I've spent a good deal of time re-tweaking the menu systems.
One thing I've never been fond of in roguelikes is looking at a list of choices where half the things make me ask "what the hell is that?" And even if I know what something is, that doesn't mean I know enough to make good decisions about it. I can surmise that a Troll has higher Strength and lower Intelligence, making one a poor choice for a Mage character, but I can't intuit that trolls have slightly better-than-average Willpower scores, making them more resistant to magic, and I'm not certain whether this universe has the "trolls heal quickly" rule in play.
And while I could easily just tell players to RTFM (I mean, it is a roguelike...), there's no reason to assume everyone has prescient knowledge of the design decisions I've made to differentiate my world from the "standard fantasy setting" a.k.a. Tolkien (Our Elves are Better, after all).
So, I added a bit where you can see a description of what you're picking. Right now I've just got the stat plus/minus-es, but in the future that'll come alongside some flavor text for each thing. In order to actually see the description, I've added a cursor, letting you select which thing you want to look at. You can still just strike the key corresponding to the thing desired, for those who know what stuff is and just want to get on with it without having to scroll the bloody thing down. And you can jump the cursor directly to what you want to look at by holding Alt and pressing the corresponding key (which honestly feels a bit awkward. I'll probably change it to Ctrl, which involves changing a single character in the code thanks to my sexy, sexy Input class).
Programmatically, the coolest thing about the menu system is that it's almost completely modular. I used to have each MenuState class handle redundant things like making the list of stuff to show, handling inputs (from the Input class, of course), etc. Now all the generic stuff is put in the Menu class, and each MenuState has a Menu as part of it. Each MenuState now only has code relevant to the different things it does, which is the whole bloody point of classes in the first place.
