The Bay Area Masquerade

Four years and nine months is longer than some bands I have heard of and liked worked together (though I can't name any examples at present). It is longer than a few presidencies and many other relationships last. A body could get a degree from a university in that time--or things used to be that wa...

@ Tommy re: Balance http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/perfect-imbalance @ Adam Yeah. I see here: How will we as a community react to rules change? "I don't like MET", "I don't like By Night", "I love BAM 1.whatever-it-is", "I don't like changing" etc. Up-front: "I don't like change" is valid and ...

So if you're honestly that blasé about alienating part of the community when it's already ailing, have at it. Just don't complain when the game falls apart. Yes, I am. No, I won't, because I am doing my best to give my best to the conversation of changing the rules, and basically shouting, "If you ...

[edit to add] TL; DR: "If you do not like the By Night solution, get us as a game group organized to find a better solution," said Dorian. I have to take a moment here against this sentiment. I understand that there's problems, but to to me, it sounds like you're saying "If I am hesitant on switchi...

I am entirely ready to stop using BAM rules. The core mechanics By Night has published so far work--they have a whole system that serves Everyone well, and the rest of the "Some People Powers" are reportedly coming. Neat. Ours don't, our group efforts to fix them broadly as I have seen them are usua...

Subject: Quotes - OOC but still BAM Ari, while discussing blood, feeding, and vampiric "food shame": "It's like sexy hypnotic date-rape cake that will kill someone if you eat too much." I believe this is an appropriate place for me to say "+1" to this simile. Staffs, you're welcome to relocate this...

My thoughts on regenerating will: While I believe we get 1 dot of will back a week, I'm not fully sure on the method for pulling dominoes to get up to 6 additional will back from it. Will is incredibly useful, from delaying frenzy tests, giving you retests, suppressing derangements for a scene, to ...

Influences. How they work. How to use them. How to raise them. How to loose them. How important they are in terms of game play and doing things. This is an area I suck at. I admit to it. I haven't a clue as to how to use or raise them or gain a level of one that I don't already have. Staffs view on...

Feeding, the 1-a-Week Willpower Refresh and Herd, please! Thoughts in general, the current mechanics, what's going on that we get Willpower from Feeding Tiles but not Herd, how much needs to be described or role-played versus being hand-waved or implicitly successful, or anything else please. Done! ...

I believe Gerard aalso was trying to get his range as a rant house. Thus my confusion and bringing up the question of "Is it a gun range or not?" This, this sounds accurate. Greg, if/when you should see this, please feel free to chime in with what was up. Memnosyne, she no give me the really good s...

No, the gun range was established by Trevor Goodchilde and kinda got left to the three-to-four Brujah who were around when Dana stopped coming to game.

All of whom were basically dirt-poor at the time.

A few changes have been made to the rant house. The visible ones are: The floors have been covered with ikea laminate flooring; the walls are freshly painted. Close examination will show a grid-like texture under the paint. The ceilings have been "artistically" altered: a spider-web pattern of silv...

The current Rant House was established by Sir Henri du Roche, iirc. I do not know what it looks like, though it certainly can fulfill the functionality of most of the things described above (high-speed internet, the Pit, etc.). I don't believe that there is an actual Red Box--mostly because it would...

I will be there, per my PM.

w00t for sleep!

I will also be needing a ride home and live in basically the same neighborhood.

So no Mickey again yet?

It works fine now, and I've not had any trouble with it since.

I feel kinda bad that I actually sang "Happy Birthday Tim" on accident.

Happy Birthday Scotty.

Happy birthday

It appears that the wiki specifically will not work for people who are using Opera. Or just me. More on that when I have another browser which decides to run on my computer.

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Check that the address is spelled correctly, or try searching for the site.

Happy Birthday!

Please accept an IOU for one of these.

malcolm wrote:You have a message in the database numbered 3845, according to the database. It looks like the actual message contents are missing (maybe a deleted PM?) Regardless, I've marked it read and cleared it out of the DB - is it showing correctly now?

It shows correctly now. Thanks for the fix.

Due to a request from another player (that I think makes total sense), you may now notice that your UCP now displays "unread" messages instead of "new" messages. This, IMHO, is awesome. I have one unread message. It is invisible--I've gone through twenty five pages of messages and not found said la...

Thank you, Sean. It's been a fun year.

And thank you again for understanding how we are and that something will inevitably be burning when you get back.