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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By Tyler on June 6, 2016
Care for a game, Secret Agent 802? Carnage Royale is looking for people to volunteer to share and teach their favorite games at this year’s convention, November 4th through 6th, 2016 in Killington, Vermont. A tabletop game convention like Carnage wouldn’t exist without passionate people who step up to volunteer to run games for players, […]
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By Tyler on October 12, 2015
As previously foreshadowed, Matt Golec is coordinating the now-annual Carnage math trade, wherein people offer games up for trade, compose want lists of what others are offering for trade, and then a computer program sorts it all out to optimize the trading. It’s pretty cool, and a fun way to turn over your game library. […]
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By Tyler on October 9, 2015
Note: This post links to the 2015 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. Carnage of the Lost World’s convention book is now available for you to download as a PDF, as well […]
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By Tyler on September 28, 2015
One of Carnage’s newest traditions is the no-ship math trade, an opportunity for gamers to swap away unwanted games for something new and fresh. What, specifically, is a math trade? This Boardgamegeek geeklist explains it nicely: “In Math trades people offer the games they want to trade and then say the games they want to […]
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By Tyler on July 20, 2015
We’re nearing the end of the game submission period for Carnage of the Lost World. The last day to get the games you want to run submitted in time to be included in the Carnage convention book is July 31st, 2015. GMs, if you’re still thinking about whether or not to run games at the […]
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By Tyler on December 29, 2014
In episode 59 of Carnagecast, it’s that slow time between Christmas and New Year’s when we are all sluggish with egg nog. Ray and Tyler discuss two of the most common modes of role-playing games: the long form campaign and the short form one-shot. Each mode has its relative strengths and weaknesses, so we discuss […]
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By Tyler on November 7, 2014
Read about Carnage-goers experiences at A Fistful of Carnage this year. Robin Lea, Peryton Publishing, Willfully and Persistently, “A Fistful of Carnage” Stephen Seitz, Mountain Times, “Carnage comes to Killington”
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By Tyler on October 27, 2014
Ray flies solo this episode as he talks with Andrew Valkauskas, the designer behind Fate of the Norns: Ragnarok, about his new card game Gulveig, the future of the Fate of the Norns line, crowdfunding and more. Gulveig is a quick, casual card game, featuring dynamic trick-taking and bluffing, with Viking clans gaining and losing […]
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