The Doctor Who Role Playing Game

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The Doctor Who Role Playing Game was a Doctor Who roleplaying game published by FASA in 1985. The game allowed players to assume similar roles to the Doctor and his companions or as agents of the Celestial Intervention Agency.

1 Setting
2 History
3 System
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Setting

The game was set in the Doctor Who universe. The main set of three rulebooks was followed by several separately published adventures and supplements for the game, which provided details about the Daleks, the Cybermen and the the Master. The supplements contained two pamphlets, one for players and another for game masters, reflecting the fact that the CIA sometimes has faulty information.

The game line reflected sometimes mediocore knowledge of Doctor Who continuity and some notable divergences from known Doctor Who continuity. It explains that the Meddling Monk later adopted the alias of the War Chief and later the Master. The game's backstory resolved the UNIT dating controversy by flatly contradicting Mawdryn Undead onscreen action and placing that story's "present day" sequence in the near future. A supplement to the game stated that Adric had not died and that a Time Lord had rescued him in a later model TARDIS than the Doctor's.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] History

The game came out in two printings, one showing painted artwork of the Fourth Doctor and Leela the other a publicity photograph of them. Neither the Fourth Doctor or Leela, at that date, still appeared in the series. The painting printing had interior rulebooks with slick white covers, while the photographic edition featured more textured brown Victorian-styled rulebooks.

FASA also published two solo play gamebooks: Doctor Who and the Vortex Crystal (1986) by William H. Keith, Jr., featuring the Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan and the Daleks, set on the planet Gathwyr; and Doctor Who and the Rebel's Gambit (1986) by William H. Keith, Jr., featuring the Sixth Doctor, Peri and Harry Sullivan, set during the American Civil War, ISBN 0-931787-68-8