Titanpad is nice for IM games, but since you can add a lot of information in spoiler blocks in a forum game, I'd rather keep everything there.  It gives me a nice "paper trail" so if there's an issue I can go back to find where it happened, and it keeps two people from "double editing" the same change into the notes.<br/><br/>For the players, a status note like what Aurelie uses in her posts works fine.  You can keep it in the main post or in a spoiler block to keep it separate from the main "in character" stuff, up to you.  For my posts, I'll update their status when I do a post for their actions.<br/><br/>Speaking of which, I'm going to go with a "group initiative" roll for fights.  When initiative is rolled, all the monsters will roll and average their initiative rolls, and all of them will act on the same initiative count.  Players can then act in whatever order they want, although for the first round only some players will be able to act before the monsters.  (For instance, if the monsters have an averaged initiative of 12, Talyn gets 5, Aurelie gets 20, Shadowfox gets 18, and Shadowshimmer gets 8, then Aurelie and Shadowfox will post in whatever order they want, then I'll post for the monsters, then all four of the players can post to act in whatever order they want, then the monsters again, and so on.)<br/><br/>(And I just realized I can't say "Shadow" any more in this game...)