There are some common terms and notations that are helpful to understand when playing Now Is The Time Of Monsters.
Dice Notation
- d6: a regular six-sided die.
- Xd6: X regular six-sided dice (e.g. 2d6 is 2 dice).
- d66: two six-sided die with one of them representing the tens column and the other the ones column (i.e. a 1 and a 3 is a 13 or a 31)
- X-in-6: If something has a X-in-6 chance of succeeding or happening, then a roll of less than or equal to X on a d6 succeeds.
- Dice Pool: The number of dice available to a character that can be rolled for a specific task, such as fighting, casting a spell, or other activities.
- Explode: Keep rolling the die until the triggering result no longer occurs.
Essential Terms
- Referee: The person who creates the in-game world, runs the sessions for the Players, determines NPC reactions and risks and chances of success of PC actions. They are impartial to the world and events.
- Players: The other people playing the game who aren’t the Referee. They control the Player Characters.
- Player Characters (PCs): The characters created and controlled by the Players.
- Non-Player Characters (NPCs): Characters not controlled by a Player.
- Characters: The characters created and controlled by the Players or the Referee.
- Opponents: Adversaries, human or otherwise. To be avoided, parleyed with, or fought when necessary.