By Tyler on November 28, 2016
If you missed attending Carnage Royale, take a peek into the goings-on through the convention reports of our friends, linked below: Gordon Dritschilo, Rutland Reader, “Let’s play!” Stephen Seitz, Mountain Times, “Carnage comes to Killington” Ian Eller, The Fate of Zaskettr Tom K, Carnage 17, pt 1; The Game’s Afoot, err Under Foot Robin Lea, […]
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By Tyler on November 27, 2016
Thank you everyone who joined us last weekend for Carnage Royale, our nineteenth outing to play tabletop games all weekend long. By our count, there were at least 700 people playing games at the Killington Grand and Snowshed Base Lodge as part of Carnage Royale. A convention like Carnage runs on its volunteers, those behind […]
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By Tyler on November 13, 2016
Two men grabbed a passerby in a hotel lounge, seeking an outside perspective on whether the Norwegian navy should attack St. Petersburg. No, it wasn’t the beginning of a very strange spy novel. It was the second day of Carnage Con, Vermont’s largest gaming convention, held last weekend at the Killington Grand Hotel and Snowshed […]
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By Tyler on October 12, 2016
The annual Carnage annual no-ship math trade, in which game swaps are arranged in advance and made at the convention in Killington, is now open on BoardGameGeek, thanks to host Matt Golec. Putting games on offer runs until October 23rd. Traders have until October 30th to compose their want lists, with results posted shortly thereafter. […]
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By Tyler on September 29, 2016
Note: This post links to the 2016 convention book and is made available for informational purposes only. If you’re looking for the current year’s convention book, check the sidebar, or the top of the News page, to see if it has been released yet. Carnage is very pleased to announce the opening of registration for […]
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By Tyler on September 23, 2016
Carnage Royale is a little over a month away, and the Carnage staff has been focused on getting all the games in from our trusty GMs and the convention book put together. We’ve also been working on developing some new options in the preregistration process to make it easier for our attendees. Once the process […]
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By Tyler on July 10, 2016
No other type of tabletop game hosted at Carnage takes advantage of the year’s theme like role-playing games do. As a genre of game that draws heavily on tropes and genre conventions from books, film, television — from Dungeons & Dragons‘ Appendix N up to the contemporary capsule pitch of “It’s like Pokémon meets Veronica Mars!” We’ll always have our […]
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By TheGrayMan on June 30, 2016
The general call has gone out for all GMs to submit their games! We need board games! The more we have to offer, the more you will have to play. We are looking for any and all board games. We are also looking to offer some specific board games. If you would like to help out by running a board […]
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By TheGrayMan on June 30, 2016
Last year at Carnage we had some enterprising designers come in and share their games with us. These prototypes were well received. So we decided to do it again this year. Maybe a little bigger, and certainly brighter. On Saturday morning and afternoon in the Oscar Wilde Ballroom we will be offering up and coming […]
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