By Tyler on July 12, 2018
The submission period for GMs to run games at Carnage 21 is winding down. If you’re interested in hosting a game or other event at the convention this year, head over to the registration site and submit your idea today. Submissions close at the end of July 31st so that Carnage staff can build this […]
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By Tyler on November 20, 2017
If you couldn’t make it to Carnage this year, or there was just too much going on for you to see everything, some of our friends who came kindly wrote about their experiences at the convention this year. Check it out: Designer Robin Lea blogged about her weekend of running games and having fun, including […]
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By Tyler on November 8, 2017
This year at Carnage XX, we: raised over $2300 for Children’s Miracle Network hospitals with Team NEG and Extra Life raised over $1100 to find a cure for cancer with Gamers for a Cure proposed — and accepted! — marriage during Cards Against Humanity told ghost stories by the fireside with Oscar Rios and Golden […]
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By Tyler on October 12, 2017
With the convention less than a month out, the schedule is pretty well set, but there are some additions we wanted you to know about. Astral Source: Infiltrating the Liminal Zone Per Eisenman has taken Paizo’s new Starfinder rule set and used it to power his own creation, Astral Source. In 2121, Earth’s solar system […]
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By Tyler on September 25, 2017
When registration opened last Monday, attendees may have noticed that none of the Dungeons & Dragons games listed within the Adventurers League Organized Play category were available for sign-up. Adventurers League offerings at Carnage have been coordinated by Mark Merida with the Role Initiative, as in the last few years. To help explain the delay […]
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By Tyler on September 18, 2017
Note: This post links to the 2017 convention schedule 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. Registration for Carnage XX has officially opened! This year, we are […]
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By Tyler on September 6, 2017
As Carnage XX approaches, we’re reminded that while the convention is entering its twentieth year, not necessarily everyone interested in attending has been before or is intimately familiar with how Carnage works. To that end, here’s a quick road map to the convention, from the day preregistration opens to the convention itself. [row ] [col […]
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By Tyler on May 24, 2017
This November, Carnage celebrates twenty years of playing tabletop games in Vermont with a bang, but we can’t do it without your help! A tabletop game convention is only as good as the variety and quality of games that are on offer. At Carnage, all the games, which may be similar to the one on […]
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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 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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