I’ve been searching for good ways to build text-rpgs since writing my Python-Based TextRPG in 2008 [1]. With Dryads Wake I finally found a structure that I really like and that can be played from the browser as well as from the text-terminal.
Dryads Wake is a pure text-based game using the 1d6-rules [2]. You can play an introductory chapter on dryads-wake.1w6.org [3]. As usual, the full source is available as free software [4].
You can even embed it, and for example play it here (click to play):