Buffy The Vampire Slayer RPG

[Steverooo]

Somebody who's familiar with Eden's game help me out here; I've never seen it... Is there a HP mechanic? How do you determine when something dies, and how does "Hard To Kill" figure into it?

How do you kill vampires? I understand most attacks "soften them up", and head/heart hits do them in. What about garlic, running water, silver, crosses, and all the other stuff of legend? How about acid, alkilai, electricity, etc.?

How long does it take for sunlight (or are there even rules for that)?

Any other good methods? Thanks, if you can be any help!

 

[Cor Azer]

Life Points (rather akin to Hit Points) determine how much damage a character (human, vampire, m'fashnik, whatever) can take. Characters have to make survival check when they reach -10 Life Points.

Life Points are determined by cross-referencing Strength and Constitution on a chart (average Strength and Constitution for a human are 2, which yields 26 Life Points). Each level of Hard To Kill adds +3 Life Points and grants a +1 bonus to the avoid death roll at -10 Life Points.

As for killing vampires - beating them up and then staking/decapitating them works well. There are rules for some of that other stuff, but they're mostly in the realm of "vampires dislike this and will avoid if easily possible". Note that the vampires of Buffy aren't a lot like traditional ones, and have no problems with running water or silver (main foes are sharpened wood, holy water, and sunlight/fire).

 

[Staffan]

Somebody who's familiar with Eden's game help me out here; I've never seen it... Is there a HP mechanic? How do you determine when something dies, and how does "Hard To Kill" figure into it?

Yeah, but they're called Life Points. Hard to Kill gives you more of them, and might add in survival checks for having too few (not sure, I don't have the book here at the moment).

How do you kill vampires? I understand most attacks "soften them up", and head/heart hits do them in. What about garlic, running water, silver, crosses, and all the other stuff of legend? How about acid, alkilai, electricity, etc.?

Stakings work like this: they do quintuple damage if that damage would kill them. Otherwise, just normal damage. Thus, a Slayer can stake wussy vampires right away, but for the big nasties she needs to beat on them a while first.