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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6731592" data-attributes="member: 1465">Well they are pre-generated PCs so you know exactly what are their abilities <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I'm speaking only from my personal XP. In our current game we also had 1st level Basic pregenerate PCs, and we tried to use the official character sheets. The Cleric had Healing Word (bonus action) and the Wizard had Shield (reaction). The problem is that these are normally listed on another page i.e. on the spells page, so I thought that the Wizard in particular might miss the opportunity of using Shield on a reaction, because normally players start looking for spells to cast only when it's their turn. Therefore I decided to make these very visible on the main page, and also I put opportunity attack there because 2 players out of 3 had not played 3e/4e so they had no familiarity with the concept and this helped them remember they can use it. Healing Word was somewhat easier, if the player first cast HW then she would notice she can still attack, but the listing on the main page helped also when she first attacked, and then she was reminded she could also cast HW.The idea is not about having a nicely comprehensive and structured presentation of everything you can do, but rather to help people remember a few things they may easily overlook. That's why you don't have to put everything there, and I specifically avoided putting all the possible combat actions, because I believe they would complicate the player's turn rather than simplify it.By the way, if you are creating a single-page character sheet then all the spells are on the first page, so you probably don't need this at all. Maybe just add a visible symbol near spells that can be cast as bonus actions or reactions or rituals. For us the problem was all about having such spells on a separate page, which normally players tend not to look at unless it's their turn, and they have already decided to cast a spell.</blockquote>

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