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-# DagoniteEmpire
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+# DagoniteEmpire
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+A comprehensive tool for starting an online, text-based RPG campaign, enabling multiple players to start long-term games in an original, well-defined world. Each player creates their own character with special abilities and skill sets, who then become a part of an adventure team with other players in a campaign led by a Game Master. 
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+Work in progress.