Hi. I'm splitting this from the FOTR thread because that thread is huge and this doesn't really have anything to do with the Fellowship sourcebook per se. First as a side note, Season One Buffy is not really just starting out -- she had already learned of her powers and wiped out a group of vampires in Los Angeles prior to the series. She certainly should not be considered on par with the hobbits, since she started out already with superhuman strength and dexterity, and was fully capable of taking on many vampires at once.Originally posted by Doug Burke IIRC, Buffy at the begining of Season One was basically just starting. Just found out what she could do and learning to adjust to it, right? In LOTR analogy, that would make her on par with the hobbits in the fellowship (Merry & Pippin have 1 advancement each, Sam has 2, and Frodo has 6).
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So continuing my comparison, maybe, after decades of experience fighting the forces of the shadow, the hobbits would be more on par with Aragorn's 68 advancements, no?
I think a much better analogy would be that Buffy is parallel to Legolas or Aragorn, while her friends Xander and Willow are parallel to the hobbits. Like Xander, Merry and Pippin are ordinary folk that end up sharing adventures with great heroes like Legolas and Aragorn. This brings up the question of having similar parties in the LOTR game.
One of the central design concerns of the Buffy RPG was making it playable to have both Xander (who is an ordinary high school student) and Buffy (who is a superpowered Vampire Slayer) in the same PC group. They do this by having Drama Points which players can spend to manipulate the action, and players of lower-powered "White Hat" characters get twice as many. Having played in a Buffy campaign, I think this works reasonably well.
Could a mixed-power party like this be made to work in a LOTR game? Has anyone tried anything something like that?