I know there's a game discord but is it recommended that I use it? I joined discord a few years ago but I rarely use it.

Congrats! Welcome

Joining the game discord isn't necessary. At the very least, I never joined it and I haven't had issues

yeah the discord is totally optional. honestly not a lot of people use it lol. i mostly use it to dump toplevel links or post cool fanart of people's characters

Thanks for the info, y'all! When I first started RP I didn't know what plurk was and missed out on a lot of plotting, so I didn't want to repeat the mistake, lol