Launch HN: StartPlaying.Games (YC W20) – Tabletop RPGs run by pro game masters

Re:Launch HN: StartPlaying.Games (YC W20) – Tabletop RPGs ru... by Impossible on Monday October 19, 2020 @01:52PM (#24828873)

This is really cool and probably should have been made a while back, and I'd absolutely use it if I didn't luck into a game earlier this year. I might still use it to play something else.

One thing is, it seems very targeted at TTRPG curious folks that have never played before, like people who have watched Critical Role or heard of D&D and are fantasy fans but have no idea what the actual play experience is. This makes sense, it's a fast way to grow your user base. But I'd be more likely to use the product if I could search by system and request specific games. I would use it to play more niche games that fewer people are running as one shots.

Based on your company description it seems like you're moving in that direction.

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Re:Launch HN: StartPlaying.Games (YC W20) – Tabletop RPGs ru... by devonchulick on Monday October 19, 2020 @02:22PM (#24829242)

Me and my co-founder wanted something like this for a while and timing just seemed right to start building it! We do have the ability to search games being played currently of different systems and search GMs who run certain systems too. We notice a huge amount of our customers are folks who have seen Critical Role and want to get into the hobby. I think it will hopefully get a lot of other systems a chance for people to explore other systems too.

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