Countless reasons to quit Twitter: playing Dungeons & Dragons on Mastodon.

Using the magic of democracy (Mastodon's voting feature), an account called Dungeons on Twitter's alternative platform is letting its audience choose their own adventure in an ongoing D&D campaign. What do you think, Elon Musk? [The game is run by an ongoing project called Dungeons Bot, created by a developer named Astrelion, which you can download and run yourself if you feel like it. It's actually quite simple: the bot presents some situation, presents a list of actions to the voters to choose one or the other, and then rolls to see the results. The dungeon guide's mastodon account will respond to each situation and advise how best to act.

When encountering a sprite, followers can choose to fight, avoid, or sleep. Players have classes and stats, the roll of the dice determines the outcome of their actions, and they receive XP and gold for defeating enemies. As for the actual play podcast, I would say that this is D&D, even if the story probably won't grab your attention.

I'm a big fan of "Everyone Is John"-style attempts to have a single player character controlled by a bunch of people, and the countless Twitch Plays X streams over the years have been no different.

In the past, it probably would have been possible to run something similar on Twitter, but that platform now requires all but the most basic kind of automated access to run bots, and t-shirt and meta-mask wallet spammers While they continue to proliferate, they seem to be eliminating bots that do cool things like this. Well, we have the Fediverse.