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   Ubiquitous  wrote in   
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   > YourName@YourISP.com wrote:   
   >> Ubiquitous  wrote:   
   >   
   >>> Coming soon to your friendly neighborhood games shoppe, it’s   
   >>> Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Game. This time it’s you. You   
   >>> are the Joss Whedon. Ok, maybe you’re the heroes, but you do   
   >>> get to run through what is essentially your own special season   
   >>> of the show each time you play the game.   
   >>>   
   >>> Buffy is a fully cooperative action game with you and your   
   >>> friends slinging magic and martial arts against a barrage of   
   >>> monsters of the week as they terrorize the townies (yes, the   
   >>> game uses those terms). Their demonic/vampiric mayhem leads up   
   >>> to a final challenge with your season’s “bigbad” as you   
   >>> struggle to defend Sunnydale.   
   >>>   
   >>> The foes are drawn from enemies faced throughout the TV   
   >>> series, with many providing interesting twists such as keeping   
   >>> the players from speaking to each other or forcing you to   
   >>> sing. There are even mechanics for player controlled   
   >>> characters regularly becoming one of the bad guys for a little   
   >>> while, because that’s what happens in the show after all.   
   >>> You and up to 5 friends are, of course, major heroes from the   
   >>> show (Buffy, Xander, Giles, Angel, Willow, etc.). Perhaps   
   >>> controversially Spike is a playable character, not an enemy,   
   >>> but hey once in a while he can be the one to turn against the   
   >>> group.   
   >>>   
   >>> All of this is amidst a backdrop of stopping an ever impending   
   >>> Apocalypse, with its own countdown counter on the board. If   
   >>> you don’t patrol, find the baddies, and slay them the world as   
   >>> we know it comes to an end. No pressure.   
   >>   
   >>There was at least one Buffy board game released years ago.   
   >   
   > I vaguely recall seeing an RPG at my local comic book and hobby   
   > shop.   
   >   
   More than once in the same universe, apparently.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffyverse_role-playing_games   
      
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