By Tyler on September 29, 2017
Carnage’s traditional no-ship math trade is now live on BoardGameGeek, guest-helmed by Carnage’s own board game field marshal, Rod Sheldon, while Matt Golec takes the year off to be a gadabout. A math trade is a way of swapping games you no longer want, aided by a computer program which constructs a web of trades […]
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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 20, 2017
After a number of inquiries from attendees this year, Carnage has decided to offer youth rate badges. For attendees ages 11 to 15, they can now register to play games at a reduced rate. Head over to the Carnage XX registration site to see the new badge rates. As always, all minors at Carnage are to […]
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By Tyler on September 18, 2017
If you’re wondering how to navigate the online registration system Carnage is uses, this post can give you a quick walkthrough on the basics. Get Your Badge The first thing you need to do is get your badge. This is your ticket to the convention. From the registration home page (find the link for this […]
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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 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 […]
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By Tyler on August 3, 2017
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 […]
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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 […]
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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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