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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cbwjm" data-source="post: 7161550" data-attributes="member: 6788732">I rely on my players to be able to explain what a spell or ability does which should ideally be written down on their character sheet. I try to keep the rest of the rules in my head but sometimes even the DM makes mistakes, it took a player who was new and had recently read the PHB combat rules to correct our combat movement and opportunity attacks, for other rules I just make it up as I go along (I'm looking at you stealth checks) and then try to maintain consistency down the road.I know some players just have a difficult time of understanding key concepts, I have one which has difficulty with when to add proficiency for skill checks. One thing we do in our games is correct things after the fact. We'll finish a session and then I might check the rules rather than stopping play and checking on things then and there. For instance, in our first couple of games we were allowing cantrips to be used with commander's strike and sneak attack. We were all new to the game but afterwards, once I had reread the rules on the two abilities I just sent out an email saying we were doing it wrong and that we would correct it for the future.</blockquote>