Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Game (US) (2000)

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Designer	Rob Daviau Bill Sabram Craig Van Ness
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Publisher	Hasbro Milton Bradley
Year Published	2000
# of Players	2 − 5
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 5 players Recommended with 2, 3, 4, 5 players (19 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	90 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	12 and up
User Suggested Ages	10 and up (4 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	Extensive use of text - massive conversion needed to be playable (6 voters) [poll]
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Category	Horror Movies / TV / Radio theme
Mechanic	Partnerships Role Playing Roll / Spin and Move Variable Player Powers
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Now it's up to you to help Buffy and her friends stop the spread of Evil in Sunnydale! Which villain and his minions will plague the town? The Master? The Judge? The Mayor? Or Adam? Each game recreates one of Buffy's four most exciting challenges... use your own strength and skill to outwit them all! Patrol the board. Collect cards and gain power. Roll dice to fight and cast spells. Finally, rid Sunnydale of Evil to win! But don't slack... or Evil will slay you first! Comes with gameboard, pewter Buffy icon, Phases Chart centerpiece, 5 Good Player & 13 Evil Player pawns and stands, 84 Evil, Weapon, Research, Help & Artifact cards, 4 Villain tiles, 4 Good Player cardholders, 1 Evil card stand, 10 dice, 10 life counters.

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Game (US)

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Publisher: Milton Bradley

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Year: 2000

Product Code: 41453

Size: 15.75 x 10.55 x 2.05 inches

2.70 pounds

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0	Rules Questions about Season 5 - Homebrew edition	2012-04-15	sand_man	0
6	Sessions My Fourth Season Finale: "The Rise of Adam"	2012-04-13	Solan	2
1	Rules Spell of Evil Summoning: SERIOUSLY?!?!?	2012-03-27	Solan	2
1	General Card scans so i can print em´or just call customer service?	2012-02-29	ankokuken	3
0	General Spare parts?	2012-01-24	StumpyRac...	1
1	Rules Question regarding Evil's Black Die and which characters get a turn	2011-11-13	runfritzi...	4
16	Reviews Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Vamps are Camp, but fun.	2011-11-02	davido	3
1	General What's up with the evil cards not fitting in the evil card holder?	2011-10-28	mmesich	6
4	General Advice for a BtVS: tG First Timer	2011-10-20	Kalii	6
8	Sessions In every generation, a Slayer is born.	2011-10-19	robertg611	3

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Evil Cards

Since my deck was damaged, I cobbled together a text-only replacement for the evil deck. Uses Avery Template 8371.

aramis

2012-02-29

Buffy Season 7 Scenario

A 7th season scenario for the BtVS board game. Version 1.1 fixes the Spike board image.

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2011-09-14

angelus scenario

an angelus scenario from season 2 of btvs board game. the pieces they have been created from Brian Schomburg.

mileycyrus

2008-10-10

BuffyGameS6.pdf

A 6th season scenario for the BtVS board game.

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2008-10-04

Buffy the Vampire Slayer v1.1.pdf

Complete condensed rules.

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2007-02-17

BuffyGameS7.pdf

A 7th season scenario for the BtVS board game.

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2006-11-25

Universal Head BUFFYtVS:tG Reference

BtVS Player Reference Cards

UniversalHead

2006-01-19

Universal Head BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER: THE GAME Rules Summary

The Universal Head BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER: THE GAME Rules Summary & Reference v1.1 (Dec08). Single-sided rules summary and player reference cards.

UniversalHead

2006-01-19

Glorificus.doc

Glorificus (With corrections from play testing)

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2005-09-16

GLORIFICUS (Final).doc

Greatly Updated Glory Scenario.

maxo-texas

2005-05-03

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Review on The Spiel #65 - Touching Buffy	http://thespiel.net/?q=node/315	2011-05-12
FAQ	http://www.oocities.org/aexia/buffy-faq.html	2011-05-10
Expansion Game Scenarios for buffy.	http://www.waysideentertainment.com/buffy.html	2010-01-06
A fifth season scenario, complete with a pdf for the villain pawns.	http://gameworld.thesnakefarm.com/buffy.php	2005-02-17
Collection of rules variants, scenarios, discussions, new FAQ	http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix/buffygame/	2003-10-13
Buffy manual in PDF (page scans). (The old link is broken)	http://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/BuffyTheVamp...	2003-09-05
Review by Gameman (working link)	http://web.archive.org/web/20010429064320/http://m...	2003-03-06