Monthly Archives: August 2012

Game for Extra Life at Carnage Noir

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Extra Life logo.By playing games, Carnage-goers can help raise money for sick children by participating in Extra Life. Extra Life is the biggest gaming charity event of the year and this year, Carnage and Green Mountain Gamers encourage their fellow gamers to help.

To participate, sign up at Extra Life, join or create a team, choose a Children’s Miracle Network hospital to support, ask friends and family for donations, and sit and play games, any kind of games, for a total of 24 hours.

Leading the way in supporting this excellent cause, Green Mountain Gamers is organizing a dedicated team of gamers to test their mettle in a 24 hour gaming marathon, Friday night to Saturday night of Carnage Noir. Visit www.greenmountaingamers.com/about/contact to ask for more information about this opportunity.

During the convention, Carnage will offer special Extra Life T-shirts, with all proceeds going to the Vermont Children’s Hospital at Fletcher Allen Healthcare.

Carnagecast 30: Lords of Waterdeep

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In episode 30 of Carnagecast, the gang discusses Lords of Waterdeep, an Euro-style board game from Wizards of the Coast based on the perennially favorite world of the Forgotten Realms for Dungeons & Dragons. Rod runs down how the game works, then the conversation breaks out into how this game may appeal to different groups of people. Rod and Chuck point out that as Lords of Waterdeep mixes contemporary board game trends with a traditional role-playing world, it can bring the world of Forgotten Realms to a new audience beyond tabletop role-players, and potentially introduce longstanding Dungeons & Dragons players to a new kind of game for those nights when the whole group can’t get together for the campaign. Continue reading →

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