I know I've told this story before, but I barely saw Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Angel on first-run because they were on UHF stations that did not pick-up at my house because we lived too far out. I'm going to cover both of them here as I rewatch them again, not just because they interest me but because I need my own coverage as reference for later use in the RPG.
Like I have also said before, I may never get to actually play the Angel RPG, but I can at least design material to share with other players in the meantime, and some of it comes directly from the shows themselves. These items and concepts either exist in the Buffyverse and were never covered by the official RPG material, or the shows inspire new ideas that work perfectly because the whole system was designed around concepts like them.
Even though I came to them late, you can call me a Buffy Fan. But that has grown over the years because I never even got the chance to get into them when they were still on TV. Even getting into the RPG was a happy accident made possible by a blind lot purchase from eBay years prior. I just had some time on my hands and decided to learn a new system that I never stopped to realize I'll probably never get to play, and now I'm stuck on it.
Still, RPG aside, I'm going to cover both series as I watch and rewatch them somewhat as a ritual just so I can get inside the heads of the creators and see what they want from an RPG based on their TV shows. It's so freeing to not have a budget to contend with, after all; I can do more than the writers and creators ever could, especially at a table.
I'll talk about whatever else as I come across it. I saw that the Saturn Awards were live on Roku last night, but I didn't watch them because I have no idea who or what any of the people or projects are. I'm a little out of the loop.
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