Executive Summary

Tabletop groups and gamemasters frequently lose momentum before play even begins because building shared expectations, safety boundaries and a playable premise takes time and facilitation skill; this friction affects beginners, cross-timezone online groups, and busy GMs in a player base of roughly 50 million. Even experienced groups report a recurring overhead in aligning tone, pacing and mechanics, and remote play amplifies coordination costs around character hooks and session logistics. You could build a guided "session-zero" facilitation toolkit: a web/mobile app plus VTT plugins that walk groups through play-style quizzes, consent/lines-and-veils flows, shared world-creation prompts, automated character-spotlighting and exportable session briefs. Key features would include AI-assisted scene/NPC prompt generation, scheduler and voting integrations, templated agreement scaffolds, and one-click export to popular compendia formats; expect technical work on VTT integrations, privacy-preserving AI prompts, and UX for sensitive conversations. The timing is favorable: remote-play and VTT adoption increases demand for integrated facilitation features, consent and inclusion norms are making session-zero more of a standard, and LLMs materially lower content creation costs — together targeting a market estimated at $6.0B (50M players × $120/year) with a market score of 90/100 and revenue potential of about 78/100. With these tailwinds you can reach both casual groups and paid-tool customers if you demonstrate clear time savings and improved session quality. To stand out you’ll need deep, native-like integrations with leading VTTs, evidence-based facilitation flows that reduce social friction, and a modular marketplace for publisher or community templates; partnerships with VTT providers and select publishers will be critical given medium competition. Challenges include user acquisition cost in a fragmented hobby market, earning trust on sensitive consent tools, and balancing AI automation with the human nuance required for healthy play — but those are addressable with careful product design and phased platform partnerships.

Market Opportunity

Reduce tabletop start friction — guided session-zero facilitation toolkit targets a $6.0B = 50M tabletop-RPG players x $120/year average spend on tools, compendia & subscriptions total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 15-25% growth in digital tabletop & VTT tools driven by streaming, remote play, and creator monetization.

Key trends driving demand: Remote-play & VTT adoption -- More groups play online, increasing demand for integrated facilitation features.; Consent & inclusion norms -- Growing expectation for explicit safety/‘lines & veils’ tools makes session-zero a standard.; AI-assisted content generation -- LLMs enable fast, high-quality world/scene prompts and dynamic NPC hooks for GMs.; Creator economy & monetization -- GMs and designers demand ways to package onboarding (session-zero modules) as paid content..

Key competitors include Roll20, Foundry Virtual Tabletop, World Anvil, Kanka, D&D Beyond (adjacent competitor).

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Reduce tabletop start friction — guided session-zero facilitation toolkit

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