Forum RP, would you prefer...

Rawr, need third option. Rules and game mechanics are important, they make it more realistic when bodies are flung across rooms. Ragdoll physics, jiggle physics, very serious stuff as a framework for ... well, explosions and titties. The important things in life.

I would say a base framework of rules, at least a stats mechanic so characters can be ranked, as it were, like the diceless amber game. The gamingguardians forum let individual people start up adventures and recruit players, have some control over an individual mission, but then had several group rp rooms always running, kinda like a tech room, combat room, dorm room, split. (in this case, the armory, the kitchen, the cafeteria, and base hq in general).

Role-plays are serious business! We should take them seriously.
Though I doubt it would be wise to remove the crack from it completely.
We might all end with Mags clones otherwise and one of her is scary enough for this world...
Fictional or not.
Take the basic rules of the universe from the books and then let people go a little wild on their characters with the understanding of common sense be put to use in the creation of said characters.
There will be no one like like out lovable little hacker girl for instance would be common sense to me.
It would be pretty awesome to be a Fae though...