[Campaign Seeds] The works of Roald Dahl

[soultaker666212]

Roald Dahl is one of the greatest children writers we have ever had. his works have been read in schools and libraries by millions of children throughout the years and have left lasting impressions upon us. His works tell of many different whimsical and wacky adventures, of brave and lucky children, of evil and unpleasant adults and of strange and unique places. We all have read at least one of his books or seen a film adaptation of his works and most certainly felt something positive after reading/viewing them. I do feel doctor who often overlooks his works as inspiration compared to other authors like J.K Rowling or Agatha Christie.

So I propose the idea, could we adapt the works of Roald Dahl to doctor who? A lot of the themes and elements are already well established in doctor who and translating Dahl's works into these themes for doctor who I feel works well. By utilising his works, I can see a multiple campaign arc forming from the adaptation of his works, whizzing off from place to place in the TARDIS or equivalent time machine and meeting fascinating and fantastic (pun intended on that last one) people. If we use his poplar works as a guide we can come up with good ideas from it, you do not have to make it a 1 to 1 adaptation but take elements and themes from each book into 1 campaign. Fantastic Mr Fox for example could be about futuristic human farmers trying to take control over a planet with the native species being humanoid foxes having to defend their planet from these corporate farmers, the witches can just be carrionites for example. those are just a couple of ideas to get started with but I would love to see what others thing as well. To give a bit about myself, my favourite book growing up was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory I was obsessed with it I remember my parents taking me to Cadbury's world because of my obsession with that book, so I do have a personal connection with a work of Roald Dahl. 

Also can we just establish that Willy Wonka is most certainly a Time Lord, his factory being a TARDIS and Oompa Loompas are just alien workers. I do feel a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory campaign might be great for a campaign arc ending though, having to stop a dimensional rift using a wonka bar taking the idea from the Nearly Impossible 30+ difficulty roll. 

[grinch]

Ah, Roald Dahl. His works carry with them such wonderful memories for me. I even make it a yearly tradition to reread his works. And yes, they would make for a good basis for an adventure or two.

* James and the Giant Peach: A lonely young child runs away from an unhappy home with a group of eccentric yet well meaning alien insects. In lieu of a spaceship, their method of transportation is grown from a malfunctioning/improved organic converter or food machine.

* Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: There are a few ways you could do Mr Wonka in the Whoniverse. Here’s a few suggestions on my part. The first could be that Mr Wonka is as the book suggests the reclusive head of a massive corporation with their being hushed whispers regarding his mysterious factory. When he suddenly sends out invitations, your PCs discover the truth. Mr Wonka has been dead for many years now. But his mind has been preserved digitally alternatively the AI of the Factory has had somewhat of a breakdown since the death of its creator and now has taken on the identity or even believes itself to be the real Mr Wonka. Would certainly explain some of his eccentricities. As an alternative, you could tie it in with the clear ersatz of Mr Wonka the SCP’s Dr Wondertainment. After many years of dealing with its strange anomalous products, the PCs soon track him down to his factory and encounter the horrors which lie within...

* The Magic Finger: After her hand gets doused in a mysterious liquid, a young particularly moral girl discovers she now possesses the uncontrollable power to warp reality. Alternatively she could be the human hybrid of an alien father and human mother. With her heritage giving her unique abilities.

* Fantastic Mr Fox: Mr Fox could make for a recurring NPC in a campaign. A charming yet cunning Fox Kind from New Earth who regularly performs robberies and acts of theft. As he makes more frequent appearances and your PCs get to know him more, they’ll soon discover the truth behind his tragic backstory.

* Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator: The Vermicious Knids would make for some nice alien baddies. Especially if they somehow discover a means to penetrate Earth‘s atmosphere.

* Danny the Champion of the World: A pair of amateur poachers (father and son) in the early 20th century discover something mysterious buried in the woods while out one night...

* The Enormous Crocodile: A particularly greedy member of a society of uplifted animals in Africa.

* The Twits: Hmm, aside from making the Twits a pair of cantankerous NPCs or using the Roly-Poly Bird as species of alien animal this one might be best saved for when you need a few inhabitants of the Land of Fiction.

* George’s Marvellous Medicine: When UNIT investigate reports of a farm which contains giant animals, they soon discover the root cause of the phenomena. A young boy who lives in fear of his grandmother who somehow stumbled across a potential means to solve world hunger.

* The BFG: A PROBE/UNIT investigation into various disappearances across the globe leads your PCs to discover that for centuries humanity has been preyed upon by a hidden race of giants.

* The Witches: An adventure involving a secret coven of Carrionites on Earth. Or human women transformed by some unknown process into Human/Carrionite hybrids? The Grandmother would make for a great NPC in herself akin to Professor Rumford.

* The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me: Ah, one of my favourites. This one would make for a far more gentler adventure. A Short Trip which involves your PCs having to help a bunch of alien/uplifted animals rescue their struggling business.

* Matilda: Matilda as a character strikes me as the sort who could make for a good basis for a PC what with her being a precocious young polymath. Although, thankfully not as irritating as a certain Alzarius. Her clearly latent psychic abilities could also form the basis for an adventure and there are a great many species out there who could do with the mind of a genius. Whether it’s still in or outside of their body. Actually, it reminds me that Quentin Blake did an illustration of what she would be like at age thirty which could prove useful should your PCs meet her later in life. amp.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/01/matilda-at-30-roald-dahl-quentin-blake

* Esio Trot: Could work as the basis for a shorter Short Trip style adventure. With their being a suitably science fiction explanation for the growing tortoise.

* The Vicar of Nibbleswicke: A fun NPC for a more comedic adventure.

* The Minpins: Simple enough, the Minpins can be the tiny inhabitants of an alien wood. It would be up to your PCs to decide on whether they should reveal their existence to the rest of the planet or not.

* The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar: Your PCs are hired by Interpol or some other law enforcement agency to track down and apprehend a certain Henry Sugar who has been suspected of conning various casinos out a sheer fortune. When they finally track him down and discover just how and why he achieved such a goal, your PCs may face a crisis of conscience.

These ideas also don’t take into account his adult stories such as those dramatised in the excellent Tales of the Unexpected series. I already did a version of obnoxious wine connoisseur Richard Pratt from one of my favourites ‘Taste’ for the boards already.

[soultaker666212]

Jun 27, 2022 11:32:33 GMT grinch said:

Ah, Roald Dahl. His works carry with them such wonderful memories for me. I even make it a yearly tradition to reread his works. And yes, they would make for a good basis for an adventure or two.

* James and the Giant Peach: A lonely young child runs away from an unhappy home with a group of eccentric yet well meaning alien insects. In lieu of a spaceship, their method of transportation is grown from a malfunctioning/improved organic converter or food machine.

* Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: There are a few ways you could do Mr Wonka in the Whoniverse. Here’s a few suggestions on my part. The first could be that Mr Wonka is as the book suggests the reclusive head of a massive corporation with their being hushed whispers regarding his mysterious factory. When he suddenly sends out invitations, your PCs discover the truth. Mr Wonka has been dead for many years now. But his mind has been preserved digitally alternatively the AI of the Factory has had somewhat of a breakdown since the death of its creator and now has taken on the identity or even believes itself to be the real Mr Wonka. Would certainly explain some of his eccentricities. As an alternative, you could tie it in with the clear ersatz of Mr Wonka the SCP’s Dr Wondertainment. After many years of dealing with its strange anomalous products, the PCs soon track him down to his factory and encounter the horrors which lie within...

* The Magic Finger: After her hand gets doused in a mysterious liquid, a young particularly moral girl discovers she now possesses the uncontrollable power to warp reality. Alternatively she could be the human hybrid of an alien father and human mother. With her heritage giving her unique abilities.

* Fantastic Mr Fox: Mr Fox could make for a recurring NPC in a campaign. A charming yet cunning Fox Kind from New Earth who regularly performs robberies and acts of theft. As he makes more frequent appearances and your PCs get to know him more, they’ll soon discover the truth behind his tragic backstory.

* Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator: The Vermicious Knids would make for some nice alien baddies. Especially if they somehow discover a means to penetrate Earth‘s atmosphere.

* Danny the Champion of the World: A pair of amateur poachers (father and son) in the early 20th century discover something mysterious buried in the woods while out one night...

* The Enormous Crocodile: A particularly greedy member of a society of uplifted animals in Africa.

* The Twits: Hmm, aside from making the Twits a pair of cantankerous NPCs or using the Roly-Poly Bird as species of alien animal this one might be best saved for when you need a few inhabitants of the Land of Fiction.

* George’s Marvellous Medicine: When UNIT investigate reports of a farm which contains giant animals, they soon discover the root cause of the phenomena. A young boy who lives in fear of his grandmother who somehow stumbled across a potential means to solve world hunger.

* The BFG: A PROBE/UNIT investigation into various disappearances across the globe leads your PCs to discover that for centuries humanity has been preyed upon by a hidden race of giants.

* The Witches: An adventure involving a secret coven of Carrionites on Earth. Or human women transformed by some unknown process into Human/Carrionite hybrids? The Grandmother would make for a great NPC in herself akin to Professor Rumford.

* The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me: Ah, one of my favourites. This one would make for a far more gentler adventure. A Short Trip which involves your PCs having to help a bunch of alien/uplifted animals rescue their struggling business.

* Matilda: Matilda as a character strikes me as the sort who could make for a good basis for a PC what with her being a precocious young polymath. Although, thankfully not as irritating as a certain Alzarius. Her clearly latent psychic abilities could also form the basis for an adventure and there are a great many species out there who could do with the mind of a genius. Whether it’s still in or outside of their body. Actually, it reminds me that Quentin Blake did an illustration of what she would be like at age thirty which could prove useful should your PCs meet her later in life. amp.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/01/matilda-at-30-roald-dahl-quentin-blake

* Esio Trot: Could work as the basis for a shorter Short Trip style adventure. With their being a suitably science fiction explanation for the growing tortoise.

* The Vicar of Nibbleswicke: A fun NPC for a more comedic adventure.

* The Minpins: Simple enough, the Minpins can be the tiny inhabitants of an alien wood. It would be up to your PCs to decide on whether they should reveal their existence to the rest of the planet or not.

* The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar: Your PCs are hired by Interpol or some other law enforcement agency to track down and apprehend a certain Henry Sugar who has been suspected of conning various casinos out a sheer fortune. When they finally track him down and discover just how and why he achieved such a goal, your PCs may face a crisis of conscience.

These ideas also don’t take into account his adult stories such as those dramatised in the excellent Tales of the Unexpected series. I already did a version of obnoxious wine connoisseur Richard Pratt from one of my favourites ‘Taste’ for the boards already.

   Wow! I am loving these ideas already! I do agree with Matilda being a PC or even an NPC that would be great to have, I think Miss Trunchbull might just be a Slitheen in disguise, I mean they have posed as school teachers before. I like your take on George's Marvellous medicine admittedly that one stumped me on how to adapt it though so I do think yours is a brilliant idea. Oh and Mr Fox being a reoccurring NPC thief may just be one of the best ideas I have ever heard I could see him being a brilliant character for players to encounter. All around good ideas would love to see them adapted more though! 

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Jun 27, 2022 11:40:22 GMT soultaker666212 said:

Jun 27, 2022 11:32:33 GMT grinch said:

Ah, Roald Dahl. His works carry with them such wonderful memories for me. I even make it a yearly tradition to reread his works. And yes, they would make for a good basis for an adventure or two.

* James and the Giant Peach: A lonely young child runs away from an unhappy home with a group of eccentric yet well meaning alien insects. In lieu of a spaceship, their method of transportation is grown from a malfunctioning/improved organic converter or food machine.

* Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: There are a few ways you could do Mr Wonka in the Whoniverse. Here’s a few suggestions on my part. The first could be that Mr Wonka is as the book suggests the reclusive head of a massive corporation with their being hushed whispers regarding his mysterious factory. When he suddenly sends out invitations, your PCs discover the truth. Mr Wonka has been dead for many years now. But his mind has been preserved digitally alternatively the AI of the Factory has had somewhat of a breakdown since the death of its creator and now has taken on the identity or even believes itself to be the real Mr Wonka. Would certainly explain some of his eccentricities. As an alternative, you could tie it in with the clear ersatz of Mr Wonka the SCP’s Dr Wondertainment. After many years of dealing with its strange anomalous products, the PCs soon track him down to his factory and encounter the horrors which lie within...

* The Magic Finger: After her hand gets doused in a mysterious liquid, a young particularly moral girl discovers she now possesses the uncontrollable power to warp reality. Alternatively she could be the human hybrid of an alien father and human mother. With her heritage giving her unique abilities.

* Fantastic Mr Fox: Mr Fox could make for a recurring NPC in a campaign. A charming yet cunning Fox Kind from New Earth who regularly performs robberies and acts of theft. As he makes more frequent appearances and your PCs get to know him more, they’ll soon discover the truth behind his tragic backstory.

* Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator: The Vermicious Knids would make for some nice alien baddies. Especially if they somehow discover a means to penetrate Earth‘s atmosphere.

* Danny the Champion of the World: A pair of amateur poachers (father and son) in the early 20th century discover something mysterious buried in the woods while out one night...

* The Enormous Crocodile: A particularly greedy member of a society of uplifted animals in Africa.

* The Twits: Hmm, aside from making the Twits a pair of cantankerous NPCs or using the Roly-Poly Bird as species of alien animal this one might be best saved for when you need a few inhabitants of the Land of Fiction.

* George’s Marvellous Medicine: When UNIT investigate reports of a farm which contains giant animals, they soon discover the root cause of the phenomena. A young boy who lives in fear of his grandmother who somehow stumbled across a potential means to solve world hunger.

* The BFG: A PROBE/UNIT investigation into various disappearances across the globe leads your PCs to discover that for centuries humanity has been preyed upon by a hidden race of giants.

* The Witches: An adventure involving a secret coven of Carrionites on Earth. Or human women transformed by some unknown process into Human/Carrionite hybrids? The Grandmother would make for a great NPC in herself akin to Professor Rumford.

* The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me: Ah, one of my favourites. This one would make for a far more gentler adventure. A Short Trip which involves your PCs having to help a bunch of alien/uplifted animals rescue their struggling business.

* Matilda: Matilda as a character strikes me as the sort who could make for a good basis for a PC what with her being a precocious young polymath. Although, thankfully not as irritating as a certain Alzarius. Her clearly latent psychic abilities could also form the basis for an adventure and there are a great many species out there who could do with the mind of a genius. Whether it’s still in or outside of their body. Actually, it reminds me that Quentin Blake did an illustration of what she would be like at age thirty which could prove useful should your PCs meet her later in life. amp.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/01/matilda-at-30-roald-dahl-quentin-blake

* Esio Trot: Could work as the basis for a shorter Short Trip style adventure. With their being a suitably science fiction explanation for the growing tortoise.

* The Vicar of Nibbleswicke: A fun NPC for a more comedic adventure.

* The Minpins: Simple enough, the Minpins can be the tiny inhabitants of an alien wood. It would be up to your PCs to decide on whether they should reveal their existence to the rest of the planet or not.

* The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar: Your PCs are hired by Interpol or some other law enforcement agency to track down and apprehend a certain Henry Sugar who has been suspected of conning various casinos out a sheer fortune. When they finally track him down and discover just how and why he achieved such a goal, your PCs may face a crisis of conscience.

These ideas also don’t take into account his adult stories such as those dramatised in the excellent Tales of the Unexpected series. I already did a version of obnoxious wine connoisseur Richard Pratt from one of my favourites ‘Taste’ for the boards already.

   Wow! I am loving these ideas already! I do agree with Matilda being a PC or even an NPC that would be great to have, I think Miss Trunchbull might just be a Slitheen in disguise, I mean they have posed as school teachers before. I like your take on George's Marvellous medicine admittedly that one stumped me on how to adapt it though so I do think yours is a brilliant idea. Oh and Mr Fox being a reoccurring NPC thief may just be one of the best ideas I have ever heard I could see him being a brilliant character for players to encounter. All around good ideas would love to see them adapted more though! 

Yes, I must say I struggled with coming up with plot ideas for George’s Marvellous Medicine myself. Hopefully the one I eventually devised could make for a good basis for a one-off adventure. Especially if you keep the bit about the giant seized grandmother.

Yeah, I think Mr Fox could be a fun NPC to encounter. A charming and seemingly morally unscrupulous rogue in a role which might have been played by someone such as Terry Thomas or Leslie Phillips. Only for your PCs to discover he’s a far more complex and tragic character than they first realised. Someone who is so ashamed at how they were and what they lost in their folly that he has desperately tried to reinvent himself. 

[soultaker666212]

Jun 27, 2022 13:49:11 GMT grinch said:

Jun 27, 2022 11:40:22 GMT soultaker666212 said:

   Wow! I am loving these ideas already! I do agree with Matilda being a PC or even an NPC that would be great to have, I think Miss Trunchbull might just be a Slitheen in disguise, I mean they have posed as school teachers before. I like your take on George's Marvellous medicine admittedly that one stumped me on how to adapt it though so I do think yours is a brilliant idea. Oh and Mr Fox being a reoccurring NPC thief may just be one of the best ideas I have ever heard I could see him being a brilliant character for players to encounter. All around good ideas would love to see them adapted more though! 

Yes, I must say I struggled with coming up with plot ideas for George’s Marvellous Medicine myself. Hopefully the one I eventually devised could make for a good basis for a one-off adventure. Especially if you keep the bit about the giant seized grandmother.

Yeah, I think Mr Fox could be a fun NPC to encounter. A charming and seemingly morally unscrupulous rogue in a role which might have been played by someone such as Terry Thomas or Leslie Phillips. Only for your PCs to discover he’s a far more complex and tragic character than they first realised. Someone who is so ashamed at how they were and what they lost in their folly that he has desperately tried to reinvent himself. 

I think we could come up with some stats for him though so we could use it in games, One character i can see working, maybe even stats for Matilda as they can work with the psychic traits there. And I can see something like Benedict Cumberbatch playing Mr Fox not gunna lie 

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Jun 27, 2022 13:53:45 GMT soultaker666212 said:

Jun 27, 2022 13:49:11 GMT grinch said:

Yes, I must say I struggled with coming up with plot ideas for George’s Marvellous Medicine myself. Hopefully the one I eventually devised could make for a good basis for a one-off adventure. Especially if you keep the bit about the giant seized grandmother.

Yeah, I think Mr Fox could be a fun NPC to encounter. A charming and seemingly morally unscrupulous rogue in a role which might have been played by someone such as Terry Thomas or Leslie Phillips. Only for your PCs to discover he’s a far more complex and tragic character than they first realised. Someone who is so ashamed at how they were and what they lost in their folly that he has desperately tried to reinvent himself. 

I think we could come up with some stats for him though so we could use it in games, One character i can see working, maybe even stats for Matilda as they can work with the psychic traits there. And I can see something like Benedict Cumberbatch playing Mr Fox not gunna lie 

I have some free time this weekend so I should be able to write up a few notes for a Whoniverse version of Mr Fox. 

That’s not a bad shout actually. He’d fit the role quite well, give him the edge of a foppish aristocrat even though Fox doesn’t have the breeding nor money to support said role. 

[soultaker666212]

Jun 27, 2022 11:32:33 GMT grinch said:

* George’s Marvellous Medicine: When UNIT investigate reports of a farm which contains giant animals, they soon discover the root cause of the phenomena. A young boy who lives in fear of his grandmother who somehow stumbled across a potential means to solve world hunger.

My Idea for George's Marvellous Medicine was to take the elements of it, a medicine that causes strange effects made from common and random household goods, and adapt to it differently. My idea as a Torchwood experiment, lead by a man named George, trying to create a miracle cure utilising various alien chemicals and plants that they have acquired overtime and tested it upon say farm animals, but this causes  mutations similar to how Lazarus was mutated if that makes sense, leading to an adventure trying to find a reverse cure and containing these hideous and mutated beasts inside of a secret Torchwood lab, maybe buried underneath a farm.

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Jun 27, 2022 14:43:39 GMT soultaker666212 said:

Jun 27, 2022 11:32:33 GMT grinch said:

* George’s Marvellous Medicine: When UNIT investigate reports of a farm which contains giant animals, they soon discover the root cause of the phenomena. A young boy who lives in fear of his grandmother who somehow stumbled across a potential means to solve world hunger.

My Idea for George's Marvellous Medicine was to take the elements of it, a medicine that causes strange effects made from common and random household goods, and adapt to it differently. My idea as a Torchwood experiment, lead by a man named George, trying to create a miracle cure utilising various alien chemicals and plants that they have acquired overtime and tested it upon say farm animals, but this causes  mutations similar to how Lazarus was mutated if that makes sense, leading to an adventure trying to find a reverse cure and containing these hideous and mutated beasts inside of a secret Torchwood lab, maybe buried underneath a farm.

Interesting. Maybe Big Charlie was an escapee from said farm?

scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4158

[soultaker666212]

Jun 27, 2022 16:22:59 GMT grinch said:

Jun 27, 2022 14:43:39 GMT soultaker666212 said:

My Idea for George's Marvellous Medicine was to take the elements of it, a medicine that causes strange effects made from common and random household goods, and adapt to it differently. My idea as a Torchwood experiment, lead by a man named George, trying to create a miracle cure utilising various alien chemicals and plants that they have acquired overtime and tested it upon say farm animals, but this causes  mutations similar to how Lazarus was mutated if that makes sense, leading to an adventure trying to find a reverse cure and containing these hideous and mutated beasts inside of a secret Torchwood lab, maybe buried underneath a farm.

Interesting. Maybe Big Charlie was an escapee from said farm?

scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4158

Good way top tie in SCP with Roald Dahl ha ha, that certainly would be interesting to see though. 

The potential for more here is brilliant not gunna lie

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Jun 27, 2022 16:35:08 GMT soultaker666212 said:

Jun 27, 2022 16:22:59 GMT grinch said:

Interesting. Maybe Big Charlie was an escapee from said farm?

scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4158

Good way top tie in SCP with Roald Dahl ha ha, that certainly would be interesting to see though. 

The potential for more here is brilliant not gunna lie

Well, one does try. 😉

I completely agree. Roald Dahl’s masterfully spun tales of black and blue humour would make for ideal material for any campaign.

[soultaker666212]

Jun 27, 2022 18:29:02 GMT grinch said:

Jun 27, 2022 16:35:08 GMT soultaker666212 said:

Good way top tie in SCP with Roald Dahl ha ha, that certainly would be interesting to see though. 

The potential for more here is brilliant not gunna lie

Well, one does try. 😉

I completely agree. Roald Dahl’s masterfully spun tales of black and blue humour would make for ideal material for any campaign.

I will admit, not find of your idea for the Willy Wonka one though not gunna lie, I do feel establishing Wonka to be alive and be more of a protagonist/helpful character may be better than an Ai of a dead man in a scary factory, technically he could be a transcendental being like the Celestial Toymaker but instead of the domain of toys its sweets and chocolate, his factory still being bigger on the inside and the great glass elevator being something like a time and space machine in of itself. But to me at least I feel he should be a beneficial character feels more Wonka to be beneficial and produce a wide range of alien candy for example, even multiple sessions spent within his factory might be interesting.

[Catsmate]

An absolutely fascinating set of ideas, soultaker666212 and grinch.
I particularly like the idea of an adult Mathilda.

Somewhere in my notes I have an outline for a Misfit Mob scenario that has then assigned to investigate three unrelated but strangely able gamblers, all with histories of statistically unlikely wins, who are entered for the World Series of Poker. Henry Sugar might appear there too.

Historically Dahl covered the business of the Mildenhall Treasure (wiki) for newspapers as well as writing about it later. Given the proximity of both Mildenhall and Lakenheath and the general murkiness around the find, there are definite possibilities there.

[soultaker666212]

Jun 28, 2022 11:08:02 GMT Catsmate said:

An absolutely fascinating set of ideas, soultaker666212 and grinch .
I particularly like the idea of an adult Mathilda.

Somewhere in my notes I have an outline for a Misfit Mob scenario that has then assigned to investigate three unrelated but strangely able gamblers, all with histories of statistically unlikely wins, who are entered for the World Series of Poker. Henry Sugar might appear there too.

Historically Dahl covered the business of the Mildenhall Treasure (wiki) for newspapers as well as writing about it later. Given the proximity of both Mildenhall and Lakenheath and the general murkiness around the find, there are definite possibilities there.

Why thank you! That would be interesting, it does make me think that a young Roald Dahl would be a good companion for the doctor though 

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Jun 28, 2022 12:06:04 GMT soultaker666212 said:

Jun 28, 2022 11:08:02 GMT Catsmate said:

An absolutely fascinating set of ideas, soultaker666212 and grinch .
I particularly like the idea of an adult Mathilda.

Somewhere in my notes I have an outline for a Misfit Mob scenario that has then assigned to investigate three unrelated but strangely able gamblers, all with histories of statistically unlikely wins, who are entered for the World Series of Poker. Henry Sugar might appear there too.

Historically Dahl covered the business of the Mildenhall Treasure (wiki) for newspapers as well as writing about it later. Given the proximity of both Mildenhall and Lakenheath and the general murkiness around the find, there are definite possibilities there.

Why thank you! That would be interesting, it does make me think that a young Roald Dahl would be a good companion for the doctor though 

Or merely the focus of a one off historical adventure focusing on his tenure as a pilot during the Second World War.

[soultaker666212]

Jun 28, 2022 18:42:07 GMT grinch said:

Jun 28, 2022 12:06:04 GMT soultaker666212 said:

Why thank you! That would be interesting, it does make me think that a young Roald Dahl would be a good companion for the doctor though 

Or merely the focus of a one off historical adventure focusing on his tenure as a pilot during the Second World War.

Or maybe Roald Dahl is a time lord all along and his famous writing shed is his TARDIS? Just a little joke there, a one off with Roald Dahl maybe as he is a writer taking a lot of good elements from his works might be interesting, kind of like how they did it in the unicorn and the wasp with Agatha Christie taking the murder mystery elements and using it in a story, so the themes and elements in a one off short story with Roald Dahl might just work.

[Catsmate]

Jun 28, 2022 18:42:07 GMT grinch said:

Jun 28, 2022 12:06:04 GMT soultaker666212 said:

Why thank you! That would be interesting, it does make me think that a young Roald Dahl would be a good companion for the doctor though 

Or merely the focus of a one off historical adventure focusing on his tenure as a pilot during the Second World War.

Dahl would be around thirty in the immediate post-war period, and my first idea would be to connect him to Goddard and a precursor to the ICMG. Given that Dahl had embassy and intelligence contacts it's not that much of a stretch.
Or have him involved, assuming Whoniverse history went differently, with Operation Backfire and Megaroc. Or chasing Nazi remnants and Weird Tech around the world, perhaps joining Operation Highjump?
Or indeed all of the above.

[spydalek]

Jun 28, 2022 18:45:24 GMT soultaker666212 said:

Jun 28, 2022 18:42:07 GMT grinch said:

Or merely the focus of a one off historical adventure focusing on his tenure as a pilot during the Second World War.

Or maybe Roald Dahl is a time lord all along and his famous writing shed is his TARDIS? Just a little joke there, a one off with Roald Dahl maybe as he is a writer taking a lot of good elements from his works might be interesting, kind of like how they did it in the unicorn and the wasp with Agatha Christie taking the murder mystery elements and using it in a story, so the themes and elements in a one off short story with Roald Dahl might just work.

Or like how the Doctor and Martha inspired lines for Shakespeare, maybe they end up inspiring stuff from Dahl's stories. Like Willy Wonka, or the "potions" from George's Marvellous Medicine being a kind of (to borrow Traits for explaining) "Lammasteen Crafting" but as a counterpoint to Biochemical Genius instead of Boffin, that the characters use to save the day or something.

[soultaker666212]

Jun 28, 2022 19:41:38 GMT spydalek said:

Jun 28, 2022 18:45:24 GMT soultaker666212 said:

Or maybe Roald Dahl is a time lord all along and his famous writing shed is his TARDIS? Just a little joke there, a one off with Roald Dahl maybe as he is a writer taking a lot of good elements from his works might be interesting, kind of like how they did it in the unicorn and the wasp with Agatha Christie taking the murder mystery elements and using it in a story, so the themes and elements in a one off short story with Roald Dahl might just work.

Or like how the Doctor and Martha inspired lines for Shakespeare, maybe they end up inspiring stuff from Dahl's stories. Like Willy Wonka, or the "potions" from George's Marvellous Medicine being a kind of (to borrow Traits for explaining) "Lammasteen Crafting" but as a counterpoint to Biochemical Genius instead of Boffin, that the characters use to save the day or something.

I can see the doctor or even a companion inspiring the word scrumdiddlyumptious that is a good idea

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Jun 28, 2022 19:33:38 GMT Catsmate said:

Jun 28, 2022 18:42:07 GMT grinch said:

Or merely the focus of a one off historical adventure focusing on his tenure as a pilot during the Second World War.

Dahl would be around thirty in the immediate post-war period, and my first idea would be to connect him to Goddard and a precursor to the ICMG. Given that Dahl had embassy and intelligence contacts it's not that much of a stretch.
Or have him involved, assuming Whoniverse history went differently, with Operation Backfire and Megaroc. Or chasing Nazi remnants and Weird Tech around the world, perhaps joining Operation Highjump?
Or indeed all of the above.

Could even tie it in with his first book:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gremlins

And suggest that during his wartime adventures he encountered said creatures who served as the inspiration for the fictional characters. Creatures which by the modern day are either still the secret of the Royal Air Force or now sadly extinct.

[Catsmate]

Jun 28, 2022 21:28:00 GMT grinch said:

Jun 28, 2022 19:33:38 GMT Catsmate said:

Dahl would be around thirty in the immediate post-war period, and my first idea would be to connect him to Goddard and a precursor to the ICMG. Given that Dahl had embassy and intelligence contacts it's not that much of a stretch.
Or have him involved, assuming Whoniverse history went differently, with Operation Backfire and Megaroc. Or chasing Nazi remnants and Weird Tech around the world, perhaps joining Operation Highjump?
Or indeed all of the above.

Could even tie it in with his first book:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gremlins

And suggest that during his wartime adventures he encountered said creatures who served as the inspiration for the fictional characters. Creatures which by the modern day are either still the secret of the Royal Air Force or now sadly extinct.

Fascinating, and, as you say, full of possibilities. Maybe the creatures got tired of the bottom of the Thames?

[soultaker666212]

Jun 28, 2022 21:28:00 GMT grinch said:

Jun 28, 2022 19:33:38 GMT Catsmate said:

Dahl would be around thirty in the immediate post-war period, and my first idea would be to connect him to Goddard and a precursor to the ICMG. Given that Dahl had embassy and intelligence contacts it's not that much of a stretch.
Or have him involved, assuming Whoniverse history went differently, with Operation Backfire and Megaroc. Or chasing Nazi remnants and Weird Tech around the world, perhaps joining Operation Highjump?
Or indeed all of the above.

Could even tie it in with his first book:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gremlins

And suggest that during his wartime adventures he encountered said creatures who served as the inspiration for the fictional characters. Creatures which by the modern day are either still the secret of the Royal Air Force or now sadly extinct.

I want to see Whoniverse Oompa Loompas now, as well as snozzwangers, vermicious Knids and whangdoodles 

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Jun 29, 2022 8:03:04 GMT Catsmate said:

Jun 28, 2022 21:28:00 GMT grinch said:

Could even tie it in with his first book:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gremlins

And suggest that during his wartime adventures he encountered said creatures who served as the inspiration for the fictional characters. Creatures which by the modern day are either still the secret of the Royal Air Force or now sadly extinct.

Fascinating, and, as you say, full of possibilities. Maybe the creatures got tired of the bottom of the Thames?

Perhaps by a certain air base there is also a weak point in reality which leads to The Invisible? And it’s from there which these Gremlins have emerged to settle in the local forests. 

Of course, by the modern day the base is long since abandoned and has been left to rot but there is still enough information there on the Gremlin creatures dating from the era. Professor Douglas Arthur probably has even a few notes on it.

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Here are a few more Roald Dahl stories for inspiration:

* The Boy Who Talked With Animals: The Boy could be a genetic mutant with the ability to translate or perhaps even the prodigy of two humanoid TARDISes? The first in all of recorded existence?

* Skin: Immediately reminded of Astrolabus and the space/time co ordinates tattooed on his back. Perhaps in this case, the tramp does have a lost masterpiece painted on his back? With many an avid alien art admirer or private collector looking to capture him and obtain it for themselves?

* The Hitch-Hiker: The Cockney Hitch-Hiker is a fun NPC in himself. And his sleight of hand trick could easily be a technique that could be learnt by a particularly inquisitive PC. Perhaps there is even a secret guild of finger smiths active in the 20th century?

* Dip in the Pool: Mr William Botibol could be one of those recurring comedic characters in a campaign akin to Morton Dill from The Chase or Sheriff Buford T Justice from the Roger Moore Bond Films. An otherwise ordinary character who finds themselves getting into scrapes due to their own misfortune or by their own hand. Which of course means your PCs naturally have to intervene and set things right.

* Royal Jelly: What would be the biological and mutagenic effects of eating Vespiform honey, I wonder?

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Jun 29, 2022 13:13:44 GMT soultaker666212 said:

Jun 28, 2022 21:28:00 GMT grinch said:

Could even tie it in with his first book:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gremlins

And suggest that during his wartime adventures he encountered said creatures who served as the inspiration for the fictional characters. Creatures which by the modern day are either still the secret of the Royal Air Force or now sadly extinct.

I want to see Whoniverse Oompa Loompas now, as well as snozzwangers, vermicious Knids and whangdoodles 

To be honest, I don’t think you’d have to change the Vermicious Knids at all to fit into a Who campaign.

[Catsmate]

Jun 29, 2022 19:32:49 GMT grinch said:

Jun 29, 2022 8:03:04 GMT Catsmate said:

Fascinating, and, as you say, full of possibilities. Maybe the creatures got tired of the bottom of the Thames?

Perhaps by a certain air base there is also a weak point in reality which leads to The Invisible? And it’s from there which these Gremlins have emerged to settle in the local forests. 

Of course, by the modern day the base is long since abandoned and has been left to rot but there is still enough information there on the Gremlin creatures dating from the era. Professor Douglas Arthur probably has even a few notes on it.

Excellent. And the weak point may be passable, under certain conditions.

[Catsmate]

Jun 29, 2022 19:59:58 GMT grinch said:

Here are a few more Roald Dahl stories for inspiration:

* The Boy Who Talked With Animals: The Boy could be a genetic mutant with the ability to translate or perhaps even the prodigy of two humanoid TARDISes? The first in all of recorded existence?

* Skin: Immediately reminded of Astrolabus and the space/time co ordinates tattooed on his back. Perhaps in this case, the tramp does have a lost masterpiece painted on his back? With many an avid alien art admirer or private collector looking to capture him and obtain it for themselves?

* The Hitch-Hiker: The Cockney Hitch-Hiker is a fun NPC in himself. And his sleight of hand trick could easily be a technique that could be learnt by a particularly inquisitive PC. Perhaps there is even a secret guild of finger smiths active in the 20th century?

* Dip in the Pool: Mr William Botibol could be one of those recurring comedic characters in a campaign akin to Morton Dill from The Chase or Sheriff Buford T Justice from the Roger Moore Bond Films. An otherwise ordinary character who finds themselves getting into scrapes due to their own misfortune or by their own hand. Which of course means your PCs naturally have to intervene and set things right.

* Royal Jelly: What would be the biological and mutagenic effects of eating Vespiform honey, I wonder?

I've always suspected that the effects of the Chimeron jelly in Delta and the Bannermen was copied from Royal Jelly.

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I like to imagine “The Sound Machine” could be reinvented as someone attempting to communicate with a Krynoid in its infancy. Long before it has a chance to infect a host.

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To be honest, I was actually thinking how you could connect all these stories together to fill a campaign arc. Perhaps something akin to The Key to Time arc where your PCs have to search for something?

Or maybe even just simply having some shared connectivity between the various characters (if only implied) say The Giraffe from the Giraffe, the Pelly and Me originally belonged to the same community of uplifted animals The Enormous Crocodile belongs to? Or even The Grandma from The Witches making the acquaintance of the Girl from The Magic Finger on the suspicion that she is a witch?

[soultaker666212]

Jun 13, 2023 10:47:02 GMT grinch said:

To be honest, I was actually thinking how you could connect all these stories together to fill a campaign arc. Perhaps something akin to The Key to Time arc where your PCs have to search for something?

Or maybe even just simply having some shared connectivity between the various characters (if only implied) say The Giraffe from the Giraffe, the Pelly and Me originally belonged to the same community of uplifted animals The Enormous Crocodile belongs to? Or even The Grandma from The Witches making the acquaintance of the Girl from The Magic Finger on the suspicion that she is a witch?

A campaign arc would be interesting with it, perhaps working with Mr Wonka to travel to different places in his "great glass elevator" aka TARDIS to collect artefacts such as say Matilda's  school books infused with psychic energy to prevent a threat to the universe?