Why can’t I just buy D&D from Hasbro?

This isn’t the first time the future of WOTC’s independence has come up. One of the concerns floated by Wizards of the Coast during the OGL controversy was that a major competitor, like Disney or Meta, could use the Open Game License to potentially create its own Dungeons & Dragons content, thereby edging Hasbro out of its own market. This precipitated the entire OGL debacle, alienating many small press publishers who used the license, as Hasbro’s lawyers sought to add safeguards that prevented just such an event from happening. But in the meantime:

1. Buying a company isn’t easy.

2. Hasbro has assets that can be leveraged

3. Hasbro has a diverse stockholder set.

That doesn’t make it impossible, but it does make it a lot more difficult to buy than say, a certain jackass buying Twitter.

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