Connecting Your BGG Collection

BoardGameMenu has no accounts and no login. You type a BGG username, and the site reads that user's public collection, keeps the games marked as owned, and builds a menu from those. That's the whole data relationship.

For it to work, three things need to be true on the BGG side. The collection has to be public, which is BGG's default. The games you want suggested need to be marked owned, not wishlisted or previously owned. And the username needs to be spelled the way BGG spells it.

If you get an empty result or an error, it's almost always one of these:

• The collection is set to private in BGG's collection settings.
• Nothing is marked owned. Some people track hundreds of games on BGG and own twelve of them.
• No owned game supports the player count you picked. Try a different count and see if the menu comes back.

Two notes on speed. The first lookup for a username can take a little while because BGG prepares collection data in a queue on their end. After that, this site caches your collection for about a day, so rerolls and repeat visits are fast. Game weights get cached much longer and shared across all users, since Gloomhaven's complexity rating doesn't depend on whose shelf it's on.

Nothing is stored about you personally. No password, no email, nothing typed except the username, and that only gets used to ask BGG for public data anyone could see by visiting your profile.