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Post by whichdoctor on Apr 2, 2010 4:56:06 GMT
"Brigadier General Jack O'Neill, Stargate Command, temporarily assigned to UNIT. How can we help you, Doctor?"
Given the extreme adaptability of the game system, has anyone felt the temptation to do a crossover with another television series? Like, say, X-Files? Stargate? Star Trek? (I thought I read somewhere that RTD was mulling over a Who/Enterprise geekstravaganza before the latter series bit the dust...could be wrong, though.) Has anyone actually tried to do this?
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Post by Siskoid on Apr 2, 2010 13:26:50 GMT
Too soon for any of that, but even if my players let me get away with it, I don't think I'd do it.
Steal from those shows? Sure. Crossover with them?
If I did, I'd exclusively go for series that never got a proper ending. Space Above and Beyond, Harsh Realm, Primeval (well, not now that further series have been announced). But it might be fun to give them closure, as well as pique player interest in lost classics.
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Post by Craig Oxbrow on Apr 2, 2010 17:11:56 GMT
I wouldn't directly, but I'll throw in the odd gag. I'd only directly bring in things that fit the manner of the Whoniverse.
There was indeed talk of an Enterprise crossover when Mr. Davies brought Doctor Who back. He discusses it in The Writer's Tale: The Final Chapter. He considered a pastiche version after the series was cancelled, but decided against it.
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Post by ugavine on Apr 2, 2010 23:51:49 GMT
I've done way too many crossovers in my Star Wars RPG. I'm keeping my DW:AiTaS game pure Doctor Who.
Although if you see my thread, From Spiderman to Megatron, there are some ideas how many Universes do actually crossover with Doctor Who in the comics.
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Post by DonnaDoctor on Apr 3, 2010 3:03:55 GMT
When I started my campaign, I brought in Special Agent Stan Smith from Fox's American Dad! as an NPC and comic relief. He went over great and is now a recurring character! ;D ;D ;D
"U.N.I.T. . . . ah yes, the one thing that the United Nations got right!"
- Stan Smith
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Post by azimerthemad on Apr 10, 2010 6:07:15 GMT
If I did, I'd exclusively go for series that never got a proper ending. Space Above and Beyond, Harsh Realm, Primeval (well, not now that further series have been announced). Primeval=BRILLIANT! I gotta stat up Conner & Abby! |
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Post by JohnK on Apr 10, 2010 13:08:50 GMT
Hullo, azimerthemad, If I did, I'd exclusively go for series that never got a proper ending. Space Above and Beyond, Harsh Realm, Primeval (well, not now that further series have been announced). Primeval=BRILLIANT! I gotta stat up Conner & Abby! As a huge fan of Primeval, I have already statted up Cutter and Abby. Haven't gotten around to Connor and the others, but decided not to post them up here because they're not relevant to Doctor Who per se. |
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Post by Eternally Lost Zeppo on Apr 10, 2010 15:49:44 GMT
As a huge fan of Primeval, I have already statted up Cutter and Abby. Haven't gotten around to Connor and the others, but decided not to post them up here because they're not relevant to Doctor Who per se. I don't think that should stop you from posting them; after all, we've had character write-ups for Spaced characters and MacGuyver, and I've personally posted a write up of an anime character.  As for my own stance on crossovers, I'm not above referencing other series in my games. I've mentioned UNIT in a previous Stargate game, and one episode hinted at the possibility that the SGC shared the same universe as Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I've never gone as far as to actually introduce a crossover character though, yet. If I did bring in characters from other series, it's something I'd probably only do once every two or three 'seasons' though. |
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Post by JohnK on Apr 12, 2010 14:31:55 GMT
Hullo, Lostzeppo, As a huge fan of Primeval, I have already statted up Cutter and Abby. Haven't gotten around to Connor and the others, but decided not to post them up here because they're not relevant to Doctor Who per se. I don't think that should stop you from posting them; after all, we've had character write-ups for Spaced characters and MacGuyver, and I've personally posted a write up of an anime character. This is certainly true. But to be honest, at the moment, I'm trying to concentrate on Doctor Who-related characters, rather than ones from other series. If I were to post up characters from other series, I would also want to offer suggestions how they should be used within the context of DW. When it comes down to it, I'd rather do up the stats for the characters from Primeval to actually run a game of that... |
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Post by Null and Void on Apr 12, 2010 14:53:05 GMT
Ok... the ultimate Doctor Who crossover: Mystery Science Theater 3000. Quick, we need stats for Joel, Mike, the 'bots, Dr. Forrester, TV's Frank, Pearl, Bobo, Brain Guy and... TORGO.  |
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Post by Curufea on Apr 13, 2010 1:42:02 GMT
As long as we don't then do a crossover with the Eye of Argon...
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Post by Craig Oxbrow on Apr 13, 2010 2:00:02 GMT
As long as we don't then do a crossover with the Eye of Argon... Doctor WHO and the Eye of Argon by Craig Oxrb Oxbrow Doctor Who stepped out of the Tardis and looked around the baren waste land. Grimacing he advanced toward the crystal city he sees at the horizon. "Time lord!" howled the first soldier as he recognised Doctor Who's Paisleyed waist coat of greatness. "Afternoon!" Doctor Who retorted. ... I can't go on. Forgive me. |
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Post by Curufea on Apr 14, 2010 10:30:45 GMT
We forgive you!
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Post by rev503 on Apr 18, 2010 22:29:53 GMT
I've got to admit...Primeveal was the only series I thought would fit in as a crossover. On the oehr hand, with Dr Who you can get away with almost anything, just Primeval seemed to fit the theme better.
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Post by lunahq7 on Jun 15, 2010 5:54:14 GMT
^.^ Well, I disagreed with Roddenberry's pacifist view on Man's future, and my group back in the late 1980s really weren't into Dr. Who, so I took the elements of time travel, and starships and such, made my own universe, and played with what I had. It ran from roughly 1987 to 2005, and we played over 270 episodes. John B. |
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Post by asariel on Jun 15, 2010 17:20:15 GMT
I just wrapped up a Dark Heresy campaign that crossed over with Doctor Who. The Cybermen of Mondas were infiltrating Hive Sibellus by offering the mutants and sundry outcasts an escape from pain and fear and want. All they had to do was embrace conversion...
It ended in a firefight of epic proportions, with the acolytes squaring off against a CyberLeader that had transformed into an unbound daemonhost (thanks to not one, not two, but three Perils of the Warp in as many rounds).
Heck, call the Imperium of Man the "Third Great and Bountiful Human Empire" and go to town.
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Post by Curufea on Jun 16, 2010 2:38:34 GMT
I would have thought that Cybermen were the antithesis to the Chaos of the Warp - they're entirely about order. If anything the Imperium would be making political bargains with them as it so closely resembles what they currently do to humans to create the various Adeptes.
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Post by asariel on Jun 16, 2010 12:57:11 GMT
The Imperium would never make political bargains with the Cybermen - they're hereteks, after all. They create and install augmetics and manufacture other items of advanced technology without the blessings of the Omnissiah, and without the proper litanies and rites to appease the machine spirits. They preach an apostate religion of "immortality" outside the graces of the God-Emperor, and embrace the forbidden technomantic lore of the silicae animus.
The unbound daemonhost was a little more complicated. I had established that the Cyberment were all networked together through FTL burst transmissions through the Warp. Any time one of them was killed, they did a cortical stack dump to back up the mind of the dead Cybermen. Unfortunatly, one of them was killed by a forceblade wielded by a sanctioned Psyker who triggered a Perils of the Warp check while killing the Cyberman. Since I needed an epic way to end a campaign anyway, I ruled that the feedback though the Warp network killed all of the "lesser" Cybermen and attracted a warp entity. Said warp entity then possessed the dead CyberLeader, and things went rapidly downhill.
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Post by Curufea on Jun 17, 2010 2:08:46 GMT
Excellent idea that - sounds like a great climax to the adventure.
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Post by zebaroth on Jun 21, 2010 22:34:23 GMT
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Post by danceswithdaleks on Aug 22, 2010 21:20:28 GMT
I'm actually planning on a crossover with the game Freelancer, for a two parter.
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Post by Curufea on Aug 23, 2010 4:32:18 GMT
That'd be cute - I remember the X-Files homage the put in the Crusade series (the B5 spinoff).
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Post by Krimson on Sept 22, 2010 18:16:31 GMT
That site seems to have been down for a few days now. A shame, as I would have liked to grab some of the adventures. If I do a crossover, it would be with the Anime/Light Novels The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. I'm currently reading the seventh light novel, and the time travel plots are more complex than anything I've seen in Doctor Who. The game engine seems perfectly suited to that series, which also has Aliens, Time Travellers (as well as Espers). Of course my players haven't actually seen any of it, so that could make things more interesting. |
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Post by asariel on Sept 23, 2010 20:48:59 GMT
Connor MacLeod: "You're a liar!"
Third Doctor: "You have the manners of a goat, and you have no knowledge whatsoever of your potential! Now."
[shouts]
Third Doctor: "Get out!"
[rocks the boat, sending MacLeod into the lake]
Connor MacLeod [as the Doctor rows away]: "Help me, I'm drowning!"
Third Doctor: "You can't drown, you fool! You're immortal!"
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Post by zebaroth on Oct 10, 2010 23:32:49 GMT
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Post by misterharry on Oct 11, 2010 7:58:57 GMT
That site seems to have been down for a few days now. A shame, as I would have liked to grab some of the adventures. Looks like the site's back up now. |
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Post by ugavine on Nov 9, 2010 13:36:15 GMT
That's my site ;D Before Adventure in time & Space came out I ran many Star Wars games with Doctor Who monsters. In fact one of the major PCs in our Star Wars campaign is a Time Lord based on the 7th Doctor The main Star Wars/Doctor Who Monster Index is here www.ugavine.com/who2x.htmYes, it does need updating. But now I'm playing AiTaS I don't really see the need. At present I have no plans of having any cross-overs in my Doctor Who campaign, simply because I did it all with my Star Wars one. My cross-overs included Aliens, Predator, WWE, comics, Star Trek, Blakes 7, Farscape, Xena, Stargate, Lexx and probably much more I've forgot about. |
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Post by gmjake on Nov 23, 2010 4:38:06 GMT
never really had a crossover Idea, though I've considered using the system for other settings
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