Famous Gamers?

Horacio · Apr 8, 2002

Enforcer said:
Wow. I had no idea about 99% of these people. That's pretty cool! So much for the 100% geek myth.

Didn't you know that Gary Gygax plays D&D ?

BTW, for when an update of your story hour?

Henry · Apr 8, 2002

Of Course, there is also "Wheel of Time" Robert Jordan, who used to play D&D with his kids when they were younger...

Kid Charlemagne · Apr 8, 2002

Donatello said:
Curt Schilling and R. A. Salvatore play EverQuest...

So does Doug Glanville (center fielder for the Phillies). Jason Stark of ESPN.COM wrote a couple of hilarious articles about Curt and Doug slamming each other's abilities on EverQuest, including Doug saying he hit a homer off of Schilling in revenge for Schilling causing the death of one of his characters...

Savage Wombat · Apr 8, 2002

A guy on the Mr. Cranky's website once had a chance to talk to Stephen King, and found out that he'd gamed on occasion. I think it was D&D, but I could be mis-remembering.

The Cardinal · Apr 8, 2002

George R. R. Martin (A Song of Ice and Fire) and Steven Erikson (Malazan Book of the Fallen) play GURPS (and, boy, does it show in their books...)

RangerWickett · Apr 9, 2002

I play D&D.

durath · Apr 9, 2002

What??? Mazes and Monsters was only a movie????

I thought that Tom Hanks had videotaped himself playing this game so that all the young people of the world could see how horribly wrong the game can go.

TBoarder · Apr 9, 2002

Flinx said:
I've read that Josh Whedon, creator of Buffy and Angel, plays (or at least played) D&D.

Don't mean to sound overly picky, but his name is Joss Whedon. I know if I was famous, I'd hate having my name constantly misspelled.

Moulin Rogue · Apr 9, 2002

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, together! (see third paragraph)

edited to fix link.

Palcadon · Apr 9, 2002

I'm sure that the members of Led Zepplin (if they didn't play) always wanted to.

Ever listen to the lyrics of some of the Metallica songs? They have to play some sort of RPG.

Justin Whalin (of the D&D movie) has attended conventions and is actually shown in the commentaries on the DVD, talking about his favorite aspects of the game.