Looking for a good D&D cheat sheet

After playing a lot of Mausritter with my kids, I’m busy prepping to run Dungeons & Dragons with them for the first time. I’ve played D&D before, but never been a DM for it. To make things simpler for me, I got hold of the starter set and I’m going to be using the included adventure, Dragons of Stormwreck Isle. I’ve done my prep for the adventure, made all my notes, and I feel ready for it all now.

My only worry is that I’ll clean forget many of the mechanics during the game. I want it all to flow well and feel like a smooth experience for my kids, so I was wondering if anyone has any recommendations for an easy-to-read cheat sheet for the most common rules that I could quickly refer to - the kind of thing that a GM might have displayed on the inside of their screen.

I’ve found a few options online that cover different things, but nothing that feels like it would be an easy one to refer to during a game. It might even need to be different sheets for combat and general exploration, and maybe even one for my kids to remind them what actions they can take during combat (they both want to play spell casters, so that’s adding the complexity :smile:).

Any recommendations would be welcome!

I like the player cheatsheet from Icarus Games. It has the main mechanics and that’s good enough for me, I don’t need to have lists of armor encumbrances, weapon prices and such. And it still has community copies!

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If you want a more detail, Stan Shinn’s DM Screen is also great:

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Oh these look great - thanks @ellohir!

That set of sheets from Icarus Games looks like it will work perfectly. I feel a lot more prepared now :smile: