[M&M] Buffyverse game? (OOC) [Recruiting CLOSED]

[Rhun]

Eh. I liked Xander as a TV show character, but as an RPG character, he's more than a bit underpowered.

Yeah, but look at how often he got to use that Profession (Carpenter) skill in the later years!

 

[Shayuri]

I meant it as a joke.

 

[drothgery]

I could be interested. I'm not quite a fan nor very knowledgeable about Buffy. Last episode I've seen was years ago, but I like that kind of world. Lately, I've been reading the Dresden Files, and it have put me in a mood for such a world. I would be interested, and I might play someone who just discover the world of vampires and demons to represent my lack of knowledge about the Buffyverse. Except of new born slayer, what else could fit that?

Fred (Winifred Burkle from Angel) was banished to another dimension by an evil professor, and hooked up with Angel after being rescued.

Xander overheard Buffy and Giles talking Slayer stuff in the first episode of Buffy. I'm not quite sure how Willow or Cordellia flipped over into the 'clued-in' side, but they weren't they high-powered individuals they'd become later.

Kate Locksley (Kate the cop from Angel) kept running into Angel on 'weird' cases and eventually put two and two together.

Nina and Oz were bitten by werewolves, but did't know anything prior (well, Oz may have known a little by virtue of being in Sunnydale).

Very big buffy/angel fan here.
I presume you'll be ignoring anything that's happened in the whedon comics that took place after the series? They do flesh out a lot more stuff that's happened since the shows, and anybody who hasn't read them would be at a loss for what's currently happening.
Probably be the best idea to just start clean-slate timeline at the end of the angel series.

Yeah. I haven't read them, so it'd be too easy to break continuity with them. Heck, I'm almost certainly going to.

I agree that extra souled-vamps is a bad Idea, but I think having vampire/demon/whatever PC's would make the game more interesting. Maybe some of the PC's come from a background that's more commonly thought of as 'evil' but are working with the 'good guys' for their own reasons? ('The enemy of my enemy', 'lesser of two evils', etc).

Maybe, but I think I want vamps to be pretty much 'if it's not Angel or Spike, it's okay to stake them on sight, and probably a good idea'. Every game needs its stock disposable villians, and vampires are it in the Buffyverse.

As far as system goes, I don't have access to the buffy/angel RPG's, but either D20 Modern or M&M would work fairly well, and be accessible to most people. If you're wanting 'special' characters (Psychics, demons, super-humans), then M&M would probably be more appropriate. If you're going for more of a "Normal people VS the supernatural" approach, then I'd suggest d20 modern.

I was thinking M&M more because it seemed like it might be possible to have 'normal' characters that are roughly balanced with supernatural types.

In anycase, I'd very much enjoy being a part of such a game, maybe as the resident mage/mystical expert.

Cool.

 

[Shayuri]

If I do the half-demon thing, I'd probably be a headbasher. A "slayer" in all but name.

 

[jkason]

Any inkling about what kind of group we might be? I know you mentioned Angel as a template, would this be an investigative group? A less official club of supernatural fans and / or victims? Something else entirely?

 

[Rhun]

What about the whole super soldier thing? I kinda like the idea of playing one of those guys. Of course, if you do M&M I will have to pick up the rules, and that may change my opinion on that.

 

[drothgery]

Any inkling about what kind of group we might be? I know you mentioned Angel as a template, would this be an investigative group? A less official club of supernatural fans and / or victims? Something else entirely?

I'm not sure whether it'd be best to try and come up with an idea, and then let people pick charcter concepts to go in that kind of group, or to see what kind of characters people want to run, and then build a group they all fit in to. Though I guess the big factor is whether the characters have 'normal' lives, or whether they've pulled off some whay to fight evil full-time (it might well be a mix, too; a PC might be employed by the Watcher's Council or the military but have to maintain a cover).

The big things about Angel vs. Buffy as a template, in my book, were
- On Angel, Angel wasn't always in charge, and Wes, Cordellia, and Gunn were quite willing to question his authority; the major characters were a lot more equal than on Buffy, where Giles quickly ceded final authority to Buffy, and she held on to it almost the entire series, even when Willow became a power in her own right
- generally speaking, the series was a lot more episodic; it tended to smaller, largely independent episodes with some small tying arcs rather than an overarching 'big bad' (other than season 4)

 

[drothgery]

What about the whole super soldier thing? I kinda like the idea of playing one of those guys.

Doable, though the big question with playing one of them is why he's on his own. If he's no longer in the military (and it certainly was pretty strongly implied that Riley's group was offically Army -- though there might be something similar in other branches of the service, and maybe even a group in the FBI and/or some intelligence service), why not?

I suppose one idea for the game might be a sort of X-files on steroids.

 

[Jemal]

I prefered the general tone and feel of Angel; darker, more adult. The Buffy series was stuck in high school until the very end (Hell, they even went back to their roots and had the 'final battle' in the school).
Angel also has, as you pointed out, the benefit of being more even as to how the characters(PC's) interacted and who was in charge, which leads better to a campaign IMO.

 

[Rhun]

Doable, though the big question with playing one of them is why he's on his own. If he's no longer in the military (and it certainly was pretty strongly implied that Riley's group was offically Army -- though there might be something similar in other branches of the service, and maybe even a group in the FBI and/or some intelligence service), why not?

I suppose one idea for the game might be a sort of X-files on steroids.

Agree that they were probably Army, though the Initiative soldiers were certainly "Black Ops." So perhaps the PC could be undercover, as you had earlier stated. Or maybe even assigned to keep watch on a certain "hot spot." As the episode with Riley and his wife showed, apparently they soldiers are sometimes sent on missions of their own. I'm sure we could come up with something to make it work.