Not a Dead Communist

So we come to the final character template, the one that's essential in a game like this, even if only as an option. I have found that t...

The penultimate character template in my set is another one that's usually very popular. There are, I suspect, at least a couple of reas...

The other new character I've come up with to replace the unpopular nurse and barbarian is another futuristic one. While the TV show, at ...

This next character is another one that hasn't proven hugely popular. Unlike the two I ditched, however, it seems to me that this one st...

My original set of pre-gens for convention games included a couple of characters that did not prove popular. One was a nurse, intended to fi...

Some of the characters I include as pre-gens for convention games are historical or contemporary, which makes it easy to envisage the sorts ...

At conventions, I have so far found that players tend to go for the obvious adventurer archetypes when picking from the list of pre-gen PCs ...

When I have run Doctor Who games at conventions, the UNIT soldier seems the most popular of the default character types I offer as pre-gens...

Judging from the number of hits, my ongoing series discussing various Doctor Who monsters in RPG terms is not one of the most popular thing...

This weekend, I ran a Doctor Who game at the annual Continuum convention in Leicester. I've had relatively little to run the game befor...

And, then, in 2005, the series came back. But it had, of course, regenerated into a form notably changed from its former self. This was ...

Sam Jones After the dismal failure of the 1996 TV movie (decent audience figures, but pretty much everyone hated it), Doctor Who return...

The Eighth Doctor Sourcebook was always going to be the hardest of the series to write, and the one that was going to be least like all t...

The series is cancelled at the end of the twenty sixth season. Some time after, a new player joins the group. Deciding that everyone is ge...

The year 1980 saw a major change in the production of Doctor Who , as John Nathan-Turner took over as producer. Although this was the top ...

Mel leaves at the end of the twenty-fourth season. (Yes: twenty-fourth... suck on that, Supernatural ). It didn't take long for the pl...

Peri leaves part way through the twenty-third season. Her player is getting a bit tired of the GM having NPCs drool over her character, an...

And so, with this sourcebook, we reach the end of the classic era of Doctor Who . The broad fan consensus on this era is that, at least in...

Tegan leaves part way through the twenty-first season. Her player hasn't quite given up on the idea of playing a colonial, instead of ...

Okay, it's confession time: the Sixth Doctor's era is my least favourite in all of Doctor Who . Nor am I alone in this. While th...