منتدى استراحات زايد - Good for a play-by-post game?

Hello,

I am looking for a forum software, quite obviously. There are a list of features and things that matter to me, and I figured I would come to the forums and find people's opinion on these features, and which client does them better. I have done my own personal research, and still seem torn. I would like to keep this free of biase if possible, though I know that can be rough to request, since there are obviously going to be biased opinions. But, at least I am asking, yes? :]

I am looking to create a play by post RPG. For those of you who might not know, a PbP rpg is something of an online version of dungeons and dragons. You have two people posting back and forth in one thread together, weaving a story from the viewpoint of a character they each control. A fancy writing game, if you will.
There are several things I would like this fancy writing game to have.

-Appeal to the eye is a MUST. I will likely be paying for a prettier skin since I don't have near the experience needed. But, this thing has to look good. Very good.

-Editable user profiles. Being able to make custom profile fields that they have to fill out upon registration.
-Point System. A point system would be nice, but not absolutely required. I would like to be able to manually award people points, and then have them spend those points on awards that I can design.

-Achievements/Trophies/Badges. I would like a nice looking system that allows me to award people pretty badges that would go to their profile, and/or under their avatar.

-Alerts. I don't know if this makes sense, but something like a Facebook notification system when their posts are responded to, or their username is mentioned.

-An extremely good-looking Wiki, or ability to meld with Mediawiki. The lore for this game will be massive, as my partners and I are designing our own world. we want something that easily integrates with the software at hand.

-Somewhat easy to modify. I have SOME minor experience with CSS. I can do a lot with backgrounds, colors, content, font, blah blah blah... so I would like the option to easily tinker.

I understand that most of these things are likely available as add-ons. In posting this, I am trying to reach out to people who may have used these add-ons, and have more of a hands-on idea as to how good they are, at least compared to my knowledge.

Also, I have a major concern I would like some opinions on. I have heard a ton of negative things on VB 5.0, why? D: