16 - What would be your perfect game?
A fun setting with a lot you can do, possibly based on a favourite media thing, coupled with a not too crunchy system that still supports the tone. Okay, it’s basically Buffy.
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| In every generation there is a Chosen One. |
Buffy The Vampire Slayer isn’t 100% perfect for me as a system - I prefer the 2D6 distribution of the Vortex system, some of the damage multiplying is fiddly, Life Points don’t do much compared to classic Unisystem, and Sorcery models Willow’s rapid rise so well it’s game-breaky - but it gets the job done very well for me. And it led to my near as any to perfect series.
The Watch House was the ideal mix of subject and players bouncing off each other. The kitchen sink setting of the Buffyverse definitely helped, letting us throw in bizarre episode ideas and everybody running with them, as well as the jokey asides that would often be derailing out of character comments in most games being at home in dialogue in character, but this one went big mostly down to the mix of players willing to jump in to the drama and humour, which isn’t something you can generally plan.
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| A slayer slays, a Watcher... Watches? |
I’ve run games since that had moments like it, and I’d love to play something that got that involving.
Short of the Holodeck becoming readily available, something like that.
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