- Celebrity Dungeons and Dragons.
I want to see a TV show where the flying camera crane zips around the table where Wil Wheaton, Puff Daddy, Michael Madsen, and Lindsay Lohan play D&D. I would totally watch that.
"Yo, I'm-a gonna get all up in that orc's face with my Magic Missile. Jack you up, orc!" Then then announcers banter, "oh, Magic Missle! A bold choice, he might need that later. Here comes the roll..."
It would be GLORIOUS.
Update: Mr. Wheaton points out that there is nothing new under the sun...
Vin Diesel used to talk about his Drow in interviews. Ask the Lazyweb for better links. :)
According to Dork Tower, he mentioned it in an August 2002 interview with GQ. According to the same comic, Robin Williams and Curt Schilling also have an interest, though it looks more like wargaming. (There is also a take on celebrity RPG in the surrounding comics, though it's played a bit differently.)
Robin Williams has been known for playing Doom and other FPS games like Day of Defeat more recently.
Schilling is a hard-core gamer, has been for years: Schilling's got his (online) game face on
You know, that has to be the single most literate forum I've ever seen. They're using punctuation and everything.
He also wrote the intro for the 20th anniversary coffee table book of D&D
I read somewhere that he got Karl Urban and Judi Dench (!) to play D&D with him on the Riddick set.
I can't imagine too many things more boring than watching someone else play cards
I'm with you there. Tho billiards and golf are a close second.
Billiards (I know) and golf (I have to assume, by extension) are interesting if you also do those things.
I think the same applies to the poker.
Note that this doesn't mean I think it should be on television. (On the other hand, I don't own one, so what do I care?)
Too many negatives. "Not that this means I think it should be on television."
I suppose you might be right, but the billiards shows I've seen are like 90% of the players walking around and looking at the table, and 10% stuff happening. Its something they should show at 4 am for the heavy duty insomniacs.
I was right with you on watching that until you mentioned Lindsay Lohan.
reminds me o this...
http://www.livejournal.com/users/photos_by_dolph/3324.html
You forgot Dave Chappelle. He said recently on stage that he plays World of Warcraft. I'd be good with the above, except for Lindsay. She used to be good eye candy but lately she's just another blonde waif.
See, that's what would make it perfect.
What, because she's already a fantasy character, just without the chainmail bikini?
Why wouldn't she have to wear the chainmail bikini? That would at least make me NOT ask them to turn the channel when it's on ESPN2 at the local dive.
D&D, dude. Not LARP.
I guess if you don't see the total perfection in a dimwitted starlet who's already washed up at the ripe old age of 19 playing Dungeons and Dragons on TV, I can't explain it to you.
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hahaha, my husband says "Maybe that's what drove him insane."
Ah, Magic Missile. A spell not often actually used, but made absolutely famous by a certain little comedy group...
Dead Alewives rock(ed).
Celebrity D&D could also rock, or it could be about as exciting as a celebrity book reading on TV.
A radio show on the other hand...
Oh please, I know someone who subsists on Magic Missile alone.
But then, she also attacks her partymates sometimes, so.
Magic missile is really useful at the higher levels because it starts doing a lot of damage and always hits.
Uh, in conclusion, I would totally watch that show.
especially in first edition where there was no cap... "magic machine gun".
oops. just revealed my pixie past, must self-terminate.
Hands the pixie pete his patented multibarrelled wand of magic missile
Here use this...
bwah?
Magic Missle is how mages survive at low levels, and can be abused like a mofo at higher levels.
3e Sorcerer + Magic Missile = Walking Gatling Gun.
What the others said. Magic Missile is used by ANY mage I've seen or played.
You're watching the SNL reruns on E! right now, aren't you.
Phil Gordon: And finally, Gene Shalit has a pile of devilled eggs hidden under his cards.
Gene Shalit: I'm "eggs-tatic" about these "egg-cellent" cards...and that's no "yolk"!
I just posted this to my own journal, though I'm mixed on the relative coolness (As CD&D would be awesome in its own right):
I had a crazy idea this weekend. How much effort would it take to gather together about 50 people to perform Zombie Theatre on Halloween night. Get about 40 people dressed and makeuped as zombies shuffling and moaning down the street at the same time, while another 10 played straight-man dressed as business people and soccer moms and generally got attacked and harassed, and screamed "Zombies! Run Away!" trying to make the general public believe them.
No shotguns or any weapons, just good plain brain-eating Zombie fun.
My friend's brother said apparently it's been done before. Any links out there?
The problem isn't that it hasn't been done before, but rather, it isn't done often enough.
that was going to be the theme of our halloween party this year (especially since i live right next door to a closed morgue), but in our neighborhood we would get shot.
The great advantage of my idea... I live in Canada. This didn't enter into my thinking when I first had the idea.
http://www.eatbrains.com/
I think celebrity LARP would be better.
Ah, the vision of Vin Diesel shouting "Thunderbolt! Thunderbolt!" at Lindsay Lohan while pelting her with random objects will make me smile for the rest of the day. Thank you.
Which is different from low-budget movies... how?
Caliber of celebrity.
All Baldwins, all the time.
http://www.darkonthemovie.com
That is going to give me nightmares...
Excellent handle.
I'm probably admitting far more about myself than I should by saying this, but I'd *so* watch that show.
I'm probably admitting far more about myself than I should ... I think your username already does that.
Oh, I dunno. There's geekiness and geekiness, y'know?
And, yes, I'm part of the latter...
Sigh me too!
Well, there's always public access...
About six years ago, they were airing coverage of a Magic the Gathering tournament on ESPN2. Granted there weren't celebrities and it not quite D&D, but I'm sure that at least one of your readers has mpegs of it.
<lj user="genericus"> insisted for years that he had seen this but I was a doubter. Wow. Maybe we'll have professional WoW leagues with uniforms and sportscasters like in Korea soon!
Sweet, sweet vindication!
There's an article about it on teevee.org.
I'm still hoping for Celebrity Strip Poker. Although, do I really want to see Martin Sheen naked...?
God damn but there is no way I would want to play with that guy...do you think he can read the module?
http://www.dungeonmajesty.com/home.html
It was on MetaFilter a while back: http://www.livejournal.com/users/mackys/177325.html
Maybe the next time they lock up Z-level celebs in a house and film them, they can make the inmates play AD&D every night. I'm thinking Joe Piscopo, Lynda Carter, Jan-Michael Vincent, Kennedy from MTV, and Ike Turner playing with Gary Busey as the dungeonmaster, maybe?
You totally should have made us all sign an NDA before revealing this idea. You could have made millions.
Goodness, what a good idea. When it is stolen from you and turned into reality I'll have the satisfaction of saying "JWZ had that idea about four years ago."
The world could do without the resultant "BOOM! 187 on tha muthafuckin' drizagon, thy biyatchez" songs that would come out of that nightmare idea. Gives a whole new meaning to "playa".
You've probably already seen it, but:
Bush asks Condi permission to tinkle
(Zoomed-out)
I can just see the message boards for any such show going on and on over the most trivial details of the rules. Heck, maybe they'd need to hire someone from TSR to be the official last word.. There are few things more irritating than rules lawyers, and a show like this would bring them out of the woodwork. At the same time, if TSR managed the entire thing, it might bring a nice income source to them and help them raise the profile of their games at the same time. It would also have the benefit of pissing off the Christians, so I say go for it! I'd probably watch it.
Hey I could manage that for you
Wouldn't even charge
I'd do the rules for beer n food
LOL theres an idea for a sign....will play DnD for Beer n Food.
Anyway TSR do not exist anymore you might be better of with WotC...see perfect rule lawyer.
Well I did help write the thing ;-)
THIS IS MY DREAM.
(over from boingboing)
Anyone want to see the cast of the D&D movie actually suck at D&D?
No but I would not mind being int eh room with the lass who was in JAG.
Peeeurdy
I would fekking play in that
Happily
I work for a TV production company in Minneapolis. We do "outdoors"-type programming for ESPN, OLN and the Outdoor Channel. I added this idea to the board, and floated it past a few of the producers here. It's been met with little enthusiasm. I think that pitching "D&D TV" to the Boss might result in a request from them for me to take a piss test.
The link in the update is a few components short of the real thing.
In the DVD bonus material, most of the cast is like "Yeah, I'd give D&D a whack" or "Yeah I played a bit in preparation for the role", of course said while their body language says "Yeah and it sucks". Although even better than that was the outtake where Jeremy Irons does a scene and the director goes "Cut" and this look crosses Jeremy Irons' face which clearly reads "I used to do Shakespeare, what the heck am I doing in this movie?!" (and otherwise recites from Alan Rickman in Galaxy Quest) as he sulks off the stage.