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By Tyler on October 17, 2017
Carnage is pleased to announce that as part of the 20th anniversary celebration, a limited edition playmat is now available for preorder. Measuring 24″ x 14″, this mat features the many incarnations of the Grim Reaper and the horsemen of the apocalypse that have graced Carnage memorabilia over the years. Never before have all the faces of the Reaper been seen together in one place, and once this mat has sold out, you may never see them all together again! A playmat like this helps you flop cardboard with a speed and efficiency unlike anything seen on a regular hard table surface. (Note that the above image is a close-to-final draft, and the final version will likely vary slightly.)
This playmat is a limited edition item. Preorders will be accepted through Tabletop.Events’ merch page until the end of October 24th, due to lead time for production and shipping. After that, your only hope to score one of these commemorative mats by placing first in one of the events below:
Six of these commemorative playmats will be won by players this year at Carnage XX. You can trust to your skills to see you through one of these tournaments, or you can ensure you’ll own a piece of Carnage history by ordering one before the end of October 24th. Either way, after Carnage XX, this limited edition playmat will never be available again!
All Carnage art was created by Richard Emery. This playmat was designed by Hannah McMillen, and produced by Inked Gaming.
Posted in CCGs | Tagged carnage xx, conventions, news
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 is a very different place: “The Corporatocracy provides a benevolent oligarchy in the inner system, while the outer system is a frontier where the Resistance takes root.”
Check out the full write-up and get your ticket on Tabletop.Events.
More Friday Afternoon Seats
The Friday afternoon slot at Carnage keeps growing in popularity every year, to the point that soon after registration, there were only a handful of seats available in role-playing games outside the organized play categories. Thanks to the graciousness of our GMs, these role-playing scenarios have seats available for the Friday afternoon crowd:
- Summer Break and Killer Birds — Robots, magnitrine drives, gauss freighters — this is the 80’s as it should have been.
- The Big City Caper! — Mix one mad scientist, two criminal masterminds, three sports championships, four powerful and mysterious artifacts, five families, and the 1924 Democrat National Convention, and you’ve got a recipe for adventure!
- Village in the Mists — The designer himself of the old school-inspired Thunder Classic Roleplaying dares you to solve the mystery of the abandoned village Kembi!
If you’re not already, be sure to follow Carnage on Facebook and Twitter.
Posted in Role-Playing Games | Tagged carnage xx, conventions, news, Role-Playing Games
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 in the opening of registration for Adventurers League games and the plan going forward, Mark prepared the following (you can download the original PDF here):
Dear Carnage Community,
You may have noticed that registration for Adventurers League has been delayed past the start of Carnage’s pre-registration. This was caused by a miscommunication on our end, and we regret the impact that this has had on Carnage registrants, Adventurers League players, and our Kickstarter patrons. We understand that this has, despite our best intentions, caused an inconvenience to the Carnage community, and for that we apologize.
In an effort to open communication, we would like to announce that sign-ups for Adventurers League will open on October 2nd. All attendees will be able to access our registration section in Tabletop Events, and select the games of their choice. While we understand that this later date is an inconvenience, we hope that this clarification demonstrates our earnest desire to do right by the community of gamers who make this all possible.
We’re also excited to announce that as a good faith gesture to the community, we have collaborated with convention staff to offer a seat at each of our Tier 2 Author Only tables, available as prizes through a Carnage-orchestrated raffle that will take place after October 2nd. These are special events that provide limited access to exclusive modules that can only be run by their authors, the Adventurers League Admins.
We look forward to seeing you at Carnage!
Mark Merida, Convention Organizer
The Role Initiative
Carnage’s first concern is ensuring as smooth and pleasant a convention experience as possible for all attendees, from registration to the convention weekend itself. We truly regret any inconvenience or confusion this has caused attendees planning to participate in the Adventurers League games at the convention this year.
Looking forward, general registration will open on October 2nd as planned, with tickets made available through the Tabletop.Events registration system. For those interested in the “Author Only” tickets to be raffled off, you can stay up to date on how to participate here on the Carnage website, or on the convention’s Facebook and Twitter feeds. We will share how the raffle will operate in the coming days.
Thank you to everyone for your patience and good grace in working through this. We look forward to seeing you all at Killington for the convention!
Posted in Role-Playing Games | Tagged adventurers league, carnage xx, dungeons & dragons, news, registration, Role-Playing Games
By Tyler on September 18, 2017
Click to visit the online registration system and get your Carnage XX badge today.
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 using a third party website, Tabletop.Events, to facilitate attendee registration before and during the convention this year. Visit our site there, Carnage XX 2017, to browse the schedule of games for the weekend. This system has the ability to filter the schedule by game type, rules used, time of day and search for keywords, so you can find exactly what you’re looking for fast.
How It Works
We have a short walkthrough written up if you’d like more detail about how to use the new online registration system.
Once you create an account with Tabletop.Events, you can purchase badges for yourself, friends and family members with a credit card and sign up for seats in games for all the badges you’ve purchased, plus preorder Carnage souvenir shirts. When you arrive at the convention, you can pick up your packet with your badge and tickets from the convention registration desk at noon on Friday and go enjoy the weekend!
This registration system works in real time, meaning the seats you see listed as open are available at that moment. If a game is full, you can get on the game’s wait list, which means you will be notified when a seat becomes available. Carnage staff will be keeping an eye on which games fill up to see where we might be able to add games to the schedule, so don’t be shy about using the wait list button.
After you’ve completed buying your badge, you can continue to manage your registration, adding and removing games from your schedule, until the end October 24th. At that point, registration will close until the convention begins so we can process badges and packets. After that, all financial transactions are final and game reservations can’t be adjusted until the convention begins.
Important Dates to Remember
Registration reopens noon on Friday, November 3rd, at which point preregistered attendees can pick up their packets. The online registration system then reopen so people can purchase walk-up badges and make their ticket reservations on their personal devices. If you need help or don’t have a web-ready device, the convention registration desk staff can give assistance.
If you’re looking for the traditional convention book and paper registration form, we still have it for you in electronic format as soon as we are able. Below you can download the paper registration form, and will be able to download the convention book when we are able to post it. Please note that if you choose to register by mail, your game choices will be entered as and when able by convention staff, and seats may no longer be available in your chosen games.
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- Carnage XX has come and gone, but you can see what fun we had by looking at the Tabletop.Events schedule here — 2017
- The Carnage XX Registration Book is a PDF of the convention schedule as it published in September 2017. [PDF, 1.6MB]
Posted in Board Games, CCGs, Field Marshal Reports, Miniatures, Role-Playing Games | Tagged Board Games, carnage xx, ccgs, convention book, conventions, larps, miniatures, news, registration, Role-Playing Games
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.
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September 18th, 2017, 7:00pm
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Preregistration opens for Carnage. The registration site opens for badge and ticket sales. The convention book is circulated electronically and to friendly local game stores.
Conventioneers can buy a convention badge, sign up to play games, order a souvenir shirt and generally work themselves into a frenzy thinking about all the fun to be had in November. Online registration is in real time: the seats you see available are available right then. You can also put yourself on the wait list for full games. Paper registration forms are processed as and when convention staff are able, and choices cannot be guaranteed.
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Tuesday, October 24th, 11:59pm
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Preregistration closes. Attendees can no longer request refunds if they cannot attend the convention, or buy or release tickets to reserve seats in games until the convention begins.
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Friday, November 3rd, 12:00pm
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Convention registration desk in Killington Grand lobby opens. Preregistered attendees can pick up their badge and game packets. Walk-in attendees can purchase one on their network-enabled device and then pick up their badge and packet from the desk. Desk staff can help those without a suitable device.
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Friday, November 3rd, 1:00pm
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The first slot of the convention begins! Go have fun.
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Posted in Board Games, CCGs, Field Marshal Reports, Miniatures, Role-Playing Games | Tagged carnage xx, conventions, registration
By TheGrayMan on June 28, 2017
Love board games? Like teaching people new board games? Carnage needs your help!
We are looking for board game GMs for this year’s 20th anniversary edition of Carnage. Below is a list of games we are looking to have run at this year’s event. If you see a game you would like to run, please consider signing up to run a slot. As always running two slots of board games that are approved and in the pre-reg book, gets you into the convention for free.
So head to our GM sign up form today! Now for the wish list in no particular order:
- Great Western Trail
- Blood Rage
- Scythe
- Mechs vs Minions
- Food Chain Magnate
- Arkham Horror: The Card Game
- Eldritch Horror
- Time Stories
- Concordia
- A Feast for Odin
- Clank
- Isle of Skye: From Chieftain to King
- Terraforming Mars
- COIN Games (Falling Sky, Cuba Libre, Andean Abyss, etc…)
- Pericles: The Peloponnesian War
- Agricola
- Stone Age
- 18xx Rail Games
- Mansions of Madness
- Innis
- 1775: Rebellion
- 1754: Conquest
- Assault of the Giants
- Pandemic: Iberia
- Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game
- Star Wars: Imperial Assault
- Terra Mystica
- Robinson Crusoe
- Keyflower
- Fields of Arle
- Arcadia Quest
- Memoir ’44
- Captain Sonar
If you don’t see a game you want to run on the list, don’t worry. Submit it anyways. We love all board games! (Okay…mostly all.)
See you in November!
Posted in Board Games, Field Marshal Reports | Tagged Board Games, carnage xx, conventions, GMs
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 겜블시티 라이브카지노, are run by volunteer GMs, people who step up to teach or moderate a game as a service to those who want to play. We can’t do it without all our GMs, and we’re grateful for each and every one of you! Use this guide with super contra cheats if you love playing video games like Super C.
To submit a game proposal, visit our GM Sign Up form and fill in the details of the game you’d like to run. After Carnage reviews your proposal, the appropriate field marshal will be in touch to discuss it further. Submissions must be received by July 31st in order to be included in the Carnage convention book, which is the primary catalog of what’s scheduled to play at the convention. Once the convention book is assembled and the online registration system populated, sometime around late September, we’ll announce that pre-registration is open and invite conventioneers to sign up. You can also check out this promo before submitting crypto to your gaming site.
Traditionally, there is a theme set for Carnage each year. For those who want it, the theme gives some guidance to the role-playing or miniatures scenarios they write or the board games they select. In celebration of twenty years of Carnage, the theme for 2017 is officially “whatever.” Choose whatever theme you like for your games this year from Carnages past, from the Z-grade alien invaders of Carnage 9 from Outer Space to the simpler halcyon days of lounging by the lake at Camp Carnage. “Whatever” is entirely what you choose to make it, so get creative, and get those proposals in by July 31st!
Posted in Board Games, CCGs, Field Marshal Reports, Miniatures, Role-Playing Games | Tagged Board Games, carnage xx, ccgs, conventions, GM Submissions, GMs, miniatures, Role-Playing Games
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 Carnage Royale!
As in past years, you can download the convention book as a PDF — linked below, with the schedule grid — peruse the games listed and mail in the form on the last page to preregister for the convention. However, now you can also use our new online registration system to preregister for the convention paperlessly, and use Paypal for payment. Note that clicking the link above will redirect you to a second website, www.carnageconregistration.com, which is a Carnage-owned and operated web site, hosted separately for quality of service purposes. As with a paper registration form, online registration lets attendees indicate their first, second and third choices for games to play in a schedule slot. Those preferences are fulfilled on an as-available basis.
Carnage Royale, Vermont’s own tabletop game convention, runs from November 4-6, 2016, at the Killington Grand Resort in Killington, Vermont. For more information about booking a room for the weekend, visit our Lodging page. Walk-in registrants are always welcome, but we encourage attendees to preregister for the weekend to reserve seats in scheduled games on a first-come, first-served basis. And do check the web addendum for late arriving games that didn’t make it into the convention book.
- Carnage Royale Convention Book — 2016 [PDF, 1.7MB]
- Carnage Royale Schedule Grid [PDF, 77kB]
Posted in Board Games, CCGs, Field Marshal Reports, Miniatures, Role-Playing Games | Tagged Board Games, carnage royale, ccgs, convention book, larps, miniatures, Role-Playing Games
By Tyler on July 10, 2016
Photo by Moroboshi. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dungeons_and_Dragons_game.jpg
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 stalwarts like Dungeons & Dragons, Call of Cthulhu and Pathfinder in their traditional modes and we love hosting them, but we also love it when you, our endlessly inventive GMs, come up with just the right spin to bring the year’s theme into their adventures. Below are just some examples of spy-themed role-playing games from over the years, sometimes bringing a secret agent bent to an established world, sometimes adapting a property or creating a brand new one.
If you’re not yet sure of what you want to run this year at Carnage Royale, this list may help inspire you, or provide some direction. They are, of course, merely suggestions and fond wishes of what we’d like to see on the schedule. Ultimately, run the games you’re passionate about, because that passion helps make a good time for everyone at the table.
And a bonus inspiration source: the International Spy Museum!
Posted in Role-Playing Games | Tagged carnage royale, conventions, espionage, GM Submissions, GMs, Role-Playing Games, spies
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 game at Carnage, then please consider running one of the following games. (Other games are always welcome!)
- Mombasa
- Concordia
- Agricola
- World’s Fair
- Dead of Winter
- Imhotep
- T.I.M.E Stories
- Falling Sky: The Gallic Revolt against Caesar
- 1775: Rebellion
- Orleans
- Mare Nostrum: Empires
- Blood Rage
- Isle of Sky: From Chieftain to King
- Terra Mystica
- Caverna
- Castles of Burgundy
- Star Wars: Imperial Assault
- Eldritch Horror
- Castles of Mad King Ludwig
- Russian Railroads
- Five Tribes
- Lords of Waterdeep
- Dominant Species
- Tzolk’in: The Mayan Calendar
- Clash of Cultures
- The Gallerist
- Grand Austria Hotel
- Triumph and Tragedy
- Tokaido
- Food Chain Magnate
- Liberty or Death: The American Insurrection
- New Bedford
- Endeavor
Thanks for taking a look. Please consider signing up to run some games at Carnage Royale. Just go to the GM Submission form. Any questions on board game submissions please leave a comment and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
Posted in Board Games | Tagged Board Games, carnage royale, conventions, GM Submissions, GMs
