Doctor Who: Adventures in Time & Space RPG

The long-awaited Doctor Who RPG from Cubicle 7 will be released in October.

Full post here.

They're managing about one a decade for Doctor Who RPGs. Nice to see it though.

If anyone can find a product link on Amazon and post it here I'd be eternally grateful.

This will be a hard sell in terms of playing, don't mis understand it'll do well in terms of sales, too large a fan base, and rpg's tend to fill the nich role of 'bible' for 'offical'info on any given series/movie/comic. But again in terms of playing this would be what I like to call the Dune effect X 1000.

To explain the Dune effect was a phrase I coined when playing a Dune game long time ago, in which I discovered that to really play it well and let the players A. be the stars and B. not harm the real stars, the best way to play Dune was to never go to the planet Dune. We all know at some point your groups gonna kill Paul. The Dune effect can work for any series, don't ever let your players encounter Luke, or Captain Jack, or the heros of the Lance, or Frodo, or Captain Kirk, what ever. I use Dune because its a place don't go thier.

DR. Who has this 1000 times worse because he's the star, the only star. Even when the Time Lords were around only one other ever effected mortals and he tried to be master to them.

Having said all this, yeah they'll still get my money.

TTFN DRE

Good News! Thanks for sharing Joela! I've played who several times before... what a fun game and setting.

Of course, we'll have to set the Tardis to visit Rose. I can't wait.

All of the past Dr. Who games have been crap and I don't hold a lot of hope for this one.

All of the past Dr. Who games have been crap and I don't hold a lot of hope for this one.

Fair enough.

If by crap, you take the rules and have a lot of fun using your imagination to make it a great Whovian adventure, then that's the crap I like.

Never let rules get in the way of a great Dr. Who adventure. In the same way, us fans of Who, never let the low budget set or cheap costuming get in the way of our suspension of disbelief.

The raw nature of need the viewer's (or players) imagination I see as a feature, not a flaw.

This will be a hard sell in terms of playing, don't mis understand it'll do well in terms of sales, too large a fan base, and rpg's tend to fill the nich role of 'bible' for 'offical'info on any given series/movie/comic. But again in terms of playing this would be what I like to call the Dune effect X 1000.

To explain the Dune effect was a phrase I coined when playing a Dune game long time ago, in which I discovered that to really play it well and let the players A. be the stars and B. not harm the real stars, the best way to play Dune was to never go to the planet Dune. We all know at some point your groups gonna kill Paul. The Dune effect can work for any series, don't ever let your players encounter Luke, or Captain Jack, or the heros of the Lance, or Frodo, or Captain Kirk, what ever. I use Dune because its a place don't go thier.

DR. Who has this 1000 times worse because he's the star, the only star. Even when the Time Lords were around only one other ever effected mortals and he tried to be master to them.

Having said all this, yeah they'll still get my money.

TTFN DRE

I used to own the old Dr Who rpg, and I always found the best way to deal with the problem you mention is to have the pc's be human beings from modern Earth who find/are given a TARDIS (with some hand-wavium ways of speed-learning how to pilot it) and then set off on their own adventures in time and space.

They don't ever have to cross paths with the Doctor, unless you want them too, and can have any combination of goals, morals, or driving stories the GM and players choose.

It's a simple but effective way of using the setting.

I own two different older Dr. Who RPGS (one in a boxed set and one in a smaller novel like book) and have played and loved both.

Can't wait for this one! Although I highly doubt I 'll get to play it, the read alone will be worth it!

I used to own the old Dr Who rpg, and I always found the best way to deal with the problem you mention is to have the pc's be human beings from modern Earth who find/are given a TARDIS (with some hand-wavium ways of speed-learning how to pilot it) and then set off on their own adventures in time and space.

They don't ever have to cross paths with the Doctor, unless you want them too, and can have any combination of goals, morals, or driving stories the GM and players choose.

It's a simple but effective way of using the setting.

That's not a bad idea.

I own two different older Dr. Who RPGS (one in a boxed set and one in a smaller novel like book) and have played and loved both.

Can't wait for this one! Although I highly doubt I 'll get to play it, the read alone will be worth it!

Reading the off the offical site I noticed that they intend to only cover the last four seasons, ie the current series. I do hope we get a sourcebook for each Dr., it sounds like a lot but to do the old boy justice I think its needed.

TTFN DRE

Reading the off the offical site I noticed that they intend to only cover the last four seasons, ie the current series. I do hope we get a sourcebook for each Dr., it sounds like a lot but to do the old boy justice I think its needed.

Yeah, this doesn't surprise me unfortunately. Other than the Children in Need Special, I really see the current series as distancing itself from the older Who stories, which is a shame really.

Although I highly doubt I 'll get to play it

Just wondering.... why wouldn't you get to play it?

I ran a d6 game following the first xmas special by saying UNIT eventually tried to clone a replacement doctor using the hand he lost.

Eventually revealed that the Master survived and was using the project to creat a replacement body only in my version the doctor the PC's ran into was nine.

That game is in hiatus with an option to continue with them having escaped the solar system and crashed on a distant planet after encountering the dalek's and Mondas cybermen.

Then they revealed what actually happened to the doctor's hand... still I can still claim they took a sample before Jack got his hands on it so no problem.

Was hoping d6 preime directive would be out by now as I planned them to encounter the Hegemony a Federation-like enemy perhaps I should have just stuck to Blake 7... now that would be an interesting rpg!

flash_cxxi wrote:

Although I highly doubt I 'll get to play it

Just wondering.... why wouldn't you get to play it?

Because I only get to play once every fortnight (it's why I am in so many PbPs) and after Red Hand of Doom, we move on to Rise of the Runelords... it will be a looooong time before I can even begin to look at another game. :)

flash_cxxi wrote:

I own two different older Dr. Who RPGS (one in a boxed set and one in a smaller novel like book) and have played and loved both.

Can't wait for this one! Although I highly doubt I 'll get to play it, the read alone will be worth it!

Reading the off the offical site I noticed that they intend to only cover the last four seasons, ie the current series. I do hope we get a sourcebook for each Dr., it sounds like a lot but to do the old boy justice I think its needed.

TTFN DRE

Although I no longer own it (it having been purged and sent into the flames in the great move of 2000) I recall the game I had (the one in the yellow box?) had a passably good Who timeline, this was way before New Who ever happened of course.

I recall the game I had (the one in the yellow box?) had a passably good Who timeline, this was way before New Who ever happened of course.

Yellow Box set with brown, parchment like books (3 of them). I also have 2 adventures for it as well... now if only I could actually find it I would be happy... at least I have a vague idea where the other one is.

Rockheimr wrote:

I recall the game I had (the one in the yellow box?) had a passably good Who timeline, this was way before New Who ever happened of course.

Yellow Box set with brown, parchment like books (3 of them). I also have 2 adventures for it as well... now if only I could actually find it I would be happy... at least I have a vague idea where the other one is.

You have adventures...? All I got was the 3 books in a boxed set.

Its a damn good thing I have How to build A life sized TARDIS, and How to build a life sized Dalek.

Other wise my Doctor WHO games would have been dull.