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You can use Roll20 for Boardgames, even if it's more aimed towards TTRPGs. here are some ideas & suggestions.

Quick to start

• Any Common Card Games using the standard 52-53 card deck
  • By default, all games gets created with a standard Card Deck.
• Checkers
  • Just set the grid to visible, and create tokens of two different colors, and assign control of each color to the corresponding player.
• Chess -- Get tokens from marketplace or somewhere
  • The Giant Chess Board^(Market)
• Royal Game of Ur^(Market)
• Ghost Court^(Market)

Marketplace

The Board Games^(Market)-category have plenty of games & artwork to play classic or even some newer, boardgames.

• Board Games Deluxe - Bundle^(Market)
• Fiasco Complete Bundle^(Market)
• For the Queen^(Market)
• The Quiet Year^(Market)

Boardgame Guides

Once there is a game-specific guide please add the link in here.

• Civilization - barebones page

General comments

If there are any general comments about using Roll20 for board game play then it can go here, or a link to somewhere else if more relevant.

Other Suggestions

• Avalon Hill's and the Civ Expansion Project - I have been running a game online using a variety of tools (forum posts, emails, PMs, etc) and I am hoping to use Roll20 to bring this all together.
• Squad Leader & Advanced Squad Leader
• Car Wars

See Also

• GM-less Games on Marketplace