Neutral Grounds other than Bars?

[almostsane]

I'm thinking of making the local Gaming store as ANG in the game i'll hopefully be running (I'm having an intro/demo this weekend running the "Neutral Ground" casefile at the above mentioned gaming store. hopefully i can get a group together from it). that's assuming the group agrees

[devonapple]

I was just thinking about this subject, and it occurred to me that part of the feasibility of MacAnally's is that (at least, as far as I know) Mac is the sole proprietor of the establishment: no staff of any sort (again, unless I forgot something). He cooks the food he serves, and pours the drinks he sells. He, and only he alone, needs to know about the supernatural and the Accords in order to run the place.

When someplace that caters to a decent number and variety of customers, it becomes necessary to employ others: wait staff, cleaning staff, possibly more than one chef. All of these folks would, by necessity, need to be Aware of the supernatural, at least in part. If it turns out to be some supernaturally-adjacent family, that's one thing, but all things being equal, suddenly you have a handful of randoms who need to know the particulars of the Accords and/or their latitude within them.

I opted to make my ANG a Chinatown tea house with a full kitchen and a staff that can occasionally support an ANG summit meeting, and now I'm seriously rethinking that decision.

[jait]

In a play-by-post game on RPOL, we've got an establishment called "Quintessence" which is locally recognized as Neutral Ground.  It houses the standard, almost cliched, nightclub on the first-floor but also has a series of meeting rooms and a mini conference-center-like facility above.  It is only locally recognized, however. They are petitioning for official recognition.  But in the mean-time, the local heavyweights are abiding by it...

[wolff96]

One of ours is a coffee shop that's actually NAMED "Neutral Grounds".  I can't resist a bad pun.

Another is a set of conference rooms on the 13th floor of a local building -- the elevator doesn't even have a button for it, but the security desk knows who does and does not get access.  (It's maintained by a minor cult of people with limited Foresight.)

[UmbraLux]

It hasn't come up yet, but I'm leaning towards making The Mall our DC game's ANG.

[Sanctaphrax]

I was just thinking about this subject, and it occurred to me that part of the feasibility of MacAnally's is that (at least, as far as I know) Mac is the sole proprietor of the establishment: no staff of any sort (again, unless I forgot something). He cooks the food he serves, and pours the drinks he sells. He, and only he alone, needs to know about the supernatural and the Accords in order to run the place.

When someplace that caters to a decent number and variety of customers, it becomes necessary to employ others: wait staff, cleaning staff, possibly more than one chef. All of these folks would, by necessity, need to be Aware of the supernatural, at least in part. If it turns out to be some supernaturally-adjacent family, that's one thing, but all things being equal, suddenly you have a handful of randoms who need to know the particulars of the Accords and/or their latitude within them.

I opted to make my ANG a Chinatown tea house with a full kitchen and a staff that can occasionally support an ANG summit meeting, and now I'm seriously rethinking that decision.

Magical constructs that can pass for humans could solve that problem.

Alternately, zombie waiters. Or mind-crushed people. Though those are kind of evil.

[devonapple]

Magical constructs that can pass for humans could solve that problem.

Alternately, zombie waiters. Or mind-crushed people. Though those are kind of evil.

Or summoned and disguised demons. Especially in a Chinese-themed ANG site like I'm using.

[Jimmy]

I run a game in Sydney, Australia. The ANG is a barber shop and occult bookstore thats actually a real place (the owner is an eccentric hippy musician who occaisonally does free music and cuts your hair). I lent it a little more size and flair and didnt even have to add much more in the way of flavour.

[AxGrinder]

I'd be interested in seeing a spa or exclusive resort. 

Or if people are feeling twisted how about a itty-bitty ice cream shop?  Who doesn't like a little soft-serve with their clever banter?

[mariesb]

We use a local gaming store as a neutral grounds.  My players have to figure out how to renew the "Contract" Winter has given the proprietor as one of the problems in a New York game.

[Thugorp]

Sorry, I didn't quite finish reading the third page of posts yet(and I know that is bad form) but I couldn't stand this any more. The correct acronym should be a.n.t. (accorded neutral territory) Ang, was the last air-bender. There is a large difference between an accorded neutral territory and the avatar of the spirit folk... please lets not offend him.

Also as a complete aside, why does it seem like no one remembers to put the dots(.) between the letters of acronyms and at the ends of abbreviations any more? Meh... never mind off topic.

[Haru]

The correct acronym should be a.n.t. (accorded neutral territory) Ang, was the last air-bender.

Actually, it is "accorded neutral grounds", not territory, so it is all good.

[Thugorp]

After some moderate wiki.ing I think I was wrong. Sorry internet!(No for real I am sorry).

Also,

    In a game I almost ran a bit ago, we were going to be playing in the small small small City(it wouldn't be that small for a town but for a city... it is TINY you still know half the people, and if you own a store you see and know ALL the people).
Any way, there is a place there called the, Backroom Bookstore(actually I ran it for a small while wile the owner was in jail). In any case the first floor is a trinket, weapons, and incense shop(the closest thing to an ocolt shop in the entire Upper Peninsula trust me). The middle half of the 1st.-and-a-half floor sold pipes, glass pipes, and just about every possible thing from which you could smoke any other possible thing, that you could imagine. The inner most 1/4 of that floor was the office/private hash-lounge, and the outer 1/4 was the living area of the owner.
The second floor proper(far above the two previous floors up an ornate stairway) is a very extensive used book store, full of only the most obscure and uninteresting books you don't want, plus every romance novel ever written.
The third floor, which used to be a pleasant ballroom and theater, is where the porn was sold(adult books, D.v.Ds., V.H.Ss., and mags., and cards(greeting and playing), costumes, toys, oils, poles(for striping), sex tables, and decorations).
Finally the fourth floor is completely filled from floor to ceiling with packing-peanuts(no I am not joking every square centimeter is filled by packing peanuts).
The addict I can only hope is empty.

    The owner of the shop is a crazy man, who literally and actually thinks he is a god of sex, he believes that he gets his power from the energy radiated from people's orgasms if/when they attain them using any product he sells in his store. He also, believes that the Selie court is foreclosing on his loans(this isn't true though the bank is). He does make a point, though, of mentioning, and posting on numerous signs, that he opens his store for people of all houses creeds faiths and practices, as well as those invisible people and entities, to come in and share experiences with each other, as long as they also buy something(the new manager has changed the name to the Backroom Sanctuary).

My group chose this as their A.N.G..

I am so glad I am back in Chicago now. :-)

[semke11]

I am planning to make the local zoo an accorded neutral ground.

it makes more sense than it seems. it is the only easy-acessiable, easy recognisable landmark in my city.

[Lanodantheon]

From what Evil Hat has said, in the upcoming Paranet Papers' write up of Las Vegas, the Entire Las Vegas Strip is Accorded Neutral Ground.