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Post by Curufea on Dec 17, 2009 0:39:51 GMT
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Post by Curufea on Dec 17, 2009 0:37:26 GMT
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Post by Curufea on Dec 16, 2009 23:10:39 GMT
Depends on the narcissism of the given Time Lord
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Post by Curufea on Dec 16, 2009 23:08:12 GMT
Something on a cheaper budget would be to create a webpage on your home computer/laptop that links to wav and mp3 files as well - you can either embed a player, or just let the system handle the associations. You can have multiple instances of sound files playing with some programs (other than windows media player).
For example, the VLC - videolan player (a free media player) has a setting in the options (under Interface) to allow only one, or as many instances as you like (the default). So every time you click on an audio file, it would create a new player to play it and you could have several running at the same time.
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Post by Curufea on Dec 16, 2009 22:22:47 GMT
We had a a thread over on the Hero boards called "Pulperise that" (or something similar) - where well known plots, mostly from movies, were converted to fit the pulp genre. I think it may be a good idea to start a thread like that here as well - it starts people thinking outside the box and realising that anything can be fitted into the Doctor Who genre.
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Post by Curufea on Dec 16, 2009 21:10:00 GMT
The current rules allow anyone to have a Doctor-free game and defeat any menace.
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Post by Curufea on Dec 16, 2009 21:01:01 GMT
We've got a lot in American shows currently - two in Fringe, the Mentalist, Avatar, Eureka, Alice in Wonderland, etc. My theory is that it's because they can't do our accent but we can do theirs very easily I've only seen the odd LFN - my worry is that the companion will be taller than the Doctor. I guess it has happened before, some were shorter than others.
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Post by Curufea on Dec 16, 2009 20:57:31 GMT
I found some very nice paper miniatures for Doctor Who for my boardgame. You can download them here- www.crowstuff.co.uk/
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Post by Curufea on Dec 16, 2009 20:54:30 GMT
Jorune I have as well - and Ringworld.
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Post by Curufea on Dec 16, 2009 20:50:46 GMT
Yeah, but I thought I'd attempt it - on another board I suggested they were brainwashed, so I naturally thought it would be the Faction that did it. Although I do think it is in keeping with "This Town Will Never Let Us Leave" - for pretty much the same reasons ... I just went from not getting all this Faction Paradox stuff to actively disliking them. Which is understandable - they aren't nice guys. They're kind of a chaotic version of the Master. While the Faction and the Doctor are both renegades - the Doctor believes in the Web of Time, and the Faction are pagans. The Doctor fixes paradoxes, the Faction makes them.
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Post by Curufea on Dec 16, 2009 10:37:39 GMT
I like box sets as you can store character sheets - or other sheets - with the game itself and transport it without things going missing.
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Post by Curufea on Dec 16, 2009 5:34:03 GMT
Another idea that occurred to me - it has all the hallmarks of an over-engineered, unnecessarily complicated, Faction plot. "Message from the Rump Parliament, Godfather!", the energetic Litle Sister exclaimed, handing the paper over to Godfather Morlock.
Taking it from her hand, he casually admired his handwritting.
"Thank you sister", said the Godfather, "You know, there are times I do wish I wasn't quite so prone to writing laconic missives to myself. I have things well in hand."
He turned back to his laboratory table, dismissing the Sister with a vague gesture. Once again falling into intricate study of the prize biodata extracts so recently acquired. The body, of course, would have been ideal, but the extract will have to do after that fiasco with Little Brother Manjuele and the Shift. The amount of times the renegade had be imprisoned or poked at by lesser species that recovering biodata without direct interference in the end proved the easier course.
Next to the vials, was the arm. Not a easy retrieval job that.
But, thank the spirits, thought Godfather Morlock, not one I needed to do. What else are initiations for, but to send potential Brothers and Sisters into radiation torn battlefields and almost dead worlds such as Skaro?
His time was far too valuable as it was, his skills far too precise. It was not his plan, nor was he on the committee to create the organisation. Such a supercilious name "Shadow Proclamation". As if it didn't scream out to all "This is the Faction faking authority, fear us Homeworlders". It was Dronid all over again - a vapid re-imagining.
Neither was it his job to seek out the lesser species and provide "help". "Oh, lesser species, we will be taking care of the renegade who protects this planet - this planet that is shunned by the Great Houses for this very reason. Fear not, use as you will, and if in doubt we have implanted trigger phrases in his biodata that you can abuse."
He had merely to modify the memories of two individuals, the rest would look after itself. He doubted they would ever go look for themselves to see if the planet was still there, and the xenophobic inhabitants would never contact them just to put their minds at ease. Indeed, knowing the War King, he would no doubt find it amusing in the extreme.
Godfather Morlock sutured the temporal structure of their biodata with a concoction he liked to call "The Melodrama of the Time War".
When is a war not a war?
ie - It's a plot by the Faction to set up their puppets - the Shadow Proclamation. The resources needed would be the Doctor's biodata, Davros' biodata and sending some information to random expansionist races about the vulnerability of earth and that they should use the phrase "time war" where necessary. The costs - Negligible The look on the Doctor's face - Priceless. Unfortunately it means Gallifrey was never attacked, it was all a fiction. When Davros created the Emperor, he also believed this fiction - and as these two were the source of the entire Dalek race, they all believed the fiction. As for the Master, he played along, because, well - "evil" and all that
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Post by Curufea on Dec 16, 2009 2:34:03 GMT
Kewl. I'll have a look on youtube.
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Post by Curufea on Dec 16, 2009 1:09:25 GMT
Good stuff!
I'm actually thinking that much of the new series version of the Time Lord language is based on the workings of astrolabes.
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Post by Curufea on Dec 15, 2009 23:55:23 GMT
I've just come up with some simple rules for generating plot decisions with a normal deck of cards. They're generic and could be used for anything- curufea.com/doku.php?id=roleplaying:plotgeneratorThe only tricky part is to work out which suit you want to represent which genre
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Post by Curufea on Dec 15, 2009 22:39:39 GMT
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Post by Curufea on Dec 15, 2009 22:32:17 GMT
Nearly all good news. I'm annoyed about the seasonal threats somehow needing to be consecutively worse than each other. It's too Buffy.
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Post by Curufea on Dec 15, 2009 22:14:38 GMT
Clarke's Law: "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". Which sums up the Who universe - there is no magic, supernatural, gods, demons, heavens or hells. There are though - very accurate simulations of the same done through the use of very esoteric technology and an understanding of the fundamental rules of the universe. So basically, it's magic for all intents and purposes - unless your character is very intelligent/Time Lord.
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Post by Curufea on Dec 15, 2009 22:04:03 GMT
I don't see why you couldn't have a pacifist Dalek - if you have a GM that is happy for you to have one, you have one. I'd allow it. But then I've had run games where half the characters were Gods.
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Post by Curufea on Dec 15, 2009 21:55:06 GMT
Good stuff, I've been hoping for things similar to show to folks wondering about it on other boards.
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Post by Curufea on Dec 15, 2009 19:56:16 GMT
It's a pet theory of mine that K'anpo, the Time Lord from Planet of the Spiders, achieved nirvana, translating out of existence entirely, prior to the Time War's effects. He could return bodhisattva-style if it ever became necessary. If you go by FP mythos, the Celestis (the CIA) also achieved this. Not only that, but a large proportion of Faction Paradox itself aren't Galifreyan, or aren't 100% Time Lord. Also - on a side note, Time Lords are time travellers. The only set time is that of Gallifrey. You could encounter a Time Lord in any time period that you like. However, subjectively they left Gallifrey before the war, and will one day go back there to die in the conflict.
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Post by Curufea on Dec 15, 2009 19:45:06 GMT
ABC
We are looking forward to bringing it to you fairly early in the new year, but we’re not able to confirm a definite date just yet.
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Post by Curufea on Dec 15, 2009 10:31:06 GMT
BTW, just came across an editing error in the PDF - the footnote about Flo the Judoon (on page 15) references a page number that has not yet been put in.
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Post by Curufea on Dec 15, 2009 2:58:13 GMT
Drat, I expected better from fans of the show/game.
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Post by Curufea on Dec 15, 2009 0:28:39 GMT
Excellent!
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Post by Curufea on Dec 14, 2009 23:55:56 GMT
I've only had a brief look at the PDFs so far, I hope the story point tokens of the hardcopy version are prepunched, as from my papercraft experiences - cutting out lots of hex tokens would be a pain The layout is very flash and reminds me of the Doctor Who Miniatures Game - also very professional in its layout. I'm from the school of "less graphics" though when it comes to books - as they're not very accessible - to folk that are colour blind, are dyslexic, or suffer from some other reading problem. But that's possibly the webmaster in me coming through DWAITS doesn't suffer from the overly busy designs of other RPGs - where the designers felt that text was boring without some image in the background to make it really difficult to read. Reading 101 - the text should be easy to read. High contrast, simple shapes, no large blocks of text, no scattering of sentences all over the place. The abundance of photos from the series does make me think "Dorling-Kindersley" which is all presentation, and no substance. But that's the point of this game, it's rules-lite and fitting of the new series. It's a very modern approach - even if it will kill my printer if I print out the PDFs
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Post by Curufea on Dec 14, 2009 23:38:52 GMT
I received two emails as well, I haven't checked to see if they were different codes yet. Yep - they were different codes, but otherwise the same. I assumed you'd sent two as there was a typo or something in the first
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Post by Curufea on Dec 14, 2009 20:01:44 GMT
I expected it. With the way indies and narratives have been taking off in the last few years, sooner or later the very popular, very narrative TV show would be made. And with the way the BBC has been getting over licensing (from taking down knitting patterns of Ood to stopping me or any non-UK person from seeing any of their Who content on the web) - I knew it would have to be official only.
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Post by Curufea on Dec 14, 2009 19:57:31 GMT
I got the PDF, I guess I haven't been following the right news as it was a surprise. Thank you Cubicle 7! I'll now have to get cracking with content creation in order to alleviate my feelings of obligation
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Post by Curufea on Dec 14, 2009 11:56:19 GMT
Depends what you regard as authority. If you want TV only - just use the red text.
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