Hey, sorry for the delayed response, I have been traveling.
That rule originally came from when we were a much busier subreddit. I recognize it's harder to really be "active" now, with so few threads. If they want to try to be a part of the community, I have no objection to them making a post about their game. No specific definition of what "active" means in terms of number of comments or anything, we'd just like to avoid the kind of drive-by spam of "buy my game kthnxbai"
After awhile, Poseiden comes and kicks your ass until you stop. Live by the magic sword, die by the magic sword.
I like the mental image of a dwarf ship that's 6 ft tall and got 47 masts to make up for it.
Imagine the emotional and physical damage of taking your first shit in thousands of years.
DMing has helped practice a lot of business skills...communication, organization, running a meeting. Making pretty documents in google docs :P
Can't recall things you never knew.
Hm. Well, don't feel obliged to hew to existing genre definitions.
Also, I'd still urge you to sit down and make a list of design goals, eg what you like about the experience of playing war games or ttrpgs, and then make rules to match, rather than starting with making the rules or choosing which ones to duplicate from existing games.
Your character doesn't know that information.
I think it's a false dichotomy. You want to decide what your design goals are, the kind of vibe you're trying to generate, and then create systems that support that vibe.
A wizard did it.
No one actually plays dnd like that though...
Absolutely. I like talking about design with people perhaps too much!