Board & Card Game Enthusiasts, Birmingham & West Midlands

Games Night: Central Boardgaming (Birmingham)

Venue: The Good Intent, 32-33 Great Western Arcade, off Colmore Row, Birmingham B2 5HU

All levels of experience welcome. Our physical tabletop board-games nights are run fortnightly on Wednesdays. So don't forget to RSVP to earlier and later event iterations too! We meet at "The Good Intent" upstairs (our usual venue) or occasionally at other venues.

Our members have a big collection of modern tabletop board games to choose from. We rotate them each time, so there will always be variety. Please feel free to bring along similar games of your own.

This is intended as a low-cost evening, but please do keep the publican happy with something from behind the bar, perhaps one of their fine real ales or a cuppa or a snack.

To make it easiest for you to jump into a game straight away, it's best to arrive at the start of the session and stay on, plus it's worth trying new games as well as ones we already know how to play.

Location and parking:
Parking is possible in nearby roads, though perfect for public transport. The Good Intent is a stylish modern premises in the middle of the arcade directly opposite Snowhill Station.

New Members and Guests welcome! Please RSVP separately to each event you plan to attend.

ON SOCIAL MEDIA:
If you'd like to be added to our MESSENGER chat group, for discussing what games we're playing etc, please directly message Paul (host).

Attendance: As with all events, please RSVP courteously, which means that no-shows and withdrawals in the last 24 hours are impolite. We need to reserve just the right amount of tables and seats.

Also there are occasions when we need to communicate with attendees, so if you aren't on the list, we can't message you with any important updates which occasionally may occur.

Thank you for your understanding!

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.

Games at The Hop Garden

Venue: The Hop Garden, 19 Metchley Lane, Harborne

Come and join us at the Hop Garden on Tuesday nights and play some games. Plenty of tables and good lighting all with some cracking games and delicious ales. All gamers are welcome and newcomers will be looked after by resident expert, award winning games designer, Andy Hopwood.

The official games session hosted by Andy will run from 6.30pm but you are welcome to come down and start playing at any stage from 5pm. The staff go home at 10.30pm so we would ask that you time your games accordingly and do not start anything new after 10pm. It is free to play but we do ask that you buy any and all drinks from the venue.

There is plenty of street parking near the venue and it's just a short distance from Harborne High Street. The venue is an old building and it has not been possible to make it wheelchair friendly, if you have any special needs please get in touch with Andy and he will let you know the exact situation and see what can be done.

We ask that all attendees abide by standard rules of conduct. We are a diverse and open minded group. Insulting or inappropriate comments are not welcome. We all tend to play games with each other but it is ok to prefer to play certain games with your own friends and polite refusals are acceptable. If in doubt, talk to Andy.