Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a 90s action horror television series which is /tg/ relevant because, apart from being a big inspiration for Urban Fantasy gaming in general, it has an official licensed adaptation under the Unisystem mechanics printed by Eden Studios - in fact, BtVS: The RPG was Eden Studios' biggest hit in terms of licensed games, as the only Unisystem game line whose list of splatbooks can equal those of All Flesh Must Be Eaten.
The Show in a Nutshell
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Created by Joss Whedon, who was one of the big nerd-followed directors of the 90s, Buffy was born out of a surprisingly concept: what if the hot blonde teenage girl you normally see as the first kill in a slasher or monster movie was actually the heroine? Enter Buffy Summers; an ordinary teenage girl who discovers that she is the latest of the "Slayers"; women chosen in early puberty by an ancient magical spell that grants them superhuman powers and charges them to fight and kill vampires, fiends and other monsters.
The character actually first starred in a movie in 1992, but relatively few people remembered it. Much more popular was the 1997 television series, which was set directly after the movie and involved Buffy moving to the town of Sunnydale to get away from the social stigma of having burned down the school gymnasium to kill a flock of of vampires in the movie. Except it turned out that Sunnydale is actually built around an ancient portal to the Lower Planes, and as such the town is infested with monsters and lunatics of every type imaginable, from vampires and demons to killer robots and genetically engineered horrors. Now under the wing of her Watcher, a kind of mentor and advice provider assigned to each Slayer, the series ran for seven seasons and revolved around Buffy's ongoing efforts to juggle a normal life with her monster-fighting duties, alongside a small gang of normal human friends.