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Post by Curufea on Jan 12, 2010 8:40:18 GMT
I was thinking of having the the head of the London Torchwood survive after the Ghost Army. She manages to hold on to enough of her humanity to fight the cybermen at the end - when they are all sucked into the void, she gets stuck inside the building and without the network, manages to think for herself. She's somewhat close to the Cyberwoman, but I'm not sure how much yet.
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Post by PathfinderAP on Jan 12, 2010 16:21:51 GMT
You can circumvent all of these problems by setting your version of Who on a parallel universe, After all, the parallel universe with Rose Tyler had a Torchwood (which, chances are, came in to being due to another Doctor, since the one on Earth was started as a reaction to him)
You have a free blank page to use, to write history the way you want, you could have more than one time lord, Gallifrey, no time war.....anything goes and it doesn't break canon,
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Post by JohnK on Jan 12, 2010 17:47:50 GMT
Hullo, Porter, Thanks for posting this link. It was, indeed, an excellent read, and gave me a lot of food for thought in terms of my own game.
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Post by JohnK on Jan 12, 2010 17:50:37 GMT
Hullo, Null and Void, Its interesting, but all in all, I'm not interested in the canonicity of Doctor Who itself, merely my own game. Its simply a personal choice on my part, since I can't have read or seen everything ever related to the show. Canonicity, for me, in this matter, is a simple matter of not contradicting myself. Anything else goes, if it makes for a good game. That's the prime concern and motivation when it comes to canonicity in one's own game. I suspect that unlike most of the folks around here, I haven't read nearly as much material on the show, whether it be books, comics, or whatever, and therefore for the most part, I consider the show itself to be the canon, with a few places where I don't like the continuity getting shelved. So, more power to you, mate, and your own view of canon for your version of the game!
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Post by ugavine on Jan 13, 2010 20:29:39 GMT
I'm basically not going to worry too much about canon, and to be fair my players won't either.
My game is going to be set in the world of the 10th Doctor, so Time War, no Time Lords and all that. Players will have their own characters though, and start with the easy option of the Time Lord being 'awoken' when his fob watch is opened.
I will no doubt be stealing lots of ideas from classic DW, so on occasion I'll have an event happen to the PCs and not The Doctor.
If I use, and I will eventually, the Cybermen it will be classic Cybermen from around the 5th Doctor era.
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Post by sharez66 on Jan 14, 2010 19:20:24 GMT
For me its the BF audios and TV series only that are canon. I would take out a BF audio if it is effectively wiped out by the new series, so far only "The Kingmaker" has suffered this fate. (Still a great story though).
Beleive it or not I have solved the UNIT dating problem which I have posted on various forums in the past. It involves Sarah being trapped on Earth for 4 years straight after Terror of the Zygones.
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Post by allenshock on Jan 16, 2010 6:55:48 GMT
Here's an odd question...say a person walks into a pawn shop and buys a fob watch...and opens it...and that person is a disguised Time Lord and the watch belonged to one as well but a different one? That might be an amusing set up for a character... Allen
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Post by Curufea on Jan 16, 2010 9:35:23 GMT
Depends how you want to handle it. Presumably the disguised Time Lord is only a body with a fake personality and memories. The watch contains all the Biodata about the Time Lord and would overwrite the body. A similar technique may have been used by the Master on previous occasions to take over bodies as well - most notably a Trakenite.
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Post by Rel Fexive on Jan 16, 2010 12:58:20 GMT
I hadn't though about the Master's body-stealing in that light before. Kind of makes sense.
But yes, what happens if a completely normal person finds such a 'Time Lord store' and opens it? Do they completely become that Time Lord? Themselves with the knowledge and biology of that Time Lord but not all the memories? Or some odd amalgam of them both, like a split personality?
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Post by Null and Void on Jan 16, 2010 18:16:52 GMT
That was the running joke during our character creation... EVERYONE has a fobwatch...
Remember though that Tim DID open the watch occassionally and didn't become the Doctor... though he did get some of his memories, and perhaps, mannerisms.
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Post by Craig Oxbrow on Jan 17, 2010 1:55:25 GMT
And then I'd say it was probably only because he was psychic, which is also why he knew the watch was Important. A standard Chameleon Arch pattern-holder may not necessarily be a fob watch, it just rather fits both John Smith and Professor Yana... and says something about the Doctor and the Master's friendship/enmity that they chose the same model and created similar professorial types to become - as well as the obvious narrative effect of letting Martha recognise it. And it probably isn't designed to download the mind into another body as that's a bit of a safety issue... although the Master could probably hack it to do so.
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Post by adam500 on Jan 24, 2010 2:56:59 GMT
I'm pretty much using everything (except the spoofs etc) except when something contradicts old/new series the series takes precedent (unless the contradicting material took pains to contradict on purpose), and in a case where the show contradicts itself the newest episode takes precedence.
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Post by gmjake on Feb 5, 2010 13:37:58 GMT
You can circumvent all of these problems by setting your version of Who on a parallel universe, After all, the parallel universe with Rose Tyler had a Torchwood (which, chances are, came in to being due to another Doctor, since the one on Earth was started as a reaction to him) You have a free blank page to use, to write history the way you want, you could have more than one time lord, Gallifrey, no time war.....anything goes and it doesn't break canon, I have pondered this so many times, maybe that can just explain away all continuity errors speaking of, wouldnt that mean that there would be timelords travelling to this universe? the episode in the new series in which he first goes to the alternate universe states that the lack of gallifrey is the only reason he cant usually go to different dimensions. so if another universe still has gallifrey, shouldn't it be safe for time lords from that galaxy to come here?
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Post by renegadetimelord on Feb 5, 2010 14:50:29 GMT
Sort of handled elsewhere in another thread, but given parallel universes result from quantum variances from a given timeline (or some such technobabble), said universe still shares a common framework, just different events. It's entirely possible Gallifrey, occupying it's own linear timeframe, transcends all that quantum nonsense, so if you time lock Gallifrey - you time lock it throughout existence. Whatever small chaotic differences might exist in any parallel, Gallifrey is locked all the same and the (lower) inhabitants remain none the wiser.
Of course, I could be wrong - but, that would explain why The Doctor didn't bump into any evidence of Time Lords in Pete's World's universe - and why you don't have Gallifreyans from local parallels trampling through our universe. They're all gone.
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Post by da professor on Feb 20, 2010 10:56:06 GMT
If I remember it, it's part of my canon. If I don't, what I make up instead will be the canon for my game. Any player who doesn't like it will have a different sort of cannon to worry about.;D
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