Thanks. That's a lot of good information, but it's going to take me a while to read through it.
I don't really use discord, but I'm planning an exploration game inspired by the Great Race of Mercy with fantastical elements. I'm not going to spend two whole months on this, so it's going to be limited.
I want to have it be more of a survival game with exploration. So you have to search to find wood for torches and campfires to survive the cold darkness. And you have to find food. And you have a dogsled to get to the city of Uruk and deliver diptheria antitoxin.
This is more of an experiment in text adventures than a main project for me.