Crafting Standards

Overview

Appearance Description

• Should not begin with a capital letter and can NOT end with a period.
• Also the appearance should be kept short (maximum of 50 characters).
• Don't make a sentence out of it.
• Don't write about any actions or reactions the item is having.

Dropped Description

• It must be a complete sentence, with a period on the end.
• No exclamation points, no question marks, no multiple periods.
• The main noun in the sentence must be the same as the pattern name.
• Things like "A cloak is hanging from a peg here." are not acceptable. If it were dropped on the highway there is no peg to hang from.
• Dropped description should be kept to about one line.

Examined Description

• Must begin with a capital letter and must end with a period. Use full sentences. Multiple sentences are fine.
• Be descriptive.
• Examined description should be a few sentences long describing what the item looks like.

FirstEaten & ThirdEaten Descriptions

• Maximum of 240 characters.
• Do not force actions upon the eater unless they really make sense.
• Include some version of the 'appearance' description in the thirdeaten message.

Design Guidelines

General

• Descriptions should not impose an opinion on the reader.
• Nothing that a craftsman could not reasonably create.
• Clockwork is inappropriate for the Achaean setting and may not be used.
• Use appropriate materials. You can't make a shirt out of living skin or pure gold.
• Metal that may not be used is mithril, orichalcum, and bloodsteel.

Cooking Specific

• The following anachronistic foods and terms are not allowed: pizza, tacos, hot dogs, pancakes, waffles, fondue, jellybeans, gummianything (bear, worm, etc).
• No ingredients may still be alive.
• Food may not have a face.
• No spilling or dripping, not everyone will eat messy.

Jewellery Specific

• Available base materials are, in order of value: Bone, Steel, Silver, Gold, Platinum.
• Nothing that is alive or was previously alive (excluding bone) maybe used in jewellery.

Tailoring Specific

• Achaea does not have "modern" materials and clothing features like velcro, denim, polyester (or any synthetic fabric), zippers, sweatshirts, and so on.

Language

Spelling

• Use UK, not US spellings. (Except when using measurements, in which case use Imperial.)

Punctuation

• Organisation names should be capitalised.

Grammar

• The possessive form of common nouns ending in 's' should retain the possessive 's', example: dress's.