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Jeannie Compter

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Jeannie Compter is a long-time GM at Carnage, as well as host of game nights and other events in her home of Dalton, Massachusetts.

TARA: What game is kind of your jam?

JEANNIE: I love playing a lot of different games, but especially pick up and deliver games. Empire Builder was my first real game experience. If I had to pick a favorite game, it would have to Merchant of Venus.

TARA: What brought you to Carnage originally?

JEANNIE: Thomas started going to Carnage in 2007 and at that time I was just along for the ride and to relax and hang out for the weekend. Eventually he convinced me to start playing some games, and since then I’ve been an avid gamer.

TARA: You’re involved in hosting a lot of activities back home. What are they and how did you get into so many different things?

JEANNIE: I have done a lot in my life and I love most of all teaching people to have fun. I started the 2 Flights Up Dance and Game Studio here in Dalton, MA. in June 2014. I teach line dancing and Thomas and I teach couples dance classes at the studio. We both love playing games. We host a game night every Thursday night from 6 to 10 pm and every third Saturday from 11am to 10 pm.

We also have Paint for Fun classes once in a while. I started painting back in 1992 with the Bob Ross technique and I fell in love with my paintings after my husband made me put them into frames. I attended a Bob Ross instructor course several years ago, but just started teaching paint classes after I opened 2 Flights Up.

TARA: What is your favorite thing about going to a gaming convention?

JEANNIE: I love teaching, and most of all I love teaching people new ways to have fun.

TARA: Why should people come and find you at Carnage this year?

JEANNIE: Anyone that has ever wanted to paint a painting, but were afraid to try should come try Paint for Fun on Saturday. This is a great opportunity to learn in a no-pressure environment and just have a fun time.

If painting’s not their thing, I’ll also be at the UnPub Mini event showing off the awesome card game that Thomas and I created a few years ago. The name of the game is Behütunsburg, and it is all about building a power base while assembling a retinue for the king and queen and building a castle before the other player(s). It plays with two or four players.

In addition to teaching painting on Saturday morning, you can find Jeannie running games all weekend long at Carnage 21 like Chicken Foot, Tokaido and Swinging Jivecat Voodoo Lounge, as well as the Unpub get-together. Additionally, you can keep up with what’s happening at 2 Flights Up on Facebook.

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GM Submissions Closing Soon for Carnage 21

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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 year’s schedule to make the best convention possible. Proposals submitted after July 31st will be considered and schedule on an as available basis in terms of space and scheduling.

Not sure what to run this year? Get in touch with your field marshal and find out where the schedule needs a little shoring up. Not sure which field marshal you need to talk to? Email info@carnagecon.com and we’ll get you in touch with the right person.

Carnage XX Blog Roundup

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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:

Thank You for 20 Years of Carnage

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Even Steam Park can be timey-wimey, with the right player at the table.

The certified comedians of Improvised Weapons make Dungeons & Dragons even funnier.

Mike and Doug snuck into the cheap seats at Fenway Park.

Robin Lea gets into her role running “Timelash Redux.”

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 Goblin Press
  • caught a ball game at Fenway Park with Green Monster Invades the Green Mountains
  • streamed Dungeons & Dragons games for laughs and good causes with Improvised Weapons, Gemhammer and Sons and Victory Condition Gaming
  • passed Sneaky Carnage cards around all weekend
  • played a ton more games

Thank you, everyone, who helped make Carnage possible this year, last year and every year prior since Carnage at the Crossroads kicked the whole thing off in 1998. A convention like Carnage exists entirely because of you, the gamer, the one who wants to spend a whole weekend meeting new friends, trying new games and enjoying the daylights out of the tabletop hobby.

From the very beginning, Carnage has been a labor of love. The committee members love playing games, learning new games, teaching the games they love to other people. But you can’t make a whole convention out of that without so many more people also believing in that same vision of sharing their love for the hobby. Without GMs to teach the games and players to play them, there would be no Carnage.

Moreover, without the friendships that spring up among conventioneers — there’s nothing quite like standing in line to pick up your badge and catching up with friends you haven’t seen since last year, or the annual Saturday night dinner out before rushing back — there’s no way Carnage could have lasted 20 years. Carnage is here because you are here. Carnage is fun because you make it fun. You make the friendships and the memories that keep you and all your friends coming back. Every year, we are humbled that you all choose Carnage to be the place to renew those friendships, make new ones and celebrate our hobby.

Thank you, each and every one of you, for helping make Carnage the best little game convention in New England for the last 20 years. We could not have done it without you.

Carnage 21 is November 2-4, 2018 in Killington, Vermont. We’ll see you on the mountain!

Local Designers Offer Demos and Playtests at Carnage XX

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This year at Carnage XX, the convention is pleased to present a selection of regional game designers showing off games both in design and ready for prime time. Some will be available for perusal in the vendor room — Northstar Room, on the ground floor of the Killington Grand — and others are on the formal schedule in the Oscar Wilde Ballroom, just down the hall from the Northstar Room.

Epic Endeavor Games (Northstar Room)

Pocket Kung Fu (Demo / For Sale)
The Original Kung Fu Fighting Microgame, 2-6 player
Turn your table top into an arena full of Kung Fu masters with Pocket Kung Fu! (Everyday) objects like books, glasses, or cellphones transform into active game elements as fighters leap, flip, and battle their way to victory. This portable game can be played anywhere, in between other games, while ordering food, or even while waiting in line.

Vigilante (Demo)
1-4 player, semi-cooperative, campaign
In Vigilante, you create a character of your own design by building a deck of abilities, weapons, allies and locations. You and your fellow players work together to defeat the Criminal’s forces and schemes before the “Grand Scheme” timer runs out. Be sure to manage the Public’s opinion so as not to fall out of favor with those you seek to protect — or game over!

The Excavators (Demo)
1-4 player
Dig into the adventure as you and your team uncover lost treasures in search of the ultimate prize. Compete with up to 3 other players as you attempt to match artifact pieces, scoring points and ultimately grab the ancient artifact of lore. This unique spin on Rummy combined with pulp adventure will get your heart racing!

2 Ton Porcupines (Northstar Room)

Kapow! (Demo)
Our first project is Kapow!, a comic hero vs. villain dice-battle showdown. Use a mix of static power dice and customizable “Action Dice” (with removable faces) to perform superhero moves and unique special powers. The Kickstarter launches in late October 2017!

 

First Stall Productions (Oscar Wilde Ballroom)

History 101: The POTUS Punch-Out (Demo)
What if all the former U.S. Presidents walked into a bar? In this unique new board flipping game you will be leading a team of former presidents and competing to see what former President will still be standing when the dust settles.

See the convention schedule for scheduled demo times and sign up for one.

Society of Ultimate Evil and Terror the Card Game – S.U.E.T (Demo)
Play an Evil Genius competing to gain entry into the Society of Ultimate Evil and Terror. To do so you must be the first to complete a doomsday device and blackmail the world.

See the convention schedule for schedule demo times and sign up for one.

Endeavfour Studios (Oscar Wilde Ballroom)

Apoc.EXE (Playtest)
You and up to 3 of your closest thrill seeking friends could try to survive the end of the world. Whether you survive or not, please remember one thing: don’t touch the zombie T-Rex –or was it don’t let it touch you?!

See the convention schedule for scheduled demo times and sign up for one.

 

 

Resonym (Oscar Wilde Ballroom)

Visitor in Blackwood Grove (Demo)
Fresh from its successful Kickstarter campaign, a mysterious Visitor has crash-landed in Blackwood Grove. Race to figure out the secret rule and save the alien in this induction game by local designers! This is a quick game, demos will continue thru out the slot.

See the convention schedule for scheduled demo times and sign up for one.

Carnage XX Opens for Registration!

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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.

    • 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]

Board Games, Board Games and More Board Games

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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!

 

 

 

 

 

Carnage XX Wants You to Run Games

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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!

Carnage Royale Opens for Registration

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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.

Cover of the Carnage Royale convention book. The grim reaper is sighted down the barrel of a gun, holding a pistol in its hand.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]

Call for Board Games at Carnage Royale

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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.