Risus - Settings - Doctor Who Risus.txt
Here are my first ideas for adapting the Doctor Who TV series to RISUS:
Preliminary notes for RISUS DOCTOR WHO:
available COMPLETELY FREE at the Risus website:
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This is a fan work created by a fan of the Doctor Who television series, and has
not been created for profit. No challenge is meant to any person or entity
holding any copyright relating to the Doctor Who television series. I greatly
encourage everyone reading this to watch Doctor Who any chance they get, and
purchase products licensed by the series.
All original material in this document is (c) Karl E. V. Paananen, 2002. Please
get my permission before reprinting or redistributing the original material in
this document.
(None of this has been playtested, so I welcome feedback on these preliminary
notes. Please e-mail me at karlpaananen@hotmail.com with your thoughts)
Character generation:
I would suggest limiting starting characters to ten dice, but have the option of
award extra dice for hooks.
for this genre. Characters in the Doctor Who TV series often had mysterious
pasts that we learned more about as the series went on. This is most noticeable
with the central character: "The Doctor". When we first met the Doctor, all we
knew about him was that he was an elderly alien scientist who traveled with his
granddaughter in a (probably stolen) time machine called the TARDIS. The series
the 26 seasons the show was on the air, we learned a lot about the Doctor, but
Scientist
(understanding advanced science, building high tech devices from available
resources, operating and repairing high tech devices)
Army Officer
(firing handguns, leading soldiers, keeping your head while all around are
losing theirs and blaming it on you, understanding military protocol and
regulations)
Tools: handgun
Most PC army officers will be assigned to UNIT (the United Nations Intelligence
Taskforce)
Future Human
(using futuristic technology, familiarity with advanced science, recognizing
alien races that humans have come into contact with in the future, understanding
future society)
Gallifreyan/Time Lord
(living a long time, possessing alien anatomy, understanding advanced science,
understanding time travel, speaking and understanding other languages,
regenerating, identifying other Time Lords even after they have regenerated,
being aware of own dark side, possessing other latent telepathic powers,
participating in Gallifreyan politics)
NOTE: most Time Lords and other Gallifreyans need some form of technological aid
to use their "other latent telepathic powers"
See the Regeneration Rules below for more information on regenerating
Female Companion
(looking pretty, wearing short skirts, screaming, surviving adventures)
Male Companion
(brawling, running around corridors, surviving adventures, rescuing female
companions)
Incarnation of the Doctor
(everything listed for Time Lord, and for Scientist, plus: finding useful items
in pockets; sharing Time Lord language gift with companions; resisting mind
control, mind probes and hypnosis; extensive first hand knowledge of the history
and cultures of the universe; stumbling across adventures throughout time and
noticeably changed)
Tools:The Doctor uses a sonic screwdriver when building and repairing high tech
Special rules for regeneration:
Regeneration is a special Time Lord ability. Each Time Lord can only regenerate
twelve times.
Time Lords usually regenerate voluntarily when they are late into old age, but
fails, then the Time Lord has used up one of their twelve regenerations. If the
roll succeeds, then the player may redesign their character (provided the GM
okays the new character, of course). The new character cannot be built on more
possessed by the old character. The player must allocate at least one dice to it,
plus one. The new character does not have to have the same hook or hooks as the
old character, but can choose a new hook. The player must write a new
description of the new character.
Finally, the player must offer the new character to one of the other players in
the group to play. If you do not want players to have more than one character,
you should give new incarnations to players who need replacement characters.
Otherwise, the new character should become an NPC. But the GM should not allow
players to retain characters after they regenerate.
Time Lord (4) Attorney (4) Experienced time and space traveler (2) Golf Player (1)
Hook: very elderly
the TN of 5. So Jack begins redesigning the character.Since the Lawyer is a ten
dice character (with an extra dice for the hook), the new character cannot be
new hook, gaining an eleventh die for his new character. Jack writes a new
character stayed behind in the last adventure to help a planet rebuild after a
Dalek invasion. Finally, Jack constructs a brand new character for himself to
Additional Regeneration Rules:
add five to the target number for each dice that has been lost.When regenerating,
has been reduced due to injury.
A character can use regeneration to prevent death. If a Time Lord character is
killed in a life or death contest such as combat, they automatically start to
regenerate instead. The target number is five, plus an additional five for each
dice they have lost, as above. If this roll is unsuccessful, then the character
fails to regenerate, and dies. When a character regenerates to prevent death in
regeneration. This is handled by allowing the GM to create the newly regenerated
character instead of the player.
opinions of friends, and so on, before settling on the final form of the new
incarnation. The form of a new incarnation can even be a duplicate (at least
externally) of another person.
A Time Lord can also create a psychic projection. This is a task using the Time
all drop to (1). The psychic projection remains separate from the Time Lord
until the Time Lord next regenerates. At this time, the psychic projection
merges with the Time Lord, guaranteeing an automatic success on their roll to
regenerate.
COMING SOON: Cliches for Villains and Aliens!!!
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