W.O.I.N.

Style Guide
Spells. Spell names, psionic powers, and the
names of magic items are always italicized and
This guide outlines the style basics of writing a
lower case: “The wizard casts firebolt.”
WOIN product or article.
Secrets. Secrets are always italicized: “In the
GM. Refer to the game referee as the
diary, the mad druid has recorded the secret of
Gamemaster or GM.
plants which can be learned by a magic-user.”
Attributes. Attributes are alway presented in
Lists. Lists with mini-headings (such as this
full caps: “this is a STRENGTH check”.
one) are formatted with a bold header
Shortened versions of attributes are three
followed by a period. Colons are not used.
letters (STR, AGI, etc.) and are always
This document is formatted in this way.
capitalized.
Attacks. To describe an attack, use the
Skills. Skills are always italicized, lower case:
following format: “… a[n] [attribute] [type]
“you can use the climbing skill to do this”.
attack.” For example:
Attribute checks. An attribute check is
A 3d6 melee attack
formatted as follows: “Difficult [16] AGI
A CHA mental attack
check”. The difficulty is italicised, with the
A STR melee attack
word capitalized, and the attribute is in upper
A 6d6 ranged attack
case but not italicized.
Exceptions
Derived Statistics. Derived stats are always
presented in full caps: “the tree has a
RANGED DEFENSE of 10.” If an item is normally presented in lower-case,
but begins a sentence, then it is capitalized:
Exploits. Exploits are written in plain text, and “Climbing is a skill, as is jumping…”
capitalized: “he uses the Feint exploit”.
The exception to the “Lists” rule is when
Monster names. Monster names, but not displaying race or career stat blocks. In these
quantities, are bolded the first time they cases, the Size, Prerequisites, Attributes, and
appear in a paragraph describing an Skill Choices all use a colon. The racial or
encounter: “Three goblins attack from career exploits use periods as described above.
above…" Monster names outside of
encounters are not bolded. NPC descriptions Fonts
that refer to their stat block only bold the name
of the stat block the first time they appear in OLD headers are Uncial Antiqua. Body text is
their description: “Mordecai is a mage who Livory. Table names/content are Cronos Pro.
lives in a tower…” NEW headers are OCR A Std. Body text is
Trebuchet MS. You do not have to use these;
this is just because it’s a common question.