E) Extra descriptions menu When choosing this option you will be sent to the menu explained under HELP EXTRA. This menu is used for both rooms and objects. Object Extra Descriptions allow players to examine certain aspects of objects defined by the builder, just like Room Extra Descriptions. There can be an unlimited number of Extra Descriptions per object. Take your time on making your objects and use extra descriptions, please! For objects, be very liberal in how you describe them. Remember that a player's mental view on an object is based solely on what you tell them about it. There is nothing worse than looking at an object and seeing "The sword is big." Yes, this tells the player that it is a sword and it is big, but what else? What color? Is it sharp, notched, dull...? Make your objects interesting. Make your objects personal to the mob that carries them. If you make a cloak that loads on the wizard Throm, make it "The Magic Cloak of Throm" or even just "the wizard's cloak". Anything but just a plain old cloak. Which would you rather have, as a player? When making extra descriptions ensure that all the keywords are covered by the description. Extra descriptions can add small interesting details to your area and are often remembered by players. Please take the time to write extra descriptions. On most MUDs, you can look at 100 objects and "You see nothing special..." all 100 times. In an effort to make all MUDs different and better, take the time to write an extra description for your object. Think of an object's extra description as the same thing as a mob's description when you look at it, which it actually is. For the extra descriptions keywords, use the same keywords as you did earlier. A very easy way to detect lazy builders with bad grammar is when objects have no description at all. This causes frustration on the player side, because when you have seen "You see nothing special..." once too many, you just do not try to look at items anymore. One of the most difficult things you will come across when creating an object is giving it a good description. We all like descriptions, so take a little time to put your signature on the objects you create. Objects can give the total sense of being within a certain world. They can also give clues as to what may lie ahead or what has happened in the past. See also:: TEXT-EDITOR, EXTRA, SWORDS