Hello Lynqoid,
Thank you for your reply. The trouble I am having involves the permalinks. I rely on these for other seo / social aspects of my site but they seem to break bbPress. When they are on and I visit url.com/forums, the page behaves like a blog listing page. What I mean is that the forums do not show but rather a paragraph with “read more” afterword. In turning off permalinks, the forum does show until I click on a sub-forum, which breaks it again.
I am assuming it’s an issue with the way my theme handles links. I will likely have to hire someone to figure it out for me.