[Campaign Seed] Adapting Outlander.

[Catsmate]

I was recently persuaded to start watching the television adaption of the books by Diana Gabaldon¹. One of my SOs has been a fan of the books for years and she's dragging us in...

So here are some ideas on turning the Outlander universe into an RPG.

If you're unfamiliar with the series I recommend the wiki. Basically various people have the ability to travel in time in a limited manner, using a number of natural gateways.

Adapting Outlander

• Eliminate all the Whoniverse canon, and baggage.
  
• No aliens.
• Very limited time travel; difficult, uncommon and only for certain people.
  

  The time travel in the Outlander series has a (theoretical) scientific basis and works on standard principles of energy and space; it’s not “magic,” as various ill-informed reviewers and  copywriters are prone to put it.

• Hence more of an 'Island in the Sea of Time' scenario.
  
• Some other quasi-magical effects.
• Changing the past is difficult, if not impossible. Such attempts tend to lead top predestination paradoxes.
  

More to come, I hope. Anyone else have any suggestions or ideas?












1. A fan of Doctor Who, describing it as "the only TV I do watch on a regular basis".

So, while pondering the setting for my hypothetical historical novel, I happened to see one very old episode of Doctor Who [The War Games] featuring a “companion” of the Doctor’s—a young Scottish lad named Jamie MacCrimmon, whom the Doctor had picked up in 1745. This character wore a kilt, which I thought rather fetching, and demonstrated—in this particular episode5—a form of pigheaded male gallantry that I’ve always found endearing: the strong urge on the part of a man to protect a woman, even though he may realize that she’s plainly capable of looking after herself.