What does NaN mean in a damage stat?


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I have a monster that says it does 1d6 + NaN Bludgeoning damage and I don't know what the "NaN" means. I can't seem to find an answer on this so I thought I would post it here. If someone can tell me what this means it would be appreciated.

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MsMarvel wrote:
I have a monster that says it does 1d6 + NaN Bludgeoning damage and I don't know what the "NaN" means. I can't seem to find an answer on this so I thought I would post it here. If someone can tell me what this means it would be appreciated.

Can you post what book the monster is found in?


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NaN means Not a Number.

I would guess it is a mistake where someone did a calculation that failed, such as a divide by zero. I would treat it as zero unless you can get an errata from the publisher.

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EDIT: Ninja'd

NaN means "Not a Number"

It means that whatever app/program you are using had an error. It tried to calculate a number, but it could not do so. Probably because something other than a number was used as an input.

Were you using SFRPG Tools? You may have to manually calculate that part of the monster's stats.


Belafon wrote:
MsMarvel wrote:
I have a monster that says it does 1d6 + NaN Bludgeoning damage and I don't know what the "NaN" means. I can't seem to find an answer on this so I thought I would post it here. If someone can tell me what this means it would be appreciated.
Can you post what book the monster is found in?

It's a custom monster that I was creating in https://sfrpgtools.com/monster-builder. I was expecting it to spit out a monster with 1d6 + 3 (strength mod), but I got that instead. It's possible the site is incorrect, but I just want to be sure I haven't done something incorrectly.

Here is the complete sheet https://imgur.com/a/fw0rc08.


Jasque wrote:

EDIT: Ninja'd

NaN means "Not a Number"

It means that whatever app/program you are using had an error. It tried to calculate a number, but it could not do so. Probably because something other than a number was used as an input.

Were you using SFRPG Tools? You may have to manually calculate that part of the monster's stats.

As I was writing the previous reply, yours and Breti's replies came in explaining things. Thanks for the help everyone!

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That website will let you edit the monster's stat block. You can write in the correct number where it says "NaN".

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