Pyramid Pick
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Roleplaying Game
Published by Eden Studios
Designed by C.J. Carella
256-page full-color hardback; $40.00
Now in its seventh season, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer television show has been a favorite in the "gaming demographic" -- science-fiction and fantasy fans, mostly young, mostly male -- you know, geeks. There are Buffy fans outside the gaming demographic, to be sure, but among gamers, Buffy is an iconic pop culture figure, right up there with Xena and Picard and that guy on Babylon 5 played by Bruce Boxleitner.
So after six-plus seasons, you know who Buffy is. And I don't have to tell you that it's this extremely cool show that's part comedy, part horror, part action-adventure, and (big) part soap opera, where the monsters and the demons and the vampires are all just metaphors for the trials and tribulations of high school (and life beyond). That, and the writing's pretty snappy, too. You've seen the show -- many of you are fans to one degree or another. So we can move on and talk about the game.
The game kicks off by . . . talking about the TV show. Plot synopses of the first five seasons follow the obligatory attempt to explain what roleplaying is and what all the participants actually do, and then it's off to the meat. The Buffy the Vampire Slayer Roleplaying Game is 256 pages of hardbound, full-color gaming goodness from Eden Studios. Eden has a game system that works pretty well, the Unisystem they developed for games such as Witchcraft, . . .
This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.
Article publication date: October 25, 2002
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