The question today for #RPGaDay2015 is not of much interest to me. I don’t care much about celebrities, though I can see the advantage for my hobby, when famous people come out in favor or roleplaying games, and I do remember seeing a listicle or two about famous people or celebrities playing D&D or some other roleplaying game.

So who to pick? Who do I remember being a roleplayer and a celebrity?

Day 30 – Favorite RPG Playing Celebrity

One of the few people, that I do remember being a roleplayer i Vin Diesel – who I think is the first actor, that I heard of being a roleplayer – and since he has starred a few movies, that I like (Pitchblack for instance), and in a sense made the sequel to Conan the Barbarian and Conan The Destroyer namely The Chronicles of Riddick which is to me the best attempt at a third Conan-movie (I am serious, try watching it as if it was Conan The Conquerer).

However there two other other celebrities, that I want to emphasize. One is Dan Hammond for his D&D-episodes in the tv-series Community, and the other and more important one is Wil Wheaton for his Tabletop Show and Ashes of Valkarna, where he has brought RPGs like Fiasco, Dread and Dragon AGE and Fantasy AGE to live. From his position in Tabletop, where he has popularised board games at a whole new level (and I know this, he really has), he has also brought attention to roleplaying games at a greater level than earlier producing a good visual representation of what roleplying is, though I may not favor his style of playing storyline heavy games in Ashes of Valkarna, it still is a good visual representation.