====== Chapter 01: Basic Conventions ======

These are the basic things you need to know in order to make reading through the rest of this RPG much easier. Just read along. It'll make sense eventually... really.

===== Text =====

Like the various RPGs, text in this Wiki looks different based on what's being talked about. Far be it from us to complain about a perfectly good thing, so we might as well show off the various conventions. This is ordinary text, which covers most of our narrative and explanatory needs.

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Other words are set off from the standard text like this. These boxes contain additional, but tangential information, or game play aids and tips, or character statistics.
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===== Dice =====

As you’ve probably noticed, dice are the whole point of the game - to add a bit of randomness to your life. this system uses one die for pretty much everything - the D10, or ten-sided die. When you need to roll, toss that D10. The number that comes up is adjusted by any modifiers applicable and that’s your roll result. Got it? Good.

===== Gender =====

Every RPG known to man seems to have a paragraph or two regarding the pronoun used to describe the intended speaker. As the cast of any modern game is not tied to a specific gender, this source may use he, she, or they depending on the mood. Okay? Let's move on.

===== Measurements =====

For those of you who don't know, the original Cinematic Unisystem and its supplements and modifications are created by people who live in the United States. Therefore, we use the Imperial system - feet, yards, miles, pounds, and so forth. However, if you have a character who needs to know metrics for some reason and you don't feel like doing the conversions, think of it this way: multiply miles by 1.5 (instead of 1.609) to get a rough estimate of kilometers. Meters are roughly equivalent to yards (actually, one meter is 1.094 yards.) One pound is roughly half a kilogram (instead of 0.4536). If you really need more math, go for it - or just relax and use the system that wasn't invented by people during a frenzy of bloody murder. The metric calendar never caught on, after all.