
“It’s similar to what a high-stakes poker game might be,” Morello says. I don’t have a social life outside of work, because I’ve worked five nights a week for 25 years all over the world …, you think about this game, the adventure - ‘How many spell slots do I have? Where are my hit points? Where are we going to be? What if this happens? What if Joe comes up with this? Oh man, I really hope he doesn’t come up with that.’ It’s really good for the brain all week long.” “I go to the movies, three people behind me can’t see. It’s a source of social and mental stimulation, even when the sessions end. The campaign, Manganiello marvels, has entered the zeitgeist, but it’s still something very personal to its players. Tom Morello, David Benioff, Vince Vaughn, Ryan Verniere and Ron Mathews. “Guardians of the Galaxy” director James Gunn and “Saturday Night Live” cast member Taran Killam have also played in Manganiello’s dungeon previously. Those include “Game of Thrones” co-creator David Benioff, who was texting Weiss during one of their sessions, asking how many hit points the dragon they were fighting had - so naturally, Manganiello let him play for a while. In addition to those who regularly meet up to play, the War of Dragons has had a number of recurring guests. I didn’t really realize it, but he was kind of giving me books and talking to me, like, ‘I think you should check this out.'” We were hanging out, and he was kind of luring me in. Are you actually going to go do it?’ And then Tom did, and he came back and said he had a blast and it was a lot of fun. “And at first, I said, ‘That kind of seems a little crazy. “In an interview, had talked about playing Dungeons & Dragons and that this group, this mysterious group, that plays in Hollywood had reached out to him to go play,” Vaughn explains.
