The Player's Guide to Alien Characters - SECOND EDITION!

[misterharry]

The Player's Guide to Alien Characters is a free, downloadable guide to some of the more playable alien races for the Doctor Who Roleplaying Game. Included are aliens from the TV stories of every Doctor to date, with the obvious exception of the Eighth. From Sensorites to Catkind, Draconians to Judoon, and Movellans to Lupari, you'll find details of almost sixty aliens (and a couple of robots) inside the guide.



Each entry contains a paragraph or two of desription and background suitable for those with little or no knowledge of the show, plus a race package for players to use as the basis of building their character. The race packages are for use with the first edition of the DWRPG (with no traits in the second edition, race packages are almost redundant).

The guide's introduction includes a word of caution for GMs before they hand it over to their players - after all, many of the race packages contain details of the monsters' Achilles' heels!

The Player's Guide to Alien Characters can be downloaded from here. Enjoy! And if you spot any typos or errors, please let me know so I can update the book.


THIS IS NOW UPDATED TO THE SECOND EDITION, WHICH INCLUDES AN APPENDIX OF MAX AND MIN ATTRIBUTES. THE ABOVE LINK IS TO THE SECOND EDITION.

[markrand]

Got it. Thanks.

[secondattemps]

This looks pretty cool, I'll have to give it a read later! Thanks for the hard work

[soultaker666212]

This is perfection MisterHarry! This is exactly what i have been needed for future stuff! Thank you so so much for it!

As a follow up though I would love to see Clockwork Droids, Menoptera, Krillitane, Axon/Axos, Carrionite, Failed Cyberman/Full cyberman, Kaled/Thal, Saturnyian, Silent and Tharil either as an update to this book or as a new book. Again thansk so much for this though!

[soultaker666212]

Also Alpha Centauri did not feature in Cold War, it was Empress of Mars it was featured in.

[misterharry]

Aug 14, 2023 18:46:04 GMT soultaker666212 said:

This is perfection MisterHarry! This is exactly what i have been needed for future stuff! Thank you so so much for it!

As a follow up though I would love to see Clockwork Droids, Menoptera, Krillitane, Axon/Axos, Carrionite, Failed Cyberman/Full cyberman, Kaled/Thal, Saturnyian, Silent and Tharil either as an update to this book or as a new book. Again thansk so much for this though!

I'm glad it fits the brief! A few of the ones you list are in the current volume. As for the others, I'll bear them in mind - a few almost made the cut this time.

[misterharry]

Aug 14, 2023 19:02:34 GMT soultaker666212 said:

Also Alpha Centauri did not feature in Cold War, it was Empress of Mars it was featured in.

Doh! Thanks - I've updated the book and v1.01 is now available from the link in the first post.

[soultaker666212]

Another alien suggestions would be Jacondan, Vinvocci, Gelth. Osirian, Jagaroth, Swampie, Usurian, Sandminder robots (could have Super Voc, Voc and Dum for that one), Kraal (I know you have their androids but would be neat to have Kraal as well), Lakertyan, Homo Neanderthal (this is one is a push).

[koscheimaster]

Aug 14, 2023 15:56:35 GMT misterharry said:

The Player's Guide to Alien Characters is a free, downloadable guide to some of the more playable alien races for the Doctor Who Roleplaying Game. Included are aliens from the TV stories of every Doctor to date, with the obvious exception of the Eighth. From Sensorites to Catkind, Draconians to Judoon, and Movellans to Lupari, you'll find details of almost sixty aliens (and a couple of robots) inside the guide.



Each entry contains a paragraph or two of desription and background suitable for those with little or no knowledge of the show, plus a race package for players to use as the basis of building their character. The race packages are for use with the first edition of the DWRPG (with no traits in the second edition, race packages are almost redundant).

The guide's introduction includes a word of caution for GMs before they hand it over to their players - after all, many of the race packages contain details of the monsters' Achilles' heels!

The Player's Guide to Alien Characters can be downloaded from here. Enjoy! And if you spot any typos or errors, please let me know so I can update the book.


NOW UPDATED TO V1.01 TO CORRECT AN ERROR.

This looks amazing!!!

[lupercal]

It does indeed. Thank you so very much misterharry.

Friendly greetings,
Horus Lupercal.

[misterharry]

The file has now been updated to version 1.02 - mainly cosmetic chnges, but lso a correction of the Leonian race package.

[misterharry]

With the recent discussion of minimum and maximum Attribute scores for alien races in another thread, I've updated The Player's Guide to Alien Characters with the addition of a chapter listing these for each of the races covered by the sourcebook.

This Second Edition is available for free download from here.