Cubicle 7 Announces New Edition Of Doctor Who RPG!
July 15, 2021 by brennon
Cubicle 7 has announced that they are now working on the Second Edition of Doctor Who: The Roleplaying Game! This new edition will regenerate into a brand spanking new book with updated rules and ways to add new characters to your Sci-Fi adventures.
Doctor Who Secon Edition Rulebook // Cubicle 7
Inside the new book, you'll find a host of information for getting stuck into a bit of time travelling adventure on the tabletop...
- Complete character creation rules to allow you to bring to life a new time-travelling adventurer to explore space and time aboard the TARDIS. They could be companions to the Doctor, or a new Time Lord of your own creation, Time Agents, or investigators and defenders of planet Earth.
- The complete revised rules for playing Doctor Who: The Roleplaying Game. The new and updated version of the popular Vortex system is completely compatible with the First Edition of the game. Second Edition makes gameplay faster, easier, and quicker to learn while keeping all of the dramatic action you’d expect from an episode of Doctor Who.
- Advice for Gamemasters, new and old, on how to make the experience of Doctor Who: The Roleplaying Game feel like you’re living an episode of the TV series, as well as how to create exciting storylines and continuing campaigns.
- Revised rules for creating your group’s own TARDIS, or other time travel device to allow them to adventure from the dawn of history to the very ends of the Universe.
- An expansive look at the history of the Universe, detailing many of the aliens and creatures the Doctor has encountered across space and time.
- Pregenerated character sheets for the Doctor and her companions, ready to play straight away!
I like the idea of giving this a shot and exploring the universe not as a Time Lord but as those companions and other investigators who almost follow in their wake. The Doctor can't be everywhere so it's up to you! I imagine it being fun putting together your own Torchwood team!
The idea of sessions feeling like a TV episode also works quite nicely too. With folks not able to get around a tabletop that often, especially when they're older, it feels like a good shout to have "episodes" feel self-contained. You can then duck in and out as things progress!
Are you tempted to give Doctor Who: The Roleplaying Game a go?
"I imagine it being fun putting together your own Torchwood team!"
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Well putting the one of the most unpopular Dr Who’s on the cover is really going to shift units! (pun not intended) and Bradley Walsh… jeez do they want this to fail!?!
I really liked Jodie Whittaker as Doctor Who. I think she did some fun stuff with the Doctor and I liked her energy. Tennant is still my favourite of course. I think writing is what fails the show more than anything. I think sometimes the vast amount of “stuff” they have to try and wrestle with is their ultimate undoing.
Tennant? My I forgot how young people are… Give us Tom Baker or give us death!
I’ve like all of the Doctors, except the one they had in Jodies last series (she looked like she’d suck the fun out of being the Doctor … ).
yeah, I think she was/is a good Doctor, but the decision to give her a giant team was probably the worst decision ever.
@rickabod41 As a Whovian, I agree completely. I have a feeling they were contractually obligated to feature this Doctor Who?
Yes, not a good choice of cover. Sadly the awful writing has been beyond even the talent of good actors to save this show. At the moment I cannot see anyone with sense wanting to take on the role unless they could veto the scripts.
I know they have been designing this for some time, but boy the BBC have killed it for good…
Maybe a more classic who cover will help sell ?
Yes I agree. The choice of Whittaker was a bad choice and a bit of the middle finger to the hardcore fans. It is also a bad business and marketing choice.
Personally I think this iteration of Dr Who killed the franchise, with the worst ratings ever. I don’t mean to be argumentative about this but the data speaks for itself. The BBC just has to open its eyes and see.
Ill admit now I was never a Dr Who fan anyway but casting a female Doctor was never going to work out. Why not just create a new bespoke character that is female and give her some original storylines. Star Trek springs to mind where they had a female Captain (Janeway?) in Voyager rather than recast Jean Luc Picard as a girl.
I can never express enough my disdain for the BBC and its creative laziness and woke agenda all fuelled by a horrible, outdated and unfair tax that criminalises women and old people disproportionately
Go and talk to the Govt if you don’t like it. There the ones who decides who and how much you pay for a TV licence
I don’t pay the TV licence anyway
Then don’t complain about it then
With all due respect I will complain about it if I want to 🙂
I never have had a problem with the casting of a female actor in the role. The terrible scripts has been the problem. Sci-Fi is a great way of exploring current issues through the lens of the ‘future’ but has to be done well. Sadly the writing talent has not been up to the job.
I think the writing has been quite poor from early on in the reboot
Yep, its seems that the writers cannot differentiate between drama and melodrama.
Not really a valid analogy. Dr Who is a character which has been established as regenerating in to a new body, is alien, and nothing about the character really need ‘him’ to be a him.
> Why not just create a new bespoke character that is female and give her some original storylines. Agreed. Torchwood was a Dr. Who spinoff, lasting five years. Why not another Dr. Who show? fwiw, Dr. Who has had various female Timelords (no doubt up to their own adventures) so it’s not like we couldn’t have another Dr. Who show. In fact, Sarah Jane, the 3rd and 4th doctor’s companion, shared her show with K-9, his robot dog. From the descriptions of these time lords, who happen to be female, there can be enough background for a character to be… Read more »
They could have brought Romana back as a back door pilot.
Lots of things they could have done with this, but it was just stunt casting. Same with making the Master a woman – although to be fair John Simm wasn’t my cup of tea either!
Anthony Ainley will never be bettered!
Good to see you can have your favourite Dr Who to play this game with.
I’ve finished watching Loki yesterday. Best Doctor Who season in years.
Anything with that fake, non “doctor” on the front will be a pass from me. They should release a special edition classic cover version.
I will buy 13’s sourcebook when it comes out, I have all the other sourcebooks, but not yet another cover swap for the rulebook. -_-
PLUS, I have the best cover anyways…the Anniversary one with The War Doctor on it.
Best
Doctor
Period
Fight me, bro. 😉