DW Monsters: Sontarans

I'm going to kick off this series with the Sontarans. That's partly because they've just been heavily featured in a new episode as I write this, but also because they are one of the races with the greatest potential for stories. They could even be adapted for other SF settings with a few serial numbers filed off. For that matter, they would make decent player characters, but I'm describing them here only as opponents since player rules would involve game balance considerations beyond the scope of these posts.

To begin with, let’s list the available source material, then look at what we know about this particular race.

Doctor Who Monster and Alien Stats (Intro)

Following on from my previous series of classic Doctor Who companions considered as if they were characters in a roleplaying game, I'll be starting another occasional series here looking at some of the "monsters" from the series. The aim here will be to consider how they would be described in game terms, rather than to expand on what we know, or provide other intangible details. There are plenty of online guides already giving that sort of information, with the TARDIS Data Core being perhaps the most thorough. 

Unlike I did with the companions, I'll conclude by providing some suggested game stats. These will not be for the DWAITAS system, since those stats already exist; this is more an exercise in seeing how other systems might cope with particular concepts. But, rather than sticking to one single system, I'll be trying out five different ones, to see what we get.