The Doctor Who Role Playing Game

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The Doctor Who Role Playing Game
Publisher FASA
Publication date 1985
Genre(s) Science Fiction, Time-travel
System Custom (same as Star Trek RPG)

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.

Contents

[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 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 mediocre knowledge of Doctor Who continuity and some notable divergences from known Doctor Who continuity.[citation needed] It claims that the Meddling Monk later adopted the alias of 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

[edit] System

Its game mechanics were based on (though, not identical to) the Star Trek RPG also published by FASA.

[edit] Supplements

[edit] Daleks and The Dalek Problem

Two part module that includes full details about the Daleks back story, playing guide stats and new scenario. 1985 - FASA 9101 - ISBN 0931787939

[edit] The Master and The Master: CIA File Extracts

1985 - FASA 9102 - ISBN 0931787947

[edit] The Cybermen and Cyber Files: CIA Special Report

1985 - FASA 9103 - ISBN 0931787734

[edit] The Iytean Menace

"Out in the fog-shrouded night of Victorian London, an evil force was lurking, waiting to strike. A senseless murder, over a strange artifact, was only the very beginning of the terror of The Iytean Menace . What was the ancient evil, and how had it been awakened? Where would it strike next? "The Time Lord and his Companions had been sent to the capital of Queen Victoria's realm to learn the source of a strange weapon that should never have been on Earth at all..." (J. Andrew Keith)

1985 - FASA 9201 - ISBN 0931787912

[edit] The Lords of Destiny

"The World-Ship of Ydar was a monster, vast, implacable, and set on a collision course with the Galaxy of Man. Giant starship and mobile world, Destiny of Ydar is both refuge and vengeance of a long-dead civilization which must be stopped, or worlds will die. The cooperation of the Ydarans is vital. To bad they're caught up in a civil war just now. Too bad, too, that they've forgotten the rest of the universe exists..."

1985 - FASA 9202 - ISBN 0931787920

[edit] Countdown

(Cybermen)

1985 - FASA 9203 - ISBN 0931787955

[edit] The Hartlewick Horror

"Why are the villagers of a sleepy little town like Hartlewick disappearing? Has the archeological excavation of an ancient Druidic mound awakened something that was better left undisturbed? And are these strange occurrences related to the presence of a mysterious energy field? The Time Lord and his Companions are sent to Hartlewick, England to locate the source of this unexplained energy field. But they do not have much time. Forces are at work to unleash something hideous and all-too-powerful upon the residents of 1923 Earth."

1985 - FASA 9204 - ISBN 0931787750

[edit] The Legions of Death

"The legions were on the march... but Rome had never faced an enemy like this one. An evil renegade Time Lord has allied himself with British tribesmen to lure a Roman army -- and a Roman Emperor -- into a deviously plotted trap. History will be changed and an army of fanatic conquerors loosed upon the Galaxy if a Time Lord and his Companions cannot stop the renegade's sinister plan." (J. Andrew Keith)

1985 - FASA 9205 - ISBN 0931787262

[edit] City of Gold

1986 - FASA 9206 - ISBN 0931787491

[edit] The Warrior's Code

1986 - FASA 9207 - ISBN 0931787735

[edit] See also

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