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Old 04-29-2010, 03:55 PM   #2
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Re: RP Intensive mud with no need for description

This forum is for discussing "New directions in RPGs and advanced concepts in MUD development". If you're interested in talking about different approaches to descriptions (such as hand-written vs generated, or dynamic vs static) then this would be the appropriate place. If you want people to recommend some games you should repost in the "Advertising for Players" forum.

From a game design perspective I'm a big fan of dynamically generated descriptions - not just for geographical locations, but also for objects and creatures (and even help files). But many of the more hardcore roleplayers I've encountered seem to favour hand-written descriptions, and often prefer their descriptions to be static as well. They also seem to be very big on writing their own character descriptions, while I prefer to generate descriptions for everyone.

If you browse through the forums you can probably find some interesting debates about the merits of the different approaches, some of them quite heated.
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