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Virtually every game can be considered a role-playing game. The definition of role-playing is playing the role of another character, such as in theatre. A role-playing genre is a very hard line to define in text-based games because most involve you playing a role of some kind. I have seen quite a few games that do not make you play a specific role character-wise. Sure, you can have a character, but that is not the main focus of the game. I've seen plenty of text-based games that allow you to manage a kingdom and resources, etc., etc. These may not be text-based in a sense that all commands are issued in text, as a matter of fact, most commands in these types of games can be issued by buttons on the window. However, there are not graphics and descriptions of things and reports and other info is displayed in a text window. So, in a sense, the text-based type gameplay can be limitless in its bounds. Of course, what you need is to imagine something that can be done in a text environment and still be enjoyable. And unfortunately, most of that has already been done.
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