I rarely watch television. One evening in 1997, I was bored and had some time to kill, so I decided to look for something decent to watch on TV. That's usually a fruitless quest, but hope springs eternal.

I stumbled across the series premiere of Buffy the Vampire Slayer less than a minute before the episode opened. I had seen the movie. I didn't realize anyone had decided to make a series.

There are certain moments we will always remember in our lives. Winning the lottery. What we were doing when we first got the news about a national disaster. The birth of our first child. I will always remember serendipitously catching the debut episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

I became an instant fan of the show. It was funny. It could be scary. It had great fight scenes. The characterizations were strong and the writing was unmatched at that time. But what really drew me in was that the characters changed over time. The series was epic rather than episodic: if you watched the episodes out of order, the show wouldn't make any sense. The fact that the characters and storylines grew is what made the whole thing so engaging.

That's also what made it so hard for late-comers to figure out what the heck was going on. But that particular problem didn't really occur to me, because I was there from the first episode. Nyah.

Despite the potentially daunting learning curve that later viewers had to face, I was able to turn several of my coworkers -- and eventually, some of my friends -- on to the show.

Anyway, in 2002, Eden Studios published an RPG version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The authors did a bang-up job of capturing the feel of the TV show. I didn't get to try the game until January of 2003. When I finally did take it for a test drive, I liked it very much. Several of my friends had also become die-hard fans of the Buffy TV show, and when I proposed a Buffy RPG campaign, they signed on right away.

So I built a Web page for my BtVS RPG campaign. It doesn't currently have much that can be used for conventions, but I'm sure that will change over time. And the campaign has been going astoundingly well, thanks for asking. The players have embraced the soap-operatic quality of the series to a degree that I never expected.

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