By Tyler on December 12, 2012
The New England Role Players Association (NERPA) had its recorder out and rolling at Carnage Noir last month. Freshly released in their actual play podcast is a session of Fiasco that went down on Saturday of the convention. Fiasco is more of a story-telling game than a traditional role-playing game “about ordinary people with powerful […]
Posted in Role-Playing Games | Tagged actual play, bully pulpit games, fiasco, nerpa, podcasts, Role-Playing Games
By Tyler on November 12, 2012
Carnage Noir is over, but you can explore how other people spent their weekends with this roundup of blog and forum posts about the 2012 convention: Mark Armitage shares the results of the Legend of the 5 Rings tournament. [FriedTaterExplosion] recounts their experiences in the Warhammer 40k tournament. Tracy “Sarah Darkmagic” Hurley relates the fun […]
Posted in News | Tagged call of cthulhu, carnage noir, dungeons & dragons, Legend of the 5 Rings, miniatures, news, Role-Playing Games, warhammer
By Tyler on November 5, 2012
Did you make your big score this year? Did the dame get away with the dingus? Rod Sheldon, just one of the hearts behind Carnage, posted on the Carnage Facebook group earlier today: Thank you to everyone that made the last year at Lake Morey a great time! It was wonderful seeing old and new friends. […]
Posted in News | Tagged carnage, carnage noir, conventions
By Tyler on October 27, 2012
New Englanders and residents of the wider northeastern US are keeping an eye on Hurricane Sandy, which is currently projected to hit the New York and New Jersey area early Tuesday morning. While Vermont appears to be squarely in the “side effects” zone of the hurricane’s current path, there is no way to predict now […]
Posted in News | Tagged carnage noir, conventions, hurricane sandy, travel, weather
By Tyler on October 25, 2012
Sunday, October 21st, the Boston Globe ran an article in the travel section noting Carnage’s 15th convention. The sharp-eyed reader will note a number of names in the article familiar within the Carnage community, but none so prominent as the byline of Matt Golec, Upper Valley gamer and correspondent for the Globe. Read the full […]
Posted in News | Tagged carnage noir, media, news, newspapers, the boston globe
By Tyler on October 9, 2012
Thanks to the efforts of Matt Golec, Carnage-goers once again have the opportunity to participate in Here’s Looking At You, Kid, a no-ship math trade with their fellow conventioneers. As Matt explains, “Math trades are a great way to swap games you no longer play for games you’d love to add to your collection. You […]
Posted in Board Games, CCGs, Miniatures, Role-Playing Games | Tagged Board Games, boardgamegeek.com, card games, carnage noir, ccgs, math trade, miniatures, Role-Playing Games
By Tyler on October 3, 2012
On page 47 of the print version of the Carnage Noir convention book, the preregistration prices are incorrectly noted as $50 for the weekend, $40 for groups of five and $25 for a single day. The correct prices for Carnage Noir are $55 for the weekend, $45 for groups of five or more and $30 […]
Posted in News | Tagged carnage noir
By Tyler on September 25, 2012
Note: this is the 2012 convention book! For the current year’s convention book, which traditionally publishes in early fall, visit the news page. All right, you mugs. The big score’s less than two months away. It’s a three day job and I don’t want anything to go wrong. So we’ve got it all planned out, […]
Posted in Board Games, CCGs, Field Marshal Reports, Miniatures, Role-Playing Games | Tagged Board Games, carnage noir, ccgs, convention book, conventions, miniatures, Role-Playing Games
By Tyler on September 24, 2012
In episode 34 of Carnagecast, cartoonist Paul Gadzikowski joins us to talk about his early brushes with tabletop role-playing, cartooning, his on-going series Arthur, King of Time and Space, the changing ways in which we create and consume stories, plus his long-standing interest in the Arthurian mythology and how its characters have been interpreted over […]
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Posted in Carnagecast | Tagged arthur king of time and space, arthurian mythology, Carnagecast, comics, fantasy, paul gadzikowski, podcasts