Wednesday, 22 July 2020
The Hollow Planet
The Hollow Planet, a print-and-play escape game at home, coming soon from the makers of the official Doctor Who escape room A Dalek Awakens.
Sunday, 19 July 2020
Sunday adventure hook: The Wild Hunt
The Wild Hunt
Steal this and apply to Time Lord:
An action thriller about an immortal trying to out run the two grim reaper bounty hunters tasked with finally laying them rest. Cue close calls much in the style of Final Destination.
Here they come.
SON M. on Twitter
“So is this normal?”
“Not even by my standards.”
Steal this and apply to Time Lord:
An action thriller about an immortal trying to out run the two grim reaper bounty hunters tasked with finally laying them rest. Cue close calls much in the style of Final Destination.
Here they come.
SON M. on Twitter
“So is this normal?”
“Not even by my standards.”
Thursday, 16 July 2020
Three years of Thirteen
Jodie Whittaker was revealed as the Thirteenth Doctor three years ago today.
Sunday, 12 July 2020
Sunday adventure hook: Day Of Honour
Day Of Honour
(Named after the online launch of the Star Trek Adventures Klingon Empire Rulebook)
A fantasy or sci-fi Olympics or other sporting competition is a tried and tested trope idea, I’ve done it more than once. But consider the kind of politicking that goes into getting to stage a major sporting event. How do you prepare for an interplanetary tournament?
“Can we have a laser show without starting an interplanetary war?”
(Named after the online launch of the Star Trek Adventures Klingon Empire Rulebook)
A fantasy or sci-fi Olympics or other sporting competition is a tried and tested trope idea, I’ve done it more than once. But consider the kind of politicking that goes into getting to stage a major sporting event. How do you prepare for an interplanetary tournament?
“Can we have a laser show without starting an interplanetary war?”
Thursday, 9 July 2020
Sunday, 5 July 2020
Sunday adventure hook: The Rite Of Spring
The Rite Of Spring
The first performance of The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky is said to have caused a riot. This seems to be an embellishment of later reviews based on it being booed, but let’s find out...
“So it’s about a human sacrifice dancing herself to death? Fun.”
“Yeah, lets hope nobody starts doing it for... oh, here we go...”
The first performance of The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky is said to have caused a riot. This seems to be an embellishment of later reviews based on it being booed, but let’s find out...
“So it’s about a human sacrifice dancing herself to death? Fun.”
“Yeah, lets hope nobody starts doing it for... oh, here we go...”
Saturday, 4 July 2020
Carry On Doctor... Who
Discovering the potential existence of Carry On To Moscow got me wondering, since they did Spying (spy-fi) and Screaming (horror, aimed at the Hammer house style of lurid colours) and had quite a few actors in common including William Hartnell and Jon Pertwee, why Carry On never had a go at time travel...
Imagining Sid James as the Locum and Barbara Windsor as his bosom companion, with Kenneth Williams as the Supervisor...
Imagining Sid James as the Locum and Barbara Windsor as his bosom companion, with Kenneth Williams as the Supervisor...
Sunday, 28 June 2020
Sunday adventure hook: Out, Out Brief Candle
Out, Out Brief Candle
Inspired by my birthday on Friday... and Happy Death Day...
Someone interrupts the Stranger’s birthday to kill her.
And as she dies, she realises that this happened on her last birthday as well. She sends the rest of the travellers back there.
And they see her die again. And she sends them back another year...
“What do you get for the woman who has everything? Or could potentially due to the time and space machine she lives in?”
“Right now I’m thinking Kevlar.”
Saturday, 27 June 2020
Cold, Minty Extermination
Via SFX: Dalek’s Death Ray from Wall’s ice cream in 1975. I always figured the death ray would be hot.
Sunday, 21 June 2020
Sunday adventure hook: Days’ Father
Days’ Father
Because Father’s Day has been done...
The founding of a calendar, and just what does it count up to? What do its ancient devisers know that we don’t?
And indeed, why is our New Year a week and a bit after a solstice? And why do we have a Roman month calendar, so many Norse god days of the week and an ancient Greek Zodiac?
“But the world didn’t end in 2012!”
“Yeah, funny story...”
Because Father’s Day has been done...
The founding of a calendar, and just what does it count up to? What do its ancient devisers know that we don’t?
And indeed, why is our New Year a week and a bit after a solstice? And why do we have a Roman month calendar, so many Norse god days of the week and an ancient Greek Zodiac?
“But the world didn’t end in 2012!”
“Yeah, funny story...”
Wednesday, 17 June 2020
Sunday, 14 June 2020
Sunday adventure hook: The Onyx Path
The Onyx Path
In honour of this weekend’s Onyx Path Virtual Convnion, and if Chris Chibnall can call a two-parter Spyfall...
A world under a blue-grey sun, the one new construction since some unspoken disaster is a gleaming black pathway leading... where?
“Why are we going this way?”
“It’s so shiny!”
Monday, 8 June 2020
Wibbly Wobbly Dicey Wicey
Wibbly Wobbly Dicey Wicey, a Who RPG podcast from Ryan Blake, via episode one guest Siskoid. (Other episode one guests include C7...)
Sunday, 7 June 2020
Sunday adventure hook: Decline And Fall
Decline And Fall
Visiting a student traveller’s university, the stranger notices a European history syllabus covering he usual - Greece, Rome, Carthage, Second Carthage, the Carthaginian Pontifex...
“Why are there elephants around Nelson’s Column?”
Visiting a student traveller’s university, the stranger notices a European history syllabus covering he usual - Greece, Rome, Carthage, Second Carthage, the Carthaginian Pontifex...
“Why are there elephants around Nelson’s Column?”
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