To my mind, it won't be necessary to have anything of the sort. I was in the 4e playtest and I can say that you become familiar with the rules very quickly. Although I might be biased since I'm so familiar with D&D generally... My prediction is... make a few characters, run a few quick combats, and have the PHB and DMG handy, and things will be fine. You can count on your players to know a lot about their own characters, and you should either be running enemy NPCs out of the monster manual or you should do a monster manual-like cheatsheet of all their combat options. In the rare event that you have to look up the grappling rules or something, it shouldn't slow down the game too much, and you've always got the DM's handy "fuck it, that's a +2 bonus" rule if you don't care exactly what 'half cover' does.
yeah, I guess I mostly just need a "this is the basic rule and what page to turn to" sheet because the index sorta sucks in the PHB. The rules themselves are much improved, I totally agree.
I asked around, here's what a friend thought would be most helpful. http://www.koboldstyle.org/stuff/4eCribSheet_kiznit_v1.1.pdf You will also want to keep PHB page 277 handy, since the status conditions are referenced very often and never explained anywhere else.
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I was in the 4e playtest and I can say that you become familiar with the rules very quickly. Although I might be biased since I'm so familiar with D&D generally...
My prediction is... make a few characters, run a few quick combats, and have the PHB and DMG handy, and things will be fine. You can count on your players to know a lot about their own characters, and you should either be running enemy NPCs out of the monster manual or you should do a monster manual-like cheatsheet of all their combat options. In the rare event that you have to look up the grappling rules or something, it shouldn't slow down the game too much, and you've always got the DM's handy "fuck it, that's a +2 bonus" rule if you don't care exactly what 'half cover' does.
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http://www.koboldstyle.org/stuff/4eCribSheet_kiznit_v1.1.pdf
You will also want to keep PHB page 277 handy, since the status conditions are referenced very often and never explained anywhere else.
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