Tag Archives: Go Play NW

Bluebeard’s Bride

Posted on July 24, 2018 by Sam Kabo Ashwell

OK, lemme tell you about my favourite session at Go Play Northwest. Bluebeard’s Bride (Whitney Beltrán, Marissa Kelly, Sarah Richardson) is a Powered by the Apocalypse game about feminine horror. The story always loosely follows the fairy-tale, with play focused around … Continue reading →

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Diadem

Posted on July 24, 2018 by Sam Kabo Ashwell

I’ve been eager to play Diadem (Max Hervieux) since Max told me about it at last year’s Go Play NW, and this year I just decided to run it myself. It’s a game with a very specific historical focus: the … Continue reading →

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The Mind of Margaret

Posted on July 18, 2018 by Sam Kabo Ashwell

Awright. Going over some of the more noteworthy things I played at Go Play NW this year: The Mind of Margaret (Drew Besse) is a storygame in which the players all play different emotions (or other motivating drives) of a single character. … Continue reading →

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A Year Without Zombies 7: Bring Out Your Dead

Posted on July 2, 2015 by Sam Kabo Ashwell

(For 2015, I am trying to avoid playing any games or consuming any static media with zombies in them. My reasons, and other fun things like ‘what exactly counts as a zombie?’, are explained here.) The Steam summer sale entirely failed … Continue reading →

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Fall of Magic

Posted on July 1, 2015 by Sam Kabo Ashwell

The immediate draw of Ross Cowman’s successfully-Kickstarted storygame Fall of Magic is that it’s a really cool artifact: the game comes as a physical scroll of silk-screened cloth, which you unroll to reveal a map as the story progresses. The act … Continue reading →

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Cheat Your Own Adventure

Posted on June 29, 2015 by Sam Kabo Ashwell

Go Play NW is a Seattle-based con for playing games; there’s an emphasis on indie and narrative-oriented role-playing games, but there are usually some board and card games in the mix. I love it because, not having any vendors, it’s … Continue reading →

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GPNW: Danger Patrol, Capes

Posted on August 15, 2014 by Sam Kabo Ashwell

Earlier this summer, I spent the weekend at Go Play NW, a Seattle storygaming-and-friends con. Go Play turns out to be pretty much a perfect con for me – very modest in scale, a strong focus on structured activities, almost completely non-commercial, a … Continue reading →

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