# Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space **URL:** \ **Category:** Whartson Hall\ **Created:** [7 September 2018 12:01 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/doctor-who-adventures-in-time-and-space/249 "2018-09-07T12:01:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BigJackBrass](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/bigjackbrass/32/4_2.png) [@BigJackBrass](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/BigJackBrass)\ **Post date:** [21 September 2018 18:58 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/doctor-who-adventures-in-time-and-space/249/21 "2018-09-21T18:58:06Z")
> [@RogerBW](#): > > This definitely looks like the best of the three official Doctor Who RPGs – though I admit I’ve never even tried to play the FASA one. I have! I played a Time Lord who wore a deerstalker and a pac-a-mac. The system was solid and on par with many games around at that time, but in retrospect there was nothing particularly “Who” about it. ---
**Author:** ![MrTim](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/mrtim/32/91_2.png) [@MrTim](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/MrTim)\ **Post date:** [21 September 2018 19:33 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/doctor-who-adventures-in-time-and-space/249/22 "2018-09-21T19:33:47Z")
It was similar in a lot of ways to the FASA Star Trek - functional and quite tactical. It was a bit clunkier, and it disn’t include the brilliant chargen system that was probably the best part of FASA Trek (and wouldn’t work for Who). ---
**Author:** ![RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/rogerbw/32/3_2.png) [@RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/RogerBW)\ **Post date:** [21 September 2018 19:44 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/doctor-who-adventures-in-time-and-space/249/23 "2018-09-21T19:44:25Z")
In retrospect I think that the simulationist approach that dominated RPGs of the generation after AD&D (FASA DW came out in 1985) is absolutely the wrong one for _Doctor Who_. (And I say that as a committed simulationist most of the time.) Nobody writing a DW story cares whether a Cyberman’s gun does more or less damage than a Dalek’s gun: if you get hit by either, you’re dead unless you’re a main character. If Cybermen and Daleks are shooting at each other, what matters is not which one can stand up better against the other one’s fire, but that this provides cover for you to sneak in and do something frightful to the master computer. That’s why _Time Lord_ and _DWAITAS_ (which clearly owes a lot to _TL_) are so good: they accept this and simulate not “the real world plus aliens and time machines” but “what happens in a DW story”. ---
**Author:** ![BigJackBrass](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/bigjackbrass/32/4_2.png) [@BigJackBrass](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/BigJackBrass)\ **Post date:** [21 September 2018 19:58 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/doctor-who-adventures-in-time-and-space/249/24 "2018-09-21T19:58:46Z")
> [@RogerBW](#): > > Nobody writing a DW story cares whether a Cyberman’s gun does more or less damage than a Dalek’s gun Don’t let Ian Levine hear you say that 😮 ---
**Author:** ![Lordof1](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/lordof1/32/5_2.png) [@Lordof1](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/Lordof1)\ **Post date:** [22 September 2018 23:20 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/doctor-who-adventures-in-time-and-space/249/25 "2018-09-22T23:20:46Z")
…and this is a lot of the reason I don’t like Dr. Who. I don’t think he’s even a real doctor. ---
**Author:** ![BigJackBrass](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/bigjackbrass/32/4_2.png) [@BigJackBrass](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/BigJackBrass)\ **Post date:** [23 September 2018 11:51 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/doctor-who-adventures-in-time-and-space/249/26 "2018-09-23T11:51:02Z")
Given the history over vets using the term doctor I’d have thought you’d at least cut him a bit of slack there. ---
**Author:** ![Lordof1](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/lordof1/32/5_2.png) [@Lordof1](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/Lordof1)\ **Post date:** [23 September 2018 12:04 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/doctor-who-adventures-in-time-and-space/249/27 "2018-09-23T12:04:53Z")
Lets just say that if you ‘vet’ something, you check that it’s in good shape. If you ‘Doctor’ Something… well, you get the idea. So really, doctors should want to be called vets. Vet Who would be way cooler. ---
**Author:** ![RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/rogerbw/32/3_2.png) [@RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/RogerBW)\ **Post date:** [23 September 2018 12:23 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/doctor-who-adventures-in-time-and-space/249/28 "2018-09-23T12:23:15Z")
Ah, all those unseen adventures that consist of turning up, taking a look round, saying “yup, that seems just fine” and moving on… ---
**Author:** ![Lordof1](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/lordof1/32/5_2.png) [@Lordof1](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/Lordof1)\ **Post date:** [23 September 2018 12:26 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/doctor-who-adventures-in-time-and-space/249/29 "2018-09-23T12:26:41Z")
At least it would have internal consistency. ---
**Author:** ![BigJackBrass](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/bigjackbrass/32/4_2.png) [@BigJackBrass](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/BigJackBrass)\ **Post date:** [23 September 2018 13:34 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/doctor-who-adventures-in-time-and-space/249/30 "2018-09-23T13:34:52Z")
![tumblr_mr0ipihXPM1sd2cbuo1_250](https://discussion.tekeli.li/uploads/default/original/1X/d2262e2637046f30b86db2f398e67364d48c86da.gif) ---
**Author:** ![RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/rogerbw/32/3_2.png) [@RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/RogerBW)\ **Post date:** [12 June 2020 07:12 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/doctor-who-adventures-in-time-and-space/249/31 "2020-06-12T07:12:03Z")
Session 3 - (Stormrise) Laying Hole: A return to this lightweight game with a couple of new players. What’s going on in the Kent village of Batterlee? [https://tekeli.li/whartson-hall/Ilj4QuoWrolm/Doctor\_Who\_03.mp3](https://tekeli.li/whartson-hall/Ilj4QuoWrolm/Doctor_Who_03.mp3) ---
**Author:** ![RossM](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/rossm/32/1021_2.png) [@RossM](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/RossM)\ **Post date:** [12 June 2020 07:40 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/doctor-who-adventures-in-time-and-space/249/32 "2020-06-12T07:40:30Z")
Neither of my favourite versions have been mentioned. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdTELokKfCk) [![](https://discussion.tekeli.li/uploads/default/original/2X/6/64e6d7a15ff7d781939551de7c109be3b729c52f.jpeg "Bill Bailey - Dr Qui - Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68wJIQbCtlI) ---
**Author:** ![RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/rogerbw/32/3_2.png) [@RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/RogerBW)\ **Post date:** [19 June 2020 08:32 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/doctor-who-adventures-in-time-and-space/249/33 "2020-06-19T08:32:19Z")
Session 4 - (Stormrise) Rosa Parks, Gundam Pilot: The storm is getting worse. Better head for the pub. [https://tekeli.li/whartson-hall/DruanIv3/Doctor\_Who\_04.mp3](https://tekeli.li/whartson-hall/DruanIv3/Doctor_Who_04.mp3) ---
**Author:** ![RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/rogerbw/32/3_2.png) [@RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/RogerBW)\ **Post date:** [26 June 2020 07:51 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/doctor-who-adventures-in-time-and-space/249/34 "2020-06-26T07:51:11Z")
Session 5 - (Stormrise) We Seem To Be Surrounded: One problem down. How many to go? [https://tekeli.li/whartson-hall/jeCyctOdAc0/Doctor\_Who\_05.mp3](https://tekeli.li/whartson-hall/jeCyctOdAc0/Doctor_Who_05.mp3) ---
**Author:** ![RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/rogerbw/32/3_2.png) [@RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/RogerBW)\ **Post date:** [3 July 2020 09:41 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/doctor-who-adventures-in-time-and-space/249/35 "2020-07-03T09:41:01Z")
Session 6 - (Stormrise) We Weren’t Forming A Gestalt Entity: Just how much trouble can you get into in one small kitchen? [https://tekeli.li/whartson-hall/Quocank0/Doctor\_Who\_06.mp3](https://tekeli.li/whartson-hall/Quocank0/Doctor_Who_06.mp3) [Previous page](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/doctor-who-adventures-in-time-and-space/249.md?page=1)