NOVA Open 2024

Your adventure awaits!

The East Coast's largest tabletop miniatures convention returns to DC for its 13th year at the spacious Washington Hilton hotel!

NOVA Open is a family-friendly, community-oriented convention welcome to all. We host everything from some of the world's largest miniatures tournaments, to casual learn-to-play events, to charity painting classes, and much more. We have everything a seasoned gamer or a brand new hobbyist could ask for!

What's New This Year

This year we have a whole slew of new and expanded programming!

• Kings of War US Masters - We are proud to host the 2024 U.S. National invitational for the first time! And we welcome Mantic Games as a sponsor and exhibitor.
• Legions Imperialis - The brand new epic-scale miniatures game from Games Workshop
• More RPGs - Lots of exciting Roleplaying Games building on last year's success
• Over 330 hours of painting seminars - Including a host of new and returning artists from all over the world!
• Much, much more! Check out all our events on the Schedule.

IMPORTANT Highlights

General Convention Info

• Labor Day weekend (Aug 28 - Sept 1) - 4 and half full days of events!
• Early check-in starts Wed Aug 28 plus a few evening events
• Contact us at customerservice@novaopen.com with questions

Hotel Information

The venue hotel is the Washington Hilton. The convention rate this year is $149 +tax per night.

See hotel information: here

How to Use Tabletop.events

To get your badges and tickets simply click the green Buy Badges, Buy Tickets, and Buy Merch links to the right or click Attend from the page menu. To get your tickets the most quickly possible, be sure to create a TTE Account in advance!

Feel free to browse the schedule.

Or check out the TTE help:

• How to create an account
• How to buy a badge
• How to buy a ticket
• How to buy Merch

Things to do

There is so much to do and see! Come join us for a wide range of miniatures events ranging from competitive to casual across dozens of game systems. Hone your skills and learn in one of our many hobby seminars. Relax with your friends at the hobby haven, our painting lounge chock full of free paints and materials generously brought to you by The Army Painter. Stop by and learn a new game or drop into events in the always-hopping board game lounge. And so much more!