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Jul. 22nd, 2008 10:57 amThe Game: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Revised
Publisher: Eden Studios
Familiarity: See above. I’ve run it once and played it a handful of times. Once I did a cameo as a villainous NPC in the final confrontation, once I played an ordinary White Hat in a game that never got off the ground, and once I played an Israeli magician hoping to hijack the Slayer away from the Watchers in a game that crashed and burned hideously.
I like to start these off with a little description about what the game is, to me. So, what is Buffy, as a roleplaying game?
Buffy is about living in a really grim supernatural world and not realizing it, because you’re just a kid. And as the darkness of the world becomes increasingly apparent, as it rips away your innocence, you have to decide how you’re going to live. Will you try to turn your back on the fight and pretend you can forget the secrets you’ve seen in the dark underbelly of the world? Will you continue to fight, knowing that death and worse wait for you every night? Will you go out in a blaze of glory and leave the work to your less fortunate friends?
Think about it. Vampires – the lowest, as it turns out, on the demonic totem pole – are hideously strong, unfairly fast, and universally sadistic (and often quite creative about it), and there are worse things than vampires out there. The best defense the world has is a cabal of Brits, and their best weapon is a teenage girl who they sacrifice over and over again.
But as I said, you’re living in this world, but you’re a teenager. The journey into (or out of) darkness is only beginning.
( Girl Power! )
Next up: Call of Cthulhu.
Abby commented that while I’ve made Jewish characters, WASPy characters, and a Catholic character, twenty-somethings and a teenager, and even a disabled character, there are a lot of things I’m missing. She challenged me to write a gay black woman as one of my characters for this project. And an elderly character.
Well… it won’t be the next one. I want to write a 1920s Call of Cthulhu character, and that game is depressing enough without playing a black lesbian in the 1920s. Maybe my Call of Cthulhu character can be older, though. I can’t be sure. Call of Cthulhu is my Anyway, my answer to that challenge will have to wait. Maybe until Changeling…
Publisher: Eden Studios
Familiarity: See above. I’ve run it once and played it a handful of times. Once I did a cameo as a villainous NPC in the final confrontation, once I played an ordinary White Hat in a game that never got off the ground, and once I played an Israeli magician hoping to hijack the Slayer away from the Watchers in a game that crashed and burned hideously.
I like to start these off with a little description about what the game is, to me. So, what is Buffy, as a roleplaying game?
Buffy is about living in a really grim supernatural world and not realizing it, because you’re just a kid. And as the darkness of the world becomes increasingly apparent, as it rips away your innocence, you have to decide how you’re going to live. Will you try to turn your back on the fight and pretend you can forget the secrets you’ve seen in the dark underbelly of the world? Will you continue to fight, knowing that death and worse wait for you every night? Will you go out in a blaze of glory and leave the work to your less fortunate friends?
Think about it. Vampires – the lowest, as it turns out, on the demonic totem pole – are hideously strong, unfairly fast, and universally sadistic (and often quite creative about it), and there are worse things than vampires out there. The best defense the world has is a cabal of Brits, and their best weapon is a teenage girl who they sacrifice over and over again.
But as I said, you’re living in this world, but you’re a teenager. The journey into (or out of) darkness is only beginning.
( Girl Power! )
Next up: Call of Cthulhu.
Abby commented that while I’ve made Jewish characters, WASPy characters, and a Catholic character, twenty-somethings and a teenager, and even a disabled character, there are a lot of things I’m missing. She challenged me to write a gay black woman as one of my characters for this project. And an elderly character.
Well… it won’t be the next one. I want to write a 1920s Call of Cthulhu character, and that game is depressing enough without playing a black lesbian in the 1920s. Maybe my Call of Cthulhu character can be older, though. I can’t be sure. Call of Cthulhu is my Anyway, my answer to that challenge will have to wait. Maybe until Changeling…
