Realm of Shadows
Area Writing Requirements


If you are interested in writing an area for Realm of Shadows you will need to contact
Sirus and tell him what your area will be about. After you will need to e-mail Sirus some
samples of your writing, and if that's approved you will need to make a VNUM map of your
area. (Example) When all of this is done you can download ORB or Area Editor with the 
Realm of Shadows configuration and begin to write your area. When you write an area
please follow the guidelines as listed below.

*Minimum amount of rooms: 50
*Minimum amount of different mobs: 10
*Minimum amount of different objects: 5
*Don't use the same description for each room, unless you are writing a zone in which the player
 is supposed to get lost in. (Maze/Forest)
*Use proper spelling and grammar.
*Follow the theme of Realm of Shadows (Medieval/Fantasy)
*Have all mobs set in the proper rooms and all objects on the proper mob/room/container.
*You can't make super items (No 3 damage items)
*You are not allowed to tell people where your zone is installed so we can do quests and have the 
players discover it.
*You must set mob levels, attacks, languages.
*Mobs HP/mana/move/gold/wis,int,etc do not need to be set.
*Don't talk to the players, just describe what they would see if there were looking at the mob
object or room.
*No super high Armor Class items.
*Metal objects need to have the metal flag set.