r/startplaying
StartPlaying: Find professional game masters for tabletop role-playing games
Founded October 2022 · Public — anyone can post
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.]
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2,710
2.7K
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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.
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Communities that discuss what r/startplaying discusses.
This subreddit is for designers of any type of game to find people to playtest their creations. It can be anything from a tabletop RPG to an indie video game; all games are welcome here!
A community for players to organise and discuss play-by-post roleplaying games.
Come one, come all! This is the place to post about any new table top RPG releases, events, news, products, jams, and more. This does include TTRPG related items like maps, stock art, VTTs, actual plays, reviews, and so on.
LFG is a place for tabletop gamers to organize groups for the games they love to play.
A gathering place for anyone, either casually or professionally, designing, hacking, or otherwise working with the mechanics of pen-and-paper tabletop role-playing games.
See the full lists on similar subreddits.
r/startplaying — frequently asked
How many members does r/startplaying have?
r/startplaying has 2,710 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 26. 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.
When was r/startplaying created?
r/startplaying was founded in October 2022 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.
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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