Hello again!
As I predicted, I cannot post very frequently for the moment; maybe this will change when there will be more interesting things in my work (yes, there is a slow-start).
This post is to introduce Baccanasta, what it is and how it was born.
First of all: what is Baccanasta? Well, it is just this portal; as usual, we have to thank moksone for the name (you need a name for something? Ask him!), but we are still wondering about what the word means, probably nothing.

To understand what Baccanasta is, it is better to start from who we are (with “we”, I mean the founders of Baccanasta). We are a group of friends, and we have been friends for a long time (I hope we will continue to be friends for ten times such a time). Of course in the beginning (10 years ago) only some of us knew someone else of the actual group; the first gathering managed to come up when some people decided to play Dungeons & Dragons; this game is probably a founding stone of Baccanasta (as you probably noticed looking at the website). I wasn’t in that first group, but moksone was there (he is always there!), and our Dungeon Master too.

In 2002 some people decided that playing was not interesting any more, and the group changed to include other people. In that very moment, Zenion and me started playing D&D, together with moksone and other friends. After 5 years of game, the company had evolved to a very big party; however, for some internal problems, a split occured. Some of us decided to continue playing D&D, to maintain a tight contact, and of course to play (we like it very much!).

In the same time, Moksone, Zenion, and me, decided to build up a website to keep in touch with all our friends, and possibly to have some fun. In the beginning the website was just a forum hosted for free; then we bought our hosting space and built up the website. The first version of the website was built upon a CMS and a forum; we managed to make everything work, but the idea of a portal was not so good, and too much complex for what we intended. Therefore, we deleted the CMS part, and left the forum, with some addons.

After the start of the forum, we began to think to side projects; all these additional project are under construction, and can be accessed by our forum. We think that they are very interesting, and we hope that they will bring lots of people to participate to the forum. And here we are! Baccanasta is this forum, but it remained a portal; the portal to all our projects.

Believe me, it will be interesting to follow them up.