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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6975114" data-attributes="member: 42582">As I posted upthread, it depends on the system. If you are running a system like RQ, or perhaps Classic Traveller, then from the character sheet you can basically tell what the PC can do. (In RQ, the sheet is a list of natural-language skills with % chances of success next to them.)And the damage rules are also simple - if you get hit, you probably get crippled unless you have armour.Modern versions of D&amp;D, on the other hand, have complex action economies and often non-intuitive consequences for being hit in combat.Then there are games like Dungeon World where the resolution rules for each &quot;move&quot; are easily written down on the character sheet, and there is no action economy - the GM just manages the fiction.If you want to run a game in which the players don't know the rules but just work from the fiction and a simple PC sheet, I strongly recommend RQ, or perhaps DW, but not D&amp;D.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 6975114, member: 42582"] As I posted upthread, it depends on the system. If you are running a system like RQ, or perhaps Classic Traveller, then from the character sheet you can basically tell what the PC can do. (In RQ, the sheet is a list of natural-language skills with % chances of success next to them.) And the damage rules are also simple - if you get hit, you probably get crippled unless you have armour. Modern versions of D&D, on the other hand, have complex action economies and often non-intuitive consequences for being hit in combat. Then there are games like Dungeon World where the resolution rules for each "move" are easily written down on the character sheet, and there is no action economy - the GM just manages the fiction. If you want to run a game in which the players don't know the rules but just work from the fiction and a simple PC sheet, I strongly recommend RQ, or perhaps DW, but not D&D. [/QUOTE]

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