Time-Lord-Journies.pdf

JOURNIES

September 2003 Edition

TIMELORD

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1: CHARACTER GENERATION

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Using the Character Templates

Table: Skill Rating Costs

An Example of Character Generation - Doctor Sarah Bellum

Table: Resources & Authority

Player Group Composition

Character Templates:

The Experienced Time Lord

The Professor

The Noviced Time Lord

Zharadimitrades

The Companion

Antonio Garcia

The Specialist

Dr. Sarah Bellum

The Soldier

Sgt. John Carter

The Alien

Blivitz the Gleep

CHAPTER 2: NEW RULES AND CLARIFICATIONS

Regeneration

Using a Regeneration

Time Lord Body Building

Table: Gallifreyan Min/Max Ability Scores

Table: Gallifreyan Body Building

Special Abilities

Post-Regeneration Disorientation

Regeneration Example

Genre Tropes

Drama Points

Villians and Drama Points

Example

CHAPTER 2: NEW RULES AND CLARIFICATIONS (Cont.)

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Genre Tropes

The Davros Effect

The Probic Vent Effect

The Nick of Time Effect

The Daft Gaurd Effect

The Master Effect

The Joe Grant Effect

The Instant MacGuffin Effect

The Li H’sen Chang Effect

Learning

Rules Clarifications

MacGuffin

Regenerative Powers

Pseudoscience

History

CHAPTER 3: Random Journies

Random Journies

The Master Plan: And Example Random Journey

Section 1: Themes & Subplots

Section 2: Adversaries

Section 3: Locations

Section 4: Objects

INTRODUCTION

Welcome to the first edition of Time Lord: Journies. Inside you will find all sorts of rules,

clarifications and generators for the enhancement and expansion of Time Lord: the Doctor Who

role-playing game.

I first started playing Time Lord back in 1992, and since then, I’ve found no other game that so captures

the flavour and feel of Doctor Who and episodic adventure television in general. The system is rules light,

and those rules reflect the TV reality of the universe of the Doctor so well that it is a wonder the game has not

seen wider attention.

Of those who managed to originally find a copy (despite Virgin Ltd.’s bizarre marketing strategy), a

few people dismissed the game for the lack of character generation and experience rules, long standing sacred

cows of the RPG community. Others felt it was a little too rules light and not ‘crunchy’ enough. These days,

such things are so commonplace in the RPG industry, one might say that Time Lord was well ahead of its

time in those regards and many have missed out on a great game. Fortunately, though the main rulebook is

out of print, the authour, Ian Marsh, has made the contents available on the web, so that new players, and fans

of Doctor Who alike, can enjoy home made adventures through time and space.

This manual serves as a companion piece to the main rules, adding character generation, experience and

other new rules and tools to make the game ‘crunchier’ while still maintaining the original’s flavour and

intent. While most of the content is of my own creation, the Regeneration and Resource Point rules are

actually either modified or drawn from previous works that have been on the web for years, and can be found

compiled in the Time Lord Companion, by Stephen J. Ege, which also contains an alternate point based

chargen system and rules for converting the old FASA Doctor Who game to Time Lord.

Finally, this document is a ‘Living’ document. It will continue to grow and expand as questions are

asked, new rules are envisioned or old rules updated, so check back on occasion for the latest version.

CREDITS

Writing, Design and Lay Out by

Nathaniel Torson

Art

Nathaniel Torson (www.torsononline.com)

Rob Semenoff (www.interocitor-media.com/tardis/)

www.who-3d.com

Doctor Who and all photos, names and anything else otherwise related to it and not an original

work of art from the people defined above, are the rightful IP of the BBC and are used here without

permission.

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