Members,

In preparation for the upcoming Masquerade venue, I am very happy to
announce that our friends at CCP and DriveThru RPG have set up a
fantastic offer for Camarilla members.

There are three packages that we can take advantage of:

Link: Players Bundle

Link: Clanbook Bundle

Link: ST Bundle

Now, I am sure you will agree that the discount on these are, frankly,
absurdly low.

What is even more awesome is that by using the coupon code
CAMARILLAMASQUERADE you will get an additional 10% off the above
prices.

The bundles will persist, but the coupon code will only last until
March 1st, 2010.

Please join me in thanking our partners at CCP and Drive Thru RPG for
offering this deal.

–
David Bounds
WW2002021593
AMST Masquerade

2010 is the Year of the ST. Join us

http://wiki.white-wolf.com/camwiki/index.php?title=ST_Manifest

So the MST announced the new AMST Masquerade.

His words have outraged many members that don’t feel communication is a primary goal.

He wants you to check the wiki and ask the local folks first. First off unlike my readers who’s to say you have internet access? I don’t recall the hand book requiring it. But then if you don’t have internet access you can’t really email him any way right? Funny that.

If a question is posted to an open list or sent directly to any member of the AMST Masquerade office that could be very easily answered by any of these resources then it will not be answered by any
member of the office.

Alright if it takes you a couple minutes to answer it why not answer it?

This is not because we have any less desire to
help, but our time is much better used providing quality tools and
resources for all members.

But it sounds like you don’t want to help..

If I have heard one thing loud and clear, it is that members are
excited for Masquerade, not Gehenna, nor the Year of Fire. For this
reason, we will not be setting the venues in a post-Gehenna setting.
There is so much revision that would need to be done to the rules and
settings that would warp the genre away from what the members want.

This I find excellent news! Pre Gehenna is a good thing that and honestly I hated the year of fire, the plots where horrible and the ending lacked climax.

There will be cities utterly decimated and controlled
by the Sword of Caine, and vast bastions of the Camarilla.

So keeping the venues of cam-anarch and sabat separate are out the window? for years we heard that they aren’t fit to be together in the world venue and must be separated.. but now that’s changed? what about those who want to play both? do they need to VSS? or one VSS but different games or we just going to through them all together and expect them to play nice?

Lastly I also have issues with

If you have a suggestion, proposal, or similar email to the AMST
Masquerade, please understand that your wishes are one of a great many
that are going to be submitted. By submitting your proposal, you agree
to the following submission guidelines: http://wiki.white-wolf.com/camwiki/index.php?title=Submission_Guidelines

If we accept your proposal, we will work with you into incorporating your idea into the setting. If your proposal is not accepted, do not be discouraged. We appreciate your suggestions, but there’s only so much time and energy available for developing the genre. Keep sending us your ideas; hopefully you’ll send us one that sticks. Good luck!

This just screams to me, go ahead and send it to us. We might just ignore you thou, where not going to respond with received or anything to let you know we even looked at it. I know there very busy and have there own lives but they should at least make the submission down to one paragraph and look at every one of them. Bad submissions they could post to the wiki or a simple email saying thank you but it doesn’t fit at this time.

Alright my rant’s done, feel free to comment!

Members,

I would like to say hello to everyone and introduce myself. My name is
David, and I have been an ST in one form or another for a few years
now in the Camarilla. As you might have seen, I have taken the
responsibility of conducting a grand resurrection – the recreation of
the Masquerade venue in the Camarilla.

I wanted to take a moment not only to introduce myself, but to share a
small glimpse of what I have planned to share with you all, and to
establish a few policies that will make sure I can fulfill my vision -
to provide the very best experience for the Camarilla Masquerade
players.

In order to fulfill that vision, I need to set a few guidelines that
will help me met my goals and help you be part of the process of
making the greatest game possible. The time of myself and my staff is
best used creating setting, providing guidance, and assisting your ST
staff. What we cannot do is get mired in the minutia, various proxies,
and arguments about individual rules.

To that end, I have the following policies:

1. I can not and will not endlessly explain/defend every decision I
make. This is not to say that the members do not deserve the “why’s”
behind a decision, nor will they be denied that information, but I
cannot spend all day debating the minutia of my office with all the
members.

2. If you have a suggestion, proposal, or similar email to the AMST
Masquerade, please understand that your wishes are one of a great many
that are going to be submitted. By submitting your proposal, you agree
to the following submission guidelines:

http://wiki.white-wolf.com/camwiki/index.php?title=Submission_Guidelines

3. It is expected that members check the Camarilla wiki and ask their
local resources (ST, Coordinator, other members) before asking a
question. If a question is posted to an open list or sent directly to
any member of the AMST Masquerade office that could be very easily
answered by any of these resources then it will not be answered by any
member of the office. This is not because we have any less desire to
help, but our time is much better used providing quality tools and
resources for all members.

I have seen quite a lot of excitement about the Masquerade venues
returning, and I want to share a little bit about what you can expect
to keep that excitement high.

If I have heard one thing loud and clear, it is that members are
excited for Masquerade, not Gehenna, nor the Year of Fire. For this
reason, we will not be setting the venues in a post-Gehenna setting.
There is so much revision that would need to be done to the rules and
settings that would warp the genre away from what the members want.

That informs the question – what about Gehenna? Well, the looming
sense of Gehenna is one of the important aspects about the setting
that eliminating or even fully realizing changes things drastically
about the venues. There will definitely be elements of Gehenna, such
as Goratrix’s ritual, the Madness network backlash, and the Maelstrom
present, but, as noted before, there will be no massively meta setting
such as the Year of Fire.

The next big question – who is winning? Well, many of these details
will be decided by you through Project: Manifold, but the main idea is
that no one is. There will be cities utterly decimated and controlled
by the Sword of Caine, and vast bastions of the Camarilla. This
back-and-forth is another setting element that is necessary to
establish (at least initially!) the theme and mood of the setting. You
simply cannot match the brutal fury of a Sabbat pack, but it is just
as impossible to stand up to the crushing might of the Ivory Tower.

Project Manifold is a whole new initiative I am going to be using – a
true opportunity for your character to shape the very foundation of
the setting. The basic idea is that players take the time to briefly
(think no more than a single spaced page) detail the setting they
would like to see and what the story they would like to tell with
their character. The VST then takes these, finds commonalities, and
sends the grouping along with their notations to the DST. The DST then
does the same for all venues within the domain and sends it to the
RST. This continues onward all the way to the Global level, where the
groupings will have become less individual and more broad strokes of
setting and common elements. My office then incorporates these
elements into the setting and works to provide the story hooks needed
to fulfill these broad story aspects. This is done again on the
national level, focusing more on the setting and theme for that
nation. Then again all the way back down to the local level where the
local game is built within the framework given by the Global,
National, Region, and Domain storytellers. More details and deadlines
are coming soon – but I was very excited to share this new initiative
with you.

This represents just a fraction of the pure, concentrated
marvelous-ness we have in store with you Work has already started on
many of the elements that, once combined, will provide the very best
in experience for the membership.

Thank you for your time.

–
David Bounds
WW2002021593
AMST Masquerade
amst.vampire.owod [at] gmail [dot] com

2010 is the Year of the ST. Join us

http://wiki.white-wolf.com/camwiki/index.php?title=ST_Manifesto

– Michelle Webb
MST
WW2002021096