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I am trying to create a simple "inventory" of items, much like in any RPG. I have very basic classes made, which have properties. Anyway, I have a base class of item and inheriting from that is weapon . item has properties (name, value, weight, "important item") that are also used within weapon , but weapon has extra properties (attack, defense, speed, handedness). I've got the following code (sorry if the readability is horrible): static void Main(string[] args) { List<item> inventory = new List<item>(); inventory.Add(new weapon("Souleater", 4000, 25.50f, false, 75, 30, 1.25f, 2)); //item---------------------------> weapon---------> Console.Write("Name: {0}\nValue: {1}\nWeight: {2}\nDiscardable: {3}\nAttack: {4}\nDefense: {5}\nSpeed: {6}\nHandedness: {7}", inventory[0].Name, inventory[0].BValue, inventory[0].Weight, inventory[0].Discard, inventory[0].Atk, inventory[0].Def, inventory[0].Speed, inventory[0].Hands); Console.ReadLine(); } Basically, what I'm trying to do is add a new weapon to the inventory, but the inventory is a List<item> type. I went out on a whim hoping that, due to it's inheritance, it'd be accepted. It was, but the properties specific to weapon aren't able to be accessed: ('shopSystem.item' does not contain a definition for 'Atk' and no extension method 'Atk' accepting a first argument of type 'shopSystem.item' could be found) So, is there any way to achieve what I was intending here? Have an "inventory" which can store item objects, as well as weapon , armour , accessory etc. objects, which inherit from item ? It is also worth mentioning that I can access all of the desired properties if I declare

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