Dr Who

Dumarest · July 20, 2017, 06:40:10 PM

Anybody ever play the old FASA Dr. Who game?

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Biscuitician · July 21, 2017, 06:16:57 AM

Quote from: Dumarest;976977Anybody ever play the old FASA Dr. Who game?

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It was shit, lets be honest

Coffee Zombie · July 21, 2017, 06:39:30 AM

Quote from: Dumarest;976977Anybody ever play the old FASA Dr. Who game?

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My friends and I tried, but as I recall the rules set was very clunky. Actually, I might be able to say the rules set was very FASA and mean the same thing...

Baulderstone · July 21, 2017, 07:22:23 AM

Quote from: Dumarest;976977Anybody ever play the old FASA Dr. Who game?

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I made a character for it once. My friend that owned it was generally reliable about actually running games that he bought, so it is possible he didn't like it. I can't remember anything about the mechanics.

The quality of the game aside, I liked looking through it was the closest thing to a good guidebook on the show that I had seen at the time.

dbm · July 21, 2017, 07:48:48 AM

Quote from: Biscuitician;976950Yeah, looks that way. Shame, I don't see much point buying books along with this collection.

Can't really complain though, this bundle is an incredible deal.

Lots of people are recommending Paternoster Investigations, which isn't part of the bundle.

Biscuitician · July 21, 2017, 08:24:08 AM

I was more interested in whether the GM Companion or the Strange Creatures (bestiary) is worthwhile.

Paternoster looks good, but is rather specific to Victorian London only. The Bestiary looks like it gives more depth for creating aliens and monsters which interests me.

san dee jota · July 21, 2017, 12:18:12 PM

Quote from: Baulderstone;977076I made a character for it once. My friend that owned it was generally reliable about actually running games that he bought, so it is possible he didn't like it. I can't remember anything about the mechanics.

The quality of the game aside, I liked looking through it was the closest thing to a good guidebook on the show that I had seen at the time.

The Dalek logic flowchart was a thing of beauty. It was either ridicule that worked anyway, or a sincere structure that was hilarious.

dbm · July 21, 2017, 12:42:31 PM

There's 25% off pretty much the entire range on DriveThru at the moment...

Biscuitician · July 21, 2017, 03:30:05 PM

Quote from: dbm;977133There's 25% off pretty much the entire range on DriveThru at the moment...

I noticed!

I picked up the GM Companion. I'd be interested in the All Strange Creatures book, but I'm not sure how much use it would be. I'm really only interested in the alien traits and rules for creating unique alien characters/monsters. The rest is probably culled from the sourcebooks.

RPGPundit · July 23, 2017, 10:02:22 PM

Quote from: TrippyHippy;976759Not sure how anybody can feel like the rules are too fiddly as it's a simple Attribute + Skill + 2D6 vs target

You're welcome.

RPGPundit · July 23, 2017, 10:02:53 PM

Quote from: Biscuitician;976787Aside from the funky initiative system, are there any other cool gimmicks

You're welcome.

RPGPundit · July 23, 2017, 10:04:07 PM

Quote from: Krimson;976894as well as that small book with Sylvester McCoy on the cover.

I believe that was Time Lord, which I still utterly love. I didn't care for the FASA rules, which felt much more like Star Trek than Doctor Who to me.

Dumarest · July 24, 2017, 12:53:56 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;977650I believe that was Time Lord, which I still utterly love. I didn't care for the FASA rules, which felt much more like Star Trek than Doctor Who to me.

Maybe because they took the Star Trek mechanics they wrote in 1982 and turned them into Doctor Who in 1985.

I quite like them, though.

Biscuitician · July 24, 2017, 05:02:13 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;977649You're welcome.

for what, you're not credited with developing the game. Ego, much?

Biscuitician · July 24, 2017, 05:17:44 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;977648You're welcome.

You invented the roll 2d6 beat difficulty mechanic, did you?

In your dreams boyo.