I love this game...

[olegrand]

... because it's the only game where you can save 1608 London from the return of the Lloigor, assist Dr John Dee in his final struggles, hypnotize King James the First to free him from insomnia, uncover the truth behind Christopher Marlowe's so-called murder... and lift him from history and take him onboard the TARDIS as your new time-travelling companion.

All this in a single evening of play. ;D

[Curufea]

I gotta give you karma for that!

[olegrand]

Oct 31, 2010 21:10:06 GMT Curufea said:

I gotta give you karma for that!

Thanks !

I was wondering : perhaps it would be fun to make this thread collective, ie anybody could post quick summaries of great play experiences here, starting with "I love this game because..."

[Craig Oxbrow]

You could do that in various other games, but it might seem strange...

I love this game because it's more likely to let me do my Dalek and Judoon impressions at the table.

[chickenpaddy]

I love this game because it's so open ended! On a whim, one of my players jumped into a pool of null-time (a la Arrowdown) and ended up in the TARDIS's Eye of Harmony chamber...a couple months in the past! He had to freeze himself in a cryo-chamber to prevent a paradox from occurring.

[Curufea]

I don't know how many of my players are reading this forum, so I can't say why I love this game

[ugavine]

...because it is fun and because it is DOCTOR WHO

And because it is a well presented game with simple yet effective mechanics. Love it!

And the two Time Lords my groups have come up with are excellent. Turns out Sherlock Holmes was actually a Time Lord hiding on Earth. They have battled Cybermen in the arctic, Slitheen on Alpha Centauri, Silurians in the West Midlands, and saved Cleopatra from the Daleks. Fantastic!

[olegrand]

Nov 5, 2010 15:52:38 GMT ugavine said:

Turns out Sherlock Holmes was actually a Time Lord hiding on Earth. They have battled Cybermen in the arctic, Slitheen on Alpha Centauri, Silurians in the West Midlands, and saved Cleopatra from the Daleks. Fantastic!

Yes, that's the spirit !

[gmjake]

before my campaign died I had a story line where an enemy timelord was thrown out of a tardis during an aerial fight over the stone age. then the protagonists sent his tardis leaping through time. The enemy predicted the next time he could get to it, then manipulated time so that a whole bunch of timelords met and spread their time travel (huon, i think) particles. He macguffined up a machine that would use the particles to bring all the protagonist's particles together so that he could steal all their regenerations (since he had been on earth for a long time and stretched his regenerations out until the end).

[The Historian]

Chello!

I love the game because it's Dr. Who. I mean really; is there any other reason?

And I'd give karma too, but I'm out for the day.

[Marnal]

Because its the only game where I've ever played where the heroes decided to cure the main NPC's vampirism by rewiring the TARDIS to convert themselves into conceptual entities and then traveling INSIDE the mind of the infected NPC. Once there, as sapient, self-aware thoughts in his head, they convinced the NPC's own subconcious to tracke down the Vamperic element and helped him destroy it with attacks of faith!

- Marnal Gate

[curtisj]

...because of my players. They almost ALWAYS manage to avoid massive plot points ;D

[skagra]

• Because DWAITAS has rekindled in me an old love for RPGing.
  
• Because it's rules light.*
  
• Because it's combat light.
  
• Because story points are ingenious; making DWAITAS conducive to interactive story telling more so than any other RPG I've ever known.
  
• Because I play it with my nieces, nephews little brother, and daughter.
  
• Because Doctor Who is my favourite!
  

*While I do prefer keeping the rules light, I am wholly keen on more supplements. These mostly provide extra resources as opposed to bogging the game down with extra rules.