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As you may have seen on my general blog (go see my general blog!!!!1111one) I am currently sans internet at home.
So in the meantime, here are some RPGnetters' ideas for Doctor Who episodes.
More soon, hopefully.
Thursday, 13 September 2012
Sunday, 9 September 2012
The Sun Of Death
So a friend on a social media site commented that this and last week’s episode concepts could be the result of choosing elements at random.
So I linked to The Vortex Oracle...
and got this:
The Sun of Death
A powerful man and his revenge for an ancient wrong.
An archaeological dig.
A busy port.
A run-down shelter.
Just noting it here for future reference.
So I linked to The Vortex Oracle...
and got this:
The Sun of Death
A powerful man and his revenge for an ancient wrong.
An archaeological dig.
A busy port.
A run-down shelter.
Just noting it here for future reference.
Saturday, 8 September 2012
Dinosaurs On A Spaceship
Hrm. Maybe I wasn’t in the mood.
Liked the asides - Brian, Nefertiti, Tricie, the ISA - didn’t like the central conflict or the resolution. It just felt rather... off, a bum note instead of a character turn, especially in an episode that otherwise felt particularly kid-friendly. A bit where I’d ask the player “are you sure you want to do that?” And the Story Point cost for the solution must have been quite high...
(Oh well, here’s mini-Confidential. The Triceratops was lovely.)
Liked the asides - Brian, Nefertiti, Tricie, the ISA - didn’t like the central conflict or the resolution. It just felt rather... off, a bum note instead of a character turn, especially in an episode that otherwise felt particularly kid-friendly. A bit where I’d ask the player “are you sure you want to do that?” And the Story Point cost for the solution must have been quite high...
(Oh well, here’s mini-Confidential. The Triceratops was lovely.)
Friday, 7 September 2012
Thursday, 6 September 2012
The Smell Of Doom
A current deodorant advert (which I won’t link to due to evil but the advert is called Anarchy) takes another deodorant’s old “men can’t help acting on it” idea a long way past its logical conclusion. It shows people so overwhelmed by lust for random passersby that they tear off their clothes in broad daylight, crash their cars, a nurse lets the wheelchair she’s pushing roll into the street, and it ends with sirens wailing, emergency service helicopters flying in, and the city on fire.
“Yes folks,” it says, “our new product will destroy civilisation.”
Which really doesn’t work for me as an advert...
But it does absolutely work as a Torchwood plot.
The main question is who dosed the city and why?
(The final DWM Eighth Doctor comic strip The Flood had the Cybermen do the same thing with fear and anger, as a way of softening humanity up for conversion.)
“Yes folks,” it says, “our new product will destroy civilisation.”
Which really doesn’t work for me as an advert...
But it does absolutely work as a Torchwood plot.
The main question is who dosed the city and why?
(The final DWM Eighth Doctor comic strip The Flood had the Cybermen do the same thing with fear and anger, as a way of softening humanity up for conversion.)
Wednesday, 5 September 2012
Dungeons And Daleks
Linked by C7's Twitter, no less:
How the it's-mad-just-run-with-it feel of the new series can influence RPGs of a suitable Weird Level.
How the it's-mad-just-run-with-it feel of the new series can influence RPGs of a suitable Weird Level.
Tuesday, 4 September 2012
Aww, Rory!
Den Of Geek points out a detail I missed during Pond Life:
Rory has a Roman Centurion lunchbox!
"Which is brilliant. Do you think the other nurses laugh at him though?"
Rory has a Roman Centurion lunchbox!
"Which is brilliant. Do you think the other nurses laugh at him though?"
Recycling in action!
Nice to see the rather nice robots from Mission 2110 getting work in Dinosaurs On A Spaceship rather than going to waste.
I was totally going to use them as robots in a Door In Time episode some time, too...
I was totally going to use them as robots in a Door In Time episode some time, too...
Monday, 3 September 2012
Updates
Steven Moffat discusses writing for the new companion.
“In these five episodes the Doctor is practically the adopted son of Amy and Rory. He’s gone from being the wonderful man from space – Space Gandalf, as he wants to be – to being that troublesome kid that they try and keep under control. They even talked about getting babysitters for him in one unfortunately cut scene. They love him, but they know he’s a big kid, they know they have to look out for him, check he eats and all that. Whereas with the new companion he’s back to being the mysterious spacefarer.”
And this prequel is late!
And The Doctor’s Wife won the Hugo, and Neil Gaiman’s acceptance speech included saying “... Only a fool or a madman would try to do it again... so I’m on the third draft.”
Which according to Hugo-winning io9 poster Charlie Jane Anders, is true!
“In these five episodes the Doctor is practically the adopted son of Amy and Rory. He’s gone from being the wonderful man from space – Space Gandalf, as he wants to be – to being that troublesome kid that they try and keep under control. They even talked about getting babysitters for him in one unfortunately cut scene. They love him, but they know he’s a big kid, they know they have to look out for him, check he eats and all that. Whereas with the new companion he’s back to being the mysterious spacefarer.”
And this prequel is late!
And The Doctor’s Wife won the Hugo, and Neil Gaiman’s acceptance speech included saying “... Only a fool or a madman would try to do it again... so I’m on the third draft.”
Which according to Hugo-winning io9 poster Charlie Jane Anders, is true!
Sunday, 2 September 2012
Ooooh.
Big Chief's reveals of their 12" scale Fourth and Tenth Doctor figures, and Fez and Stetson (and Ganger?!) Eleven and... a Weeping Angel. eeeee.
To Be Continued
Via Siskoid, Twelve Brilliant Doctor Who Cliffhangers.
Includes undue swears and a rather harsh analysis of the Fifth Doctor, but I can't really argue with the cliffhangers themselves. Except that I would have included The Stolen Earth, where for a week afterwards we were telling ourselves "they couldn't have... not really..."
Includes undue swears and a rather harsh analysis of the Fifth Doctor, but I can't really argue with the cliffhangers themselves. Except that I would have included The Stolen Earth, where for a week afterwards we were telling ourselves "they couldn't have... not really..."
The Life And Death Of The Corsair
From the 2012 Brilliant Book, as written by Neil Gaiman.
Apart from the note at the end about the parrot. Maybe it isn't that the chap with the parrot is the Corsair... it's that the parrot is the Corsair's parrot... and really is the one in charge.
Apart from the note at the end about the parrot. Maybe it isn't that the chap with the parrot is the Corsair... it's that the parrot is the Corsair's parrot... and really is the one in charge.
Saturday, 1 September 2012
Interviews!
Karen Gillan talks to The Mary Sue about, among other things, visiting a distant future to see if humans are so lazy our bodies end up being pretty much useless.
And then Caro Skinner about, among other things, the accuracy of historical episodes and the scale of The Daleks Take Manhattan.
And then Matt Smith about... well, hopefully not too many spoilers, but also about how cool New York is.
And then Caro Skinner about, among other things, the accuracy of historical episodes and the scale of The Daleks Take Manhattan.
And then Matt Smith about... well, hopefully not too many spoilers, but also about how cool New York is.
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