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This month in Wired there is an interview with Patton Oswalt titled "You Nerdy Rat" where he talks about D&D. Here's the part of the very short interview.
Wired You're nearly 40, and you're returned to playing Dungeons & Dragons. Please explain.
Oswalt It's a benign way to have a midlife crisis that doesn't involve sports cars. My wife is probably hoping, "Maybe tonight he'll just go to a strip club..." Instead, I'm out rolling dice and saying things like, "I don't know if a Wall of Fog spell lasts that long!"
That's it. Anyone else have some tidbits to contribute?
Yeah, Vin Diesel is apparently a HUGE D&D nerd.
I might have a bit of a man crush on him because of that.
Yeah, Vin Diesel is apparently a HUGE D&D nerd.
I might have a bit of a man crush on him because of that.
LOL
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More Vin Diesel trivia: His chest/stomach tattoo says "Melchior" - the name of his D&D Character. :)
Mmm...Vin Diesel... *licks Vin's bald head*
Other celebs that play that I know of is Stephen Colbert, Robin Williams, Wil Wheaton (of course).
Vin Diesel wrote the forward for the "30th Anniversary of Dungeons and Dragons" book. That was a few years ago.
I had a conversation with Dave Chappel about DnD. He's played before, but he's a bigger video game and comic book nerd.
El Skootro
More Vin Diesel trivia: His chest/stomach tattoo says "Melchior" - the name of his D&D Character. :)
Mmm...Vin Diesel... *licks Vin's bald head*
You take one side of his bald head & I'll take the other! :o)
Little known fact about Vin Diesel, he is so mighty that Gary Gygax wanted to name a monster after him, but he wouldn’t allow his name to be used for fear that PC’s would constantly run away. That is why we now fight the mighty Tarrasque, instead of the mighty Vin Diesel
Oh, and WWCND?
Not me. I'll whup imm.
Will you add Vin to your cryptozoology thread?
El Skootro
Steven Spielberg used to play, I think. He put D&D into one of the opening scenes of E.T.
Steven Spielberg used to play, I think. He put D&D into one of the opening scenes of E.T.
Hmm... I'm not too sure about that. By the time D&D came about, Spielberg was already hard at work for Universal, and especially in the early days of one's directing career, one has little time for other pursuits, particularly something like D&D (which is brain-resource intensive).
More importantly, E.T. was directed by Spielberg, but written by Harrison Ford's ex, Melissa Mathison, who was probably just a good writer, aware of the D&D phenomenon, and wrote it into her script.
Or her or Spielberg's kids had played it or something.
I think it's unlikely that Spielberg has ever played seriously himself (not counting getting roped into a game by his kids -- many of us have done the same to our parents, which doesn't automatically make them gamers).
More Vin Diesel trivia: His chest/stomach tattoo says "Melchior" - the name of his D&D Character. :)
This entertaining myth started up during the filming of xXx. His character was heavily tattooed, so he requested that the makeup artists put the name of his D&D character amongst them.
He doesn't have a real tattoo of his character's name. Like the rest of us, I'm sure he has gone through countless characters.