{"id":1116,"date":"2012-06-04T20:16:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T20:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2012-06-04T20:16:09","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T20:16:09","slug":"dr-who-by-g-a-s-l-i-g-h-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=1116","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Who by G.A.S.L.I.G.H.T."},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Third Doctor in hand-to-whisk combat with a Dalek. He had invented something that stunned the Daleks and set their Save roll to 2.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

In addition to my Captain America GASLIGHT game, I also ran a Dr. Who game at Origins.\u00a0\u00a0 WARNING: If you are a Doctor Who purist, you may be offended by this scenario!\u00a0 I combined many of my favorite characters to create a scenario that was fun, interesting, and exciting.<\/p>\n

Other than Christopher Eccelston, my favorite doctor is John Pertwee, the Third Doctor.\u00a0 My favorite companion is Elizabeth Shaw, a professor and scientist who only grudgingly gets involved with UNIT and the Doctor.\u00a0 I like her becuase — aside from tremendous legs — she can go toe-to-toe with the doctor and actually contributes to the solution of his dilemmas.\u00a0 So far, so good, but I also added K-9 and Romana I (from the Fourth Doctor), because I like them.\u00a0\u00a0 How dare I?!<\/p>\n

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The scenario was based on the Pertwee series, The Green Death, but I used Elizabeth Shaw instead of the largely useless Jo Grant.\u00a0 In this scenario, Global Chemicals, whose head has been hypnotized by the BOSS (a computer) has created mutant worms through the polution they create from their new process.\u00a0 As the scenario begins, Global Chemicals guards must keep everyone away from the worms — they are trying to avoid scandal.\u00a0 The home guard, led by Lieutenant Lethbridge-Stewart is trying to destroy the worms, because they are dangerous.\u00a0 The Doctor, Romana, and Elizabeth are trying to protect this new life form.\u00a0 Meanwhile, townspeople are protesting outside the gates of Global Chemicals; so the guards are bludgeoning them, dragging them through the gate, and letting BOSS hypnotize them.\u00a0 By the end of the game, the BOSS and the Global Chemicals guards had a sizable force of “zombies” that they used as human shields as they blazed away at the home guardsmen.\u00a0 As the scenario unfolded, however, it was\u00a0discovered that the worms poop Jethric, which we know from The Ribos Operation<\/em>, is a very rare and valuable substance.\u00a0 At that moment, Sontarans and Daleks landed to capture some Jethrick-producting worms.\u00a0 Objectives changed; now the Doctor and his friends began working with<\/strong> the home guard to destroy the worms, rather than letting them fall into the hands of the evil Sontarans or Daleks.<\/div>\n
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The changing objectives worked well, because the players didn’t seem to mind.\u00a0 At this point, Romana, the Doctor, and Liz were busy trying to invent things to help fight off the two sets of invaders.\u00a0 Lieutent Lethbridge -Stewart mistakenly identified the Sontarans as “Jerry Paratroopers” and led a hell-for-leather assault on them, backed up by a Churchill tank.\u00a0 By the end of the game, Stewart was unconcious, the tank was knocked out,\u00a0and most of his men were killed.\u00a0 There was even a brief exchange between the Daleks and the Sontarans, resulting in half the Sontarns failing morale, dragging a bit of Jethrick into a shuttle, and blasting off for orbit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Romana invented a force field, which was fortunate.\u00a0 She had been attacked and bitten by one of the radioactive worms and only had a few turns to make it to the TARDIS or she would die.\u00a0 The force field allowed her to slip past the Daleks and make it to the TARDIS in time to save herself — just in the nick of time.\u00a0 The Doctor invented a device that reduced the Daleks’ Scuffle<\/em> number to 2.\u00a0 This was handy, because Liz invented a device that gave her a Save Roll Modifier<\/em> of +5 against Daleks.\u00a0\u00a0 While K-9 was busy trying to kill worms, the Doctor and Liz teamed up to defeat two Daleks in hand-to-whisk combat.<\/div>\n
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A wide veiw of the table prior to the action commencing<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

The game was fun, and the players were fun — particularly the player who controlled Lethbridge-Stewart.\u00a0 Sometimes players have fun, but they aren’t fun to GM.\u00a0 For this game, I had a great group who really seemed to enjoy the game.\u00a0 Interestingly, there was someone in the game (six of six who pre-registered for the game showed up) who wasn’t at all familiar with the stories, but he seemed to have fun as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The fate of those who mix Doctors with the wrong companions in their games — Exterminate!\u00a0 Exterminate!<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

Both Friday and Saturday nights we went back to our rooms at the end of the nigth and watched a couple of Tom Baker Doctor Who episodes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n