Rooms in BatMUD have varying levels of "outside", as you may have noticed. The
torch creation skill only worked in the rooms the most outside. Not a major
issue, unless you've recently coded a forest-desc area filled with trees
blocking out the sun.
Due to a suggestion from Malcom, these rooms, and a few others, should now
also be torch creation-possible. You still can't do it indoors, but places
where plants or trees grow should be work.