Some interesting news from Cubicle 7: in honor of the 50th anniversary of Dr. Who, they're putting out 11 sourcebooks, one for each Doctor.  They're also offering these books in a subscription mode for people who want to get a discounted rate on the set.

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Snoopy sums up my reaction

I will require the second and fifth volumes.

Well. Cool.

Saw this today. Looks awesome. The subscription is a bit expensive for one go (but reasonable considering the number of books).

Quote from: BedrockBrendan;626119Saw this today. Looks awesome. The subscription is a bit expensive for one go (but reasonable considering the number of books).

Yeah, it's a big number, but... I agree, if done well, they should be very much worth it. C7 can do really good work; I'm just skeptical about their timescales.

I'm strongly considering going for this. Very strongly.

:eek:
i could never justify the subscription, but may have to get 3-5.

I'd be curious to see how many of the 8th Doctor sourcebooks actually sell.

Curious as to what the page count would look like...

Quote from: YourSwordisMine;626160I'd be curious to see how many of the 8th Doctor sourcebooks actually sell.

Curious as to what the page count would look like...

Well, I wonder if they'd have access to stuff from Big Finish or the novels.

Quote from: LibraryLass;626182Well, I wonder if they'd have access to stuff from Big Finish or the novels.

Well, its actually that or flesh out/invent a bunch of stuff about the Time War, and have the 8th doctor book double as the Time War Sourcebook... which I think, if that's the angle they take, would sell in droves...

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Is this a kickstarter?

They haven't written these books yet, have they?

Quote from: RPGPundit;626345Well, its actually that or flesh out/invent a bunch of stuff about the Time War, and have the 8th doctor book double as the Time War Sourcebook... which I think, if that's the angle they take, would sell in droves...

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Heck yes. Although some of that stuff, especially the stuff mentioned in the Tennant era, I think might be more evocative if it remains suggestions rather than concrete.

Quote from: Ghost Whistler;626438Is this a kickstarter?

They haven't written these books yet, have they?

As per the link, they've got text for the first six, and this is a project that has been under consideration since before the main game came out; if they devote their full efforts to it, they should be able to pull it off, as ambitious a product line as it is. It's more like an extended pre-order... or a subscription; good way to get around supplement drop-off.

I'd rather not know the history of the Time War - what "happened" shouldn't make sense to our, linear-thinking, minds, but an appropriately chaotic timeline would be a horrible project (Kinda like the Watchmen thread elsewhere, it's the sort of event that doesn't need to be explained; it happened, it was terrible, these are the results). But yeah, they're really going to have to work to bulk up that 8th Doctor book, unless they get the Big Finish license too (And the BBC seems to consider the audio stuff even less "canon" than the TV series).

maybe vol. 8 will be a 32 page freebie

Quote from: beeber;626467maybe vol. 8 will be a 32 page freebie

With a bunch of "Not Canon" warnings? Maybe they could combinme it with a sourcebook on Rowan Atkinson's turn as The Doctor...or the Peter Cushing Doctor Who films.