Board Game Arena is best arena
Board Game Arena is the best website for boardgames I've found. They don't have everything (In fact, they have nothing that has its own version online already, so no Catan or Dominion or Carcassonne etc.) but they have a lot of games, and they are mostly very well implemented.
Lately I've been playing Race for the Galaxy, Puerto Rico, Caylus, In the Year of the Dragon, Seasons, Tokaido, Stone Age, and Sobek, and there are dozens of others I've yet to get into.
It's great for when I have a half-hour between classes or something, or when my students are taking a test, I can pull it up and play a quick game of something (usually Tokaido when I want something fast) against some strangers. I'll also play in the evenings sometimes when I see buddies online.
The best feature, imo, is the turn-a-day gaming mode, (though they call it 'turn-based' on the site (versus 'real-time') though it's a misuse of the term). In this mode, you can play any of their boardgames asynchronously with your friends, just logging in once/day to play your turns in whatever games you have going. It's like GMR for boardgames. I'm usually in about 12 games at any given time.
You can 'friend' people on the site, and form groups to facilitate invitations and to create join restrictions. I've started a group for my boardgaming friends on there already (The Mitey Worriers group). It currently contains @Zanthian, @CrazyJoe, @GHoosdum, @Adrestia, @Colgere, and myself. We mostly have the same usernames there as here (I'm 'CB Droege', since 'CB' is too short for them, and I think Joe has numbers on his name).
Go take a look.
If you join up, or are already a member, post your username here, so we can be friends, and I can invite you to the group. If you invite me to a turn-a-day game. I will likely accept. :smiley:
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Oh Hell yeah...Tokaido! ive wanted to play that since i saw the TableTop episode. i just signed up.
my username is XGPHero exactly like here
EDIT: I see you guys already have a game in progress, i hope i can get in on that.
Sure. Zanthian hadn't confirmed yet, so the game had not yet begun. Invite sent.
(Also, I forgot that Zanthian is actually the admin of the Mitey Worriers group, so he'll have to invite you to that later.)
(Edit: although now that I think of it, I'm not really sure what the 'group' feature does that being 'friends' doesn't already do, so maybe it doesn't matter...)
Tushon is Tushon
midga is midga
Added people in thread to group and friends.
We should each post what games we like to play on the site. I keep wanting to invite people to games, but I don't know who knows how to play which games.
Here's my list of games that I play on the regular:
Caylus
Color Pop
In the Year of the Dragon
Koryo
Puerto Rico
Quantum
Race for the Galaxy
Seasons
Sobek
Stone Age
Tash-Kalar
Through the Ages
Tokaido
Tzolk'in
Hive is about the only one I know well enough to just pick up and play. There's a few on there I think I've played before (like Puerto Rico), but it's been years. I'm generally willing to learn, though.
Alright: maybe this will work better:
I'm running low on turn-a-day games, so I've started some new ones. They are all set to allow only my friends to join, so everyone in them will be people already mentioned in this thread. Feel free to join one some or all of them if you'd like. I'll start each of them as they fill up, or at 10a tomorrow. (BGA only allows games to stay unbegun for 24 hours before it deletes them.)
Takenoko: http://en.boardgamearena.com/#!table?table=13316502
In the Year of the Dragon: http://en.boardgamearena.com/#!table?table=13316524
Through the Ages: http://en.boardgamearena.com/#!table?table=13316469
Puerto Rico: http://en.boardgamearena.com/#!table?table=13316540
Color Pop: http://en.boardgamearena.com/#!table?table=13316549
Tokaido: http://en.boardgamearena.com/#!table?table=13316561
Sobek: http://en.boardgamearena.com/#!table?table=13316573
Stone Age: http://en.boardgamearena.com/#!table?table=13316592
I joined up on a couple.
I joined in on Stone Age. Looked interesting after watching the Tabletop episode.
New game to BGA and me: Assyria
http://en.boardgamearena.com/#!table?table=13401306
A turn a day would be great for me ... I have a hard time committing to online time for long periods.
My username is on BGA is mrklewis
New Tokaido game. Join up: http://en.boardgamearena.com/#!table?table=13585951 Game is full.
Username ardichoke
In for turn based fun...
Some new games:
Color Pop: http://en.boardgamearena.com/#!table?table=13773624
Takenoko: http://en.boardgamearena.com/#!table?table=13773629
In the Year of the Dragon: http://en.boardgamearena.com/#!table?table=13773635
Through the Ages: http://en.boardgamearena.com/#!table?table=13773642
Username mertesn
Some new games to me, ELO off to encourage you to try
Quantum: http://en.boardgamearena.com/#!table?table=13782863
Race for the Galaxy: http://en.boardgamearena.com/#!table?table=13782893
Forgot to start the two non-full games before the 24 hour time-limit ran out, and I don't even know who tried to join because it doesn't tell me. Sorry. I started new ones.
Colorpop: http://en.boardgamearena.com/#!table?table=13791995
In the Year of the Dragon: http://en.boardgamearena.com/#!table?table=13791994
Takenoko: http://en.boardgamearena.com/#!table?table=14118250
Ermahgerd, I NEED to be a Mitey Worrier. CB is getting me hooked up proper but I thought I'd post (my yearly post)...
Here's what you NEED to do...
@Adrestia You have ascended to the status of Mitey Worrier.
@CB nice game of Through the Ages, it is the first time I played. I thought i had a solid chance of winning right up to the 7 culture point swing attack. I had fun. If you start up a new game of Through the Ages shot me an invite please.
Fersure, it's an interesting game, and tough to balance. Fortunes can swing pretty quick.
I'll start a new one soon.
Starting some new games. Join up!:
Puerto Rico: http://en.boardgamearena.com/#!table?table=14302639
Through the Ages: http://en.boardgamearena.com/#!table?table=14302675
Tokaido: http://en.boardgamearena.com/#!table?table=14302685 (We'll play twice, once out and once back)
In the Year of the Dragon: http://en.boardgamearena.com/#!table?table=14302711
Quantum: http://en.boardgamearena.com/#!table?table=14302723
Sobek: http://en.boardgamearena.com/#!table?table=14302748
Games will start on Sunday the 31st at noonsih if they don't fill up before then.
See the post with the original images here.
Takenoko: http://en.boardgamearena.com/#!table?table=14471253
Tokaido: http://en.boardgamearena.com/#!table?table=14493543
Last takenoko died due to lack of players. Trying again: http://en.boardgamearena.com/#!table?table=14507960
Quantum - spaceships by dice - http://en.boardgamearena.com/#!table?table=14614426