

It’s why he bought starter sets of various-sized dice for all the Heathens, and why he paints mini figurines of each player’s character, placing them on the maps that he draws to help visualize their fantasy world. “We started working for hire, came into this group.”įor Stanton, spreading his passion is part of the fun. “We were gladiators together,” Teller explains. A friend of Stanton’s on the Browns’ offense, Lamm joined next, later roping in Teller together, on top of a full spread of Raising Cane’s chicken, the two linemen also brought fleshed-out backstories for Flapper and Shiloh to their first session. “It was like, who the hell do I ask now?” But finding eager adventurers was easier than he thought. “At that point the search was on for other guys on the team to play,” he says. “I might be into trying it,” Garrett replied. “I wasn’t as always unabashed in my fandom, and I wasn’t really anywhere for long enough where I felt like I could put that kind of trust into somebody.” That changed one day last season when Stanton saw Garrett wearing a Stranger Things T-shirt at the Browns’ facility and summoned the courage to ask whether Garrett had ever considered playing, like the kids on the show. All the while, though, Stanton kept his passion private at work.
