The Historical Gaming Group of Eastern Washington & North Idaho joins Gamesfest to provide opportunities to learn new games, (try them before you buy them) and enjoy some excellent wargaming.
This group plays Great War, Flames of War, Oil Wars, Fate of A Nation, Team Yankee, Black Seas, Black Powder Civil War, A Song of Fire and Ice (Game of Thrones theme), as well as other historical games.
Big Brain Gaming is hosting games of Warhammer 40K, Age of Sigmar, Marvel Crisis Protocol, and STAR WARS: Legion! New players are welcome.
40K TOURNAMENT: A Warhammer 40K tournament starts on Saturday at 10 a.m. Prizes are offered for the winner. No additional fee is required this year. Players can bring 2,000-point armies. There are a few armies available for use. Big Brain Gaming is using bestcoastpairing.com to sign up for the tournament. There are 16 slots open.
Big Brain Gaming offers more tabletop games during the convention:
AGE of SIGMAR: The games are using the new edition of rules, some are using the previous version.
STAR WARS: Legion games are being run throughout the weekend, starting on Saturday.
MARVEL CRISIS PROTOCOL: You can bet on the X-Men trying to save the world with help from both Deadpool and Wolverine!
The nearest hotel is a short walk from Gamesfest. It’s located at 4525 Convention Place, Pasco, WA 99301.
Another hotel near Gamesfest is the Hampton Inn and Suites. It’s located at 6826 Burden Blvd, Pasco, WA 99301.
Nimitz WWI rules – 2-6 players – All provided
GM – Chuck Hamack
In December 1914 the British and Germans battle it among the islands. The naval battle is played using 1/3000 scale miniatures.
Shadowrun Anarchy – 2-6 players – All provided
GM: Chris
To decide which dragon will lead the others, your team must risk it all to steal the ultimate symbol of draconic leadership: The Jewel of Memory. This is the third in a trilogy of missions using Shadowrun Anarchy, a rules-lite variant of the classic cyberpunk-and-magic roleplaying game.
Fistful of Lead – 2-6 players – All provided
GM – Phil Bedard
The year is 2038 and the members of the glorious space patrol were alerted to an incursion of space Nazis against the local Venusian mole people! Using your Mole Machine you have just broken through to the cavern! You leave the machine with proton pistols and swords at the ready!
GURPS 4e – 2-6 players – All provided
GM – Chip Campbell
Just another day riding the elevator up to work till the lights go out and the floor buttons stop working, What happened? What’s GOING to happen? You’ll find out when the doors open.
One 10 System – 2-6 players – All provided
GM – Dale Painter
Your archaeological expedition has just returned to London tracing some very disturbing evidence derived from some very strange artifacts. Victorian England meets the American Old West, all with a touch of Lovecraft thrown in. Miniatures and Terrain will be used.
D&D 5e – 3-8 players – all provided
GM– Kodi
Fantasy. Sci-Fi. Adventure. The Heros are trying to stop an invading Clockwork menace that is trying to bring Factory-efficient Order to a land of chaotic forces and mystic races. But that is just the bright light of justice that conceals the Shadow Guilds’ sinister machinations.
GURPS Horror 4e – 2-6 players – All provided
GM – Bill Stevenson
A light was seen in an abandoned mansion in Boston. A team from Miskatonic University is sent to investigate. Clues lead them to a horrifying conclusion threatening the team’s sanity.
Basic Fantasy rules – 2-6 players – Pre-gens or level 3
GM – Chris Albrecht
It will be an introductory game to the system that’s inspired by early editions of D&D. It will be a continuation of the Saturday game with more adventure and plots to be uncovered. Both new and previous players will be welcomed.
GM – Scott Philips
Should be a simple job! Get in, grab the legendary mining tool – a relic – and get out. Dungeon World is an improv-heavy system for the Gamemaster.
Here are some featured games available at Gamesfest.
Nimitz WW I variant rules by Sam Mustafa
2-6 players – All provided
GM – Chuck Hamack
It’s Aug. 14, 1914, and the Germans face the British in a naval battle. The game uses 1/3000 scale miniatures.
Hordes of the Things rule – 2-6 players – All provided
GM – Kim Harris
Gameplay is both tactical and strategic. There are up to 3 battlefields available. Armies can even be designed from what you can find in the dollar store.
GURPS Old West – 6 players – All provided
GM: Bill Stevenson
The Pinkertons need the League of Extraordinary Cowboys to capture the Reno Gang. The League is Blondie (Clint Eastwood), John T. Chance (John Wayne from “Rio Bravo”), Bass Reeves, Annie Oakley, Crazy Horse, and Tuco (from “The Good, Bad, and the Ugly”).
D&D 5e – 3-8 players – all provided
GM – Kodi
A world full of darkness, mystery, plots, and intrigue. Choose one of eight characters; try to make it through their events and discover some light to bring hope to this almost hopeless world. There are eight paths through the darkness. Which will bring the most good to this world?
Car Wars 3.5e – 4+ players – All provided
GM – Edgar Lincoln
Car-nage returns with a Div. 15 rumble using 3.5e rules for Car Wars. It’s the demolition derby of the future using cars with armor and weapons. The last car running is the winner.
HOME Rules 2-4 players – all provided
GM: Daniel T
When the Kaiju begin emerging from a portal, it is up to the players to arrange the defense in a valley at the edge of the mountains. Collaboratively write the story as you build your mech, prepare supplies, evacuate citizens from the creature’s path, and fight to save your people.
Nimitz WWI rules – 2-6 players – All provided
GM – Chuck Hamack
It’s December 1914 and the British face off against the Germans in a naval battle. The game uses 1/3000 scale miniatures.
Vampire the Eternal Struggle CCG – 2-4 players – All provided
GM: Ross
Vampire: the Eternal Struggle is a multi-player CCG based on the award-winning Vampire the Masquerade RPG in which players take on the role of ancient vampires. The game is won or lost through actions taken by your minions. Open to all, we have plenty of cards and decks.
Fistful of Lead – 2-6 players – All provided
GM – Phil Bedard
The year is 2038 and the members of the glorious space patrol were alerted to an incursion of space Nazis against the local Venusian mole people! Using your Mole Machine you have just broken through to the cavern! You leave the machine with proton pistols and swords at the ready!
Dungeon World – 2-6 players – All provided
GM – Scott Philips
Should be a simple job! Get in, grab the legendary mining tool – a relic – and get out. Dungeon World is an improv-heavy system for the Gamemaster.
Supers! revised rules – 2-5 players – All provided
GM – Quin
The Secure-Tech Correctional Institution has a perfect record when dealing with incarcerated supervillains. No inmate has ever successfully escaped. So, why all the reported sightings of current inmates running free around the city? And is this somehow connected to the recent string of kidnappings?
Hordes of the Things rule – 2-6 players – All provided
GM – Kim Harris
Gameplay is both tactical and strategic. There are up to 3 battlefields available. Armies can even be designed from what you can find in the dollar store.
Here are some featured games available at Gamesfest.
Fistful of Lead – 2+ players – all provided
GM: Phil
It’s June 6, 1944, and Allied paratroopers have an important job to do. You won’t be doing that job. The Nazi Occult Scientist Dr. Rudolf Seltzman was spotted near the ruins of the St Augustine church and your mission is to capture the vile scientist at any cost!
Call of Cthulhu – 2-6 players – All provided
GM: Ross Hearne
The Carnival of Madness is a single-session scenario produced by Chaosium based on the grindhouse/slasher movies of the 1970s-80s. Save the children!
Volley and Bayonet – 2+ players – All provided
GM: Kim Harris
The Road to Glory is a card-based Grand Tactical planning. Commanders draw cards and choose a plan suited to their style and troops. Commands are deployed on a tabletop battlefield and the subordinate commanders (if any) maneuver and lead their troops.
One 10 System – 2-6 players – All provided
GM – Dale Painter
Players – 2-6
Your archaeological expedition is headed deep into the Sudan, searching for answers to some strange artifacts, and even stranger rumors that you have come across. Victorian England meets the American Old West, all with a touch of Lovecraft thrown in. Miniatures and Terrain will be used.
Fistful of Lead – 1-6 players – All provided
GM: Glen Allison
Tired of playing a 27th-level Paladin? Come see how the other half lives. Do you have what it takes to be an NPC? Orc’s Night Out is back. You get three orcs apiece because you’ll need them. You are playing NPCs after all.
A Warhammer 40K tournament starts on Saturday at 10 a.m. Prizes are offered for the winner. No additional fee is required this year. Players can bring 2,000-point armies. There are a few armies available for use.
Renewal & Riot rules – 2-5 players – Characters made at the table
GM: Daniel T
It’s the modern-day. You live in a small neighborhood that’s seen better days. You and your neighbors want to work together to revitalize it. But something is threatening your neighborhood, and you all must work together to stop the threat and bring your piece of the city back to life.
GURPS 4e – 2-6 players – All provided
GM – Chip Campbell
Just another day riding the elevator up to work till the lights go out and the floor buttons stop working, What happened? What’s GOING to happen? You’ll find out when the doors open.
Last Man Standing – 6-24 players – All provided
GM: Bill Stevenson
It is 5 minutes to 5 p.m. and Friday and the boss speaks through the phone intercom, “Umm … Yeah. I need everyone to work overtime this weekend. Everyone, except the last person standing.” The doors lock and weapons start dropping from the ceiling. The winner receives the red stapler!
Shadowrun Anarchy – 2-6 players – All provided
GM: Chris
Your team of futuristic mercenaries are sent to Denver to investigate corruption inside of a cult that worships the most feared creatures in the sixth world: Dragons. This is the first in a trilogy of missions using Shadowrun Anarchy, a rules-lite variant of the classic cyberpunk-and-magic roleplaying game.
Fistful of Lead – 1-6 players – All provided
GM: Glen Allison
Tired of playing a 27th-level Paladin? Come see how the other half lives. Do you have what it takes to be an NPC? Orc’s Night Out is back. You get three orcs apiece because you’ll need them. You are playing NPCs after all.
Order of Battle from Talavera – 2+ players – all provided
GM: Kim Harris
It’s a large Napoleonic battle using the Order of Battle from Talavera rules.
Car Wars Classic 3.5 rules – 4+ players – All provided
GM – Edgar Lincoln
Road rage is embraced in vehicular competition. Drivers in Div. 25 cars battle it out to win in an arena, You can smell the gas, gunpowder, and blood.
Cthulhu Wars board game – 3-6 players –All provided
GM: Ross Hearne
Take on the persona of an Elder Thing from the Cthulhu mythos and battle for the domination of Earth and mankind!
Ultraviolet Grasslands rules
2-5 players – All provided
GM – Quin
The adventurers are recruited to locate a long-forgotten sandstorm shelter somewhere in the wastelands. An agent of House Nalu stored a valuable item there for safekeeping during the chaos of the Bone Spore Pandemic and only an audit of their pre-collapse asset records alerted House Nalu to this lost treasure.
Fistful of Lead 2-6 players – All provided
GM – Phil Bedard
Word spread about a strange sickness that kills its victims, only to have them rise from the grave with a thirst for blood. Marshal Bill thinks he’s found the cause. A mysterious coffin-sized box arrived in town guarded by a group of oddly clad foreigners. With the sun going down, there’s no time to spare …
One 10 System – 2-6 players – All provided
GM – Dale Painter
Your archaeological expedition has just returned to London tracing some very disturbing evidence derived from some very strange artifacts. Victorian England meets the American Old West, all with a touch of Lovecraft thrown in. Miniatures and Terrain will be used.
Call of Cthulhu – 2-6 players – All provided
GM: Ross Hearne
On the ice slopes of the Colorado Rockies, a killer stalks the forest. Meanwhile, a group of strangers go on vacation. In the chilling conclusion, a new terror is born. This homebrew scenario is created based on the grindhouse/slasher movies of the 1970s-80s, GM Ross’s favorite theme for convention games.
Nimitz WWI rules – 2-6 players – All provided
GM – Chuck Hamack
It’s November 1914 and the Germans face the British in a WWI naval battle. The game uses 1/3000 scale miniatures.
Shadowrun Anarchy 2-6 players – All provided
GM: Chris
A draconic conspiracy expands to Hong Kong where your team must pit corp-against-corp and dragon-against-dragon to change the balance of power around the Pacific Rm. This is the second in a trilogy of missions using Shadowrun Anarchy, a rules-lite variant of the classic cyberpunk-and-magic roleplaying game.
Dungeon World – 2-6 players – All provided
GM – Scott Philips
Should be a simple job! Get in, grab the legendary mining tool – a relic – and get out. Dungeon World is an improv-heavy system for the Gamemaster.
Basic Fantasy rules – 2-6 players – Pre-gens or level 3
GM – Chris Albrecht
It will be an introductory game to the system inspired by early editions of D&D with some favorable 3e mechanics thrown in. It will be a classic town to tavern-to-dungeon adventure with a mystery to solve. Everyone who loves or is curious about classic adventuring will have a great time.
Nuclear War, Settlers of Cataan, and more games
GM – Edgar Lincoln
The guru of games Edgar Lincoln is running a variety of games based on players’ choice, including Nuclear War, Settlers of Cataan, Terraforming Mars (with the new Kickstarter stuff), and Dark Tower.
ITEMS LISTED on this page are submitted for the Gamesfest SILENT AUCTION. They are open for bidding at 2 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 1, onsite. Follow the link for how the auction works.
TO SUBIT AN ITEM (one at a time, please) send us an EMAIL with your legal name, a picture of the game, list its condition, and your desired opening bid.
Nothing is listed yet, but we have until August 2024.
ITEMS LISTED on this page are submitted for the Gamesfest SILENT AUCTION. They are open for bidding at 2 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 1, onsite. Follow the link for how the auction works.
TO SUBIT AN ITEM (one at a time, please) send us an EMAIL with your legal name, a picture of the game, list its condition, and your desired opening bid.
Nothing is listed yet, but we have until August 2024.
DEAD or ALIVE – We want volunteers. What? Oh. For legal reasons, we can only accept living volunteers. They do have the option of dying while serving Gamesfest but we will fight them to keep them alive and appreciated.
We need a few kind, courageous, dedicated (and living) volunteers to watch some doors, check on GMs, and keep an eye on the silent auction.
EMAIL – contact@gamesfest.org
TO VOLUNTEER – Send us an email with your name, phone number, and a few sentences on what you would like to do to help. Please let us know if you are unable to do certain tasks due to your health. We don’t want to make it worse with our request.
REWARDS – Volunteers receive a custom six-sided die. It becomes a collector’s item the day after Gamesfest, Sept. 4. It means we won’t be giving any out afterward.
MORE – We are looking at a few other items to show our appreciation. But we are on a very tight budget for our first year. Check back to this page to see if we added any more.
EMAIL US – contact@gamesfest.org
FREE ADMISSION – Do you want to run some games? If you are willing to run two time blocks of an RPG or a wargame, we will let you in for free. You read that right. FREE!
BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE! Each GM receives an exclusive Gamesfest six-sided die. The design changes every year. They will not be for sale. They’re only for GMs. Then there’s an exclusive 28 mm miniature. We had a figure carved just for our GMs. The only way to get one – run games for two time blocks.
TO VOLUNTEER AS A GM – Send us an email with your name (we don’t have con names), phone number, and a description of what you would like to run, the maximum number of players, rules used, if characters or armies pre-generated, and a 50 word or less description to sell your game to players. Send the information to contact@gamesfest.org
The game information will be posted on this lovely website (as soon as possible) and on the game grid to be posted at Gamesfest.
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