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7509: [MUD-Dev] Re: Room descriptions

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From: J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 19:19:12 -0700
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Sun, 27 Sep 1998 21:17:37 -0400 
Hal Black<hal@moos.ml.org> wrote:

> Also implicit in your rule - And here is the major reason I want to
> do these things - you also assume that everyone will never LOSE any
> of their senses, or face a serious hack to get the descriptions to
> work.  What about blindness and ear-binding spells?  Blindfolds?
> Darkness spells?  What if you want a bell ringing to sound in one
> area and be able to be heard in other areas and dissipate in
> distance?  These are the kinds of things that I would want to add,
> which would be a lot easier to add given this kind of description,
> so it makes sense (no pun intended) for the engine I have in mind.

This is another advantage to removing the intelligence from the room
and placing it in the character or receiving object -- you can add
sensory limitations/features (eg a species where certain noises affect their
visual perceptions) without having to touch or change your existant
description base.

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