D&D General SAG-AFTRA actors on how RPGs help them be better actors

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

In the SAG-AFTRA (the Screen Actors Guild union) magazine (a PDF with no quoting easily available), Matthew Lillard, Todd Stashwick (Star Trek: Picard), Anthony Rapp (Rent), Michelle Hurd (Star Trek: Picard) and Bonnie Gordon (Library Bards, Star Trek: Prodigy) talk about how D&D makes them better actors.

The article also includes the basics of their favorite characters. Lillard's Beadle is a dwarf rogue 6, wizard 3, which was news to me. Stashwick's 11th level half-elf sorcerer also took a one level dip in ranger.

 

[jdrakeh]

I'm not surprised to see most of those names (I've known them to be big D&D fans), but I must say that I am surprised (but pleased) to see Michelle Hurd mentioned.

 

[Clint_L]

I always think better of famous folks when I learn that they play RPGs. I generally like people who play RPGs. I like all you guys.

 

[Bayushi_seikuro]

It's interesting to see what actors play tabletop games, and then it's interesting to see people be introduced to D&D that you'd either have never thought of in combination with gaming (I'm thinking of Dimension 20's Dungeons and Drag Queens here) or people you'd have thought would have been exposed to D&D (I'm thinking of when Kevin Smith was on Relics and Rarities, and he had said you'd think he'd have been a gamer forever but he never was exposed to it)

 

[GMMichael]

Bonnie Gordon: "If we could take (PCs working together for a common goal) and put it into real-world thinking, how much brighter and happier this place would be."

I'd add to that the example of Stranger Things, which was referenced earlier in the article: more bike riding.