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<blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 6309896" data-attributes="member: 2525">I wasn't trying to say other editions did it better in a more active way, just that my experiences with Page 42 is that it didn't come up very often (though it worked when it did come up) and it was not active in it's encouragement TO PLAYERS.&nbsp; I liked Page 42 a great deal and I hope 5e uses that concept and expands on it as well.&nbsp; I just hope it's presented to the players in the PHB.Otherwise, I think merely having fewer rules passively encourages players to do different things, better than 3e/4e passively encouraged it.&nbsp; If your character sheet presents a lot fewer options to look at, it's more likely the player will think to turn to things outside that character sheet text to try and resolve a problem in an encounter.&nbsp; I think it's a good goal to try and get players to stop looking at their character sheets so often, to stop looking at figures on a table grid so often, and to think about the situation more in terms of &quot;how would my character deal with this&quot; rather than &quot;what abilities expressed by the rules for this character are intended to deal with this&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mistwell, post: 6309896, member: 2525"] I wasn't trying to say other editions did it better in a more active way, just that my experiences with Page 42 is that it didn't come up very often (though it worked when it did come up) and it was not active in it's encouragement TO PLAYERS. I liked Page 42 a great deal and I hope 5e uses that concept and expands on it as well. I just hope it's presented to the players in the PHB. Otherwise, I think merely having fewer rules passively encourages players to do different things, better than 3e/4e passively encouraged it. If your character sheet presents a lot fewer options to look at, it's more likely the player will think to turn to things outside that character sheet text to try and resolve a problem in an encounter. I think it's a good goal to try and get players to stop looking at their character sheets so often, to stop looking at figures on a table grid so often, and to think about the situation more in terms of "how would my character deal with this" rather than "what abilities expressed by the rules for this character are intended to deal with this". [/QUOTE]

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