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Bossko B.
England
Brierley Hill
The Black Country
BAZINGA!
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I'm a huge Doctor Who fan, as are most of my friends. I've just got myself a good copy of the FASA Doctor Who RPG and I have the new Cubicle 7 one on order. So a Doctor Who RPG is on the cards.
One of the main iconic images of Doctor who, IMHO, is the TARDIS, or more precisely the Police box. The Doctor's TARDIS has a malfunction, hence it looks like that. But really I have no excuse for a PC TARDIS to look like a Police Box.
The only time I've run Doctor RPG before (using Star Wars D6 rules) I had the groups TARDIS look like a Police Box because they had tried to repair their own Chameleon Circuit by cloning The Doctor's, only to end up with the same fault.
Now I didn't really want to keep using this excuse for future games and wondered what other Doctor Who players did for their TARDIS appearance?
How about the whole type 40 range are linked and the fault on The Doctor's TARDIS replicated throughout them all, hence the Time Lords recalled them all, except for the odd one or two?
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Andy Leighton
England
Peterborough
Unspecified
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Well remember also that the type 40 is a fairly outdated model (some fan-fiction histories have it as the first model with a working chameleon circuit) as well - there is no reason why a PC shouldn't have a more up to date model. Or for the PCs to have a TARDIS at all - in the TV programme we have seen Time-Lords using time ring technology.
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Bossko B.
England
Brierley Hill
The Black Country
BAZINGA!
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But knowing my mates they will want a TARDIS. And if I'm running a Doctor who RPG I think it would be unfair to not let them :cool:
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Bill H
United States
Absecon
New Jersey
You can't take the sky from me!
"A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play, his labour and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation." LP Jacks
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A working chameleon circuit could be fun too -- look at the forms the Master's TARDIS took.
I know the police box has a certain tradition behind it, but this game will be about the new crew and a working TARDIS might help illustrate that they're charting their own course.
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Mark McConnell
United Kingdom
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Perhaps the players would forgive you if the exterior was different but the interior was familiar given it was a mass produced control room.
If you don't have a miniature for the control desk there's a very good one at this location which is a cut card model for 25mm figures.
TARDIS IS HERE
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Steven Ege
United States
Fall River
Massachusetts
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Ugavine wrote: Now I didn't really want to keep using this excuse for future games and wondered what other Doctor Who players did for their TARDIS appearance?
Let them have a properly functioning TARDIS. Not every renegede Time Lord out there needs to have a TARDIS permanently locked in the shape of a 1960's era London Police Box. In fact, there's nothing that says they need to be locked into a Type 40. The Rani had a Type 70 if I recall, and Professor Chronotis (from the unaired Shada) supposedly had an ancient Type 10, even though he wasn't supposed to have a TARDIS at all.
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Eric Dodd
New Zealand
Martinborough
Wairarapa
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I remember a comic from the Marvel published Doctor Who Magazine that featured the 7th Doctor against the Cybermen in 50s America. He was able in that story to turn the TARDIS into a Cadillac and drive around in it for plot purposes.
One idea I remember is just a Door in the Wall - always a different door or portal, and always in a wall, but any kind of door to suit or stand out from its surroundings.
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