Oh, wow, this was a surprise to pop up on my list.

I already have a character in mind and built. I played her in another game, but it petered out a few weeks ago. I'd love to play her some more. I'll let her introduce herself, but maybe some of have already met her?

'Smoke Alarm is a Blue Kang. Are you a Kang? I'm an eye-spy, an icehot corridor-runner, a hide-and-seeker, crack-shot with an arrowgun, hunter of Cleaners and beasts, and brave and bold as a Kang should be.

Mayhaps we'll how you do later?

Build high for happiness!'

For the unfamiliar or confused, Smoke Alarm is a Kang from "Paradise Towers", the 1987 7th Doctor story.

Shall I PM my sheet? The great thing about DWAITAS is I don't have to keep rebuilding characters. :)

Blue Kangs!  Blue Kangs!  Blue Kangs are best!

I heart Paradise Towers.

I would suggest Smoke Alarm as a companion of a previous incarnation of the Traveller, retrieved to rejoin the crew as the festivities begin.  I'll get you renamed in the game.  You can post details here and / or under your Cast page.

And I am here. Here are some links for Trav info. There's also the threads at RPG.net, but those are locked away from non-members. I left for reasons best not bothered with - but the narrative was awesome and I'd like a way to capture it all.

Hello, everyone. Now I have to watch Paradise Towers!

The Traveller always wears a Fedora, since her entire career started when the 1st Doctor left his cap in Travellandatura's celestiography observarium and she spent 3 episodes trying to get it back to him, in the process helping him to uncover the Sontaran's plot.  While a Time Lord, Travellandatura was originally a celestiographer, a cross between an astronomer, gravitic physicist and historian. The hat can assume any hat or scarf like shape, being a nanotech construct. In Rifts, it had 1 MDC.


1st Traveller, being cosplayed. Facially, Trav looks like a cross between Lara Croft and Belle from Beauty and The Beast. Spoke with an aristocratic New England accent. Notable companions - Herodotus, Al Capone, Wyatt Earp.



Second Traveller, without her hat.  Notable companions - RIck Hunter/Hikaru Ichigho, Lynn Minmay and several other Robotech Heroes, Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, and many many others. Had a chaste romance with the 5th Doctor, which made her fall into the form of the Marshall all the more tragic.


Kate Mulgrew, the Marshall. No companions but several lackeys, she commanded armies at various points, and would occasionally assist the Doctor against the likes of the Daleks (who were responsible for her capture, torture and transformation into the Marshall), whom she hated. Her most feared weapon was the Rod, which resembled a riding crop and combined the functions of a sonic screwdriver with a Dalek delta wave gun, as well as several other functions. Mulgrew performed as the Marshall across several seasons of Doctor Who, and credits her experience there with winning her the role of Kathryn Janeway on Star Trek:Voyager. Janeway-As-Marshall memes are still popular on the Internet, especially the one "BORG? PLEASE. OUR CAPTAIN IS A TIME LORD." Appears yearly with Samantha Drake at the annual GALLIFREY ONE convention at the Traveller panel.

Not pictured - Macy Waller, who played Dr Louise Simons. Louise Simons was the Traveller changed by the Chameleon arch into a human. While Waller only played Louise Simons in 2 episodes before regeneration into the Traveller, her impact is felt all the way through Demons of Time. Simons still carried and wore The Doctor's hat, which she regarded as simply a nanotech construct that, along with her sonic screwdriver, were gifted to her by the Megaversal Druid Morhedgreim as simply RIFTS Earths technological artifacts. Louise's family life and children play a major factor in the motivations of the Traveller in the 3 seasons of Demons of Time, which aired alongside of seasons 2, 3 and 4 or Doctor Who.



Samantha Drake, the current (5th) Traveller. This comedic actress grew up as a Robotech fan and fell in love with the 2nd Traveller watching the old episodes on San Diego's local PBS. Also known for serious dramatic work, including two Golden Globe nominations.
This message was last edited by the player at 05:19, Fri 22 Nov 2013.

I captured the RPG.net thread as four big HTML pages for the in-character stuff and one for the OOC.  I'll look into some way of making all that accessible.

Blue Kangs! Blue Kangs! Blue Kangs are best!

How you do, Traveller.

I've posted my description, back-story and personality under my Description. Let me know how I can link to the Traveller and the pre-existing story here. There's some stuff from Smoke's last game, and a link to another DWAITAS character of mine (Samanthra) that I could adapt.

For the moment I have put a ZIP of the archive up on Google Drive here:

https://drive.google.com/folde...JQVU&usp=sharing

There are 6-7 months worth of play there, but the basics are this:

• The Traveller came back from an alternate universe where she was banished while the end of the Time War happened.
• She found that several time-active groups had cropped up with the Time Lords out of the picture.
• In the first adventure where she met Dr. Stanley Newton, they encountered a person who seemed to be a human with Time Lord genes grafted into them.  In fact, they encountered three people who all seemed like they might be aspects of one individual.  Two of them were also in possession of an advanced spacetime manipulation device that physically manifests as a deck of cards.  Investigation of this device showed that it was a Time Lord artifact that survived the war, with a code name derived from "Transformational Archetypes Refactoring Orthogonal Time" (TAROT).
• One iteration of this person joined Trav and Stanley when they left Earth -- and subsequently disappeared on their next adventure.
• That first off-world adventure for Stanley was on the planet Arden, a gas giant that was one State of a star-spanning United States of America.  They uncovered and thwarted a plot to fix that USA's presidential election -- which turned out to be masterminded by another one of the competing time-active groups, called the Splintered Sisterhood.
• Trav formed the idea of replacing the Time Lords' top-down management of the space-time continuum with a league of these different groups, including the future USA they'd helped, present-day UNIT, and other groups that they would seek out and contact.  The term hung on this trans-temporal organization was The Parliament of Time.
• In their most recent adventure, Trav & Stanley helped present-day UNIT investigate a suspected Cyberman incursion in Egypt.  They discovered a Cyberman presence dating back to ancient times, but they found that the Cybermen had actually fought and imprisoned Apep, one of the Osirans.  Apep threatened to break out of his confinement, but Trav & Stanley were able to put a more permanent stop to him.

This message was last edited by the GM at 03:33, Fri 22 Nov 2013.

Hey Gary, if you could reach out to Phillipe's player, this might be an awesome time for him to come back in.

Also, as for character sheets - Gary, you need to check off a box that turns character sheets on. If you do that, we can get access to a large text box we can cut and paste character stats into.

Well, I see you've all been busy. :) Sadly, I've never completed one DWAITAS adventure, except the one I GMed myself.

Well, I did something, but I can't actually tell whether I fixed that or not :)

Hello to you too!

I'll check it out. I am enthusiatic about having PCs be former companions or elsewise linked into what I in my head call Travcanon. See, since I first played Trav in a RIFTS campaign, I linked her to Robotech, because RIFTS (also, I like Macross and Robotech.)

Imaginary franchise history -

Basically, when I first played her in RIFTS, Trav supposedly first appeared in a 1st Doctor episode (lost and yet to be recovered, only available in telesnaps, alas) where she helps the Doctor, Ian and Barbara and Susan thwart an Sontaran invasion of Gallifrey. She decides to follow in the foot steps of the Doctor and steals her own TARDIS - this happens just as Dalekmania hits Britain. 1st Traveller appears in bit roles in various 1st and 2nd Doctor episodes and in many Weekly TV Comics stories, and in some strips in 2000 AD (in Trav Fandom, it's remarked that 1st Trav is like the 8th Doctor, appearing mostly in comics, animation and novels). After an absence of a few years, a 2nd Traveller appears, with no explanation as to how or why she regenerated (played by actress Katie Westmoreland, the most famous Traveller actress, who passed away in the 80s, playing the character for 8 years.)

We don't see The Traveller for several years, but Haruki Mikimoto, who's a fan of Dr Who, convinces his friend Shoji Kawamori and the staff at Artland to do a series of Traveller-Macross 'special episodes', where the 1st Traveller helps Bruno Grobal explore the secrets of the SDF-1. She takes a lethal dose of radiation and regenerates into 2nd Traveller (the longest incarnation in the Trav franchise). The 'Special Episodes' that were co-branded with the BBC (who weren't using the character at the time) These tapes get released to the comic shop trade in Britain and Japan - Americans have no exposure to this until Robotech gets released. As Carl Macek had the rights to the Macross-Traveller special episodes, they were dubbed by Macek. Macek even paid to have new special episodes made for the Southern Cross and Mospeada segments.  As this was 1984 and 2nd Trav was appearing extensively in episodes with Tom Baker and Peter Davidson (indeed, it was the Traveller who was scripted to be in the Key of Time arc, but her actress had obligations, so we got Mary Tamm/Romana instead), the BBC approved it since it was no cost to them.

Then, Katie Westmoreland comes down with cancer and passes on. With the Traveller dead, John Nathan Turner engineers the transformation of the kindly and sweet Traveller into the ruthless and cruel Marshall. It's been rumoured that Turner always hated the Traveller and hated even more how popular she was. Played with relish by Kate Mulgrew, the Marhsall was an evil female Time Lord who combined the worst traits of the Rani and the Master. Much to Turner's surprise, this character was also just as popular as the Traveller, with the Marshall being chased by the 5th, 6th and 7th Doctors (one of the best selling DVD sets for Doctor Who is the 'Fury of the Marshall' set, with Mulgrew in her severe military uniform and bunned hair on the front cover.) The Marshall was successfully captured at the beginning of Sylvester McCoy's run, as Mulgrew went onto US success with Mrs Columbo and General Hospital. Mulgrew also stays active in Dr Who fandom, being a regular panelist at Gallifrey One.

The character disappears for over 13 years, with no mention of her being made in the 1996 Dr Who movie. She is occasionally mentioned in the Big Finish audios and specifically the Faction Paradox novels, as being a fierce enemy of the Faction (the Faction stands for chaos, as opposed to the Marshall with her famous phrase, "I will bring *discipline* and *order*".) Fast forward to 2005.

In preparation for the Rifts - The Demons of Time series, Christopher Eccleston shoots a brief scene with Mulgrew where, as Gallifrey is being destroyed and locked away by the Time Lock, the Doctor tells the Marshall she was always the Traveller and to live a happy, fantastic life. As this was not aired as part of season 1 of Doctor Who, there is debate in the fan commuinity as to whether or not it is canonical. Due to rights uncertainties with Harmony Gold and Tatsunoko, who are blocking certain uses of the Traveller reaching back to the Robotech era, Stephen Moffat has declared that no reference to the Traveller and the Marshall "except obliquely" will be made in the Dr Who 50th Anniversary special, fan petitions not withstanding.

However, the agreement with Harmony Gold and Tatsunoko does not forbid BBC productions with the Traveller as a character outside the Dr Who franchise. Thus, the Traveller appeared in the 2009 Rifts - The Demons of Time. Fans of the Palladium Books franchise were utterly shocked to see the revered Dr Who character appear in the show, appearing besides the Coalition and the RIFTS setting. Here is where comedic actress Samantha Drake first wears the Fedora hat, as she has been for 4 seasons (3 of Rifts, and 1 of Always Time To Travel). This came on the heels of an aborted Traveller reboot that Moffat was also involved in called Doctor Who: Turn of the Universe, which introduced popular characters UNIT analyst Henry Boyd, Sgt Patel and  Zhu Rheng, played by Jet Li.

Now, with a second season of Always Time To Travel confirmed, Moffat says that a resolution of the Tatsunoko/Big West/Harmony Gold rights deal should be coming through "any day now".  Fans begged for the Traveller to appear in Doctor Who since Season 1 (such as with the famous online SAM AND DAVID campaign in 2007, as well as the SAM AND MATT petition in 2009). Moffat has stated that "he's dying" to bring the Traveller into current Dr Who continuity, "but only after the legal problems are solved." Peter Capaldi has stated he adores Samantha Drake's work on Always Time To Travel and "can't wait to work with her and the other cast members of her show."

Always Time To Travel is BBC America's second highest rated show, right after Dr Who, of course.
This message was last edited by the player at 05:28, Fri 22 Nov 2013.

Gary- click Game Menu->edit character sheets and select the 'user editable' box.

Smoke Alarm - While I don't think Trav would have visited Paradise Towers (she was in jail on Gallifrey when The Doctor visited), she could have picked up Smoke Alarm for wacky adventures when the inhabitants of Paradise Towers were brought to civilization. This would be 1st or 2nd Trav, most likely, as 5th Trav has just returned to N-Space.

Traveller: I am amazed and confused. :p Hey, Faction Paradox! :D

I'm a classic and "wilderness years" fan myself. I never did take to the new series, and I've got mixed feelings for "The Day of the Doctor". I plan to watch "The Name of the Doctor" for the first time tonight.

My character sheet works.

No worries, I can slot in Smoke's other adventurers in the gap. My other PC, Sam, discovered the Kangs and studied them in their natural habitat for a bit, before Earth authorities decided to put the lost children in schools and homes (following an unmade sequel to "Paradise Towers"). Smoke was one of those who escaped, stowed away on a space freighter, had a Graske friend who showed her the ropes, before getting her in trouble with some semi-Cybermen. Stuff happened, game died. The Traveller could have rescued her some time after that. But Smoke likely won't accept this new Traveller as the same one she used to know, at least not for a while.

But is it necessary for us to have known each other? We can't meet fresh? I think I might get lost in all the backstory. :)

Actually, I kinda prefer that we meet fresh.

Okay. I usually prefer playing through first impressions, good and bad. :)

And sorry for the data dump - Travcanon and the imaginary franchise are meant to be dense, just like Dr Who can be ;)

If we pick up with the adventure that Trav & Stanley were headed to when we wound up needing to move the game, it's set in a future period that jibes well enough, and I'd already planned that it involved a shipful of refugees running away from some Nasty Folk.  It would work pretty well, if Smoke Alarm was on that ship, and knows nothing about the Traveller.
This message was last edited by the GM at 05:40, Fri 22 Nov 2013.

Okay, sounds good.

What future time-period? There's no solid date for "Paradise Towers", but Kroagnon was active in the (late) 21st century, so Smoke Alarm could live in the 22nd century. But, in my other games, I've bumped the Kangs forward to the 26th century to align with other PCs (Paradise Towers having been settled centuries after Kroagnon was forgotten, which made more sense). I've taken to thinking of her as a native of that time (and the New Adventures continuity). with Smoke's family possibly being victims of the Second Dalek War:
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Second_Dalek_War
or the Cyber Wars. But given the other game she was in, some time travel for Smoke wouldn't be unlikely.

I'm a fan of classic and new series; never -really- took to the book series; though do have a preference for the classic.

Still tossing through concepts. Given I don't own the book myself; it might be best if I did something fairly simple.

Don't worry about it, the system is very simple and straightforward, with identical mechanics for everything. You can make a psychic or a cyborg in much the same way as an alien or a regular human (though being a cyborg, robot, or having a gadget layers in extra stuff like the Gadget rules, but they don't really change much). Only Time Lords get a bit more complicated, as they gain more features, plus a Gadget.

Are we allowed to use the expansion books? I realised there's a trait in the UNIT book that would suit Smoke Alarm nicely.
This message was last edited by the player at 11:19, Fri 22 Nov 2013.

Expansion books are OK, just make sure you point me toward the source if it's outside the main book.  I do have the UNIT book, Time Traveller's Companion, and the Doctor books that have been released so far.

On the time period question, I had meant to adjust the "official" time for Paradise Towers to fit what I had in mind.  If your background had a lot of important links to big galactic events it might be different, but relocating it doesn't seem like it would hurt much because of the relative isolation.

Ultimately if you want to use a time-traveling background, that is fine too.

I use the Time Traveller's Companion - I'm a graduate of the Prydonian college (hey, who wouldn't be?) and use that for my TARDIS stats. Yes, TARDIS'es gace stats.

Hello everyone,

Still trying to get the hang of this site. The character sheet area is the "Character Details"-> "Edit description" thing, right?

@The Guardian, what do you want to do about the previous character advancement? Stanley has an extra trait and and area of expertise, compared to a standard character. Do you want me to remove them?

Stan the man with the plan! Good to see you Gareth.

Ready to get into a future kung fu war?

How you do, Stanley.

"Edit Description" will change your publicly visible details, found under "The Cast". That's usually just for descriptions and personality, but you can put a character sheet there if you want.

For your personal character sheet, you click on "Edit Character Sheet".