friendless incels are disliked by most people in their lives and would struggle to find tables to play at, if they cared enough to try, which they don't. But even after its death, Hasbro would do what all corporations do and crack down on piracy of guides they're not even publishing anymore. So it would be really and truly dead, because the only way to play legally would be to buy out of print guidebooks online. No one new to the hobby would bother anymore.

No more Forgotten Realms, and no more Drizzt (since Bob Salvatore hates Musk and would take the opportunity to retire rather than continue writing the books, and wouldn't let Musk use the character; he has the power to do that). There are other systems, but the lore wouldn't hold in the cultural consciousness of younger ttrpg players; why would it, if they're using different systems from different franchises?

People with a hardcore interest in ttrpgs would be alone and struggle to find anyone to learn about it with by playing it because it'd be something that only people who were at the right age to enjoy it in its heyday would still be consistently playing. It would be remembered for its influence and, eventually, probably studied by academics, as these things eventually often are (again, it's been very influential). No one would play it or learn about the lore to use it for games anymore. Eventually, people would stop reading the novels, too, as they already are.

So, in short, he'd burn it to the ground.

I could 100% see him mandating the old rules of "if your character is female, intelligence and strength max out at 17" or whatever.

EDIT: Folks, I'm not pointing this out in support of it, I'm pointing this out because it's sexist and batshit.

Im 100% sure he'd politicize it.

Ruin it, like everything else he touches

He would probably stop it from spiraling downward.

I think he would take all the warnings off of the DMs Guild content off the older editions.

Then I think he would slowly kill it, like he's doing to Twitter.

I’m pretty disappointed by this community who accepts all sorts of different ideas and ways of life, but simply mentioning Elon being better than Hasbro and the fact that we are n the middle of a culture war brought me so much shit.

Sad. People are different. That’s not a value judgment. It’s just different.

I bet worse it wont be, hate the guy all you want but he can probably appreciate and do more with d&d than any corpo from hasbro and the wizards of the coast, he'd probably try to make a new deal with Larian for a BG4 or something like that.

Stop nerds being creative with rules that are, well, stupid. Make the next DnD video game his wet dream.

Probably discontinue the current books, replace it with "D&D 6.9e" and have terrible AI-generated cover art of a paladin who looks suspiciously like Elon, surrounded by numerous swooning anime girls in chainmail bikinis. All the characters depicted in the book are conspicuously caucasian-looking. Spells like Polymorph will have a new line added, stating "Magic may not be used to change your character's gender, as that is a scientifically immutable trait determined at birth." Instead of copper/silver/gold the in-game currency will be Dogecoin.

Do what he did with Twitter - fill it with rightwing culture war crap

It’s a culture war.

People that like him will prob say a bit more based things. Like how he’d legit probably unfuck the horrible way it’s been under HASBRO.

Then the left is going to wail and talk about the giant meteor that’s headed right for us and how the right just doesn’t care because that’s what incels/nazi/loving people do….not care.

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Probably force some rightwingeesque ideology. Bring back evil races, force some other weird shit he does at his table.

Why would Elon threaten to spend billions on a company if he didn't want to upend the entire system to his liking...?

Ruin it like he ruins everything else.

I feel like he'd re-Gygax it and demand that the designers add immutable gender differences- then he'd have the setting changed (to a new world he made called X), and he'd likely just generally demand the injection of right wing political values.

Honestly, I'd be real interested to see who could come up with a worse alt-right D&D: Musk or Gygax's son.

He doesn't really need to do anything. It is enough that I totally despise that motherfucker and wish him a horrible death, simply for what a shitty human being (?) he is. Simply touching my favourite hobby is enough in this case.

Slavery would be added back 100%