Nerds have it tough nowadays. What was once their bread and butter (comic books, tech gadgets, and video games) are now popular, totally acceptable interests. Luckily, there is still one bastion of hope left; something so nerdy that the mainstream dare not touch it. No matter what happens, Dungeons & Dragons will always be their own. And Vin Diesel will always be their master.

Anyone who goes toe-to-toe with Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson is certainly disqualified from being called a nerd, right? Wrong, because Vin Diesel is the biggest nerd that you know. Vin has been a religious Dungeons & Dragons fan for 20 years. Some amazing D&D&Diesel facts:

• He taught Judi Dench how to play while filming Chronicles of Riddick. I repeat, Dame Judi Dench is rolling 20-sided-die somewhere in the world right now.
• He has tattoos of his Dungeons & Dragons character, Melkor, which he named after a character…