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.

Smell & Taste Descriptions

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.
  • 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

  • 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.

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.

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.