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Slayers - A World in Chaos (a BTVS themed game)

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Slayers - A World in Chaos (a BTVS themed game)

Game Title: Slayers – A World In Chaos
System: MnM2e (primarily d20 with the feats, damage, and a few powers of Mutants & Masterminds 2nd edition)
Players Wanted: 4-6
Campaign Starting Level: PL5
Expected Posting Rate: Once or Twice a week
Link to the Game: link to another game

Hook:
Through the annals of history there have been many, but only one at a time.  Only one warrior against evil, only one strong and pure enough to battle those who fed off of humans, only one who could handle the power, only one…. Slayer.  But then a very unexpected thing happened.  A Slayer with all of the remarkable attributes a Slayer can have, had something extra.  Friends.  Through the mists of time, Slayers had always been isolated, but this one wasn’t.  And it made her stronger.  The sum of the parts, really was better than the one extraordinary person.  And so this extraordinary team did something unimaginable.  It continually thwarted the Powers of Darkness

And don’t think the Powers of Darkness haven’t noticed.  They had been on the verge of winning this war, several times, only to have defeat snatched from the jaws of victory.  They have most certainly noticed, and they have decided to get serious, deadly serious.


Additional Player Detail:
The area around New Orleans has been identified as an area with evil in many layers.  Specifically the little known city of New Bordeaux (fictional), just north Of New Orleans on the other side of Lake Ponchartrain, is the epicenter of evil in the area. The city gives off an aura of both “newer” evil – Vampires and such; and a much more ancient malevolent evil.  Because of this, a team is being sent there.

In game terms this will be a little unusual in that characters will not all start at the same level.  The team being sent will consist of a Potential Slayer(PL5),  and a support person(PL3).  Think of the support person as less fighter, more scholar/teacher/guide/tech support.

I would like the other characters to be people living in New Orleans that end up meeting and helping the team – eventually becoming part of the team; new white hats if you will.  These characters will start at PL3, but they will advance faster than the other characters – at least until they reach a level close to the Slayer.

This game is designed to be mature.  This is a post high school game so all of the characters should look and act like adults.  The New Orleans’ characters should have an adult reason to be in New Orleans (job, college, etc.).

You do not have to be a Buffy aficionado to play this game, it may actually make it better to have a few people that aren’t familiar with the Buffyverse.  The goal is to create a running action-packed horror story where the characters come together to destroy evil in all forms.

The following section could be considered a spoiler if you haven't seen all of the episodes of the TV series

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Buffy/Angel Canon information:
If you are a Buffy aficionado,  here is some general information.

This will take place after Season 7, but before season 8 (in print).  We will probably use some of the basic concepts from Season 8 – Slayer squads across the world, Slayer Central in Scotland, etc.  But the occurrences of Season 8 haven’t happened, yet – and may never happen depending on what I decide.  Think of this as season 7.5

I will probably try to stick with the previous events in the television show.  However, I reserve the right to deviate if I think it enhances the story.  Oh, and the first four seasons of Angel happened as well – once again, reserve the right to change things if I think it helps the story.

In the wake of Sunnydale, CA’s destruction Buffy, Giles, Willow, Xander, Dawn, and others are reforming the Slayer landscape.  While there are areas with a major influx of Slayer representation (New York, Tokyo, Italy, etc.), there are other places that could use Slayer representation, but not an entire squad – which leads us to our New Bordeaux destination.

For those of you familiar with the series, the support person could be Watcher like, but they don't have to be.

If anyone cares the Canon characters will probably make cameo appearances for entertainment value.




I am hoping this game can essentially be a campaign game.  I see the first “season”, and I think subsequent seasons, as 12 or 13 episodes.
For several reasons:
1) I do think I will stick with a “Big Bad” or Bads per season.  So the conclusion of each season will hopefully be the defeat of the “Big Bad”.
2) The number 13 just seems like the right number of episodes for this genre, doesn’t it?  
3) The original Buffy season was 12 episodes long, it’s kind of an homage to the first season

Eventually the PL level will increase, not quite sure if it will be by season or not.
Which may lead to offshoot groups in other areas of the world, but that is much later down the road.  For now, I think everyone should understand I see this as a campaign came ad infinitum.

You may like this game …..
If you like the whole idea of an action packed horror campaign game.
If you look forward to role playing heroes when vampires need staked, demons need to be defeated, and evil cultists need to be stopped.
If you like a game that keeps moving and won’t get bogged down if someone is unable to post.
If your focus is role playing and not crunching numbers

You may not like this game …….
If you like to spend weeks of real time building a relationship with other characters in game before you see any action.
If you don’t like the idea of the GM posting for you under any circumstances, even if it is just to keep the game moving.  Side Note:  I hope this is obvious, but I don’t intend to post for players in any extremely critical or life threatening situations – unless the player has just disappeared.
If you are easily offended by some horror themes.  While I don’t want the story to be about excessive violence, graphic sex, etc.  this is going to be a horror themed game.  So if you don’t like seeing/reading about torn throats from vampires, decapitations, murder, mangled bodies, sexual situations (both heterosexual and homosexual), etc.  you may not like this game.

Mature Game – PG13/occasional R Rating – I want the focus of the game to be the story, not any graphic violence, sex, etc.  Think of the imaginary limit as what can be shown on TV (on non-MA channels), or in a newspaper.  So, I am not saying there can’t be any, there certainly was a fair amount of it in Buffy & Angel.  I just want everyone to walk in knowing I do not want that to be the focus.


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