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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TaranTheWanderer" data-source="post: 9170208" data-attributes="member: 15882">In general, I think some OOC stuff needs to be communicated in the IC thread.  That way it is connected to the action of the story instead of buried in the OOC thread.  The presence of stairs, for example, would have been useful.But also, If you make a huge descriptive post where we can act on something, make sure you include any required rolls at the end of the post, in a spoiler thread or something.  Then, after we post, you can include the results of our rolls in your next post and then we can post again in response.  It's also good if we know why we're making rolls.  In one post, where we met the Jarex, you asked us all to make Will saves.  (there are no will saves in 5e).   We didn't know if it was because we were being influenced by a spell like fear or charm or something.  As a result, nobody could respond to your post.  If you'd added something at the end of your post, "Roll Wisdom to notice something about the Entity"  we could at least post an action.When I've run PbP, I ask for rolls at the end of my posts.  After everyone responds, I have the results of everyone's rolls and respond to people's questions at the top of the post (I like it in spoiler tags because it looks cleaner).As a player, I find it easy to read: At the top of the DM post, there's the resolution of all the crunchy mechanics from previous posts.  Then I read the narrative response to what's happened and any new info introduced to the story, then at the bottom is the crunchy mechanics relevant to the new stuff introduced to the narrative..It's also helpful for players to make rolls in advance - like stealth rolls 'just in case' the DM needs them but I've found it difficult to know when we might need to roll anything.  And most of the rolls haven't really followed typical 5e rules so it's hard to anticipate what you might need.</blockquote>

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