Help & FAQ

AroundTable.Top helps you find people and groups to play tabletop games with. You can search by game, language, location, format and availability, express interest when you find a match, share what you want to play, and organise private groups.

Yes. Visitors can search for people and groups looking to play. Some details, including full availability, timezone, travel distance and member profiles, are available only after you sign in and verify your email address. You need an active account to interact with other users.

Email verification is required before you can use features that interact with other members, such as adding games or creating groups, sending requests, accepting invitations and reporting content. It also helps reduce disposable accounts and abuse.

Your profile needs a timezone, a location, and at least one language you can play in. Your timezone helps other players interpret your availability, especially for online games. Your city-level location supports nearby in-person matching and approximate distance calculations, while your languages show what languages you are comfortable playing in. If something is missing, AroundTable.Top will send you to your Profile so you can complete it before continuing.

Yes. AroundTable.Top supports tabletop games more broadly. TTRPGs can use role and detailed TTRPG experience, while other tabletop games use a simpler familiarity model and are treated as Player where a role is needed. AroundTable.Top uses the fields that fit the type of game rather than forcing every game into TTRPG-specific questions.

Your timezone is not used to determine where you are. It is shown alongside game availability so people in different regions can understand when you are usually available, which is especially useful for online games. A timezone can also differ from your current location, so AroundTable.Top keeps it as a separate profile setting.

No. Contact methods saved on your Profile are private. When you express interest in a game, you choose in advance which saved contact methods would be shared if the owner accepts; while the request is pending, the person who posted the game can see only the selected platform names, not the actual values. When the owner accepts, they also choose which of their own saved contact details to share, and both sides can then see the details the other person selected.

AroundTable.Top uses personal information to operate the service, support matchmaking, keep accounts secure, handle moderation and respond to you. It does not sell personal information or use advertising or tracking cookies.

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The Terms of Service explain account eligibility, acceptable use, game interests and groups, safety, moderation, account closure, service availability and the legal relationship between you and AroundTable.Top.

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Yes, but only functional cookies and similar storage needed for things such as sessions, login, security and interface preferences. AroundTable.Top does not currently use advertising cookies, tracking cookies or privacy-invasive analytics, so it does not show a cookie-consent banner.

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Account deletion is permanent. Your resources and data are deleted. If you own active groups, deleting your account also dissolves those groups and removes their game interests, so AroundTable.Top shows an additional warning before deletion.

Your location is used for nearby in-person matching, approximate distance filtering and useful city defaults when looking for people nearby or adding a game. AroundTable.Top stores your city and country together with the city’s reference point for those calculations. It does not need or store your home address.

Your browser provides your current device coordinates so GeoNames can resolve them to a nearby city. AroundTable.Top does not store those device coordinates. Profile Location Services changes your saved location only after you confirm the detected city. Adding a game or creating a group can also use a detected city for that action only without replacing your saved Profile location.

Distance is calculated between city reference points, not exact addresses, so it is intentionally approximate. In-person results can be grouped by the selected radius, with a small “a little farther away” section when useful. Games that can also be played online are kept separate from purely local matches.

Online means the game is intended for remote play. In person uses a city and travel distance. Either means the game can work locally or online, so it may appear in both location-aware and online results where appropriate.

Yes. Pause the game interest from My games. A paused game interest is kept for you but is no longer publicly available. You can resume it later unless another rule prevents reactivation.

Some core fields are locked after a request has been accepted so the basic game people agreed to cannot be silently changed afterward. Staff can also temporarily lock editing when a game interest needs moderation or correction.

A group game interest is shared on behalf of a private group and is managed by the group owner. Its game comes from the group. A group may keep multiple paused game interests, but only one can be active at a time.

AroundTable.Top asks you to review the experience or familiarity information relevant to that game, add an optional introduction, and choose at least one saved contact method that would be shared if the owner accepts. The person who posted the game can see which contact-method types you selected, but not their values, while reviewing the request.

No. When you send a request, the person who posted the game can see only the names of the contact methods you selected, such as Discord or WhatsApp. Your actual usernames, addresses, or numbers remain hidden. If the owner accepts, your selected values are revealed to the owner and the owner's separately selected contact values are revealed to you.

You can withdraw a pending request. There is a short waiting period before the same withdrawn request can be sent again, which helps prevent repeated notifications and accidental request spam.

Only briefly. An acceptance can be cancelled during the allowed cancellation period and only while the requester has not yet viewed the accepted response. After that, the acceptance cannot be undone through AroundTable.Top.

No. Groups are private workspaces for their members. They are not a public directory. A public group game interest can show that it comes from a group without exposing the private group workspace.

The group owner can invite an existing AroundTable.Top user by username or email address. If no account exists for an email address, AroundTable.Top can send an email invitation so that person can create an account and continue from the invitation. Pending invitations can expire, be cancelled or be resent when allowed.

The group owner manages the group details, invitations, members and group game interests. Members can leave the group themselves, but the owner cannot simply leave while still owning it. The owner can ask an existing member to take ownership; nothing changes until that member accepts, after which the previous owner remains a normal member.

The group disappears for its participants, active group game interests are paused, and pending invitations are cancelled. Dissolving a group is an owner action and normal users cannot restore it themselves.

Use the bell for recent notifications or open Notifications from your account menu for the full page. Informational notifications can be deleted. A notification that still requires an action cannot be deleted until that action is no longer pending.

AroundTable.Top does not keep ordinary notification history forever. Non-actionable notifications are automatically removed after 35 days. A notification that still requires an outstanding action can remain until that action is no longer pending.

Signed-in users with a verified email can report a user from their public profile or a game interest from its page. Choose the reason that best fits and include only the details staff need. The report goes to AroundTable.Top staff for review; submitting one does not automatically suspend an account, hide a game interest or otherwise punish the reported person.

Your account may be temporarily restricted because your username needs review or replacement, or because the account has been suspended by AroundTable.Top staff. The page you are redirected to explains the restriction that currently applies.

Open Username management and follow the reason shown there. A reserved username may be waiting for approval; if AroundTable.Top requires a replacement, choose another valid username. Your normal site access returns once the username requirement has been resolved.

A suspension blocks ordinary interaction with other users and prevents you from managing games, groups, requests, invitations or staff tools. You can still sign in, view the suspension details, access essential account security, read Help and notifications, and contact AroundTable.Top staff. If you believe the suspension is incorrect or need clarification, use the Contact page.

The item may have been paused, dissolved, removed, made unavailable, or you may no longer have permission to see it. For private resources such as groups, AroundTable.Top deliberately avoids revealing whether a resource exists when you do not have access to it.

Browser location can be denied, unavailable, slow or only approximate, and city search can occasionally be unavailable. Check your browser’s location permission and the detected city. You can always choose your city manually instead of using device location.

Use the Contact page and choose the category that best matches your question or problem. If something went wrong on a particular page, include enough detail to identify what you were trying to do, but do not send passwords or unnecessary private information.