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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6505393" data-attributes="member: 1465">Ok!Well one thing I've been thinking about for 5e, is that IMHO it should be possible to at least avoid writing all the stuff on the character sheet at once.I understand that this is not for everyone, and in fact when I started a thread about "de-cluttering your character sheet" a few months ago, I met a lot of criticism...Anyway in a nutshell, my idea was to create a very light character sheet that focuses on lists of what you are proficient in and then avoid pre-calc the numbers (rather than the more traditional lists of "everything that your character can even try" with pre-calculated scores), and defer the calculations to only when needed during the game, leveraging on the fact that in 5e there is only ONE number to represent ALL your proficiencies at your current level.So for example, instead of having a list of 20 skills with numbers ready-to-use, just list on the character sheet the 4 skills you have proficiency with. Then when you use the skill, check the only 2 numbers you need to know: the relevant ability score and the current proficiency bonus. [note that in my case I want to treat skills like they were suggested at some point in the playtest, so that an Athletic check is not always Strength-based but can in fact be based on any ability score, so this means that even a completely pre-calc'ed list isn't always useful since it doesn't cover the other combinations]You can save a lot of prep time if you go this way of not pre-calculating attacks, skills, saving throws, initiative... It will slow down gameplay, but my idea is that all the time spent preparing something that you don't know it's going to be used, is potentially wasted time. Only when it's used it becomes useful. But then, how about deferring those calculations to the first time you need them? As soon as you need a Wisdom saving throw or an attack with a sling or a Dex(Stealth) check, you can record it down on the character sheet and then it'll be there always available.</blockquote>

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