                       EIDOLON DOCUMENTATION FILES
                Copyright (c) 1995-1997 East Side Computing

All of the documentation files are either normal ASCII files or they
are WORD 7.0 files.  ASCII files have the .TXT extension and the Word
files have the .DOC extension.  The Word files are Sysop documentation
and the ASCII files are for your users and world builders.

Some of these files are generally available on the internet.  Those
that are have been modified slightly to fit in with the EIDOLON
implimentation of the standard internet MUD.


FILE NAME       DESCRIPTION
======================================================================
EIDOLON.DOC     This is the Sysop's documentation for EIDOLON.  You
                should print this out if possible and keep it near by
                while installing EIDOLON, and probably for the first
                few weeks that it is up.

BUILDING.TXT    This is a course on the mechanics of writing a world.
                It explains how to make rooms, objects, NPCs, how to
                tie them all together, all the various flags for
                controlling them, and much more.

RMDESC.TXT      This is a short tutorial on how to write good room
                descriptions.  Long vs short descriptions, how to keep
                the reader's interest, how to tie it all together so
                that it intergrates well into your world, etc.

QDESIGN.TXT     This is a short tutorial on designing quests.  It
                addresses game balance, keeping the player's interests,
                and more.

