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 (around 5 words max).
• 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.

Material Guidelines

General

• Nothing that a craftsman could not reasonably create.
• Use appropriate materials. You can't make a shirt out of living skin or pure gold.
• Achaea also does not have "modern" materials and clothing features like velcro, denim, polyester (or any synthetic fabric), zippers, sweatshirts, and so on.
• Metal that may not be used is mithril, orichalcum, and bloodsteel.

Jewellery Specific

• Wood is may not be used in jewellery.
• Nothing that is alive or was previously alive (excluding bone?) maybe used in jewellery.

Language

• Use UK, not US spellings. (Except when using measurements, in which case use Imperial.)
• Organisation names should be capitalised.
• The possessive form of common nouns ending in 's' should retain the possessive 's', example: dress's.