Re: the forum vs in game thing -- that's definitely YMMV.
I use the forum and game fairly interchangeably. As a result I'm sorta hopping back and forth as to what happens when. The forum rp I have with Goodfellow, for example, has been going on since April, I think -- days have passed in that thread, and I have woven those days into what else Zhi has been up to. But, forum rp being forum rp, sometimes that thread is a bit ahead of all my other rp, and sometimes it's a bit behind.
Forum rp is invaluable to me. Most of the people I rp with are central or eastern, and I'm an hour behind pacific. I have a couple of rp partners who I'm only able to reliably rp with in game once or twice a week -- forum rp picks up the slack for me.
That and I'm a forum rp junkie, so it feels natural to me.
I've rped with people on the forums who only came reluctantly, and I've rped with people on the forums who were eager to do so. And I've rped with game-only people. So, it's just a matter of finding rp partners who do treat the forums as an extension of the game. 
I use the forum and game fairly interchangeably. As a result I'm sorta hopping back and forth as to what happens when. The forum rp I have with Goodfellow, for example, has been going on since April, I think -- days have passed in that thread, and I have woven those days into what else Zhi has been up to. But, forum rp being forum rp, sometimes that thread is a bit ahead of all my other rp, and sometimes it's a bit behind.
Forum rp is invaluable to me. Most of the people I rp with are central or eastern, and I'm an hour behind pacific. I have a couple of rp partners who I'm only able to reliably rp with in game once or twice a week -- forum rp picks up the slack for me.
That and I'm a forum rp junkie, so it feels natural to me.
I've rped with people on the forums who only came reluctantly, and I've rped with people on the forums who were eager to do so. And I've rped with game-only people. So, it's just a matter of finding rp partners who do treat the forums as an extension of the game.
