They technically also mention experienced hero as a character type, but we can ignore that. The game uses a point buy system for character creation and distinguishes between hero level characters and "white hat" characters. When you need for Dawn to be able to stake a vampire on the first try it is time to use some drama points. Hero level characters like Buffy Summers and Spike don't get a lot of drama points, but "white hat" characters (like Xander Harris and Cordelia Chase) get a lot more of them.
Players and NPCs alike all get drama points, which they can use to both change the outcomes of their rolls (or non-rolls), or even to make changes to the story itself. In fact, looking through all the books I had, I could only find a single place where the gamemaster would ever have to roll any dice, and that was a fairly limited situation (has to do with having an NPC make spellcasting mistakes). Meanwhile, if that same vampire was trying to bite an NPC (such as Dawn Summers), then the entire thing would be resolved without rolling any dice at all. If a vampire was trying to kick Buffy then the vamp's (fixed) attack score would go against a defense roll by Buffy. NPCs, monsters and such always get the same average roll, and it is already built into their stats.įor example, if Buffy is trying to kick a vampire then she would roll her attack and it would go against the vampires defense score. But it has one wonderful little quirk that gamemasters have got to love. The system is essentially an opposed roll system that does not have separate damage rolls. The basic system is fairly simple and very fast paced, although it features a variety of combat moves that rivals many games that are far more complex. I have been gaming for years, and I have seen all sorts of systems, but this one really surprised me. The game uses the mechanics of Eden Studios' Unisystem, which is the same basic system used in the Angel RPG, All Flesh Must Be Eaten and about a half dozen other games.
More than pretty good, it is more along the lines of wonderful. Licensed roleplaying games have a reputation for being almost universally terrible (pick up a copy of the WWF Roleplaying game or Street Fighter 2: The Roleplaying Game to see what I am talking about), but the Buffy RPG is actually pretty good. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a roleplaying game by Eden Studios based on the television show of the same name.
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