Melkor! Your take?

[Desdichado]

What do you mean, what's my take? It's a character that we know practically nothing about.

 

[Barak]

Bah.. Even though it's not really a deal in anyway for me, I do think his "spin" on it was mostly positive. After all, the best quality of the game one can quote to non-gamers is that it helps foster imagination (well, and maybe math) and he touched on that. Good enough for me.

 

[diaglo]

he admits to playing in a monty haul campaign. melkor fits that campaign.

it's his character and campaign not mine. so what do i care. or for that matter what does my opinion of his campaign mean.


Original D&D(1974) is the only true game.

 

[ForceUser]

Props to Vin Diesel for having the gonads for talking about D&D so frankly on national tv. I doubt I could have done that.

 

[der_kluge]

You know, you don't play D&D for 24 years, and then quit cold turkey. The guy is 36 years old. If he was playing for 24 years, he probably started when he was 10 or 11. If he was born in '66, D&D wouldn't have even come available until he was about 8 (74) but that seems somewhat unlikely. Even if he did start when he was 8, he wouldn't have stopped playing until he was 33.

 

[fusangite]

Let me tell you: it is a big deal to admit to playing RPGs when you are a public figure. I didn't admit to it in the media until I retired -- and a paper did do an article about it, focusing totally on just what a weird thing it was to do. Our hobby, for all the money it makes, is still viewed by society at large as a fringe activity -- I admire Vin Diesel for making it just a little easier to admit that you play D&D to the non-gamer you have just started dating.

Melkor, by the way, is a good name, in my view: it is, of course, the name of the dark lord in the Silmarillion (Melkor aka Morgoth) and it was also the name of the creature the Master disguised himself as in the Dr. Who episode Keeper of Traken.

 

[Goobermunch]

I read an interview in GQ about a year ago wherein Mr. Diesel went into a WotC store and dropped $900.00 on D&D product for "a project." He also dodged a gamer who wanted him (Diesel) to come join his (the gamer's) campaign.

I don't think he's done playing. I suspect he also might be trying his hand at script writing.

--G

 

[Crothian]

My take?

He double speacilized!! That right there tells us so much....

I just wish I knew what.

 

[Pielorinho]

Let me tell you: it is a big deal to admit to playing RPGs when you are a public figure. I didn't admit to it in the media until I retired

??? Curiosity is killing me, fusangite -- do we know you?

Daniel

 

[Hand of Evil]

So what would your take on Melkor, Vin Diesel's character, be?

Feel it is a long term character that he has been player for some time in a interesting campaign. I think he way he talked about the game that it is a hobby that he cares about.