Vin Diesel Talks Dungeons And Dragons And The Last Witch Hunter

It’s well known that Vin Diesel is a huge Dungeons And Dragons Fan. You can take a look at this Birthday Cake to see that!

And it looks like he is merging that love into his new movie The Last Witch Hunter.

Collider recently had an interview with Vin, and he opened up about Dungeons And Dragons And More.

I’m gonna go way back. For the 30^th anniversary of a game called Dungeons and Dragons, the company at the time had asked me to do a foreword and write the foreword on the cover of the book and I talked about my experience growing up playing Dungeons and Dragons religiously, and I even talked about a character that I had named Melkor, a name that obviously I stole from The Silmarillion, and that character was a witch hunter.

About four years ago or three and a half years ago, I met with this writer named Cory Goodman and I think he wrote Priest, he wrote a bunch of great things. We started talking and someone put us together because he was a Dungeons and Dragons player and thought that could be interesting and I guess he went off to write a whole film around my character Melkor, which was a witch hunter.

And just the very fact that I would be playing a witch hunter speaks to how nerdy I was about the game, how committed I was to the game Dungeons and Dragons because what people may not realize is that the witch hunter class wasn’t offered by TSR at the time. It was a character that you could get from a third party book of characters called The Arcanum. And so even if you played Dungeons and Dragons, you couldn’t play a witch hunter because the witch hunter class didn’t exist in Dungeons and Dragons, but I guess that there were these third party books that allowed you to find and become other characters that you were able to incorporate into the game, and there were a few characters that started there that eventually Dungeons and Dragons took over, but one of those characters was a witch hunter.

So I play the witch hunter because I was a huge fan of rangers and this was a class that was somewhat like a ranger and had a small spell class called mysticism at the time. [Sighs] Way too much information.