"You are entering a darkened dungeon…"

It's a scene familiar to many across the world. A small group of people sitting around a table littered with strangely shaped dice, thick books, and pieces of paper filled with arcane statistics. It's a Dungeons & Dragons game, and while the rules may have changed a bit since it was first published, the social interactions between the players haven't. That makes it impossible to tell if this is a group of gamers from 1974 or 2004. Impossible, that is, until you take a look at the faces of the players and realize that one of them is Dame Judi Dench, a doyenne of British cinema and an accomplished actress, (she's best known in America for her role as "M" in the Pierce Brosnan James Bond films). The place is the set of the big-budget summer blockbuster The Chronicles of Riddick, and the Dungeon Master is none other than Vin Diesel -- action star, leading man, and 25-year veteran of Dungeons & Dragons campaigns.