I’ll say one of my joys in the style of play-by-post that I’ve been in for the past few years is that the characters internals are in the posts. Most of the people in my circle write first person present tense, including internal feels and reactions to what other people say before they respond in word or action.

Now since we’re usually using one of various PbtA rulesets this has the interesting side effect of short circuiting ‘read a person’ moves a bit… moves I loved when I encountered them in AW specifically because they seemed designed to externalize what is usually internal. It doesn’t short them completely but there is an awful lot of play that happens because the other players already know what your character is thinking.

I’ll also point to the central mechanic of the Veil, as externalizing the characters internal state during mechanics handling, apart from narrating the reaction.