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<blockquote data-quote="atom crash" data-source="post: 2377994" data-attributes="member: 22162">I don't, though I should probably ask for a copy every time the PCs level, due to the frequency of someone not being able to find their character sheet in time or leaving it at home.However, I always help my girlfriend -- a novice to the mechanics aspect of the game -- level her character and figure out what she can and can't do. I sit down and go through her attack routines and we make index cards with attack and damage figures for a standard attack, manyshot, rapid shot, etc. I don't go through that stuff with the other guys because they've all played RPGs and computer games for years so they should have a better grasp of the mechanics and their characters' abilities.I used to play under a DM who kept our character sheets from session to session. He's hand them out at the beginning of the session and take them up at the end of the session. We didn't get to keep copies of our characters. Every week, he'd go through our sheets and modify things and double-check our skill points and whatnot. He'd attach sticky notes with marks in red pen of little nitpicky things, like whether we had 12 or 13 bolts left for the light crossbow. The overall feeling was that the characters weren't our characters, that they were characters in his game that he let us use. Seriously, it felt like we were being graded from week to week. That game was less than fun.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="atom crash, post: 2377994, member: 22162"] I don't, though I should probably ask for a copy every time the PCs level, due to the frequency of someone not being able to find their character sheet in time or leaving it at home. However, I always help my girlfriend -- a novice to the mechanics aspect of the game -- level her character and figure out what she can and can't do. I sit down and go through her attack routines and we make index cards with attack and damage figures for a standard attack, manyshot, rapid shot, etc. I don't go through that stuff with the other guys because they've all played RPGs and computer games for years so they should have a better grasp of the mechanics and their characters' abilities. I used to play under a DM who kept our character sheets from session to session. He's hand them out at the beginning of the session and take them up at the end of the session. We didn't get to keep copies of our characters. Every week, he'd go through our sheets and modify things and double-check our skill points and whatnot. He'd attach sticky notes with marks in red pen of little nitpicky things, like whether we had 12 or 13 bolts left for the light crossbow. The overall feeling was that the characters weren't our characters, that they were characters in his game that he let us use. Seriously, it felt like we were being graded from week to week. That game was less than fun. [/QUOTE]

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