Toronto BoardGamers on BoardGameGeek

BoardGameGeek (BGG) is possibly the best website for boardgamers. It's a database of boardgames with user contributed content like ratings, videos and rules questions. You can research games without creating an account, but creating a free account lets you manage your game collection, rate games and post in the forums.
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Our BGG guild allows you to find group members who own, want to play, or trade a specific boardgame.
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​BGG Guild
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Our BGG Guild provides a way for anyone to be notified of major announcements and special events even if they are not a part of the meetup group or have disabled meetup notifications. It also provides a discussion forum for people to arrange their own games outside the scheduled events, and allows us to review the game collection of guild members. 
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​How to Subscribe to and Join the Guild
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Anyone can subscribe to the guild to be notified about posts, updates and announcements.

How to subscribe:
  1. Login to your BGG profile 
  2. Go to the Toronto BoardGamers BGG Guild
  3. Click Subscribe in the top right corner​
  4. If you are active in our meetup group and also want other members to be able to view your game collection to coordinate games at our events, also click Join this Guild in the top right corner​​​
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​How to Manage your RSVP for events
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How to find an event:
  1. Go to the Toronto BoardGamers Meetup
  2. Scroll down to the Upcoming events section, or click on Events in the header​ ​​​
How to RSVP for an event:
  1. Read the event details by following the link in the header
  2. Click Attend on the banner on the bottom of the page
  3. ​Answer any RSVP questions
  4. Read and participate in the discussion for that event to participate in game selection or scheduling
  5. This event will now show a green check mark and say Going in the list of events
Join the waitlist if an event is full
  1. Click Join waitlist on the banner at the bottom of the page to be in queue for any available spots
  2. Remove yourself from the wait list if you are no longer able to attend
  3. You will receive an email or notification that says you are attending if a spot opens up for you
  4. Check the meetup site on the day of the event to confirm your status in case you miss the email​
Change your RSVP for an event
If you can no longer attend, let the hosts know and free up a spot for someone on the waiting list.
  1. ​Click Edit RSVP on the bar at the bottom of the page
  2. Click Not going then Update
  3. If you signed up for a specific game, post an update in that discussion thread
  4. If cancelling less than 12 hours before the event, message the event host with an explanation

​For the first option, you can look at the meetup profile of attendees of this event. If they include their BGG username, you can find them on BGG and look through their collection of owned games by going to https://www.boardgamegeek.com/collection/user/SaraCV?own=1&subtype=boardgame&ff=1 (changing "SaraCV" to whatever username you want to check)

The second option is fun but less helpful for a specific event. Join our BGG guild: https://www.boardgamegeek.com/guild/2563 then click on the "Collections: Browse" link, search for a specific game, and you'll find links to the profiles of people in our guild who own it, so you can find their name or message them on BGG.
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​How to Edit your Profile Information

Update your introduction and game information
Occasionally update your favourite games and the games you'd like to learn on your profile since other members may be using that information to determine what games to bring to events that you are attending. To update that information:
  1. Go to the Toronto BoardGamers Meetup
  2. Click You're a member on the navigation bar
  3. Choose Your member profile
  4. Click Edit profile
  5. Update your introduction or the answers to any of the profile questions 
  6. Click Save​​
Change your meetup name
  1. From any meetup page, click on your profile icon in the top right corner and choose Profile
  2. Click Edit profile
  3. Click edit beside your name
  4. Update your name and click Submit​ ​
Change your profile photo
  1. From any meetup page, click on your profile icon in the top right corner
  2. Choose Profile
  3. Click Edit profile
  4. Click Change your photo under your photo
  5. Choose whether to use your Facebook photo, upload a new photo, or pick an existing photo
  6. Click Done

To change your profile photo for only our group:
  1. Go to the Toronto BoardGamers Meetup
  2. Click You're a member on the navigation bar
  3. Choose Your member profile
  4. Click Change your photo under your photo
  5. Choose whether to use your Facebook photo, upload a new photo, or pick an existing photo
  6. Click Done​ ​
Manage Notifications
  1. From any meetup page, click on your picture in the top right corner and choose Profile
  2. Click Email Updates from the menu to toggle different options on or off
  3. Under Updates about your groups, click Edit beside each group to change settings for that group
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