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<blockquote data-quote="Vigilance" data-source="post: 2465072" data-attributes="member: 4275">You dont *have* to watch Buffy (though I think its delightful).My point was in the first episode of Buffy we are told &quot;this town is built on a gate to Hell, therefore an endless stream of supernatural baddies will be drawn here, who knew?&quot;Im simplifying, but my point was, if that explanation worked for millions of TV viewers to explain away a supernatural fight every week, I think it would work for a group of gamers. As long as, like the Buffy series, no one tried to take things too seriously.There's all sorts of other explanations you could mix in like:1. Nazi occultists are seeking powerful artifacts to aid the war effort. They are summoning all sorts of baddies to help them locate forbidden knowledge, stop them.2. Many evils are intombed in ancient crypts beneath the middle east. The current widespread violence is disturbing many of these mystical cages, now fragile with age. Hunt down and destroy those that escape or return them to their prisons. (I know this works cause I actually ran this one).3. You're high school students whose seemingly normal town is built over a gate to Hell. Deal.4. You live in the End Times. Every mystical baddie and their brother is going to crawl out from the wood works as the world hurtles toward its inevitable demise.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Vigilance, post: 2465072, member: 4275"] You dont *have* to watch Buffy (though I think its delightful). My point was in the first episode of Buffy we are told "this town is built on a gate to Hell, therefore an endless stream of supernatural baddies will be drawn here, who knew?" Im simplifying, but my point was, if that explanation worked for millions of TV viewers to explain away a supernatural fight every week, I think it would work for a group of gamers. As long as, like the Buffy series, no one tried to take things too seriously. There's all sorts of other explanations you could mix in like: 1. Nazi occultists are seeking powerful artifacts to aid the war effort. They are summoning all sorts of baddies to help them locate forbidden knowledge, stop them. 2. Many evils are intombed in ancient crypts beneath the middle east. The current widespread violence is disturbing many of these mystical cages, now fragile with age. Hunt down and destroy those that escape or return them to their prisons. (I know this works cause I actually ran this one). 3. You're high school students whose seemingly normal town is built over a gate to Hell. Deal. 4. You live in the End Times. Every mystical baddie and their brother is going to crawl out from the wood works as the world hurtles toward its inevitable demise. [/QUOTE]

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