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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7758468" data-attributes="member: 29398">This isn't always a bad thing in one respect: if you mentioned the dragon first you'd never get to the rest of the description because the players would be interrupting all over the place.Worse yet are the boxed descriptions that always assume entry through a particular door and thus describe things as seen from that viewpoint, even though there's three other doors the party could come in through.Good advice for when there's only one or two key features, or one feature whose importance overshadows everything else e.g. your dragon example.  But when there's lots of detail and nothing really stands out - e.g. the party enters a study full of fancy books and scrawled-on papers and shelves with interesting contents and a desk and a cabinet and a fancy mirror and a small table with a smoking bottle on it - it's probably better just to describe everything.</blockquote>