D&D 5E (2014) 538 covers Vin Diesel and Dungeons and Dragons

[jaelis]

This is a cool article:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-four-types-of-vin-diesel-movies/

 

[doctorbadwolf]

People who trash Riddick or F+F confuse me. And bore me.

 

[TwoSix]

Yup. 538 usually has excellent analysis, and drawing the link between Vin Diesel's love for D&D and how it's informed his movies is really smart. I didn't really notice it before, but the F&F movies are character studies first, plot driven second.

 

[Charles Rampant]

Extremely interesting read, thanks! It made me think about the often-noted way that D&D campaigns tend to be a series of random things that happens to the characters until it comes to a sudden end.