**Places you can find good reviews of, and resources for board games you might like to purchase:

http://boardgamegeek.com/
www.boardgamecaddie.com (Uses your bbg collection to help choose games to play)

**People / Groups who review board games online:

Tom Vassal / Dice Tower / Miami Dice
Shut up & Sit Down
Rahdo
Ricky Royal from 'Box of Delights'
Rodney Smith (Watch It Played)
Board with Life? / Moonrat Media
Joel Eddy's Drive-thru reviews
Board game brawl
Crits Happen
Lance Myxter's (UndeadViking) reviews
GreyElephantGames
GAMEBOARD
Nick Sibicky
Rab Florence
Board Game Geek TV (boardgamegeektv)
Board Game Closet
Gregory Cornell
The Game boy geek (www.gameboygeek.com)
Paul Darcy
Drive Through Review
Dog & Thimble
All the Games You Like Are Bad
(https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw_gTSxeK4OGV8HXDl0fgzg/videos)



**Places you can find other players / play board games online with friends:

Discord
(for /tg/ in general with a board games channel)
https://discord.gg/wt5DGch

Steam
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/BoardGamesGeneral

boardgamearena.com
(Does include support for languages other than English.)

vassalengine.org
(More of a learning curve to use - has a lot of classic hex and chit style war games.)


**Places you can buy board games at reasonable prices:

http://boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/Online_Gaming_Vendors#toc24

US / Canada:

coolstuffinc.com
miniaturemarket.com
cardhaus.com

Canada:

www.boardgamebliss.com (decent deals, decent sales, decent free shipping within Canada with certain games/prices)
http://www.greatboardgames.ca/
http://www.meeplemart.com/
http://www.starlitcitadel.com/games/
http://www.boardgames.ca/


Europe:

https://www.gamesquest.co.uk/
http://boardgameprices.co.uk/
http://meeplescorner.co.uk/

Asia:




South America:



Australia / New Zealand:


http://boardgamesearch.com.au
http://www.gamesempire.com.au/
http://www.joedodgy.com.au/
http://www.ozgameshop.com/



Other:

Card Sleeve References

https://boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/Card_Sleeve_Reference

https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/102880/item/2042318#item2042318


Price comparison tools for Amazon:

https://thetracktor.com/
http://camelcamelcamel.com/

Resource Locators for various U.S. 'Big Box' stores:

http://brickseek.com/





Board Game Add-on Resources:
Custom Play Mats,Box Organizers, tokens, etc.

http://www.thebrokentoken.com/

http://bfrgames.storenvy.com/

http://lyrislaser.com/

http://www.litko.net/

http://www.meeplesource.com/

http://angrymojogames.com/

http://store.advanceddeployment.com/

http://www.gameknightstore.com/default.asp
http://gameknight.com/

http://www.boardsandbits.com

http://www.inkedplaymats.com/
http://www.inkedplaymats.com/products/custom-playmat-36x36#prettyPhoto

http://www.deepcutstudio.com/

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007N3RU82/ref=cm_sw_su_dp

http://www.hotzmats.com

Galeforce9 Mats
http://www.flamesofwar.com/gf9online_store.aspx?CategoryID=13496

http://www.waylandgames.co.uk/1753-game-mats

http://www.gamematz.com/

Dice Trays
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DDY7WCO/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00DDY7WCO&linkCode=as2&tag=games0e29-20

http://www.amazon.com/Wooden-Dice-Rolling-Surface-Wiz/dp/B00DDYKOSS/ref=pd_sim_200_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=10W71CC99165JDFDQ35M


Gaming Table Plans:
https://www.mediafire.com/?c3kscwhez9cesqa

http://fackrelltrio.blogspot.com/2012/09/gaming-table.html

http://andrewwinkel.com/2015/02/01/easy-inexpensive-diy-board-game-library-table/