All Time Lord Campaign

[Kit]

Has anyone run one with DW:AiTaS?

I suppose CIA/Celestis agents would be a possibility. It seems a bit mission-based and not quite the flavor I'm looking for. Specifically, if I were running a mission-based game, I'd run an all Time Agent game. I'd be interested in learning other people's experiences with CIA/Celestis games.

I think it may have been Craig who had a neat idea for an all time lord game with a twist. Craig, was "The Sword of Rassilon" yours? If I could figure out how to make that work, I'd steal it in a blink. Though it seems like a miniseries idea at most as the cool conceit seems to prevent it from being sustainable.

One idea I've toyed with is one I called The Citadel
The player characters are all "young" Time Lords in the Academy. They may belong to different Chapter Houses such as Arcallia, Patrex, and Prydon. The characters will encounter mysteries and intrigues and deadly threats both within the Citadel of the Time Lords and in time and space. This would allow Gallifreyan politics and conspiracy plots. It allows time and space travel when students are either taken to places like the Medusa Cascade or to temporal nexus points or when they hijack a TARDIS for reasons only player characters can understand. I suppose one could put a spin on it akin to the darker Harry Potter books/films with "young" Time Lords being the ones to uncover a great threat and being the only ones willing to stop it. The hard part is pitching "young" Time Lords to players.

Any other all Time lord ideas out there?

[themyth]

The standard TARDIS is supposed to have 6 pilots. What if your PCs are Timelords thrown out of the universe before the Time Loop and escaped the Time War? If you have less than 6 players, then some die in re-entry. More than 6 might have duties other than piloting.

Wherever you decide they were thrown might instill residual energy that masks their presence from The Doctor (and vice-versa). Their TARDIS might need repair, and their piloting will be as jiggy as The Doctor's TARDIS with regard to where they land from episode to episode. ("This isn't Gallifrey! Why the bloody hell are we on Earth in a place called Cardiff?")

They may try to find Gallifrey, seek out the Daleks for revenge, encounter all sorts of the standard Doctor Who baddies, or have all-new enemies instead. They may even hear rumors and legends about "The Last of the Timelords" and seek him out.

[Craig Oxbrow]

While normally happy to hog credits, I know not of The Sword Of Rassilon. What was the twist?

[Kit]

Nov 28, 2010 23:55:18 GMT Craig Oxbrow said:

While normally happy to hog credits, I know not of The Sword Of Rassilon. What was the twist?

Hm. I was sure this was your idea. Maybe it was Jason Vey's idea. Hm.

I'm not entirely sure how it would work, but the general premise went something like this:

All the PCs are Time Lords. The game begins with them regaining consciousness in a badly damaged Tardis. All they remember/ can determine from the TARDIS is the the mission involved the Sword of Rassilon-presumably yet another of Rassilon's trinkets of import.

The catch, as i recall it, is that the Sword of Rassilon is not an artifact. It is a person-a Time Lord tasked with all the jobs Time Lords claim they don't do.

Oh, and the PCS are the Sword of Rassilon. And they are all different incarnations of the same Time Lord brought together by the "accident" that damaged the TARDIS.

I think there are some great ideas here, I'm just not positive how to put them together.

[Craig Oxbrow]

That is indeed clever - not least the incarnations twist. Obviously the Sword is as bad at controlling his regenerations as the Doctor... or as good at it as Romana, with each form being so different for a reason. A spy who can trigger a regeneration and change into any humanoid form he/she/it needs, presumably without the thirteen lives cutoff.

The question that springs to mind is this... what was able to bring all of them together and nearly wipe their minds? Something very powerful and dangerous, obviously. Something powerful enough to threaten the Time Lords themselves... something from the Old Times that their technology can never breach, something that Rassilon himself once faced...