Except there's many, many cases of it working right...but it IS best to hold off until stability is much more assured - but it's not the boogeyman, and it's not the NSA in disguise either.
you can RP when ever you want, you just have to find a RP you like ask if you can join or you can ask someone if they want to RP, or you can start one see if someone will join and start the RP