Buffy 11 Feb 03

[John Crichton]

Someone I'm sure will elaborate more, but I believe Andrew is the summoner's brother that you mentioned (the guy who let the devil dogs loose on the prom). The show mentioned that he is often confused with his brother.

 

[Hand of Evil]

BTW - I have to ask a question about Andrew. When the "Nerdy Three" got together, I remembered Johnathon and Warren, but I had no idea who Andrew was. I remember when someone asked him what he did he said something about summoning winged monkeys or something at the high school. I thought it might be the one about the three hellhounds at the prom, but the guy controlling them wasn't Andrew (unless they just got a new actor)

Since then I have watched Buffy seasons 1-3 on DVD and still don't remember seeing Andrew anywhere. Can someone tell me what episode he was in?

IceBear

He is not in them... That is why everyone says who are you and has he has to explain.

 

[Hand of Evil]

I enjoyed the show but I found it all rather predictable.

Maybe it is me but it seems like the cast is ready for the show to end. They don't seem to be enjoying themselves as they have in prior seasons.

 

[dravot]

fav. quote: "Are the flash-card monsters attacking!?"

I was wondering if flash-card was a template

 

[John Crichton]

Maybe it is me but it seems like the cast is ready for the show to end. They don't seem to be enjoying themselves as they have in prior seasons.

I hate to admit it, but you make a really good point. Maybe it's the bigger cast or maybe so many fresh faces around but the recent eps have lacked a little energy, but only in comparison to earlier seasons.

I think some of it has to do with the fact that they have detoured from their formula slightly but yet not enough. We still have Buffy having the hots/an interest in a vampire with a soul. We still have a Big Bad. We still have the "main four" in Buffy, Willow, Xander & Giles. We have our bit players like Dawn, Anya, Kennedy, Andrew, etc.

What is missing I think, is the interaction of the earlier shows. The main cast members have been split into groups too much. Buffy is rarely seen in the same scene as both Giles, Xander and Willow. Dawn and Anya, IMO, are underused. Buffy/Spike is nice and should be more interesting really quickly but it hasn't been nearly as interesting as Buffy/Angel.

Add to the fact that the "main four" have been doing this for years and maybe just a little of the fire has gone out. Or maybe it just seems that way because of some of things I mentioned. Anyhow, I still enjoy the show and hate to miss an ep so they aren't doing all that bad....

 

[dravot]

From WizarDru (who DM's our campaign):

Creating an Flash-Card Monster

Flash-Card Monster is a template that can be applied to any creature that can be rendered with a simple line drawing (creatures such as Gibbering Mouthers, Elementals, certain oozes and so forth are excluded, for example). Animals become Beasts, and Humanoids Monstrous Humanoids, but otherwise the type remains unchanged. It retains all the special abilities of the base creature, except as noted here.

Hit dice: Same as base creature +1. Animals that become Beasts have their hit die type increased to d10.

Attacks: A Flash-Card monster retains all the attacks of the base creature, except those which originate from complicated visual attacks or which cannot be simply animated or drawn. A Beholder's eye rays would work, but a Fey creature's charm abilities would not. Any direct physical attack by a grossly-exagerrated physical feature (such as long claws or huge teeth) is increased by +5 to the attack and damage, draws much more blood, and becomes a Wounding attack. The wounding attack will deal 1 point of damage per turn until the defender is healed or stabilized. This damage is cumulative.

Special Attacks: A Flash-Card monster retains all the special attacks of the base creature, except those which originate from complicated visual attacks or which cannot be simply animated or drawn. However Special Quality: An amphisbaena retains all the special qualities of the base creature, but becomes a simplified two-dimensional rendering of itself. It gains the Paper sub-type (2x damage from Fire or Water on a failed save, immune to cold and ink) and has it's AC increased by 2.

Saves: Same as base creature.

Abilities: -4 STR, +4 CHR

CR: As base creature +2

 

[Pielorinho]

Dravot, o geekiest of geeks, you rock!

When Andrew was trying to get information out of The First Evil, did anyone else think he was just roleplaying really badly? I could totally see some gamer trying to weasel information out of the villain in exactly this manner.

What made it even cooler was that Andrew probably got all his tricking-the-villain experience from playing Dungeons and Dragons .

Daniel

 

[John Crichton]

What made it even cooler was that Andrew probably got all his tricking-the-villain experience from playing Dungeons and Dragons .

I knew I liked that scene for a reason.

 

[Henry]

Actually, besides the flash-card monsters, my favorite line was Xander's frustrated, "all right, I'm going Gay!" and Willow's observation that if he did, he would probably be pursued by male Demons.

So the Foxy Brown Slayer had a child, huh? I can only hope that our dear Mr. Wood (love that name) can learn forgiveness before it eats him up (or Buffy has to kill him). I wonder what his reaction will be if he ever sees Spike wearing the leather coat again? For all we know, it's the same leather coat...

I think that Ashanti did very well in her part last night. It's nice to see some non-genre celebrity guest faces every once in a while - to be honest, I can't recall one since John Ritter, or the actress who played Maggie Walsh. I still think Britney Spears would have done well as Warren's Robo-Girl.

TTFN

Henry

 

[myrdden]

I think that Ashanti did very well in her part last night. It's nice to see some non-genre celebrity guest faces every once in a while - to be honest, I can't recall one since John Ritter, or the actress who played Maggie Walsh. I still think Britney Spears would have done well as Warren's Robo-Girl.

That was Ashanti? I didn't know that.

Myrdden