Actually my original concept was very close to startplaying.games! I ended up not pursuing it because:
1. I did a survey and it seemed like paid GMing was not ready for primetime yet, you can read about it in this blogpost [1].
2. I have been working on this by myself extremely slowly by myself since 2018. In the past year I've gotten more serious about trying to build micro-SaaS businesses. I decided to cut scope, focus on discovery, and just launch the darn thing to see where it goes.
I've been pretty lucky myself playing with strangers, but yes a rating system is definitely something I'm considering and was one of the topics in that survey I mentioned earlier.
1. I did a survey and it seemed like paid GMing was not ready for primetime yet, you can read about it in this blogpost [1].
2. I have been working on this by myself extremely slowly by myself since 2018. In the past year I've gotten more serious about trying to build micro-SaaS businesses. I decided to cut scope, focus on discovery, and just launch the darn thing to see where it goes.
I've been pretty lucky myself playing with strangers, but yes a rating system is definitely something I'm considering and was one of the topics in that survey I mentioned earlier.
[1] https://roleplayful.com/blog/origin-story-and-game-master-su...