Video Review – Buffy the Vampire Slayer RPG by Eden Studios

This is going to be part one of a three part piece.  Eden Studios’ Unisystem is a very easy system to get people introduced into roleplaying games.  A modification of the Unisystem, called ‘Cinematic Unisystem’ uses a streamlined version of the classic Unisystem set of rules.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer uses the ‘Cinematic Unisystem’ rules and does so in a very clean, efficient, and extremely fun way.  Character generation is painless and players can get into the action very quickly with little downtime for bystanders during combat.

Inside the book, you will find:

• An introduction to roleplaying and the Buffyverse
  A roleplaying guide to all seven season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  Detailed character creation, including pre-constructed Heroes and White Hats for your quick-play pleasure
  Roleplaying specifics for the entire Original Cast, from Buffy to Dawn, including their wild and wacky changes
  The Buffy Unisystem, streamlined for cinematic slayage and sneakage
  A primer on magic mojo, for those who dare
  A guide to the hotspots of Sunnydale
  The monsters of mayhem, all stat-ed out and ready-to-slay, and the skinny on every season’s Big Bad
  Blow-by-blow instructions for creating Buffy roleplaying Episodes, Seasons, and Series
  A complete Episode to get slaying fast and easy A guide to Buffyspeak to add sparkle to your dialogue

Here is Kurt Wiegel to enlighten us again on a very solid, fun, and well built roleplaying game… Read more

Buffy The Vampire Slayer MMO Announced

Newsarama reports that 20th Century Fox and The Multiverse Network announced today that they are working on a Buffy the Vampire Slayer Massively Multiplayer Online game. Jon Landau, Academy Award-winner for visual effects and Advisor to Multiverse made the announcement in his keynote speech at the Virtual Worlds Conference and Expo in Los Angeles.

The game will be unique to the growing glut of MMOs in having two modes- a 2D flash, web-based version, and a fully 3D world with a dedicated client. The game will be hosted inside Multiverse’s “Multiverse Places,” which sounds a bit like PlayStation Home, hosting a virtual world with access to multiple games. Read more