D&D 5E D&D Live: Kate Welch returns with Jack Black, Reggie Watts and others!

During WotC's 'D&D Live' events in mid-July this year, there will be a live game called The Lost Odyssey: Last Light, featuring a dragons, krakens, and giant sea queens. WotC's Kate Welch will be the DM and celebrity guests Jack Black, Reggie Watts, Lauren Lapkus, Kevin Smith, and Jason Mewes will be the players -- plus one other guest they have not yet announced.

 

[Charlaquin]

Didn’t Riddick literally start out as a D&D character Vin Diesel used to play?

 

[R_J_K75]

Didn’t Riddick literally start out as a D&D character Vin Diesel used to play?

He has his PCs name tattooed on his stomach as far as I remember.

 

[CubicsRube]

Considering how overpowered Riddick is, he must have been a GMPC

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Kate Welch is going to have her hands full. I mean, talk about managing spotlight.

 

[Jacqual]

Considering how overpowered Riddick is, he must have been a GMPC

His Character was Malkor and the Tattoo was on his character in XXX, and I believe it was based on something based on the Last Witch Hunter character, he ended up playing that Matt Mercer created the Bloodhunter class on, I could be wrong but I believe3 that is what I read online somewhere.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

more like celebs pretending to like playing D&D to get easy money and attention is very mainstream now

If it gets more people playing D&D, I’m ok with that.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

I don't know. If you assume most actors were 'emo theater kids' growing up, they'd have absolutely have been exposed to gaming growing up.
And then when you look at Joe Magniello's group that isn't playing out in the public for publicity?
I find it interesting that there seems an almost automatic reaction that if someone claims to be a gamer/geek/whatever, and they don't fit the stereotype, people doubt or start with the checking of 'cred'. I do love the not-subtle shade I've seen Joe throw towards Vin Diesel, and how Vin says he plays, but yet Joe doesn't know a single person who games with him.

That looks like a really cool game, both in terms of the creative people at the table and all the fantastic stuff Joe has for the game. Plus listening to the players, they sound like they really enjoy it, which is awesome in and of itself.

 

[Marc Radle]

more like celebs pretending to like playing D&D to get easy money and attention is very mainstream now

Wow, that’s a pretty cynical comment …

There are plenty of celebs that either currently play D&D or used to play when they were younger and still speak fondly of it (Matt Mercer DMing a one shot for Stephen Colbert for Red Nose Day is priceless - you can feel Colbert’s enthusiasm for the game and his desire to start playing again)

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Agreed. Though gaming groups are more connected than ever these days, there's no reason to expect every gaming group to know of each other. I kinda suspect it more relates to the Hollywood scuttlebutt that Vin Diesel isn't great to work with on films.

Based on the session Matt Mercer ran with Vin Diesel in it, he seemed really rusty at gaming. But even then, Vin Diesel clearly gamed a ton in the past, and has a lot of love for the hobby. And really, what would he have gained (especially at the time) for making it up?

For the most part, I like Joe Manganiello and his passion for the game. I also love most of his work as an actor, and he seems like a pretty cool guy, most of the time.

But sometimes . . . he's like the worst of us here on these forums. He sometimes seems to consider himself Hollywood D&D royalty, and just can't imagine anybody in Hollywood playing the game if they aren't in his circle of D&D nerd-friends.

There was no reason for him to throw shade on Vin Diesel . . . . there's no reason to doubt Vin Diesel is just as big a D&D geek, just because he doesn't play with Manganiello or any of those in his circle.

There are plenty of people who play D&D in my town whom I've never met. Hollywood is no different in that regard.

Jack Black appearing is definitely a surprise, though in hindsight it shouldn't be. He's a Dio fan (which automatically increases your chance of playing D&D by about 70%), voiced a videogame, was in the sweded Princess Bride, and acted in a movie based on a book written by an Appendix N author.

 

[Nylanfs]

Please God-that-I-don't-believe-in let the final mystery guest be Weird Al.