Buffy board game resources

Created 7 Sep 2003
Modified 12 Oct 2003
A page devoted to collecting information about Milton Bradley's Buffy the Vampire Slayer board game. As far as I know it's out of print, so go to eBay. (Although I'm told it's also at stores like "KB Toys".)

"I think games often *sound* complicated, but aren't really. Imagine trying to describe Monopoly to somebody who had no clue what you were talking about. You could say, "Well, you move around the board and buy stuff, then you make the other players go bankrupt." Well, with Buffy, you move around the board and pick up stuff to help you fight the bad (or good) guys, then you kill them." -- (post had no name, just an e-mail)

  • Boardgamegeek page.
  • The Old FAQ
  • Q: Is the game interesting to people who aren't fans of the show?
    A: Yes. A large corpus of Usenet testimony, and the experience of my own roommate, testify to the game being interesting both to gamer non-fans and to fans who aren't usual gamers. Also note that there are two Buffy games, the other one being British, and the word on that seems to be as negative as the opinions on the US version are positive. So fans can tell when some spinoff sucks, despite being fans.
  • My Supplemental FAQ
  • My rules variants
  • My Faith and Angelus Scenario
  • Jeff Dee's Glorificus scenario
  • A season 6 scenario (Geenius at Wrok)
  • Followup from Geenius.
  • Another suggestion in the above thread, for Dark Willow, where she uses a spell list instead of cards.
  • Optional rules, new characters and a "Hush" scenario.
  • Multi-evil suggestion (Steven Sharp).
  • Angelus scenario at the bottom of a diverse post by Steven Sharp.
  • Followup, plus comments and suggestions about Dee's Glorificus scenario.
  • Another season 5 scenario. I suspect Dee's is better, but this one brings in Doc, and Glory's brainsucking.
  • Waysideentertainment's list of 25 different scenarios.

  • Personal score: Good 1, Evil 2
  • Summaries of my games, in the unlikely event anyone cares. game 1, game 2, game 3.
    "Like a plague of boils, the race of Buffy fans covered the earth. And each one mixed their passion with the blood of another, to make more of their kind." -- me