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I spent the last two years of my spare time putting together an RPG in Slack: https://www.chatandslash.com/

I think it's cool because it's almost definitely the most complex Slack bot out there (though I admit that's an arbitrary metric), but it's for sure the most advanced game on the platform.

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Very similar idea to Multi User Dungeon (MUD) RPG games back in the day. Was that your inspiration? If you're not familiar with those you should check out their history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD

Absolutely something I took inspiration from, though the primary inspiration was more along the lines of Legend of the Red Dragon, a BBS Door game that hit the height of it's popularity back when MUDs hit the height of theirs.

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