I've played a few sessions on this platform, including a session across the country with my sister for her birthday. Big fan - if you find a solid DM, this can make quarantine a lot more fun.
Launch HN: StartPlaying.Games (YC W20) – Tabletop RPGs run by pro game masters
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Re: Launch HN: StartPlaying.Games (YC W20) – Tabletop RPGs run by pro game masters
#102Hi all! We're Nate, Devon, and Jared, the founders of StartPlaying.Games. StartPlaying.Games is a platform that helps players find tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) and professional Game Masters. I (Devon) have been a professional Game Master for over five years, running games for players all across the country. I even started hiring other professional GMs because I had more groups than I could run! The biggest is…
Hey!
I've been a user on the site for about two weeks. I'm hopeful that you'll succeed. Currently my group maintains a discord community that helps us find players and connect with vetted DMs.
Can you please un-SPA your site? It's really hard to use and the current use pattern is to find a DM and move the discussion off your site as quickly as possible.
- The infinite scroll feature makes it really hard and slow to find DMs. - The site doesn't let you open a DM's profile in a separate tab which forces you to lose your place whenever you visit a DM's profile - The profile summaries are unhelpfully inconsistent/dishonest (Professional for 80 years, Hosted over 1M games, etc.) The profiles can't be true and make any sorting/filtering impossible. - The DM's platforms and supported games aren't on the find a DM page. - The DM profiles lack structure and rich content features. Please add a native video embed so that we can see videos/clips. Most DM's offer that by linking to their twitch/youtube properties. Make the profile fields less generic. -- DNDBeyond content share? -- Roll20 content share? -- Audio provider? Discord/Roll20/Zoom -- vtt supported? Roll20/FantasyGrounds/etc
Looking forward to seeing where you go and excited for your success.
Re: Launch HN: StartPlaying.Games (YC W20) – Tabletop RPGs run by pro game masters
#103Hi all! We're Nate, Devon, and Jared, the founders of StartPlaying.Games. StartPlaying.Games is a platform that helps players find tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) and professional Game Masters. I (Devon) have been a professional Game Master for over five years, running games for players all across the country. I even started hiring other professional GMs because I had more groups than I could run! The biggest is…
I see session of $10 to $30, which seems really low to me. Your audience are basically guys making plenty of money and not afraid to spend it. I know a few guys who spends tons of money on Games Workshop kinds of things, buying even more than they have time for. So I was wondering why are your prices so low? I would think the lowest price would start at $50 or something. Like everything, price is set by supply and de…
I've never seen a GM charge more than $5/hour/player. The premium market either doesn't exist or I haven't been able to find it. It's not due to an inability to pay. I've had DMs push back when I suggest that they raise their prices.
Re: Launch HN: StartPlaying.Games (YC W20) – Tabletop RPGs run by pro game masters
#104HOW FN APROPOS! I literally just bought two new dice sets yesterday - and my brother berated me saying "When was the last time you played DnD?" -- And I thought - well, Ill need to find a way to play again... and just put that out into the Universe... Now I see this... So - you have a new user in me. Ill look into your site and find out how to participate!!! Thank you
Online is really vibrant right now. I'm playing at least 3 games a week when pre-covid I was lucky if I could find 1 game a quarter. With paid DMs everything is so much easier.
Re: Launch HN: StartPlaying.Games (YC W20) – Tabletop RPGs run by pro game masters
#105Hi all! We're Nate, Devon, and Jared, the founders of StartPlaying.Games. StartPlaying.Games is a platform that helps players find tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) and professional Game Masters. I (Devon) have been a professional Game Master for over five years, running games for players all across the country. I even started hiring other professional GMs because I had more groups than I could run! The biggest is…
Hey! I've been a user on the site for about two weeks. I'm hopeful that you'll succeed. Currently my group maintains a discord community that helps us find players and connect with vetted DMs. Can you please un-SPA your site? It's really hard to use and the current use pattern is to find a DM and move the discussion off your site as quickly as possible. - The infinite scroll feature makes it really hard and slow to f…
Hi Dataminded! Yes! This is something we have all talked about as future optimizations for the best user experience. We'll be changing a lot of our buttons over to links first.
We plan to change how our GM search functions to make it easier to see a number of GM's at a glance as well, and probably moving to paginate those pages.
These additional ideas for the profile are fantastic, and I will be adding them to our optimization list for profiles! Thank you so much!
Re: Launch HN: StartPlaying.Games (YC W20) – Tabletop RPGs run by pro game masters
#106I've played a few sessions on this platform, including a session across the country with my sister for her birthday. Big fan - if you find a solid DM, this can make quarantine a lot more fun.
Reading this makes me so happy!
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#107This is one of the things I did not know I wanted but am extremely happy about!!
So glad to hear that!
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#108I just want to congratulate the folks behind this for coming up with a great idea and executing it. Makes me wish I had time to play D&D again. Total brilliance, good luck with this!
Thank you so much! We're just getting started and there is so much more to come!
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#109Totally missed the opportunity to call this "AirDnd"
Hah, came here to make this comment!
Re: Launch HN: StartPlaying.Games (YC W20) – Tabletop RPGs run by pro game masters
#110This is an awesome service. I initially planned to do one or two one-shot games and this has become a regular pastime with half a dozen games played over a couple of months. Some GM’s are better at keeping players engaged and I have found you get what you pay for. There is a walkthrough game for kids on Saturday mornings that is on my list to try. I would like to see player profiles somehow captured by the platform a…
Thank you so much! We're excited to build out a better player profile too! Really excited to make it a good resource for finding the right party members too!