Buffy d20?

[warlord]

Is there a d20 version of the Buffy RPG? If not any ideas on how to make a campaign similar to the show.

 

[Crothian]

Actually there basically is, get the d20 Modern book and one of their campaign ideas is basically Buffy. THe Advanced class is even called a slayer...Shadow Slayer I think.

 

[drothgery]

There's no "official" Buffy d20 RPG (though Decipher has Unisystem Buffy and Angel RPGs). On the other hand, the "Shadow Chasers" campaign model in d20 Modern is pretty much Buffy with the serial numbers filed off.

 

[Ao the Overkitty]

yup. the Shadow Chasers campaign setting. The advanced classes are shadow slayer (slayer) and occultist (watcher). It deals with those things of shadow (you could just call them demons, I guess). They are considered bad things in need of killing.

 

[wingsandsword]

Officially, no.

However, it's pretty obvious that Buffy was a major inspiration for d20 Modern, and the Shadow Chasers campaign "model" for d20 Modern in the core book is very obviously "Buffy with the Serial Numbers filed off" to the point of having a Slayer class and an Occultist class that seems to be modeled largely on Giles.

d20 Modern, with the Urban Arcana Campaign Setting book (the book for having lots of fantasy monsters and magic spells running around in a modern game) is just about everything you'd need for a Buffy d20 game, to be honest.

 

[SWBaxter]

There's no "official" Buffy d20 RPG (though Decipher has Unisystem Buffy and Angel RPGs).

It's actually Eden who do the Buffy and Angel RPGs along with other Unisystem games; Decipher are the LOTR/Star Trek folks, using the CODA ruleset.

And yeah, running Buffy using d20 Modern is pretty much trivial.

 

[warlord]

But how would one stat vampires Angel and Spike aren't nearly as powerful as the vampire in the d20 Modern book.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Not sure who the ENner is but he has a free publication called Modernized. Issue #2 is out and has an awesome article on vampires.

Modernized Free E-Zine

 

[drothgery]

It's actually Eden who do the Buffy and Angel RPGs along with other Unisystem games; Decipher are the LOTR/Star Trek folks, using the CODA ruleset.

Oops.

Anyway, for less tough vampires, check the +0 LA vampire and werewolf thread for a link to SKR's fleshbound vampire +4 LA template. I'd think you could drop the template on a generic tough hero for a standard-issue vampire, or on a higher-level character for an Angel or a Spike.

 

[Klaus]

Go to www.seankreynolds.com and look around the site for the Fleshbound Vampire template, which is basically a Buffy-style vampire, without the shapeshifting and other mystical stuff. Some vampires (in the show, only Dracula) could use the regular vampire template, though.

To simulate the Buffy RPG mechanic of staking/beheading a vampire, do this:

- Vampires are immune to critical hits, like all undead. BUT...

- If an attacker wielding a stake or a slashing weapon confirms a critical hit, roll the additional damage.

- If the rolled critical hit damage is enough to bring the vampire below 0 hp, it is assumed that the stake hit the heart, or that the slashing weapon lopped off the head. If the critical hit damage is not enough to bring the vampire below 0 hp, then the vampire suffers no additional damage from the critical hit, only the weapons normal damage.

For stakes, use these stats:
Exotic Light Weapon (D&D) or Archaic Weapon (d20 Modern)
cost: as club (it takes a DC 10 Craft (woodcarving) check to make it pointy)
Damage: 1d6 Crit: 20/x2
Type: Piercing