Vin Diesel recently outed himself as a D&D player on Conan O’Brien.
Vin: Very few people know that I was rolling 20-sided dice and talking like a half-orc
Conan: You would talk in the voice when you played the game?
Vin: Oh, we completely role-played, yea.
Conan: *laughs* you’re kidding?!
Vin: (in the voice of a half-orc) “How dare you!?”
Conan: That’s amazing! (in a nerdy voice) “Fear not, Gandalf is on the way!”
audience: *laughs*
Conan: That’s what I would be, if I was playing with you. You would not let me play with you, probably. You’d be like “that guy’s too nerdy, he’s gotta go.”
audience: *laughs*
Conan: So you played this for like how long?
Vin: For like 24 years.
Hell, that’s longer than I’ve been gaming.
(via Scott)
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Oh, you hadn’t heard? He had some of the fake tattoos on him for XXX be the names of his old characters. 🙂
I think he was also in a Dork Tower parody a while back, with other gamers, like Wil Wheaton and Robin Williams (who does miniatures, WH40k, I think).
I’d heard before (and read the DT parody with geeky joy back when it was running). I just thought the actual interview was kind of interesting.
(Actually, Conan comes out as kind of a jerk. Not surprisingly.)
Vin’s been trying to get a fantasy project together, as he really wants to star in one. I had a tidbit on it last year, when someone caught up with him in a gaming store buying $800 worth of 3rd Edition books.
The man is a gaming mensch!
I want to move to LA and join his group…