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Play With Friends Online
- Yucata.de – free to join and all games are free to play; it’s very popular and has an active and very friendly community; it’s turn-based, so you can take turns as and when you want, but you can invite friends and play a game live as well
- Board Game Arena – free to join and many games are free; it’s quite busy, but beware of players leaving games without notice, so maybe play with friends only
- Happy Meeple – free to join and all games are free to play; it’s still growing, but definitely worth checking out
- Tabletopia – free to join and many games are free, but you really need to subscribe to a monthly plan to be able to play with friends; it is a 3D emulation of a real game, which looks stunning, but makes it harder to use
Communities and Support
- BoardGameGeek (chat forum and database for tabletop games)
- The Board Game Workshop (a great place for board game designers, but also of interest to everyone else)
- Tabletop Mentorship Program (also offers micro-grants for underrepresented tabletop creators)
Teaching, Rules and Playthroughs
Events
Podcasts
- The Board Game Workshop (all about board game design)
- Brainwaves (news)
- Brettagoge (German chat)
- Producing Fun (interviews)
- The Spielträumers (German chat)
Cafes
- The Box Room (Cambridge)
- The Dice Board Game Lounge (Portsmouth and Worthing)
- Chance and Counters (Bristol)
- Dice Saloon (Brighton)
- Draughts (London Hackney and London Waterloo)
- Sliced N Diced (Birmingham)
- Snacks and Ladders (Isle of Wight)
- Socialdice (Swansea)
- Thirsty Meeples (Bath and Oxford)