Re: Are TOTM games welcome one this site?
I'm in three games (that are active) right now...one of them doesn't use maps at all. Another one has some general charts for the star systems we're in, but nothing specific. The third one has only one map, it's the deck plan of the ship we're on...but none of the places we go in that ship have ever been mapped, except verbally.
They all work fine. Sometimes there are misconceptions, yes...there's a fair bit of OOC chatter in the third game about, "Now, were the bad guys HERE? or am I just envisioning this wrong?" and even a few times where someone ran with their conception of what was being described, even though it didn't agree with what everyone else got from the description, and the GM just ran with it, anyway (depended on how critical to the story it was...)
RPOL's general policy is, as long as you aren't violating the TOU for the site, you can run the game any way you want...maps/no maps, system/freeform, players roll/GM rolls/NOBODY rolls dice, etc. Telling prospective players details about how you'll run the game is a good way to sift out those who will take exception to your style of play...if they don't like it, they don't have to join the game. Run it however works for you, advertise how you're going to run it, and encourage would-be-players who don't like what you're intending to seek elsewhere, if you feel like you can't come to an accord with them (running a game is hard enough without someone nagging you constantly about how you do it...)