Ghost role names and descriptions don't have set standards #34141
Labels
A: Core Tech
Area: Underlying core tech for the game and the Github repository.
DB: Beginner Friendly
Difficulty: Great for beginners. Unambiguous in scope, and explains how to achieve the result.
P3: Standard
Priority: Default priority for repository items.
T: Cleanup
Type: Code clean-up, without being a full refactor or feature
Description
At the moment, there isn't a set standard that ghost role names and/or descriptions follow. For names, many (I think most, but I can't say for sure) use title case ("Smile the Slime", "Rat King", "Closet Skeleton"), while others use sentence case ("Giant spider", Willow the kangaroo", "Space dragon", "Space carp on salvage wreck"). A handful use other schemes, like "Hamlet the hamster." (note the period), "positronic brain", or "Remilia, the chaplain's familiar".
A similar situation exists regarding descriptions, though to a much lesser extent; I've pretty much only seen complete sentences, though I swear I've seen some that don't have ending punctuation.
This lack of consistency obviously has no effect on gameplay, but it can be a bit distracting/grating. As more ghost roles are added, I believe it would be good to have a discussion and set a standard now so that we don't have to do as much work changing things later. The standard would cover casing and use of punctuation for both names and descriptions, as well as any other rules.
Personally, I'm in favor of title case with no punctuation for titles and complete sentences for descriptions; I believe it looks the most "polished," but really it's just personal preference.
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