In looking through the Monster of the Week book, I like the way they are going as far as setup. In fact, the whole setup is perfectly attuned to the Scooby Gang (actually the nick name of Buffy's entourage and the inspiration for the game). I've never played anything with the Apocalypse World core, so this is interesting.
I do think using that game system perhaps changes the flavor of the game approach - instead of a zombie apocalypse, it seems to make more sense to set this up more like an episodic monster hunting game (hence "Monster of the Week"). This makes something more akin to another crazy Scooby-related idea: Scoobythulu (
link to a message in this forum). This idea centers around the Mystery Inc. gang as a group of investigators who end up fighting real live monsters, cultists, and elder gods. As noted in that thread, there are direct links between Scooby Doo and Cthulu Mythos, and someone actually developed the gang as Cthulu characters (
http://rpggeek.com/thread/575470/scooby-doo-cthulhu).
Some comments on systems: Cthulu is going to be much more serious, with sanity worked in there to see the downward slide of the gang. Could be interesting but will definitely go darker. Alternatively, we could drop sanity and just use the stats in a Basic Roleplaying environment. I think the only major difference here is sanity and it allows a more humorous edge to apply (although the challenge of mixing humor with horror is intriguing to me). On the flip side, MotW seems to be much more on the side of fun if not down right humor. Using Buffy as the measuring stick, it should be easy enough to mix seriousness with silliness by creating live action versions of the Scooby Gang. As Steelsmiter suggests, the archetypes fit pretty well. Where I'm not satisfied with MotW is that is seems almost too loose of a system. Results are custom per Move and I'm not totally clear how game play will actually work - this is possibly a great system for PBP, though, and I'm interested in trying it out. So much so that I am vaguely considering taking this on myself save for my dreadful track record with running games on this forum.
All of that said, I'll put it out there again if anyone is interested in taking this on. I'm open for MotW or for BRP/Cthulu or possibly other systems.
Takers?