Dungeonmasters for Kamala: A new crew of celebrity nerds jumps on Harris bandwagon [View all]
On Monday, around 6 p.m., Waseem Daher, the 38-year-old founder of Pilot, an accounting startup, began Zooming some Dungeons & Dragons-inspired content in his Potrero Hill home.
But this wasn’t any ordinary live role-playing game — it was a political fundraiser called “Adventurers for Harris: Democracy & Dragons” benefiting the Kamala Harris-Tim Walz campaign and featuring appearances from actress Deborah Ann Woll of “True Blood” and “Daredevil” fame; Anjali Bhimani, the voice of Symmetra in Blizzard Entertainment’s “Overwatch”; and Matthew Lillard, aka Shaggy from “Scooby-Doo.”
Around 6,000 self-identified nerds tuned in live across Zoom, Twitch, and YouTube for an experience that was part play, part politics, part fanfic uprising against a fascist evil empire.
Daher is extremely committed, as he’s promised to match campaign donations up to $1 million total (with $100,000 earmarked specifically to match donations from people who tuned in for the game).
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