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Superdave
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 Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 10:09 pm Post subject: Celebrities who play(ed) RPGs |
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I recently mentioned on another thread about how Vin Diesel, in a podcast interview, talked about how he was a big D&D geek and how it led him into acting and writing.
And now I just came across another one. In an interview with the Onion AV Club, Stephen Colbert, one of the reporters on The Daily Show, said much the same: | Quote: | AVC: You were into Dungeons & Dragons as a kid, were you not?
SC: Yeah, I really was. I started playing in seventh grade, 1977. And I played incessantly, 'til probably 1981—four years.
AVC: What's the appeal?
SC: It's a fantasy role-playing game. If you're familiar with the works of Tolkien or Stephen R. Donaldson or Poul Anderson or any of the guys who wrote really good fantasy stuff, those worlds stood up. It's an opportunity to assume a persona. Who really wants to be themselves when they're teenagers? And you get to be heroic and have adventures. And it's an incredibly fun game. They have arcane rules and complex societies and they're open-ended and limitless, kind of like life. For somebody who eventually became an actor, it was interesting to have done that for so many years, because acting is role-playing. You assume a character, and you have to stay in them over years, and you create histories, and you apply your powers. It's good improvisation with agreed rules before you go in. |
So it got me thinking: What other celebrities are RPGers? Anybody got any other stories? |
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KaosDevice
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| Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 9:21 am Post subject: |
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Well I am sure it was a one shot thing but you can find some great shots of Nathan FIllion sitting in on a Firefly game at a con. (I want to say it was a GenCon)
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Superdave
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The Pyrate Kincaid
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| Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 12:03 pm Post subject: |
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What an EXCELLENT IDEA......Which Celeb could play the DM (and do it well)???????
Hmmm....I say we have a poll for just such a question!
**slaps hands together and rubs like a fly** Hmmmmmmmmm.....
Who would be DM?????????
Christopher Walken:???? NO nononono......he's the Illusionis...NO....Wizard.....Lawful evil
Who would be DM?
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The Pyrate Kincaid
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| Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 12:05 pm Post subject: |
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IDEA.....while we're pokin' at it, let's start with the cast from "Pulp Fiction"....Yeah, baby~
Marcellus Wallace: DM
next person?
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Doctor Dee
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| Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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To answer SuperDave's original questions, here's a tentative list culled from varios sources...
Jason Alexander (Seinfeld)
Sean Astin
Fairuza Balk
Bare Naked Ladies (band)
Jeff Bezos (Amazon.com)
BillyZeKick (band)
Biohazard (band)
Jack Black
Sarah Blake
Paget Brewster (model?)
Steven Brust (writer)
Bruce Campbell
Asia Carrera
Chaz Chamberlain
Claudia Christensen
Dave Chappelle
Stephen Colbert
Billy Crystal
River Cuomo (singer of Weezer)
Judy Dench
Vin Diesel
RJ Dio
Lexa Doig (Andromeda, Jason X)
John Dolmayan
Dream Warriors (band)
Emilio Estevez
Conchata Ferrell
Lou Ferrigno (played Warhammer, but we sign in him all the same)
Nathan Fillion
James Franco (Freaks and Geeks)
C.S. Friedman (author)
Bill Gates (Microsoft)
Matt Groenig (Simpsons & Futurama)
GWAR (band)
Johnny Knoxville
Matthew Krenik
Matthew Lillard
Jennifer Lopez
George Lucas (former indie moviemaker)
Craig McCracken (Power Puff Girls, Dexter's Lab)
Ewan MacGregor
Marcy Playground (band)
Metallica (band - CoC, maybe?)
Jason Mewes (Mallrats, Clerks, Dogma etc.)
Mike Meyers (Wayne's World, Austin Powers, etc.)
Tom Morello (guitar, Rage Against the Machine)
My Chemical Romance (band)
Parker Posey
Todd Pratt (New York Mets)
Sam Raimi
Eric Raymond
Antonio Rivera
Rush (band)
Dwight Schultz ('Howlin' Mad' Murdoch in 'The A Team')
Michael Sheard (Admiral Ozzel, Star Wars)
Stephen Lea Sheppard (The Royal Tenenbaums, Freaks and Geeks)
Armin Shimmermann (Deep Space 9, Buffy)
Homer Simpson
Kevin Smith (Mallrats, Clerks, Dogma, etc.)
Jon Spencer (Blues Explosion and Boss Hogg)
Steven Spielberg (film-maker)
Jason Statham
Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, etc.)
Jacques Villeneuve (F1 champion)
Brian Warner
Wil Wheaton (yes, kids, Wesley Crusher!)
Joss Whedon (Buffy, Angel, Serenity...)
Robin Williams
Elijia Woods
Not a bad line-up, I'd say...
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Superdave
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 5:26 am Post subject: |
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Wow--some of those are no surprise: Sean Astin, Biohazard, Bruce Campbell, Claudia Christensen, Matt Groenig, GWAR, Sam Raimi, Tarantino, Wil Wheaton--heck, I knew he's played, I just forgot, and I read his blog sometimes...anyway, I can see them around a gaming table, no problem. But others are just mind-blowing. Judy Dench?!? Dame Judy Dench is a gamer? That is so cool. And Jennifer Lopez?? Gawd, can you imagine the geeks at her table? She leans forward to grab a stray die, and every guy suddenly has a nosebleed.
Hey, wait a minute...Homer Simpson? You mean the guy who does his voice?
As for Pyrate's idea of Pulp Fiction, I'd say we let Quentin DM. I want Marcellus by my side in a fight, not on the other side of the DM screen. Only with my luck, he'd want to play a magic user...
Oh, speaking of Tarantino movies, RIP to Chris Penn, eh? |
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Doctor Dee
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 5:49 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Hey, wait a minute...Homer Simpson? You mean the guy who does his voice? |
No, I mean Homer J. Simpson the yellow guy with four fingers.
In the episode in which he goes back to college, he admits he played a thing called Dungeons & Dragons with his new mates.
And Bart comments he's turning into a geek!
It was great.
And then there's the Gary Gygax cameo in Futurama....
Dame Judy Dench apparently played with Vin Diesel and some crew members during the filming of "Riddick".
And Jennifer Lopez... Oh, well.
I wonder what game she plays....
But I admit the biggest surprise, for me, was Asia Carrera.
Now that's a geek fantasy coming to life... 
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Dharma Bum
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 6:19 am Post subject: |
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Heh, I've actually played Unreal with Asia Carrera. Unreal, for those of you still pen and papering your gaming experiences, is a first person shooter that can be played online in death match. She was actually a nationally ranked player, and uses a nude skin of herself in tournament matches. She's also a classically trained concert pianist, which obviously helps her with the whole video games thing. And she has a long laundry list of other qualifications not needed for porn.
Yeah, she kicked my ass.
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The Pyrate Kincaid
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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.....I despise that girl. Yes, I've known about her Unreal "talent" and her supposed classical training. Truely disgusted.... they even ran a brief story on G4 TV about her. She even wants us to believe she games on her self built "frankenstien" (home brew computer).
Die porn star, die.
...we're definitely getting off-topic...
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KaosDevice
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 9:27 am Post subject: |
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| Doctor Dee wrote: |
And then there's the Gary Gygax cameo in Futurama....
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Yeah, Matt Groening has some D&D love. Actually there are a couple of D references in Futurama. If you look at some of the crowd shots for DOOP you can see a rust monster and a great race of Yith dude.
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Superdave
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| Quote: | | Die porn star, die. |
OK, I gotta ask: Did a porn star shoot your Pa just to watch him die, or what? I mean, I don't exactly have any particularly warm feelings towards any porn stars--except maybe a mild affection for Ginger Lynn, and that's only because she played opposite Mark Hamill in Wing Commander 3--but I never even considered spending any energy on hating one.
Veering slightly back toward on-topicedness, I did used to game with strippers. Yep, when I was 15-16, my DM was an enormous bouncer at the Yellow Rose in Austin, Texas, and not surprisingly a couple of our group's players were also earning their way through college by taking off their clothes. Not bad players, and they enjoyed teasing "the kid" in ways that probably seemed very innocent to them, but caused serious hormonal surges in me. Not that I was complaining--I'd have been happy to be getting my hair tousled and kissed on my geeky cheek 24 hours a day.
Later, when I was legal, I briefly dated a stripper from the same club, and the idiom "dumber than a box of rocks" was coined just for her. But my valuable, character-forming experiences of gaming with and being mercilessly teased by very intelligent strippers (who also introduced me to some of my favorite authors) had inured me to an anti-stripper prejudice. I did, however, develop a prejudice against idiots who abandon their apartments with their cats locked inside, leaving the cats to starve to death. I doubt I'll be overcoming that one anytime soon. |
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Doctor Dee
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| Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 2:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | I did, however, develop a prejudice against idiots who abandon their apartments with their cats locked inside, leaving the cats to starve to death. I doubt I'll be overcoming that one anytime soon. |
Hey... there's a Ramsay Campbell short story based on that premise exactly.
Weird.
I used it as the basis for a CoC game, back in the days of yore.
Now this is really getting off-topic.
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Dharma Bum
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| Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 10:58 am Post subject: |
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| superdave wrote: | | Quote: | | Die porn star, die. |
OK, I gotta ask: Did a porn star shoot your Pa just to watch him die, or what? I mean, I don't exactly have any particularly warm feelings towards any porn stars--except maybe a mild affection for Ginger Lynn, and that's only because she played opposite Mark Hamill in Wing Commander 3--but I never even considered spending any energy on hating one. |
Ginger Lynn, you say. You, sir, have given me something to Google. Much appreciated.
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