31 Buffy The Vampire Slayer characters
12: The Witch
Magic is a powerful and unpredictable thing. And a powerful and unpredictable thing can make for interesting plots.
Willow gets into magic in a big way, but there are lower-key magic types around from the first regular episode of Buffy onwards, and this includes Tara, the last character added to the opening credits and therefore the last of this subset of the challenge that I’ll be making a playable sorta-kinda riff on.
Having at least ritual magic available is handy for the series from the get-go, with opportunities for countering hexes, discovering things that are hard to learn normally, and making Funny Magic Episodes happen.
And there are also players who love spellcaster options. But at this point I should make a note about balance. Buffy as a system is sorta-kinda balanced, but Sorcery isn’t. It being both very powerful and really cheap perfectly models Willow going from first spell to extinction level event in four years flat, but other magical characters note that her power is extraordinary.
(TWH digression: I gave the group a friendly witch type NPC as nobody started with magic, as a way to have magic-related plots as well as latterly adding romantic tensions. Then Ziggy’s player took some Sorcery and he got scary good scary fast, and was written out when his player moved away. Then Matthew’s player took some Sorcery and he also got scary good scary fast, and his player decided we should nerf him. Twice. Making him totally unable to affect or suffer from magic the second time. Hence warnings like the above, house rules, and more.)
So anyway, a starting witch type can have plenty to do without much Sorcery.
Lana Donovan
Type: White Hat
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| Grace Fulton |
Description: Notably funky earrings
Example quote: “Make it work, make it work, make it work, make it work...”
Lana discovered there was a Vampire Slayer in town when she was researching the town cemeteries and their tendency to have more open graves at night than during the day. It seemed only polite to introduce herself, and help with rogue sorcerers, ancient curses rising, and that thing with the pirates.
Strength 1
Dexterity 2
Constitution 2
Intelligence 4
Perception 3
Willpower 5
Skills (15 + 1 from Artist + 3 from Drawbacks)
Acrobatics 0
Art 2
Computers 1
Crime 0
Doctor 1
Driving 0
Getting Medieval 1
Gun Fu 0
Influence 1
Knowledge 3
Kung Fu 1
Languages 2
Mr. Fix-It 1
Notice 1
Occultism 4
Science 1
Sports 0
Wild Card 0
Qualities (15 + 3 from Drawbacks)
Artist (2)
Attractiveness 2 (2)
Contacts (magic community) (1)
Occult Library (2)
Telekinesis 1 (3) (from The Magic Box)
The Sight (3)
Sorcery 1 (5)
Drawbacks (6)
Adversary (the forces of evil) (2)
Emotional Problems: Fear Of Rejection (1)
Honourable (minimal) (1)
Secret (fighting monsters, also magic is real) (2)
Life Points 22
Drama Points 20
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