Online Boardgame Evening

Online Boardgame Evening

Another opportunity to play boardgames and cardgames online with other group members. There are no hosts, you pre-contact each other. Please read both 'GENERAL INFORMATION' and 'EVENT SPECIFIC INFORMATION' below, thank you!

1. GENERAL INFORMATION

Meet virtually during social distancing, and beyond, each Monday 6pm-10pm. We play using "Boardgamearena.com" and via other recognized websites. RSVP here, get yourself a free account, and then add yourself to our online group. Play with other members who are available.

Once established, you can optionally upgrade yourself to a premium account for a nominal fee of around £2 per month, which gives you access to even more games and features.

Join text communications within our group page at 6pm, with the option of a voice call within Facebook Messenger which remains open until everyone is finished, and is useful for rules explanations.

Some people have account names which differ to their meetup.com profiles, so please ensure you are identifiable to other members by also providing you real and meetup names.

1. Get yourself a free account with boardgamearena.com 24+ hours in advance in order that your chat facilities are activated

2. Go to "Community" and choose to join "Birmingham Central Boardgaming" (scan down to bottom right) or use link https://boardgamearena.com/group?id=3866947

3. Get familiar with the website, click on your profile icon to see notifications, update preferences etc. Also familiarize with any games you'd like to play, via "Games". Also ensure you have access to FBM.

4. Logon in advance of 6pm on the night, and contact others attending, who will be marked as being online on our group page. Please note that we are unable to monitor meetup.com during events

5. Enjoy!

6. EVENT SPECIFIC INFORMATION

From Early 2020 to Spring 2021 we ran general online club nights playing multiple games, where members joined freely when able. However with attentions now diverted to resuming normal gaming later this summer, our online club nights have taken a new direction.

Participation is based on a fixed number of members meeting at an agreed time to play a pre-agreed game or games. If time allows, players may spontaneously play other games afterwards of course.

1. When placing an RSVP, you should also state clearly in the comments section what game (or choice of games) you might like to play.
2. Also state number of players, and start time (if later than 6pm).
3. If flexible, or willing to host/teach, say so, more people may respond. But if you RSVP without follow-up or suggesting what to play, you may be ignored unfortunately.
4. Ensure you swap online usernames or whatever enables you to find each other easily at the event start time. If anyone needs rules explained first, allow 30 mins before starting the game, and let everyone know.
5. Once there are enough/maximum players, please indicate so that others know they will need to join/create another game table.
6. Our regular event hosts may join your games (and even help with rules) by prearrangement or offer if available. But we will only attend games where we have indicated among the comments.