Tunnels

Do you guys typically prefer to keep your finding secret, and the rest of the party doesn't know that you've detected magic, or found a secret door, until you verbally say it out loud? Or have you always just assumed that everyone's sharing what they find, as they find it (or detect it), talking about it, and moving on?
Kind of a shared knowledge thing, to keep the bass going?

Unless Psybermagi sends me a private note, Blornvid always shares his discoveries with whomever he's adventuring with. Surprises leave people at a disadvantage, and Blornvid never wants his team to be at a disadvantage.

What he said. If it is publicly posted, it is publicly known. If it needs to be private, then we should use a private notice.

The reason for this approach is expediency in PbP. If everyone has to wait for me to say the results of the finding, that slows things down. So, if anyone searches, asks, detects, whatever, it is assumed that any public response from the GM means that the character doing the searching, asking, detecting, whatevering, reports the results to everyone present.

But, to not leave stated dialog hanging ...

perfect, I like that. I just didn't want to be metagaming.

Vlax's tactics are pretty straightforward. Here he's just another set of muscles, with a sword, shield and a bow. Not much more to offer. In an urban setting, social dialogue, negotiation, intimidation, persuasion,... I'm thinking his background as a failed merchant which I'm sure he's told you all about by now, would lend some aid but here not so much. He might have a couple of tricks up his sleeve but those will pop off when the time's right.

who's the best equipped to take a frontal assault, best armor, in case something goes wrong or if there's a trap? Unless of course there's no one that really fits that bill. Lol... I guess whoever's been opening doors all along, could do it unless you want somebody else to do it.

raggy gets advantage against traps

Blornvid has been opening doors all along, but he's tired of getting punctured and set on fire, so he's happy for those that can detect traps to examine the doors first. :)

Blornvid and Skeeve are actually very excited to have a trap master on the team because we most definitely are NOT trap masters. And we've taken the damage to prove it. Especially Blornvid. Neither of us, in any way, contest Vlax's or Raggy's willingness to open the door. Or any door, really.

Also note that stone doors should ALWAYS be trap checked before opening. The wooden doors have, thus far, been uniformly clean.