So it’ll certainly be no surprise to anyone who’s read more than, like, two sentences here that I was a fan of the “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” TV show. But I also, back in the day when I had more free time, was a fan of the “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” board game. What’s that? You ask, “There was a BtVS board game?” Well of course there was.
In fact, I liked this game so much that I bought a backup copy, since the materials are mostly cardboard and subject to degradation by things like soda spills, getting abducted by the dog, or being exposed to sunlight and bursting into flames. Well, maybe not that last one.
Anyway, despite the fact that I have two copies of this game, I haven’t played it in years. So why am I thinking about it now? Because Amazon asked me a question about it, on behalf of a potential purchaser of the product, who wondered how many people can play. I didn’t actually remember the answer to the question (Survey says: Vampire. No, wait. Survey says: 2 – 5 players.), but being a former D&D geek, and having at some point realized that there were plenty of story arcs and characters not represented in the board game (it came out before Season 5, so it was missing Glorificus, or Dark Willow, or those three nerdy guys who brought on Dark Willow … well, maybe it wasn’t actually missing the three nerdy guys), there really wasn’t any reason I couldn’t add my own scenarios. So after leaving an answer to that effect for the person inquiring about the number of players, I thought I would dust off one of those old scenarios and post it here, on the off chance that anyone still plays the BtVS game and might be interested in expanding its horizons a bit. And where better to start than with the Season 2 Big Bad?
Yeah, I actually wrote that up like some sort of technical spec, with a surprising number of paragraphs devoted to Spike carrying Drusilla around and vice-versa. (If you watched the show, you know that used to happen. A lot.) Like I said, I seem to have had way more time on my hands fifteen years ago than I do now. Unfortunately, right now a lot of that reads like gibberish to me, but I’m sure if I actually took the game down off the shelf and read through the instructions, I would remember how to play, and then this scenario would make sense again.
So. Anybody up for a game of “Buffy”? I call dibs on Willow!
