It’s funny how cyclical these things can be. Back in the 70’s and 80’s, Dungeons & Dragons was the biggest deal in town, spawning countless spin-offs and occupying the thoughts of thousands of kids around the world (including myself and our RPG editor, the birthday boy Jonathan Hicks, who were rolling dice at an after school D&D club way back in 1984). Many of us graduated to other game systems including the legendary West End Games D6 system for Star Wars while countless others shifted from the dice to the pixel and games consoles.

Step forward to today and D&D has made a major comeback, as seen in this video where our pal, the director of Fanboys Kyle Newman and a group of fellow famous barbarians, bards, clerics, druids, fighters, monks, paladins, rangers, rogues, sorcerers, warlocks and wizards try to beat the odds by checking for traps in a celebrity gaming group.

Actor and Dungeons and Dragons aficionado Joe Manganiello takes Variety inside his weekly Dungeons and Dragons campaign which features some of Hollywood’s elite players including Vince Vaughn, Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello, wrestler Paul “The Big Show” Wight, “Game of Thrones” co-creator D.B. Weiss and more