TABLETOP FREEPLAY
MEET YOU AT THE SUMMIT!
New for 2024, tabletop gaming is expanding its presence in the Summit building of the Seattle Convention Center. Fans can look forward to more of everything! Enjoy twice as much seating for tabletop freeplay with the same great library and more RPGs. Look out for new and returning show features like Paint and Take and The Deception Zone among other exciting new ways to play.
Browse this page and check back closer to the show for exciting news, tournaments, and more.
Keep an eye on this page for more tabletop announcements before the show!
BOARD GAME LIBRARY
Seriously, we have so many tabletop games, you have no idea. Look, here’s what I want you to do. Think of a tabletop game, and go to the Tabletop Library. We’ve probably got it. Check out the game. Find a table. If you’ve come with friends, force them to play with you. It shouldn’t be hard. If you’ve come alone, we’ve got a solution for that too...ask a Tabletop Freeplay Enforcer for a Looking for Group marker. Look, we’ve got this down. All you need to worry about is rolling them crits.
TABLETOP TOURNAMENTS
If playing for fun sounds like a waste of your incredible talents, you may be interested to know we also have an absolutely bonkers schedule of Tabletop Tournaments every PAX for your to partake in. Literally, we often have so many events, it breaks our schedule page! And don’t even get me started on what it takes to print out 200 events on a physical schedule banner!
FIRST LOOK
Learn, play, and shop for the buzziest games from around the US. You’ll get to be among the first to play brand new/up and coming games curated specially for PAX fans, all included with your badge.
CROKINOLE ZONE
Test your Dexterity
This year we’ll have an area of our show dedicated to games that test your dexterity skills. The 2013 Danish favorite Klask will have a spot to test your steering skills, and *new* this year we’re adding Canadian favorite Crokinole to flick your way to a win.
PLAYTESTING AT PAX WEST
Get involved with the earliest stages of game creation at the show! Up and coming game designers will bring their works-in-progress for attendees to give feedback on for future development.
UNPUB submissions are now open for PAX West!
Want to submit your game for playtesting? Get more details and register your game.
Please note: You MUST obtain an attendee badge for PAX West in order to participate in any of these events.
TCG ZONE
Ever wanted to try your hand at a Trading Card Game (TCG) or Collectible Card Game (CCG)? PAX West will offer a variety of events from casual to competitive and old to new. Come try your hand with the latest sets of Pastimes Events is returning to the show to run Magic: The Gathering and Disney’s Lorcana. Play Star Wars: Unlimited run by Zulu’s Game Café, and Flesh & Blood run by Legend Story Studios.
RPG ZONE
We're bringing more RPGs to PAX West THAN EVER BEFORE! Returning to the show, Alexandria RPG Library and Baldman Games will be running familiar RPGs for you to explore, and new to PAX West, Games on Demand (Indie) will be joining the fray.
