Forum RP is generally a separate beast from in-game RP.
Some things, like Jancis' Celebration threads are compiled from in-game events. Character journals and things like them are probably responses to in-game events.
But straight up forum RP is what it is.
It's just different.
Yes, you can be more cinematic because there's a lot more time to craft. At the same time, while not requiring instant response, you lose out on the instant response that you get in the game. Also, if you want to mesh a Forum RP with your in-game timeline, it often requires a statement of when said things happened (recently, a week ago, just before or after such and such event, some sort of in between not-important time, whatever).
If a thread is labeled [Open], generally you're absolutely welcome to jump right in and you should! If you want to start your own, go nuts! You can do anything you can think up. No limits.
I did all different kinds of IC foruming back in WoW (compiling, character journaling, closed backstories, open collaboration threads, IC newspapers, alternate universe just-for-fun wackiness, etc). Here, I've only done a couple of sporadic posts and an occasional journal posted elsewhere, but there's definitely a lot of fun to be had with Forum RP for those who enjoy it.
Some things, like Jancis' Celebration threads are compiled from in-game events. Character journals and things like them are probably responses to in-game events.
But straight up forum RP is what it is.
It's just different.
Yes, you can be more cinematic because there's a lot more time to craft. At the same time, while not requiring instant response, you lose out on the instant response that you get in the game. Also, if you want to mesh a Forum RP with your in-game timeline, it often requires a statement of when said things happened (recently, a week ago, just before or after such and such event, some sort of in between not-important time, whatever).
If a thread is labeled [Open], generally you're absolutely welcome to jump right in and you should! If you want to start your own, go nuts! You can do anything you can think up. No limits.
I did all different kinds of IC foruming back in WoW (compiling, character journaling, closed backstories, open collaboration threads, IC newspapers, alternate universe just-for-fun wackiness, etc). Here, I've only done a couple of sporadic posts and an occasional journal posted elsewhere, but there's definitely a lot of fun to be had with Forum RP for those who enjoy it.
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