Cool Things
1) Targetted Xps System - Much praise to LordSutch (and everyone else involved) for this system. Adds a great deal to NewMoon.
2) Boating - It's not currently in at the moment, but Ozy is the man, for building such a nice system for a text mud.
3) Herbs - Gotta give credit where credit is do, Raindog did a great job with the herbs on NewMoon, the rangers guild is so much more intresting with the making of poultices and potions.
4) Npcs - The list of the great npcs:
The Lich: a semi-intelligent npc, summons you back to fight, uses countering spells a real nice job with him.
Snakeweed: with the exception of using those poultices (see Critisms), one of the few really fun npcs for high level evil folks to kill.
5) Theives - True they are a very limited from combat, but they have the most, and nicests commands around, a very intresting and fun guild.
5) Code - In general the code on NewMoon is nothing sort of excellent, I yet to see a mud that uses add_items so much, or goes thru such lengths to make unique long descripts..