Wednesday, 15 February 2023

DW Monsters: Exxilons

The first two stories of season 11 are:

The Time Warrior – The first appearance of the Sontarans.

Invasion of the Dinosaurs – Dinosaurs are real-world creatures and often already statted up in RPGs

The story that follows is Death to the Daleks, which has exactly the main foes that you would expect it to have. It does, however, also feature the Exxilons. While there’s no reason to suppose Exxilons are dramatically different from other humanoids, they can serve as an example of a primitive race and do at least have some minor differences from regular humans. They appeared only once in the TV series, but have appeared twice in audio stories and, because of their history as an advanced space-faring power, have occasionally been mentioned in tie-in novels and elsewhere.

Wednesday, 18 January 2023

DW Monsters: Giant Maggots

Continuing through season 10, we get:

Frontier in Space – While the Draconians are undeniably interesting, this is primarily due to their culture. In terms of basic attributes, they don’t seem that different from humans and can probably be described in the same way. Therefore, I will pass on them.

I will also pass on the unnamed Ogron-eating blob monster from the same story, on the grounds we know almost nothing about it.

Planet of the Daleks – It’s still not quite time for the Daleks on this blog yet…

Which brings us to The Green Death… and giant maggots!