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 Articles and their contents, including article names and headings, are given in sentence case.
-Capitalise proper nouns and adjectives when appropriate, but avoid unnecessary capitalisation.
+Capitalise proper nouns and adjectives if they are linked.
-Specific in-game items, spells, characters and locations should also inherit the game's capitalisation.
+Specific in-game items, spells, characters and locations should also be capitalised.
 === Article names and headers ===
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 === Game concepts and mechanics ===
-Do not generally capitalise game concepts, mechanics, terminology or rules.
+Capitalise game concepts, mechanics, terminology or rules.
 The following abbreviations should always be capitalised: AC, DC, NPC and abbreviation of abilities like STR, DEX, CON etc.
-Capitalise the following terms:
+Capitalise especially the following terms:
 * Armour Class
 * Classifications of weapons and armour (Longsword, Light armour).
-** Exceptions: These terms should not be capitalised when the terms are used descriptively (e.g. with no mechanical significance).
 * Creature sizes (Medium, Large)
 * Creature types (Aberration, Humanoid)
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 * Specific racial features (Keen Senses)
 * Specific spells
-Do {{em|not}} capitalise the following terms:
-* Common nouns such as ability, action, armour, check, class, condition, creature, damage, feat, feature, hit, initiative, item, miss, proficiency, race, resistance, rest, roll, save, skill, spell, weapon.
-* Compound terms such as ability check, ability score, attack roll, critical hit, damage resistance, damage type, hit points, long rest, saving throw, short rest.
-* Names of classes (barbarian, fighter).
-** Names of subclasses should still be capitalised.
-* Names of races (elf, illithid, owlbear)
-* Spell schools (abjuration, necromancy).
-* Subcategories of Consumables: arrows, camp supplies, coatings, dyes, elixirs, grenades, potions, scrolls.
-Exceptions:
-* Races and classes may be capitalised when used as titles (Gale, Human Wizard).
-** This includes specific individual creatures, which may have identical names to their race (which is not capitalised) – e.g. the creature Mind Flayer Leader is a mind flayer.
-* The term attack is only capitalised when it's referring to the Attack action. Otherwise, it is not capitalised (take an Attack action, roll an attack roll)
-* The first letter in game concept terminology can be capitalised when used as keywords (Type: Condition)
 === Other capitalisation guidelines ===
 ==== References to other articles ====
-Names of articles should be capitalised on other pages when they referred to as an article, but not when they are simply linked to.
+Names of articles should be capitalised on other pages if they referred to as an article.
 * {{SmallIcon|greencheck.png}} For more information about potions, see Potions.
 * {{SmallIcon|redx.png}} For more information about potions, see potions.