Welcome, @EliScrubbs! (I am a fellow player as well as the owner of this board.)
If you get a chance, I’d recommend the new user tutorial (you should have got instructions on that when you signed up). Also I’ve just posted How to drive Discourse with some links you may find useful. The ultra-short version is that HTML works, BBCode works, Markdown works, clicking on the icons in the editor works.
We can have more topics if needed (for that matter, given the nature of the game we may well also have private messages at some point). For that matter moderators can split topics.
If you make sure you’re “Tracking” or “Watching” the thread (drop-down at the bottom of the page) it’ll notify you when there are new posts.