Yet another reason to ditch Musk's Twitter: You can play a crowdsourced Dungeons & Dragons campaign over on Mastodon

pcgamer.com:

By now, there are more reasons to get off Twitter entirely than I can count, but if you need one more nudge—a final straw for that camel's back—here it is: They're playing Dungeons & Dragons over on Mastodon. 

Through the magic of democracy (Mastodon's poll function), an account called Dungeons over on the federated Twitter-alternative platform is letting its audience choose their own adventure in an ongoing D&D campaign. How do you like that, Elon Musk?

The game is run by an ongoing project called Dungeons Bot, made by a developer called Astrelion, which you can download and run yourself if the mood takes you, and runs off of the D&D 5E SRD ruleset with a few tweaks thrown in to mix things up. It's pretty simple in practice: The bot offers up some kind of situation, presents a list of actions in a poll for voters to choose between, and then rolls to see how they go. There's even a Dungeon Guide Mastodon account responding to each situation with advice on how best to proceed.

Encountering a sprite, followers could choose between fighting it, avoiding it, or going to sleep, which coincidentally is also the list of actions I choose from to solve problems in my own life. The player has a class and stats, dice rolls determine the outcome of actions, and defeating enemies garners XP and gold. It's D&D, is what I'm saying, even if the narrative probably wouldn't hold your attention as an actual play podcast.

I'm a big fan of "Everyone Is John"-style attempts to get a significant number of people to control a single player character, like the innumerable Twitch Plays X streams that have taken place over the years, and this is no different. 

Once upon a time, it probably would have been possible to run a similar thing over on