Title: Rolling for Office: Why Our Next Politicians Should Be Chosen Through RPGs

 Title: Rolling for Office: Why Our Next Politicians Should Be Chosen Through RPGs

Introduction What if we chose our leaders not by how well they perform under media coaching or how deep their pockets go, but by how they play in a collaborative storytelling game? Not a joke. A vision. A ritual reimagined. Welcome to the age of Twitch Primaries, where dice rolls and moral improvisation reveal the truest qualities of a potential leader.

Politics is Performance. But It's the Wrong Kind. In modern politics, candidates are trained to posture. They rehearse talking points, hire strategists to sculpt their public image, and speak in code that says very little. But what if we flipped the script? What if, instead of staged debates and glossy campaign ads, we watched our future leaders in real-time, unscripted collaboration? What if they played Dungeons & Dragons?

RPGs as a Trial by Fire (and Friendship) Role-playing games (RPGs) like D&D are collaborative storytelling experiences that demand emotional intelligence, creativity, ethical problem-solving, and adaptability. When someone plays a character, they reveal themselves:

• Can they share the spotlight, or do they hoard it?

• Do they negotiate with monsters, or attack first?

• Do they remember the needs of the village, or chase personal power?

You can’t fake your way through a good campaign. A campaign is a crucible. It tests leadership the way real life does—organically, unexpectedly, with consequences that unfold over time.

The Twitch Primary Imagine this: every candidate starts with the same character creation session, builds their stats, and joins a campaign live-streamed weekly. Viewers tune in not to hear slogans, but to witness behavior.

Each session introduces crises that echo real-world themes: climate disaster, public health, economic collapse, systemic injustice. How each player-candidate responds reveals more about their values than a hundred policy papers. And unlike staged debates, their reactions can’t be edited. It’s improv. It’s raw. It’s real.

Mythic Governance for the Networked Age What you’re reading is more than satire—it’s an invitation to sacred play. It’s a resurrection of tribal leadership trials, filtered through digital ritual. RPGs are modern myth-engines. In them, we watch not just outcomes, but the process of decision-making. That’s what real leadership is.

In the age of AI, memetics, and accelerated truth fatigue, our criteria for power must evolve. We need transparency of character, not just information. We need leaders who’ve made hard calls, cried with villagers, made peace with dragons—and did it all while rolling a natural 20 with grace.

Conclusion: Roll for Insight We’ve seen what doesn’t work. Maybe it’s time we let the dice decide—but only after we’ve watched who’s really playing the game.

And maybe, just maybe, the one who saved the tavern from burning down instead of looting it is the one worth following.

So grab your dice. The new campaign is starting. And this time, it’s for real.