Advices on how to play online
With time passing, the friends forming my gaming group are spreading more and more apart across the country and abroad, babies are appearing, weddings occur... All in all, it means that gathering for our RPG sessions has become increasingly difficult in the last years, to the point that we manage now only a few one-shot adventures per year.
So we eventually considered starting an online RPG, by mail or forum (we have not decided yet). None of us has played like this before, me being the only one with some experience, that experience being the few stillborn games we started on this forum and that never went very far (and by the way, I know we are supposed to be starting another one sometimes and I haven't forgotten I'm expected to complete my character and species write-up :o).
I wanted to ask for some advice from those here who have already played online, especially whether there are some "good" or "bad" practices, guidelines, pitfalls, and so on.
I thank in advance for any useful advice or link :)
(and resume working on my character for our on-forum game)