It would be cool if we could get a preview button for the bardic submissions on the main web page.

I'm always very worried I'm accidentally going to submit something that looks formatted to me, but not to you.

That would be nice, especially if it had a big flashing red label that said "Warning, you used Microsoft Word!" Those ghastly globs of 'smart quotes' it puts into stories are so distracting.

Yeah.

It's plain text in a fixed-width font. Dump it into Notepad first.

http://www.lusternia.com/irex/artbard/view.php?id=00001714

Lendren has a pretty good example of the full extent of formatting possible. It's not much, but you don't need much.

Aww man, this just makes me realize I submitted mine without pasting to notepad first.

Also, italics would be a crackerjack option. They can be rather useful to help denote thoughts.