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Jun 23, 2012 -- 11:58PM, carnasus wrote:

I would agree with that.
not sure on how best to get things going to be honest.
Never really tried PbP before so not sure about how things work.

example when we roll initiative: do we post with our iniative what we are going to do or do we wait for the DM to state initiatves and then go from there.

Generally speaking (well, typing, but you get the drift), A person posts their initiative, along with any actions that may go along with their initiative (Some feats/class features allow skill checks/attacks/etc. when you roll initiative, if I'm not mistaken), but other than that, you would only post your initiative, along with some colourful flavour text, or without it (It really doesn't matter, though some flavour text shows the personality of how your character views entering combat at the moment). The flavour text really shouldn't matter mechanically as long as it's nothing wild or outlandish, (again, unless it's called for by class features or even character concept, in which case, do it as you will).

   Do we wait for everyone to go before going to the next round, is there a limit on how long we wait for someone to respond?  

   This question all depends on how The_Fred runs his encounters, and is a little harder to explain. The DM either runs it on a "turn-by-turn" basis (e.g. he posts after each person/monster/NPC/etc. in the initiative order goes, signaling for the others to go when their turn in the initiative order is approaching, which is no longer very common, as it slows down the posting during combat to a GRINDING halt), or, more commonly, the DM will post a "group initiative." This is a bit harder to explain, so I'll just link another game that is currently in combat, and show you what I mean: Domain of Shadows [IC Thread] Link!!!

  If you'll notice, even though we may/may not post in the appropriate initiative order, all of the little groups that go together--in this case one large group as only one monster is left in this encounter--will post together. If you want to see better examples, simply go further back in the time-line of the thread. There will be more separated grous of PCs & Monsters.

Are there any rules and/or ettiquitte to be followed while being part of a PbP game? 

General Open-Mindedness and over-all Cooperation with the group. Inter-party banter/role-play/conflict is generally fine (at the Dm's discretion), as long as it does not become a hinderance, as well as a nuisance to the other players. I've learned the hard-way about that, unfortunately.

I think that should answer your question. If it doesn't, just say so and I'll try to make it clearer, or anyone else here will, I'm sure. If I am forgetting something, or this is completely unclear, do forgive me. It is tremendously late where I am... lol (Btw, if any of this comes off as standoffish/supercillious please don't take it that way. I mean this in a strictly helpful manner, and should not in anyway be viewed as offensive... lol)