{campaign ideas} early 9th doctor

[hobbitfan]

So I may finally be starting my Who game this weekend. One of my players will be taking the role of the 9th doctor, just after the Time War but before the show actually starts.
I'll be filtering stuff about the Time War to the Doctor player via flashbacks as we are going to be running him with some PTSD issues.

Some of the stories I want to do include:
1. Sympathy for the Devil (DW Unbound audio)-3rd doctor shows up 20 years after all the alien invasions of the 70s.
2. Rasputin IS the Master. Pcs find themselves involved with the court of Nicholas II, last Tsar of Russia. Nicholas' son Alexei it turns out is not a real boy but an alien that the Master is there to try and recruit for his latest scheme of conquest. I'm working in the death of Rasputin and the 1908 Tunguska meteor impact (the alien crashlanding).
3. murder mystery guest-starring Edgar Allen Poe!
4. Invasion Earth 2150-players find themeselves in what they think is the Dalek Invasion of earth but is an alternate reality where the doctor is human. Based on the movie. I may be using the Celestial Toymaker as the villain in this one. Aside from the Daleks, of course.

My players haven't shared their character concepts yet but I'm hoping to make 1 of them a companion of the 8th doctor who stuck around through the regeneration.

[hobbitfan]

If anybody has any comments or suggestions I would be happy to hear them.

I really want to add a cyberman story to the mix but thus far I don't have a good idea for one.

An idea I've been playing around with in terms of tying the adventures together would be for each story to be an adventure of a previous doctor that has gotten messed up due to Time War playing out.
The problem with this notion is it depends too much upon knowledge of Classic Who stories. I'm afraid those of my players who really only know New Who may feel lost. So, this notion is in the background until I can figure out how to make it work.

[dancerboy22]

what you could do is run the game for each doctors story like you said then after have a screening of that episode and show them how it actually happened

that way the series wont interfere with the game as if they see them before they might try to solve the story the same way

[hobbitfan]

that's a good idea dancerboy, thanks

[hobbitfan]

What I may do before running the "sympathy for the devil" alternate Pertwee story is to have the party run into the Third Doctor and the Unit gang in regular continuity first and then visit the alternate earth later in the campaign as a point of comparison.