31 Buffy The Vampire Slayer characters
25: Santa Claus
It’s the 25th. So...
Mythological figures can and do show up in the Buffyverse from time to time, can help or hinder, and could conceivably make fun guest stars.
Santa Claus is real and also evil in the Buffyverse, at least according to Anya. But there are plenty of evil Santas, Krampus variants and the like out there in horror and urban fantasy, so let’s follow superhero universes and have a nice one.
Obviously best suited to an occasional guest star.
I’ve run some Christmas episodes of The Watch House and other Buffy games but I’ve never done this one. The PCs in a Ghostbusters game I ran did get to team up with him though...
Some other mythological festive figure like the Christmas Ghosts, the Lord of Misrule, Grandfather Frost or a mysterious midwinter elf might not be quite so weird as a full-on red-suited teleport-down-the-chimney Santa, but might as well go all-out to start with and scale it back if we bring him to the table.
And rather than going full Badass Santa, let’s make him mostly magical. Enchanter rather than Sorcerer seems to fit.
With officially too many Drawbacks needed he would, like the angel and multiverse Buffy, probably be a good use for the even bigger Experienced Hero points spread, which is not generally to be used with the regular two. (Steve D once statted him up at full power.)
Santa Claus
Type: Hero
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| Tyler Labine |
Description: Santa. Claus.
Example quote: “I like to keep busy for the rest of the year.”
Strength 3
Dexterity 2
Constitution 4
Intelligence 5
Perception 3
Willpower 5
Skills (20 + 1 from Artist + 10 from Age)
Acrobatics 0
Art 3
Computers 1
Crime 2
Doctor 1
Driving 4
Getting Medieval 2
Gun Fu 0
Influence 4
Knowledge 3
Kung Fu 1
Languages 0
Mr. Fix-It 4
Notice 2
Occultism 3
Science 1
Sports 0
Wild Card 0
Qualities (20 + 12 from Drawbacks)
Age 2 (4)
Artist (2)
Empathy (2)
Enchanter (from The Magic Box) 2 (10)
Insubstantial (house rule, as per ghost) (limited to getting in and out of houses, preferably by chimney) (6)
Nerves Of Steel (3)
Photographic Memory (2)
Drawbacks (12)
Adversary (The Naughty List) (5)
Honourable 2 (2)
Obligation 2 (2)
Secret (the children can’t know) (3)
Life Points 38
Drama Points 10
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