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Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel, by Quentin Tarantino
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Whizbang Dustyboots
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I really like the HK vampire drug idea and I'd certainly want to incorporate addiction as a metaphor, both for vampires and magic-users. Taking a cue from the Blade TV series, I might have good guy vampires on a sort of "methadone" alternative but still always feeling their hunger.
Guns would also be big -- as they are in Tarantino's stuff -- but since Eden's Buffy/Angelverse already says that guns don't hurt vampires much, there'd be plenty of reason for samurai sword-wielding demon assassins.
I'd likely also have a vampire crime boss in the True Romance mode and, of course, there would have to be a McGuffin in a briefcase.
Still fleshing out the idea, but good stuff here, guys, thanks.
Guns would also be big -- as they are in Tarantino's stuff -- but since Eden's Buffy/Angelverse already says that guns don't hurt vampires much, there'd be plenty of reason for samurai sword-wielding demon assassins.
I'd likely also have a vampire crime boss in the True Romance mode and, of course, there would have to be a McGuffin in a briefcase.
Still fleshing out the idea, but good stuff here, guys, thanks.
Darth Shoju
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Nightfall said:Tak!LOL! that was priceless.
LOL yeah that was great.
Andrew and Jonathan cleaning out a messy car from where Andrew accidently killed a demon they were transporting...
Jonathan: This is vile! Man, I am never going to forgive you for this.
Andrew: I said I was sorry. And I think its very Jedi to forgive...
Jonathan: An't no Jedi about it! No go* d*** Jedi was ever back here having to pick up little pieces of skull and tenticle an acount a' your dumd a**.
Andrew: I've already said, like a hundred times, that the laser gun went off and anyways it not my fault his entire body exploded like that. You really need to back off from me, 'cause you're hurting my feelings. And I'm like, a rocket, you know... and the needles are getting red.
Jonathan: Oh, you're in the red. Well, let me tell you a**-monkey, I'm the Death Star about the blow up Alderaan, I'm the Ark opened and about the melt every f***ing Nazi alive, I'm a warp core breaching mother f***er, mother f***er! In fact, why the hell am I in the back! Get the hell out of the hover car, were trading!
(beat)
Andrew: Well, at leats we know who shot first...
Jonathan: Shut the hell up!
Jonathan: This is vile! Man, I am never going to forgive you for this.
Andrew: I said I was sorry. And I think its very Jedi to forgive...
Jonathan: An't no Jedi about it! No go* d*** Jedi was ever back here having to pick up little pieces of skull and tenticle an acount a' your dumd a**.
Andrew: I've already said, like a hundred times, that the laser gun went off and anyways it not my fault his entire body exploded like that. You really need to back off from me, 'cause you're hurting my feelings. And I'm like, a rocket, you know... and the needles are getting red.
Jonathan: Oh, you're in the red. Well, let me tell you a**-monkey, I'm the Death Star about the blow up Alderaan, I'm the Ark opened and about the melt every f***ing Nazi alive, I'm a warp core breaching mother f***er, mother f***er! In fact, why the hell am I in the back! Get the hell out of the hover car, were trading!
(beat)
Andrew: Well, at leats we know who shot first...
Jonathan: Shut the hell up!
Mustrum_Ridcully
Legend
I tend to think this is more Whedon redoing Tarantinos stuff than Tarantino doing Whedon's stuff but it's still funThe Grumpy Celt said:
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Stormborn
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Whizbang,
A Tarantino Buffyverse RPG would have:
- The main characters/PCs are more anithero than hero. Their motivations should remain essentially selfish. Sure they might save the world, but only becuase thats where they keep their stuff and not for any noble reasons. I think in that regard Gunn before he joined up with Angel would be appropriate as a starting point, then rewritten in a more realistic light. Consider Gunn as part of an ultraviolent LA street gang. He discovers that vampires are real. How does he react? He sees them as another rival gang and uses the same techniques he has used before on other rival gangs, violence and intimidation. That does not, however, mean that he would stop running protection rackets, drugs, or other activities typical of LA gangs. For a post-BtVS game in which Chosen have awakened all over the world consider a girl who was abused, lived on the street, or worked as a prostiture/porn star. Faith when she worked for the Mayor. Giles when he was still called "Ripper." Wesly at his darkest. These are characters that, with a splash more ultraviolence and darkness, could be appropriate modles for the Tarantino BUffyverse.
- Gun play could be developed into somethign that works. While as you note it has been established that guns don't really hurt vampires that might only apply to ordinary guns wielded by ordinary people. Perhaps their are secret Gun Katas (based perhaps on chakras where the demonic energy resides in the vampire such as the throat, the heart, the base of the spine, etc) to make them effective against mystical opponents, or way of carving rune bullets. I can see a Tarantino Gun Monk covered in runic tattoos that go all the way down his arm and down the barrell of his gun standing quiety waiting for the vampire to get close and then putting a single bullet between its eyes. The dusting effect spreading while its comrades look on in horror.
- Play up mystical drug running, gang wars, black market mystical weapons, human and demon slavery, and vampiric snuff films and demonic porn. Rather than just something that the bad guys might do this should be the world that the PCs live in.
On a side note, I have often wondered what place angles (divine servants, not broody-boy) had in the Buffyverse. Depicting them as amoral, violent, cops only conserned with the letter of the law, or at least the appearance there of, might fit in with the overall theme.
A Tarantino Buffyverse RPG would have:
- The main characters/PCs are more anithero than hero. Their motivations should remain essentially selfish. Sure they might save the world, but only becuase thats where they keep their stuff and not for any noble reasons. I think in that regard Gunn before he joined up with Angel would be appropriate as a starting point, then rewritten in a more realistic light. Consider Gunn as part of an ultraviolent LA street gang. He discovers that vampires are real. How does he react? He sees them as another rival gang and uses the same techniques he has used before on other rival gangs, violence and intimidation. That does not, however, mean that he would stop running protection rackets, drugs, or other activities typical of LA gangs. For a post-BtVS game in which Chosen have awakened all over the world consider a girl who was abused, lived on the street, or worked as a prostiture/porn star. Faith when she worked for the Mayor. Giles when he was still called "Ripper." Wesly at his darkest. These are characters that, with a splash more ultraviolence and darkness, could be appropriate modles for the Tarantino BUffyverse.
- Gun play could be developed into somethign that works. While as you note it has been established that guns don't really hurt vampires that might only apply to ordinary guns wielded by ordinary people. Perhaps their are secret Gun Katas (based perhaps on chakras where the demonic energy resides in the vampire such as the throat, the heart, the base of the spine, etc) to make them effective against mystical opponents, or way of carving rune bullets. I can see a Tarantino Gun Monk covered in runic tattoos that go all the way down his arm and down the barrell of his gun standing quiety waiting for the vampire to get close and then putting a single bullet between its eyes. The dusting effect spreading while its comrades look on in horror.
- Play up mystical drug running, gang wars, black market mystical weapons, human and demon slavery, and vampiric snuff films and demonic porn. Rather than just something that the bad guys might do this should be the world that the PCs live in.
On a side note, I have often wondered what place angles (divine servants, not broody-boy) had in the Buffyverse. Depicting them as amoral, violent, cops only conserned with the letter of the law, or at least the appearance there of, might fit in with the overall theme.
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Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
I've wondered about the glaring absence of angels, etc., myself, especially considering Angel's named after them. I suspect the networks didn't want Whedon getting anywhere near them.
Cthulhudrew
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Whizbang Dustyboots said:
The closest they ever really came were "The Powers That Be" and their agents, who always seemed to be largely hands off. I suspect that any Angels would be similarly standoffish about things.
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