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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By Tyler on August 5, 2017
Update: registration is now live on the Carnage XX Tabletop.Events site.
2016 was the first time that Carnage offered online preregistration. We got a lot of thanks for offering a paperless, electronic preregistration option for our attendees. We also got a lot of thoughtful feedback about the process from those attendees, much of which lined up with our own plans to make preregistration even better in 2017.
To that end, Carnage is partnering with a third party service to provide online preregistration and registration management during Carnage XX this year. Through a single web site designed to meet the needs of a tabletop game event, you will be able to:
- See what games have been scheduled for Carnage XX and how many seats are available, and see latecomer games as they added to the system.
- Preregister for the convention online and reserve seats in games in real time. That means the seats you see are the seats that are available that moment. You can also add yourself to wait lists if seats free up, and to help show which games are really popular.
- Order items like the souvenir T-shirt in advance.
- Manage your reservations through the web interface during preregistration and the convention itself. Yes, you will be able to review and adjust your game choices during the preregistration period and during the convention itself. Sign up for your Sunday morning game from the comfort of your hotel room!
- Attendees registering the day of the convention can do so while standing in line to get their badge and packet.
- For those preferring hard copies, Carnage will still accept preregistration forms sent by snail mail, but they will be processed slower than those sent through the online system.
Carnage staff are working now to fill the schedule with games and get everything set up for the big opening of preregistration. We aim to open preregistration in mid to late September, as per usual. Keep an eye on the Carnage news feed for a further update laying out the timeline between now and the convention, as well as the announcement of when preregistration for Carnage XX opens. You can also follow us on Facebook and Twitter for news announcements.
We’ll see you on the mountain!
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By Tyler on August 3, 2017
Welcome to Killington, Vermont. Photo by jimmywayne.
Carnage has been alerted that rooms in the main Killington Grand building are nearly all booked up for the weekend of Carnage XX. The Killington resort still has many more properties available on the mountain. When talking to the booking agent for availability during Carnage weekend, be sure to ask them about condominium options. These units are a short walk down the road from the Grand building and offer private bedrooms and kitchens. Zerorez is available around the corner to help you with cleaning. Make a condo your home away from home for Carnage, and live it up in style!
And remember: when booking a room for Carnage, make sure to tell the booking agent you’re with the Carnage gaming convention and want to get the convention rate for your lodgings. See you on the mountain in November!
Posted in News | Tagged carnage xx, hotels, killington, killington grand resort, news
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!
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 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:
If you’d like to share your own write-up about Carnage Royale, post the link in our Facebook community group!
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By Tyler on November 27, 2016
One of the game rooms at Carnage Royale, Friday afternoon.
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 the scenes, and those who step up to teach their favorite games. Without games for people to play, Carnage would be no game convention at all. Thanks goes out to all the GMs who volunteered their time and energy to provide Carnage-goers with fun games to play all weekend long. We literally could not host a game convention without you all.
This year, we had some fun new groups and activities going on, in addition to the usual slew of board games, miniatures matches and role-playing scenarios.
Extra Life
Sean Murphy runs a role-playing session as part of Extra Life charity fundraising.
Carnage hosted games that raised money for Extra Life, a charity that supports Children’s Miracle Network hospitals. In addition to players joining Team Extra Carnage and collecting donation pledges from friends and family, a core of GMs ran specially-themed games all weekend to raise additional funds, like Dr. Nik’s Casino Royale LARP and David Clarkson’s Carnival of the Damned, where players could make donations to influence the game, have the GM throw them a bone and more. All told, the Extra Life efforts at Carnage Royale raised over $3,000 for Children’s Miracle Network hospitals. Thank you to everyone who contributed and organized, particularly the people who originally came to the Carnage board and said, “We’ve got this crazy idea . . . “: Sean Murphy and Edwin Nagy.
Cube of Death Pub Trivia
Trivia-fiends gather for Cube of Death at Killington.
Cube of Death, pub trivia style, returned to Carnage for its fifth year, with a special guest emcee, Chris Griffin. Four teams converged on Preston’s in the Grand Hotel to compete to be the last standing by virtue of their command of nerdly trivia. In the end, it was Chicken Pot Pie that emerged victorious. Thanks to TSR for sponsoring Cube of Death, as they have from the beginning.
Thank You!
And again, thank you to everyone who joined us on the mountain this year for Carnage Royale. We put this convention for tabletop game-players to have a place to make friends, rekindle old friendships and, of course, play a whole bunch of games. We hope you’ll join us again, or for the first time, in November 2017, back at the Killington Grand. More news will be forthcoming in the new year, so keep an eye on our web site, like the Carnage Facebook page and follow @Carnagecon on Twitter.
Posted in News | Tagged carnage royale, conventions, news
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 Base Lodge.
That’s how reporter Gordon Dritschilo’s article about Carnage Royale began on the front page of the Sunday edition of the Rutland Herald last week, on the final day of the convention. You can now read the article in full over on the Rutland Reader‘s website. Thanks to Gordon and photographer Robert Layman for coming out to visit the convention. Articles like these are a great way for gamers to tell their stories to the local community, and catch the eyes of people interested in the tabletop hobby who haven’t yet figured out how to make contact with fellow players.
Posted in News | Tagged carnage royale, media, news, newspapers, rutland herald, rutland reader
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.
If you’ve never participated in a math trade before, the premise is that participants list the games they want to trade away on the geeklist Matt has created, linked above. Then everyone who’s listed games to trade makes a want list of what games they would accept in return for those they’re offering up. Once the want list period closes, Matt uses the On-Line Want List Generator to automatically calculate a maximal number of trades based on who’s willing to take what for what. During the convention weekend in Killington, trade participants find each other and make the hand-offs, which is what makes it a “no-ship” math trade.
Sound interesting? Matt’s got some great notes in his geeklist to help newcomers get into the mix. Go check it out!
Posted in News | Tagged Board Games, card games, carnage royale, conventions, math trade, miniatures, Role-Playing Games