Prompt: Favourite roleplaying celebrity
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| TV's - well, the web's - Mr Games. |
So, what are we talking about here? Celebrities who roleplay or celebrity roleplayers?
Wil Wheaton is the poster boy, I guess, and I have a lot of time for the former Wes Crusher. I confess, I was mean about him as a youth, but it's not really his fault; I was bound to hate a character who was supposed to relate to me but whom even
I thought was a swotty creep (and I would have been deemed a swotty creep by most outside observers.) With
Tabletop and later
Titansgrave, he's done a lot to move the gaming profile up from a subset of general geekdom to pretty much blanket geek coverage. He's also done a lot to out a great many other celebrities, some nerd, some more mainstream, as gamers.
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| Diesel & Dench |
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| Advanced Diesel & Dench |
About as mainstream as they come are Vin Diesel and even more so his #1 roleplaying disciple Judi
Dench. According to the story - nay, the
legend -the Iron Giant hisself taught M to play D&D during the filming of
The Chronicles of Riddick in order to illustrate what an Elemental was, which I have to say is hands down the coolest thing about
The Chronicles of Riddick and one of the coolest things about Vin Diesel. Dench... well, she's lived a lot of life, so I'm not going to rule out her having done cooler. She handed Bond his balls at the age of 60 for one thing.
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Roleplayers have slightly less
swanky headshots. |
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| Okay, Laws knows how to headshot. |
And then there are the celebrity roleplayers, the rock stars of the industry, chief among them I guess being Ken Hite and Robin Laws, game writers, game bloggers, podcasters and just plain gamers. They have the same sort of bubbling brains as my man James Holloway, of whom I spoke yesterday, which makes their writing always fascinating, even when it doesn't have immediate use.
Come back tomorrow for the last day of RPGaDay 2015.
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