So, one thing I find very very handy about having descriptions of my char's abilities in my char sheets:<br/><br/>Often, when I am playing, and I do some move, I'll quickly glance at the description of the ability and read it. It helps with making sure that it works the way I thought/remembered it working. The time tends to pay for itself by reducing edits later (and b/c I get more familiar with my char's abilities, and so I think of my future turns more quickly - and became more tactically savvy!).<br/><br/>You'll find you won't need to every round, as you go along. It's very very common for PBP campaigns to start (and stay) slow, and often the first time you actually use your PC's abilities is several months of real time after you made the char sheet, so it's easy to misremember.<br/><br/>Also, since we've had a lot of questions or edits about actions and turns: in my experience, the vast majority of questions or mistakes that players and DMs have in a game are all encompassed by the following one SRD page: http://www.d20srd.org/srd/combat/actionsincombat.htm (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/combat/actionsincombat.htm)<br/>(mostly it delineates what's a move/standard/free/full-round action)<br/><br/>Also, when I use spells, I often link or paste in spell text. (Ifwhen you all fight spellcasters, I will probably link or paste the full text of every spell taht gets cast against your characters.) Like with feats and special abilities, I often double-check a spell text as I cast it (and sharing the link or text makes it easier for others to catch my mistakes.) For example, I recently played with one person who uses a number of swift-action spells and had a tendency to assume their standard action spells were swift actions. Having the spell text helps catch that (both more likely to catch it, and less likely to slow down things for everyone else).<br/><br/>It also helps with party coordination. For example, some other people may not realize that Haste increases your move speed, but then when they see the spell text pasted into this OOC thread, they'll think a-ha, and make use of it on their next turn.<br/><br/>On the average I probably do 2-3 srd lookups per DM post. A very quick way to do them is<br/><br/>CTRL+T (new tab)<br/>type "d20 Haste" in the browser url bare to automatically google "d20 haste"; if you google "d20 haste" or "srd haste", the srd page for Haste will almost always be the first google result. Also for example "d20 caltrops", "d20 animal growth,", "d20 cover".<br/><br/><br/>