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.
This gives off Twitch Plays Pokemon energy. I love it.
Here’s the account, because I spent longer than necessary trying to find it in the article. mastodon.social/@dungeons
Although it is reallt cool, I wouldn’t go so far as calling it a campaign. It looks like you just fight monster after monster and that’s it
I mean, that sounds like the D&D I played in Grade 7.
Eh, even then im sure there was “go to this room” or “buy this from the merchant”
It wasn’t just
“Figjt monster”
“OK he’s dead, new monster”
“Fight monster”
Fair enough. I absolutely remember running randomly generated dungeons from the back of the 1st edition DM’s guide, and the players dutifully mapping it out on graph paper. No cohesive dungeon theme, just all random monsters and such.
It was kind of fun, like playing Diablo.
Of course this also reminds me of the first time I ran Pacesetters Chill. A single monster… investigations, a false finish. My player’s loved it. This Dungeon Bot is the complete opposite that, for sure, but it’s still kind of fun, like just mowing through random monsters.
I now want to make like a legit action text adventure for mastodon that has things like coheiege dungeon, a story etc
I think a “Choose Your Own Adventure” or even a “Fighting Fantasy” gamebook style poll based account would be workable…
How hard could it be? I’ve never really thought about what goes into one of these automated accounts.
Okay, this seems to be horrible and not at all as good as it could be.
Where do I sign up?
This is absolutely something I would expect to come out of the Mastodon community, and I’m all for it.
I signed up for Mastadon a while back and barely used it so far, but I am running over there right now for this lol
