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Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net> wrote:
>>If we're sharing stories:
> [snip]
>>I refer to the DM4 a lot, but it's pretty much pure reference now.  I wouldn't
>>mind a book consisting entirely of the lists of properties and actions from
>>the back of the book.
> Hear, hear!  I've considered just printing out an additional copy of the
> appendices from the DM4 and IBG for easy reference when I forget whether
> the action is "Take" or "Get".  :-p
> (You may now commence laughing.  *grin*)

No, I think we all have issues like that.  For the longest time, mine
was (to really embarass myself in public) the order and placement of
the library files.

The real solution, of course, isn't to look it up in the IDM (or IBG)
each time, but instead to start each work from a "skeleton" game
which already has an object reacting to "Take"...

