Anyone run a game in the Buffy: The Vampire Slayer setting? I was thinking about using the Dresden Files RPG for it.
>>44397471
WoD or bust.Maid RPG is fine too.
>>44397506
I just figured that the, vanilla mortal, wizard, Knight mantle, unblooded vampire, and Sword of the Cross classes worked really well.
Xander= mortal
Buffy= Knight of the wyldfae Court
Willow= wizard
Angel= (mechanically) unblooded vampire
>>44397471
There is a Buffy and Angel RPG. Angel has more solid rules. They emulate the show well
Monster of the Week is a nice game if you're into the Apocalypse World system.
My WoD group changed for that game because in the second session our game was basically Buffy and we needed a more flexible system to enjoy our silliness
Dresden Files would probably work, though it gives more mechanical weight to magical crap than the premise demands, which usually leads to it dominating the game.
I wouldn't use WoD, because it doesn't have any built-in system for compensating players who choose weak mortal characters, who are integral to Buffy and Angel. It would suck to play a regular mortal alongside vampires and mages in WoD.
Honestly I'd just track down a pdf of the Buffy ruleset, it's supposed to be quite good at what it does. Failing that I'd say Fate Core would cover most of your needs, but go Dresden Files if you need more options and a bigger conversion job.
>>44397471
Feng Shui 2 would work.
>>44397471
Buffy: The Vampire Slayer RPG would work.
Look up Must Be Tuesday.
You won't regret it.
>>44397471
I had a Dark Heresy game which put my players in an alliance with a Radical Inqusitor whose team was composed of teenagers based out of the local schola. One of them was a melee specialist empowered by some kind of daemonic pact, and another was a psychically gifted warp dabbler / savant. It took them three sessions to figure out I had teamed them up with Buffy and the crew.
>>44398077
>Monster of the Week is a nice game if you're into the Apocalypse World system.
Second this, MotW does a great Buffy. Monsterhearts will do the more romance-flavored Buffy as well, if you're into that.
>>44398077
That just made me think of the X-files. Would it work for that too?
>>44397471
If you have experience with Dresden, stick with Dresden. There are a few better systems for it, but if you know it well enough you're experience with the system will be more useful than a system that was closer to the mark but you had less exposure to.
I played a DF game and it ended up turning into a pretty decent homage to Buffy accidentally.
>>44401002
Yeah, I think so. Fill out sheets for two Professionals, or a Professional and a Mundane, and you're good to go.
>>44397471
Cinematic Unisystem is great. The mechanics are made just for this supers/scoobies kind of story game. Use the rules in Angel because they fixed some things, but go back to Buffy for magic.
Fate could work wonders as well, depending on your players. The mechanics are entirely meta and everything is spun off of characteristics on the sheets. It solves the same supers/scoobies issue in a different way, a power punch is the same as a good talking to, mechanically. And you need to stack advantages before any relevant strike, so everyone's actions pool together in combat.
Dresden Files is built on Fate, but it's really its own world and canon, I'd stay away from it for this. If it worked perfectly I'd consider refluffing it, but as Fate games go, it's a bit on the awkward side.
InSpectres could work as well. It's more on the beer & pretzels side and made with Ghostbusters in mind, but it'll work great. On a crit the player takes over narration for a bit. So you have to stay flexible.
If you want to parody it instead of making it good then try Monsterhearts. It's pbA. Throws out all the style and cultural relevance for rapeseduction against sexual preference and edgelordism.
If you just want simple and fast rules to resolve combat, skills, health, and sanity in a gamist mechanic without any clutter then download Nemesis. It's generic, but mechanically very smooth.
>Bad Taste, the thread
Both are okay if you sort of float above them, touching only upon the vaguest components and themes, but the second you start looking at their details and how they compile together, you realize that it's just a progression of bad ideas stacked on top of a joke premise that lasts for longer than it should.
I worked on set with Nicholas Brendon once and he's a massive weirdo. I ended up really feeling bad for him.
>>44403149
>It's really important that I notify you all that I, an anonymous stranger, don't like that show you like!
>In fact I think it's shiiiiiiiiiiiit!
>pay attention to my opinions, they're very important!
>>44403212
Didn't he get into some serious substance abuse after the show?
>>44397471
Many systems would work
WoD, as some have suggested
Dresden Files, as you have suggested
My personal favorite is the "monster of the week" hack for Apocalypse World, which seems to have been specifically designed for it
Don't touch the actual Unisystem Buffy game, it's shyte.
>>44403306
>>44398077
>>44400755
Here's the playbooks.
>>44403306
WoD is the opposite of Buffy.
DF is poorly suited
I think your opinions get worse but I stopped reading.
>>44397471
Or use the fucking Buffy Rpg! Seriously newfag Google before posting.
>>44403302
Yeah there've been a number of incidents with him going nuts and trashing hotel rooms or run-ins with the police.
I don't think he was using while we were working on the project but he always had this sort of hollow look in his eyes that made his friendliness really creepy. Seemed very unhappy but unwilling to admit it to himself.
>>44403351
Must be hard to have playing a teenage underdog in your late twenties be your defining achievement in life. Can't always be Zeppo.
>>44403327
>Or use the fucking Buffy Rpg! Seriously newfag Google before posting.
Don't listen to this fucker, he does not know what he's talking about. Unisystem is utter crap. It's practically a point-buy d20 OGL clone.
Just because some hack-developers bought the rights to a franchise that was no longer making episodes doesn't mean the hog-swill they put out is appropriate for the feels of the franchise, or even fit to be played by anyone ever.
It's utter crap.
>>44403469
Nice tantrum there, kiddo.
Also Cinematic Unisystem is nothing like Unisystem, which is in turn none of the things you yell about. Try playing a game before flaming it some time, makes you look less silly.
>>44403504
Adding plot-points didn't significantly change d20 in the Eberron book, and it didn't significantly change unisystem.
>>44403317
Chronicles of Darkness (new new WoD) doesn't have to be the opposite of Buffy. Give Slayers something like Vigor and Resilience from V:tR 2E and say they don't take called shot penalties for targeting monster weaknesses.
Extended action research rules, most spells are either something the mortal psychic merits can handle or some kind of plot-device-level "and this specific thing occurs" deal, Integrity honestly does pretty okay at modeling how Buffy & Co don't exactly have the happiest most normal lives.
That said...
>>44403469
Whatever Unisystem might be normally, the Buffy and Angel RPGs are pretty much on point. There are a couple places they need adjustment - there's a thing with spell damage scaling way too fast, which is a very easy fix, and vampires could use a little boost for going game-face - but it captures the tone and generally functions in all the ways you'll want it to to emulate the show.
