The Bay Area Masquerade

Next Friday is new Story. Status will refresh.

After next Friday, upkeep downtimes are due.

Hey folks,

We have quote a storm happening, thus listen-up and play with likely be mostly happening in the underground lot for tonight.

There *IS* a show happening tonight, so the lot will be a bit crowded.

See you there.

I am not going to be doing a poll on this topic. In this case, I am making the executive decision to put it into place because it is part of the system that we have adopted. At the very least I am going to see if it works as I expect. If it turns out to be terrible, I will look at pulling and replac...

Having 'Boons registered with the Harpy' would include boons registered with Harpies in other cities. Normally when someone gets Acknowledged in a new city, as I imagine it, the Harpies of the old City and the New city talk and trade information. (Indeed the Harpy position has access to a specific b...

I've had some questions about the fact that we are re-introducing feeding grounds and rather than answer them in PMs, I thought I would write out some of my ideas here for general consumption. I know that in the past Feeding Grounds have been a tedious bore in Primogen meetings where they are rehash...

True. I have not yet done a Boon audit to verify those things. I think I got everyone based on Clan and Path.

Friday will be the start of the next Story. Status will refresh.

Next Downtime (After Friday) all of the monthly stuff will be due. (Status Aware, Feral Net, Net, Hunted, etc etc)

Here are some responses to things in this thread. Is this intended to be a complete listing of the bans? Could a status ban be used as a punishment? I hadn't considered that. That's BRILLIANT. Probably by the Prince, Seneschal and Harpy. (And greater Camarilla offices of course.) Also, where is it s...

Hey folks, With the announcements of the Justicariate the following rules are now officially in effect in BAM: Status Bans (http://masquerade.endogaming.net/ruleswiki/index.php/Status_Bans ) and Symbels (http://masquerade.endogaming.net/ruleswiki/index.php/The_Symbel ) Both have been linked to the B...

I will also be bringing some chairs (and possibly a table) for court.

Hey folks, I would like to buy a hardcover copy of the BNS rulebook to live in the game box. That way we always have a rulebook onsite (that doesn't rely on technology.) Hardcover books are $66 after shipping. I thought I would ask folks to help pitch in. I would normally just do it, but as you will...

Congratulations to you both! You both compliment each other so very well.

Drea - that's an interesting idea. I'll consider that. I see your point about it lessening the impact of Nightmares. I sort of see the two things going hand-in-hand, but I guess that's because I don't expect we actually have any characters who gain beast traits very often at the moment, even in down...

I want to ask the community's opinion regarding gaining Beast Traits in downtime. The rules as written say that when you do terrible things you gain Beast Traits. They also say that every day you sleep, your beast traits reset to 0. Beast Traits have specific dramatic effect during uptime play - it ...

Hey folks,

Here is a quick link to the Handsigns used in BAM with the new system.

http://masquerade.endogaming.net/rulesw ... /Handsigns

Thanks to my models for posing for pictures!

Here is a guideline for how old you can make your character: Generally speaking most characters are going to be under 100 years old as a vampire. If you would like to be older than that, you will need to work with Staff and submit a background before debuting a character . With a submitted backgroun...

There is a link to the old wiki FROM the new wiki. (It's in the side bar.) You can also get to the old wiki here: http://masquerade.endogaming.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page We just removed the link to make things easier for new players and to try to keep things clean. We will be migrating more stuff ...

You could easily tie with most of my NPCs if you wanted to. Just let me know which.

I plan to attend.

Actually I was part of the Secret NPC that Glen played (Pierre Lamont). In fact I ended up playing the character when he set fire to the Rant House, as Glen had to bow out at the last minute. (And the Rant House library was never the same again!) I absolutely agree that Secret NPCs should not be use...

At this point, many of you know that I have had a player who has secretly been an NPC. The feedback we've received has been both positive and negative. I thought it would be a good thing for the community at large to discuss. The Chester character was never announced as an NPC (though I was careful ...

Hey folks, There is a good chance that it will be a bit wet out tonight. Wunderground says 40% chance of rain at 6, and down to 20% by 8. If it is not raining, or just very light, we'll do listen up at the usual place. If it IS raining, then let's plan to meet downstairs. (Underground parking garage...

In fact no NPC will ever have to pay for rarity costs. I'm not necessarily objecting, but I'm curious why this is, for local NPCs who have full stats? (Edited to add: I know that this is more of a staff philosophy thing than a system thing, but I'm kind of surprised to hear that our game emphasizes...

I have conflicted opinions on this topic, as I think is true for several of us. I started LARPING when I was 15, and it has certainly become a life long obsession for me. LARPing was instrumental in my dealing with some things while I was a kid, and I strongly think it has helped keep me sane over m...

Hey folks! We made an announcement at game long ago about this, but it was just brought to my attention that we never made a post about it. You may elect to submit downtimes for your alt character while you are playing a different character. It should be noted that these will be subject to Staff app...