DC Universe All Star Games is a new show on DC Universe following Freddie Prinze Jr and a group of fellow nerds as they play a DC Comics tabletop RPG with some fun surprises. The cast of dice-rollers includes Game Master Sam Witwer (voice of the animated Darth Maul in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Rebels), Xavier Woods (of WWE fame), Clare Grant (Team Unicorn), and Vanessa Marshall (Hera on Star Wars Rebels). Their campaign, called The Breakfast League, channels the ‘80s and starts with an innocuous group of characters that eventually find themselves in a full-on adventure set in the DC Universe. IGN talked to Prinze about how this new show came about and what viewers can expect.
Prinze has a gaming channel of his own called GEGGHEAD, but partnering with DC opened a whole new world of possibilities, he said. Top among them, a Batcave set that features all manner of cool Batman stuff that would send any fan into a tizzy, including its very own Alfred Pennyworth stand-in.
“It’s what a real tabletop game experience is like, if you were Richie Rich and could buy the sweetest table in the world, and if you had a butler with an English accent bringing you drinks while you played, and if you had the Michael Keaton Batman costume behind you, just because,” Prinze enthused. “It literally would be if Richie Rich was a D&D player and he’s like, ‘Hey guys, this is my DC room!’”

Prinze’s group follows a custom campaign created by Witwer. If you’ve seen Dungeons and Dragons shows like Critical Role or Acquisitions Incorporated, you know the drill: the players sit around a table making decisions for their characters and rolling dice to use their skills as Witwer guides them through the story. Witwer is likely one of the more stylish GMs you’ve ever seen as he jumps to his feet to narrate the proceedings with a flourish of gestures and sound effects.
The characters are all teens that start out stuck in detention together, and if it sounds like The Breakfast Club, that’s entirely on purpose. Prinze lists numerous hallmarks from the ‘80s as influences for the story, everything from Breakfast Club to Ferris Bueller to 16 Candles — basically a John Hughes-flavored adventure set in the world of DC.
“There are a lot of characters that will be very representative of some of the epic characters from those films. This ‘80s game and those ’80s movies kind of co-exist, and reflect where we were all at maturity-wise back then. So that’s the original story that [Witwer] wrapped around it, and it’s way ’80s,” Prinze said.
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The idea for this show came to Prinze when longtime friend and collaborator Jon Lee Brody told him he found a copy of DC Heroes, an out-of-print role-playing game from back in 1985 that Prinze used to play when he was a kid. DC Heroes was Prinze’s first-ever RPG, and memories of playing the game in his youth came rushing back and inspired him to pitch the show to DC.
Prinze was actually first introduced to the game while in detention. Left unsupervised, one of the other kids brought out the game and Prinze joined in to play.
“We were all just sitting there, and we literally played in detention for about 45 minutes and our game wasn’t over. And none of us knew each other, but we all ended up going to this guy’s house and then we sat down and we finished the game,” Prinze recalled. “And since this happened in the ’80s, that was kind of the vibe that we wanted to maintain.”
So while the other cast members of DC Universe All Star Games are playing fictional characters who get stuck in detention, Prinze is practically reliving his childhood. There was something special in that old tabletop RPG that stuck with Prinze, and now he hopes to share that magic with fellow DC and RPG fans on DC Universe.
Watch these famous D&D fans (including the Russo brothers, Joe Manganiello, and Deborah Ann Woll) explain why the game has become so popular again:
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Prinze also shared the story of how he made that surprise Kanan Jarrus voice cameo in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
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Source: IGN.com How Freddie Prinze Jr Went From Detention to a New DC Universe Show