The parent company of Dungeons & Dragons publisher Wizards of the Coast will buy D&D Beyond, the role-playing game’s popular digital suite of tools. The company announced the news this week in a press release, disclosing that it would buy D&D Beyond from current owner Fandom in a $146.3 million cash deal. Wizards of the Coast is a subsidiary of toy-maker Hasbro, which bought the company in 1999.
Fandom, which hosts fan sites for popular titles across movies, games and TV, bought D&D Beyond and the rest of the company’s media assets back in 2017 from game mod and community tool Curse, which was in the process of being absorbed into a deal with Twitch.
“D&D Beyond has been one of our most valuable partners in the digital space for the past six years and we’re excited to bring their be …
