Sorry Stanley.

I know you're right; but it would have felt the very definition of min-maxing, to have taken the points for having a code of honor and ignored such a blatant call-out to it.

Yay! Let us how that 5E game of yours goes!

Trav, like me, is BIG into Glorantha. Don't get her going on it. Of course she gamed with Gygax.

That's our man Sereth, always bring honor into every situation ;)

Should I wait for Renn to reply to me or can I phone up the rest of the team?

I was unavoidably detained from the posting I meant to do last night.  At this time I would like to short the time differential and declare that the two (three!) groups are operating semi-contemporaneously instead of Sereth & Stanley being a couple of weeks ahead of the others, because you guys have phones and at this point letting Trav & Smoke's stuff play out would probably put revelations in the other team's hands that would greatly inform a bunch of stuff they've already done.

So (wave, wave) I'm going to claim that Trav and Smoke have spent considerably more time hunting around the keep than was previously thought -- on the order of a week -- and Sereth and Stanley were sped up to match.  Unless anyone greatly objects.

(Hey, it's Doctor Who; indifferent attention to internal continuity is a feature, not a bug. :D)
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... what we don't of course realise, is that the Silurians mastered time travel; and those boats we were on were their timeships!

A week? We'd probably seem a little less weird to the Silurians than we have been. :)

Hey, sorry for the spam, but I started an interest check for a DWAITAS game to help me settle on a campaign set-up:
link to a message in another game
Chip in your thoughts if you're interested.

Does Smoke's phone also ring?

It must be some kind of conference call.

I have this image of Traveller and Rell-Va-Tenn hearing this distant ringing...

My post initially had some comment about how Traveller's timing couldn't be worse. Ironic for a timelord. Though then again, look at the Doctor...

I was hoping for an (in)opportune time for it to do so.  If you want to come up with that yourself, feel free.  Your partial success downgraded the possible ALARM! ALARM! to a "WTF was that?"

So, my interest check didn't go far. Is anyone here interested in playing another DWAITAS game, one run by me? After my first effort, what I most want is some good, dedicated, long-term PCs to base the campaign around, and you've all proved your worth here. :) Please PM or rMail me if you're interested and have a specific character concept in mind.

I'm considering a companion PC that would do your game justice.

Okay.

I want to do something special for my game, but have too many ideas. A quest to discover Gallifrey maybe? :)

I've been dismayed that I never got to do much with the character I made for Coridan's game, the Time Lord with different psychic / precog abilities from being sort of unstuck in time.

Sorry, I don't think I have time for another game.

I'm considering playing the one, good Dalek. A Dalek who actually developed on it's own conscience, morality, and has decided to be good and kind, because *it* chose to.

I'm afraid a Dalek would be almost unplayable. Even in alien-friendly future settings, a Dalek would always be seen as something to destroy or flee from immediately, or be suspected that it's up to something or trying to kill everyone. It can't be disguised or explained away either. It's worse than the good drow problem of D&D. The sourcebooks themselves are hard against it.

I suspect a friendly Dalek would be mostly restricted to the base or ship of a specific sort of setting, and rolled out only against certain foes.

I say that as someone who thinks Kroton the Cyberman with a soul was an awesome companion:
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/K...oul_of_a_Cyberman%29


I'm strongly leaning towards a Time War campaign, starting off by running a modified version of "The Doom of the Daleks" campaign from the Eighth Doctor Sourcebook. I've already thought up two story arcs to follow, set during the war and the aftermath on Gallifrey (turns out the Doctor didn't save it so good after all...)

The other idea I'm attracted to is a Farscape/Guardians of the Galaxy-inspired starship campaign set around the year 2590, where the weird aliens are things like Alpha Centauri and Ice Warriors. Derivative, but it could be fun. But I don't have any specific ideas yet, and need to invent more stuff from whole cloth (I like to use adventure modules and existing settings as starting points to build my own adventures.)

... I'd be all over a Time War campaign; just saying.

I'd be up for the starship campaign too; but might take a bit longer to figure out a character.

... once upon a time, Cybermen weakness to gold was quite specifically gold dust getting into their ventilation systems.

Then we got Ace making light of them with gold-plated coins, and it's never been the same.

I wonder if the gold coins were specially enhanced like Ace's baseball bat in Remembrance. Or were coated in poison like Peinforte and Richard's arrows; the coins came from the same place after all.

Of course, the key factor in all these incidents is Ace. :) Give Smoke Alarm a slingshot and a bag of gold coins and we'd see same the comeout. :D


The starship game concept needs a cool ship to really work.

We hijack a cybership. Problem solved!

For bonus points, the ship's integrated Cyber-controller remains intact, but disconnected from all ship control systems, so it can do nothing but kibitz.

... I like the way he thinks!

And periodically try to take over the ship and convert everybody?

Though whatever it is, there will be a Red Kang ship's mechanic named Power Point. :)