Potential Buffy Game

[Arkandel]

@bad-at-lurking said in Potential Buffy Game:

Heh. Kind of Hogwarts meets Buffy, maybe? Or even a little X-Men vibe.

Hogwarts was specifically what I kinda envisioned, just minus any of the 'tradition' behind it; Buffyverse would probably work best with something informal, made up on the fly, then made to work by keeping it together through force of personality and necessity but constantly on the verse of falling apart due to personal drama, breakups and betrayals.

I'd play that.

[hedgehog]

I do kind of like the idea of there being different cohorts of slayers and Watchers and witches and stuff. Perhaps there's the Scooby Gang sorority handling issues at the U of Dayton, or the law firm staffed solely by lawyerbots (ahem). Just making it high school is limiting in ways. I like the idea of having a 'hood-centric slayers group a la Gunn's backstory, too.

[Wizz]

@secretfire said in Potential Buffy Game:

But I don't think, from the beginning, you should really get into a 'rut'. I think the way you will be pushed is very, very strongly towards people who will just want to do school RP until the end of time, and if you do that, eventually the game will die (sooner rather then later).

Rather than constantly criticizing the way you think other people want to play, I think it'd be helpful to focus on something else. Like, keep talking about your zany immigrant demon plothook you want so bad, maybe you'll eventually sell it. Stop predicting doom already because that's probably the most obnoxious thing to do in a development thread.

Plz and thnx

[Hella]

Has any ever set up a Buffyverse in a really /really/ small town? I'd love to see that played. Population 500 or less, where it's harder to come across all the cool army base things they have in Sunnydale/LA etc. Kind of a stripped down Buffyverse, and far more dangerous for the lack of resources.

[hedgehog]

@vulgarkitten

Clearly resources still come from somewhere, though, considering Kendra activated in resource-less Jamaica. Of course, that was pre-Watcher's Council going up in flames.

[Hella]

@hedgehog But Kendra didn't have access to much until she came to Sunnydale. She had a stake... did she come with other weapons? I don't recall them, can't remember her talking about them.

And yeah, she had the Watcher's Council.

[hedgehog]

@vulgarkitten

She'd been raised by a Watcher, more or less, learning all the lore and such. Whether that means the Council gave them access to resources, though? Who knows. As we all know, they were shady as fuck and mostly interested in their own creature comforts.

[Ganymede]

@hedgehog said in Potential Buffy Game:

Perhaps there's the Scooby Gang sorority handling issues at the U of Dayton

... that's more of a Miami at Oxford thing.

or the law firm staffed solely by lawyerbots (ahem).

Coming soon.

I like the idea of having a 'hood-centric slayers group a la Gunn's backstory, too.

They would probably be from Wayne High School, whose alumni include Kim Deal, Braxton Miller, and Dallas Egbert.

And if you don't know who Dallas Egbert was, he inspired this movie with Tom Hanks. And, as said before, Mr. Hanks later came back to the Dayton area to open his own center for movies.

And so, the cycle begins anew.

[Wizz]

@zombiegenesis said in Potential Buffy Game:

For what "tier" the game will be on I'm thinking we're going to start small. The first "season" may focus on something localized and personal, something specific to Dayton.

Just throwing ideas against the wall, but you could have two grids with two different themes, Dayton for small town Buffy shenanigans and like, Columbus or Cleveland for gritty life in the big city.

Other games have done something similar.

[Arkandel]

@wizz said in Potential Buffy Game:

@zombiegenesis said in Potential Buffy Game:

For what "tier" the game will be on I'm thinking we're going to start small. The first "season" may focus on something localized and personal, something specific to Dayton.

Just throwing ideas against the wall, but you could have two grids with two different themes, Dayton for small town Buffy shenanigans and like, Columbus or Cleveland for gritty life in the big city.

Other games have done something similar.

Splitting up the playerbase geographically, especially in niche MU* I'd expect to have fewer logins, is never a good idea in my opinion.

[TheOnceler]

Just have sao make 600 roster characters, call it a Lords & Slayers game and watch the players roll in.

[Quinn]

@arkandel said in Potential Buffy Game:

Splitting up the playerbase geographically, especially in niche MU* I'd expect to have fewer logins, is never a good idea in my opinion.

Yeah, you're already going to have the issue where Buffy lends itself to cliques ala the Scooby Gang. Splitting the player base up even more isn't a good idea.

[Bad at Lurking]

The Hellmouth could have migrated. Or been yoinked by some really unwise cabal of Daytonian witches (it's always witches) for some reason.

That would also make for a great plot point.

"The Hellmouth moved here."

"Um, that's not possible. The ancient texts are quite explicit."

"Tell it that. I'll be up here, cowering behind the shelves."

[Coin]

@bad-at-lurking said in Potential Buffy Game:

The Hellmouth could have migrated. Or been yoinked by some really unwise cabal of Daytonian witches (it's always witches) for some reason.

That would also make for a great plot point.

"The Hellmouth moved here."

"Um, that's not possible. The ancient texts are quite explicit."

"Tell it that. I'll be up here, cowering behind the shelves."

"The Hellmouth moved here."

"No it didn't."

"Yes it did."

"The texts are quite explicit when they cover the transitory possibilities of the Hellmouth."

"You tell the Hellmouth it didn't move."

"It did not move, the fluctuations of the Hellmouth's energies are quite different from those of the old Hellmouth."

"Old... old Hellmouth?"

"Yes. As Sir Arthur Conan Doyle famously penned in Sherlock Holmes, once you rule out the impossible, whatever's left, however improbable, must be the truth. Paraphrased, of course."

"... what?"

"It didn't move. It's a new one."

[Ganymede]

@bad-at-lurking said in Potential Buffy Game:

"The Hellmouth moved here."

I don't really know what a Hellmouth is, but I presume it is something which spawns bad things.

In which case, there are lots of good sites, like the old Mound Laboratories site. If you want a central location, you could look at the Dayton Arcade or Woodland Cemetary and Arboretum, which is located next to the University of Dayton. But if you want to go for the old, trite "local military installation is a secret laboratory for the paranormal" trope, a la Stranger Things, then nothing's better than Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

I like "the Mound" due to the nuclear weapons research / Indian burial ground confluence of "why the fuck did you put that there?" questions.

[Bad at Lurking]

@ganymede said in Potential Buffy Game:

@bad-at-lurking said in Potential Buffy Game:

"The Hellmouth moved here."

I don't really know what a Hellmouth is, but I presume it is something which spawns bad things.

Got it in one. It's the answer to the Buffy question of 'why is all this world-ending crap happening in a California town that is basically a suburb in search of a city?'

The answer, of course, is that there is a literal gate (imperfectly sealed) to the infinite hell dimensions, which happens to be buried under the high school.

[saosmash]

@theonceler I'm on hiatus!!

[Kanye Qwest]

@saosmash I'll take over! I'll CG Buffy and Muffy and Stuffy and Tuffy and Luffy King of the Pirates and

[Wizz]

@coin said in Potential Buffy Game:

"It did not move, the fluctuations of the Hellmouth's energies are quite different from those of the old Hellmouth."

I dunno, I like both options but there's something kind of extra cool about a Hellmouth moving.

Like...did someone move it, like @Bad-at-Lurking suggests? Who (or what) has that kind of power, and why would they want to do it? Did they need to, for something...else? Did it move itself?
What are the actual implications and ramifications of all that mystical/demonic energy being redirected from one location to another? (A Hellmouth that has been steeping in the magical resonance of India for the last three thousand years suddenly seals and bursts open again... in Ohio. SHENANIGANS GALORE)

[Bobotron]

@wizz

In Ohio

Cleveland is, IIRC, another canonical Hellmouth.