When a scene involves more than two people, it’s very easy to become caught up in the drama of the scene. Fingers twitch, hearts race , and it’s all you can do to stop yourself from posting.

So you post. Another player posts, you post in return, and soon, the situation is one of a back-and-forth battle of speed. Actions and reactions fly faster than a jet plane, and the scene is one great big natural high.

Congratulations – you’ve just cut a character out of a scene.

No matter how intense the scene, always be aware that you are playing in a group. Taking turns is just good manners. By taking turns, you allow other players the chance to be involved in a scene and aid in its progression.

Hogging a scene isn’t nice. It shuts people out and makes them feel unwanted. Even worse, those players may not want to be involved with you in a subsequent scene. You get pegged an attention sucker, and soon end up alone.

One way of making sure everyone gets a turn is to play round robin. Players post in turn predictably – player A, player B, player C. When they have posted, their turn is over and game play moves to the next player. When all players have had their turn, game play returns to the first player for the cycle to start again.

Another way of dealing with round-robin posting is allowing each player two turns to post per round. Player A may post, player B may reply and player A may post again before his turn is over. Player B has one more chance to post, and Player C has two chances to step in.

This method works well when there are three characters in a scene, but when there are four or more characters in a scene, a single turn per player per round cuts down on confusion.