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Post by warrioroffrobozz on Jul 21, 2012 3:47:43 GMT -6
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Post by paulg on Jul 21, 2012 12:47:02 GMT -6
Stephen Colbert has spoken about playing D&D.
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Post by thorswulf on Jul 21, 2012 18:26:04 GMT -6
Brian May of Queen played Warhammer with his son. Don't know about D&D. Trent Reznor oof NIN paints miniatures according to a friend of mine who did an extermination job at his place. It wouldn't surprise me if Rob Zombie played rpgs.
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Post by talysman on Jul 22, 2012 15:46:44 GMT -6
There's Wil Wheaton, but that's pretty well-known. He practically advertises for WotC. He's currently doing some kind of webseries or podcast about tabletop gaming in general, but I don't know if he's done/will do any RPG-related episodes.
There was an article in either Time or Newsweek I think around the time 3e was going to be released or had just been released, where a journalist had Jonathan Tweet run a game for him and Elijah Wood.
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Post by aher on Jul 23, 2012 19:21:43 GMT -6
This book includes many short (1-2 page) essays, written by celebrities, recounting their experiences playing D&D: Archer, Peter (editor). 30 Years of Adventure: A Celebration of Dungeons & Dragons. Wizards of the Coast Publishing, 2006. 286 pages.  Some of these celebrities have already been mentioned in this thread-- Vin Diesel wrote the Foreward. He talks about his favorite character, an anti-social, Chaotic-Neutral, Half Drow named "Melkor Tar Morloth." Stephen Colbert (p. 38) played a female character named Lulu, based on his sister. She was part of the witch class (Dragon #114, Oct., 1986), and her party's only survivor of the 1980 Judges Guild module The Thieves of Fortress Badabaskor. Made it up to level 23, when the DM got sick of her, and killed her, while she was riding her dragon, by making it rain acid, up instead of down. Also says his favorite moments were from the G1-2-3: Against the Giants series of modules. Wil Wheaton (p. 48) Started with the redbox version that included KotB. He prefered playing a wizard. His favorite setting was the Forgotten Realms. Now he DMs and teaches his step kids. But there are lots of other, perhaps not as well known, writers, directors, producers, rock groups, and software engineers profiled in the book. Here's a small sampling: - Chris Prynoski (p. 22) worked on Beavis and Butthead, the Osbornes, MTV Movie Awards, etc.
- Sherman Alexie (p. 49), poet, novelist, screenwriter, e.g., Smoke Signals
- Don Daglow (p. 87) produced video games like LotR: Two Towers and Return of the King
- John Frank Rosenbaum (p. 111), writer Dr. Who, etc.
- Ed Robertson (p. 149), founding member of "Barenaked Ladies"
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Post by rossik on Jul 23, 2012 20:47:35 GMT -6
George Martin, from A Song of Fire and Ice?
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Post by kesher on Jul 23, 2012 20:54:35 GMT -6
Terry Pratchett. The first two Discworld novels almost read like AD&D campaign transcriptions...
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Post by aher on Jul 23, 2012 22:51:45 GMT -6
On February 3, 2011, NBC aired an episode of Community entitled "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons." It depicts cast member Danny Pudi as a DM taking the rest of the cast (Joel McHale, Chevy Chase, Ken Jeong, Gillian Jacobs, Yvette Nicole Brown, Alison Brie, Donald Glover, Charley Koontz) through a (non-existent) Advanced Dungeons and Dragons module called "The Caverns of Draconis."  Forbes games and tech writer David M. Ewalt wrote an article, Behind The Scenes Of Community's "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" (3/08/2011). In it he states that although writer Andrew Guest had never played D&D, show creator Dan Harmon is a long time D&D player, and got a game going in the writers room. The article begins: Last month, the cast and crew of the NBC sitcom Community rolled a critical hit. In an episode titled “Advanced Dungeons & Dragons,” they managed to explain a little-understood game, make eight people sitting around a table compelling viewing, and please both a mainstream audience and fervent geek gamers. And they did it in less than 30 minutes. (Ewalt also wrote a post, How To Get Started With Dungeons & Dragons.) There have been many write-ups about this episode in the blogosphere, including Delta's D&D hotspot, the Labyrinth, the Realm of D&D.  There are also detailed write-ups on Wikipedia and IMDB. In case you didn't see it already, you can catch it on Hulu Plus. |
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Post by snorri on Jul 24, 2012 4:30:06 GMT -6
French comics writer and film director Joann Sfar is a well-known D&D and Runeuqest player - some of his comcis even depicts Broos. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joann_Sfar). He's probably the most famous, but this is comon among the current egenration of comics writers, including Lewis Trondheim (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Trondheim), Bruno MaÏorana (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Ma%C3%AForana), jean-luc-Masbou (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Luc_Masbou), Alain ayroles (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Ayroles)...
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Post by jasmith on Jul 24, 2012 5:47:57 GMT -6
Robin Williams.
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Post by Mushgnome on Jul 24, 2012 6:34:26 GMT -6
He would be a blast to game with! |
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Post by aher on Jul 24, 2012 16:00:11 GMT -6
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman wrote the book Good Omens together using a process called collaborative fiction which is akin to a roleplaying game (or at least a storytelling game). I'm wondering if Gaiman plays any roleplaying games. There's an RPG based on his Neverwhere. On his blog, he offers advice to a fan who was asked by a friend to read her novel and give feedback. The novel stinks. How to break the bad news gently? Gaiman says to tell her "It reads like you're recounting a D&D game, not a novel."I peeked through his library, but didn't see any RPG books. However, Gaiman does a cameo appearance in the film THACO: The Movie (2008). Does anybody know for sure if Gaiman is a gamer??? kesher: Do you know? You were in THAC0!?  |
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Post by talysman on Jul 24, 2012 17:07:27 GMT -6
As I heard it, he's a Warhammer minis player, not necessarily RPGs. George R R Martin, mentioned above, told about how the Wild Cards series rose out of a superheroes RPG (don't know if it was Champions or what.) Don't know if he played D&D, but you got to figure he probably tried it once, maybe only for a couple minutes. |
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Post by warrioroffrobozz on Jul 25, 2012 10:39:05 GMT -6
Apparently Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were introduced to the game by Kevin Smith.
I'm not sure if he's a player but Larry Niven was pretty enthusiastic about the Ringworld RPG. But then, who wouldn't be?
EDIT:
I totally forgot about that! That was pretty awesome ;D
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Post by aher on Jul 25, 2012 21:28:52 GMT -6
Dungeons and Dragons is featured in no fewer than 5 (maybe 6?) episodes of Futurama-- - A Clone of My Own (ssn 2, ep 10), young Farnsworth is wearing a Dungeon Master t-shirt.
- How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back (ssn 2, ep 11), features a Beholder.
- I Second that Emotion (ssn 2 ep 14), one of the animals in the vet's office is a rust monster.
- Anthology of Interest I (ssn 2, ep 16, 3rd story "The Un-Freeze of a Lifetime"), features Gary Gygax (voiced by himself), a D&D game, rolling d10s to decide fate.
- Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles (ssn 4, ep 63), Professor Farnsworth is chasing his escaped gargoyle, Pazuzu. (This is a borderline case.)
- Bender's Game (Nov 2008, third of the four direct-to-DVD Futurama films), the film spoofs Dungeons & Dragons and contains a post-credits tribute to Gygax.
--leading me to the conclusion that somebody (a writer, director, producer) on the show not only played D&D, but had a personal relationship with Gary Gygax.  Does anyone know who (if anyone) in the Futurama cast/crew played D&D? Can anyone add any more Futurama D&D references??? |
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Post by aher on Jul 25, 2012 23:43:27 GMT -6
This 2001 interview with Weezer's Rivers Cuomo in Rolling Stone starts off by saying: Is Rivers Cuomo actually a geek, or does he just play one on record? Consider this: At age thirty, he still indulges with his band mates in the occasional game of Dungeons and Dragons on tour. Their Web master, Karl Koch, is also their Dungeon Master. Later in the article we get this Q&A: RS: Oh, good. 'Cause as a Weezer fan who's done his share of time with twenty-sided dice, I wanted to ask you what kind of characters you played in Dungeons and Dragons.
Rivers: I gravitated toward the, uh . . . elven, or half-elven, something with high dexterity . . . a fighter-thief, maybe?
RS: You went split class?
Rivers: Yeah.
RS: Bold move.
Rivers: Hey, it's tough to commit. In this 2010 interview, Rivers says: I think at the beginning of the decade, we were doing this crazy thing where we'd roll D&D dice--Dungeons & Dragons dice--to determine our set list. The 1995 Weezer song In the Garage begins with these lyrics: I've got the Dungeon Master's Guide
I've got a 12-sided die There's a couple of awesome fan-made videos of the song on YouTube, here and here.  |
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Post by aher on Jul 26, 2012 0:00:06 GMT -6
As I heard it, he's a Warhammer minis player, not necessarily RPGs. This 2009 article definitely says Robin Williams played D&D 3e... some people were setting up a D&D 3rd edition game at Gamescape in San Francisco, where Robin Williams keeps a house. Suddenly Robin Williams walks in and buys a copy of Green Ronin’s African Adventures! @_@ The gamers are a little cowed, but Robin Williams comes over and starts talking to them about the Al-Qadim one-shot they are running, and soon Robin Williams is actually sitting down and playing a mamluk warrior and showing off his usual improv acting ability. |
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Post by aher on Jul 26, 2012 0:06:43 GMT -6
Here are a few big lists of famous D&D players: |
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Post by smokestackjones on Jul 26, 2012 7:49:27 GMT -6
Note to me: Get famous so I can get my @ss on this list. ;D
-SJ
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Post by owlorbs on Jul 26, 2012 10:30:22 GMT -6
Here are a few big lists of famous D&D players: It's a crime there isn't a video of Billy Crystal and Robin Williams playing a 40k match. |
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Post by DungeonDevil on Jul 26, 2012 22:39:37 GMT -6
Honestly, do we really need "celebrities" to endorse our hobby in order to feel it's legit? They will claim anything to seem even remotely relevant.
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Post by welleran on Jul 27, 2012 10:04:53 GMT -6
Lauren Graham plays D&D!!! Holy moley, I did not think it was possible to even more obsessed with her!!!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2012 18:51:37 GMT -6
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Post by thorswulf on Jul 27, 2012 21:39:05 GMT -6
He also collects toy soldiers and miniatures of the medieval period.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2012 18:04:29 GMT -6
Gaiman wrote film reviews for IMAGINE magazine and had his first story published there, so sayeth the Wiki. My memory, on the other hand, tells me that he was the guest (read fill-in) columnist for, iirc, the paperback reviews in ADVENTURER magazine for at least one issue. However, I don't have my Adventurer mags handy and my memory isn't always reliable, so feel free to double check that.
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Post by aher on Dec 27, 2012 3:31:54 GMT -6
On December 13, 2012, CBS aired an episode of The Big Bang Theory entitled, "The Santa Simulation" (Season 6, episode 11), in which Leonard runs a Christmas-themed Dungeons & Dragons game for Sheldon, Howard, Raj, and Stuart. The game begins with Sheldon reading a scroll found in a Christmas stocking, informing them that their characters are in a village of massacred elves. A trail of Ogre footprints and broken candycanes leads out of the village. Their objective is to rescue Santa Claus from the hungry Ogres.  As of the date of this post, you can still watch this episode here on the CBS website. There are write-ups of this episode here on Wikipedia, here on IMDb, and here on the Big Bang Theory wiki. |
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Post by kesher on Dec 27, 2012 9:55:18 GMT -6
Note the 4e DM's Screen...  |
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Post by scalydemon on Dec 27, 2012 10:19:02 GMT -6
Note the 4e DM's screen  |
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Post by Chainsaw on Dec 27, 2012 11:43:11 GMT -6
Note the 4e DM's screen Some idiot assistant to the assistant coffeeboy was probably told "go get some dungeons/dragons stuff" and naturally 4e was the cheapest because no one wants that crap anymore. |
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Post by cyclopeatron on Jan 13, 2013 14:31:07 GMT -6
I'm not sure if he's a player but Larry Niven was pretty enthusiastic about the Ringworld RPG. But then, who wouldn't be? Believe it or not, I played in a Vampire LARP with Larry Niven once. Life takes some strange twists... |
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