The Doctor Who Role Playing Game
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| Publisher(s) | FASA |
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| Publication date | 1985 |
| Genre(s) | Science Fiction, Time travel |
| System(s) | Custom (same as Star Trek RPG) |
The Doctor Who Role Playing Game is a Doctor Who roleplaying game published by FASA in 1985. The game allows players to assume similar roles to the Doctor and his companions or as agents of the Celestial Intervention Agency.
The game was based on the programme and used it as its primary source material. The main set of three rulebooks was followed by several separately published adventures and supplements for the game, which provided details about the Daleks, the Cybermen and the Master. The supplements contained two pamphlets, one for players and another for game masters.
The game detailed a character history of the Master, which included identifying the Meddling Monk as a previous incarnation. The game's backstory resolved the UNIT dating controversy by stating that Mawdryn Undead "present day" sequence is set in the near future. A supplement to the game stated that Adric had not died and that a Time Lord had rescued him in a later model TARDIS than the Doctor's.
The game came out in two printings, one showing painted artwork of the Fourth Doctor and Leela the other a publicity photograph of them. Neither the Fourth Doctor or Leela, at that date, still appeared in the series. The painting printing had interior rulebooks with slick white covers, while the photographic edition featured more textured brown Victorian-styled rulebooks.
FASA also published two solo play gamebooks: Doctor Who and the Vortex Crystal (1986) by William H. Keith, Jr., featuring the Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan and the Daleks, set on the planet Gathwyr; and Doctor Who and the Rebel's Gambit (1986) by William H. Keith, Jr., featuring the Sixth Doctor, Peri and Harry Sullivan, set during the American Civil War,
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