Board Game Arena

There really ought to be an option for asynchronous games which allows you to play others’ special cards. Maybe it is configurable, maybe it is always on for turn-based. It can be very frustrating to need another player to play a card out-of-turn, but they never will because the BGA platform won’t direct them to the game when it isn’t their turn. This *seems* like the simplest solution.

Failing this, it would be nice to have the ability to ping a player so that the game appears in their “turn at table” list (out-of-turn) so that they can be made aware of an in-game situation with which they could help. This might be a more generally useful tool across multiple turn-based games, but is likely more challenging to create.

Thanks!
Jeff

Chat messages pop up when out-of-game (for example on your game list or elsewhere on the website) so that's usually the best way to coordinate for turn-based Forbidden Island out-of-turn special card plays.