Last night we played the pilot episode of our irreverent, late night cable, non-canonical Doctor Who spin-off show, Bachelor Who. Another glorious Primetime Adventures roleplaying game, with a group of people who’d never done any indie-gaming, shared-gamemastering type stuff before. It was tremendous fun. The Bachelor is the Doctor’s younger brother, played by Bradley Cooper … Continue reading
When my Doctor Who campaign returns from its holiday hiatus, I’m probably going to run it using Primetime Adventures rather than DW: Adventures in Time and Space. Nothing against the latter system; I like it a lot, it’s very elegant and has a lot of good ideas. As a player, knowing that you always roll … Continue reading
We open in Donna Temple-Noble’s kitchen. Novice Chen is checking her over, and noticing her eyeballs twitch. She’s both awake and asleep, in a REM state, at the same time. The Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to jiggery-pokery on Novice Chen’s medical scanner, and detected that what Delgado-Master had injected Donna with is a Time … Continue reading
Subtitle: 24 HOURS AGO Sgt Streebek, the US Army officer attached to UNIT, is being briefed by his superior, Col. Oralia Isenhart (played by Dame Judy Densch). They’re both walking through construction, pushing aside plastic, people in lab coats rushing around, sparks from arc welders flying. Col. Isenhart: Remember standard protocol. Rex Runyan, Time Agent, … Continue reading
December, 1989. Indiana. Katie walks down the snowy street on her way home from college classes. A man is running down the sidewalk toward her, looking back over his shoulder occasionally as if being pursued. He’s wearing a black t-shirt, black pants, a leather jacket and sunglasses, and slicked-back hair. He plows right into Katie, … Continue reading
As I will soon by running not one, but two campaigns using Cubicle 7′s Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space RPG, I figured it was a good time to go back over my previous cursory glance at the game and fill in some blanks as to what I like most about it. Character Creation … Continue reading
Yesterday I received a review copy of the new Doctor Who roleplaying game, Adventures in Time and Space. I haven’t had time to do more than skim over it, but for those of you chomping at the bit to hear more, here’s a quick overview: The zip file contains multiple PDFs, each of which is … Continue reading
TIME LORD (all caps – it says so in the rules) is a free 165-page PDF of the Doctor Who RPG first published in 1996. The first chapter offers a history of the show, not so much a history of the setting but an actual production history of the show from its first airing in … Continue reading
Deep within the most classified archives of the Ordo Xenos is a file on the being known only as The Apothecary. Reputedly the last of his race, he appears as a human male but is the carrier of his species’ gene seed. When close to death, he is able to activate this gene seed and … Continue reading
Even the Doctor could eventually run out of time. He was down to his last regeneration, his last life. Long ago, he’d made a decision on how he’d spend it, when it finally came around. A trip down memory lane can be a literal thing for a Time Lord. The Doctor would revisit places that … Continue reading
