Launched: The Fifth Doctor Expanded Universe Sourcebook

[Siskoid]

It's here! The fifth volume to act as companion to the 50th Anniversary Doctor Who sourcebooks for Cubicle 7's Doctor Who RPG - they covered the Doctor Who canon, we covered the extracanonical adventures from the novels, audios, comics, and more!

You can download (or just read) it at www.siskoid.com/ExpandedWho/index.html in high (printable) or low (computer screen) resolution.


Thanks to Peter Davison starring in a long range of Big Finish audio stories, this sucker is more than 100 pages more than the previous volume (332 to the Fourth Doctor's 213), with at least one entry from each Fifth Doctor novel and audio, plus material from short stories, comics, and even the televised show itself (characters we felt had been neglected in the official book). You'll find people, monsters, places, dates, gear, the works, as well as a timeline that puts it all together, and adventure seeds, both original and based on the source material, for the prospective GameMaster. While I did the layouts, coordination, and editing, the lion's share of contributions came, as ever, from Peter "misterharry" Gilham, without whom this project would be impossible. Best proofreader in the land as well! I'm also grateful to other contributors, namely Bill Bacon, Mark Turner, and visual artist Brendon Wright.

And of course, my personal thanks to everyone who's kept up with the project for the past four years. If the Sixth Doctor is your jam, you can help on the next one. Check out the list of things we're looking for in The Extracanonical Colin Baker; maybe you can help us out with words or pictures. If you don't know the game very well, we've got guys who can stat it all up for you. Get in touch, we'd love to have more collaborators. And that could be you! I'd love to have it done by start of summer 2018. And a lot closer in time, look for the Second Doctor Update 2017. We like to throw an addendum your way every New Year's.

Enjoy!

[koloth]

Well done and congratulations! I'm about to dive in. Thanks for your hard work bringing this together.

[CountClockwise]

So glad it's finally arrived. I don't know if you've already answered this question somewhere else but which book will the Sirens of Time (the aliens not the story be covered in)? I will happily cover them if no one else has done them already. Sorry to be a downer but excellent work overall

[Siskoid]

Since each Doctor has a strand in that, it's being covered across multiple books. The Sinking of the Lusitania in this very volume is from the 5th Doctor's Sirens story.

[misterharry]

And I've written the Kurgon Wonder for the 6th Doctor sourcebook. I was thinking the Sirens themselves would be left for the 7th Doctor vol.2 (Benny onwards). But it's not set in stone if you wanted to write them for the 6th Doctor book - so long as there's something left for the 7th from the story.

[CountClockwise]

Oct 2, 2017 18:13:20 GMT misterharry said:

And I've written the Kurgon Wonder for the 6th Doctor sourcebook. I was thinking the Sirens themselves would be left for the 7th Doctor vol.2 (Benny onwards). But it's not set in stone if you wanted to write them for the 6th Doctor book - so long as there's something left for the 7th from the story.

I'm perfectly happy to wait if you and Siskoid are. You're both in charge of this project not I after all.

[koloth]

I've had a chance to read now and I'm very impressed. Congrats to all who worked on it. I can't wait for the 7 and 8th Doctor tomes now if this is the quality expected. What struck me was there was loads of Time Lords entries. Could they be collected at a later date into a Time Lord companion?

[Siskoid]

I mean, if it's just a matter of collecting certain pages into another book, that should be fairly easy.

[Siskoid]

That said, we're years away from the end game.

[misterharry]

Yes, there are plenty of Time Lords still to come, particularly in the next few books.

[koloth]

I so cannot wait!

[Hedgewick]

I wanted to post a quick thanks to all who participated in this project.

You see, today is Game Day here in the Dark Dimension. As Game Master, I'm preparing a scenario involving those pesky Cybermen. I'm keen to include the androids seen in "Earthshock" as part of the scenario so, naturally, I reached for the Fifth Doctor Sourcebook. And I could not find an entry for them. So, I double-checked All the Strange, Strange Creatures. And I could not find an entry for them. That's when I abandoned the bookshelf and went to my computer to check the Fifth Doctor Expanded Universe Sourcebook at once! And sure enough, the Cybermen androids of "Earthshock" are on page X2. This supplement has saved the day! (I'm not sure that my players will thank you after they discover an assembly facility full of the blighters!) It's a wonderful resource, both in the planning of new scenarios and during times such as this.

[Siskoid]

While I'm sure you could have drawn up the stats yourself in a pinch, I'm really happy to hear even an after-thought section like "Omitted but not Forgotten" turns out to be useful. In a way, I guess it may be more useful than the extracanonical stuff people might be less familiar with.

Let us know how it went!

[Hedgewick]

Dec 10, 2018 14:52:00 GMT Siskoid said:

Let us know how it went!

The end result was "Cyberiad Rising," a game featuring the Cyberman androids, Cybermats, Cybermites, and all manner of cyber-shenanigans!