• Not Capitalized: Class names (like fighter and rogue); feat names (like power attack and two-weapon fighting); base attack bonus.
  • Capitalized: Saving throw names and their abbreviations (like Fort, Ref, and Will); skill names (like Hide and Move Silently).
  • Italicized: the names of spells (like daze and hold portal); names of magic items (+1 greatsword).
    • Italics should enclose ending commas, periods, semicolons, and other ending punctuation.
    • Italics should NOT enclose parentheses or other brackets.
    • Contiguous lists of spells and magic items can be italicized en mass.
    • Words like “and” and spell difficulties classes like “(DC 10)” should NOT be italicized.

The em dash can be represented in Markdown by the Unicode character “—” or three dashes “—”.

The en dash can be represented in Markdown by the Unicode character “–” or two dashes “–”.

The minus sign can be represented in Markdown by the Unicode character “−” or substituted by the em dash “–”.

Tables

  • Tables should be preceded by a header beginning with the word “Table:”.
  • A table can be generated by inserting a vertical bar and a space before each row and cell.
  • Table header rows should be present, generated by separating the table date rows with a row of

Table: Caption Here

Header 1 Header 2
Row 1 Data 1
Row 2 Data 2
Row 3 Data 3
  1. Footer 1
  2. Footer 2