r/startplaying
StartPlaying (https://startplaying.games) is a platform for finding professional GMs for TTRPGs like D&D and Pathfinder. This subreddit welcomes all respectful discussion about StartPlaying, including questions, experiences, and posts from GMs advertising their games. [Not affiliated with StartPlaying.]
Members
2,479
2.5K
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
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Comments per post
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Growth · 7d
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Growth · 30d
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Promo tolerance
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Tracking since Aug 20 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.
Member growth
Tracking since Aug 20 — growth charts appear after a week of history.
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r/startplaying — frequently asked
How many members does r/startplaying have?
r/startplaying has 2,479 members as of our most recent crawl on Aug 20. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/startplaying growing?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/startplaying yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Aug 20; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/startplaying?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/startplaying yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.
Can I promote my product in r/startplaying?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/startplaying yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.
How do I monitor r/startplaying for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/startplaying into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/startplaying's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/startplaying's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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