BLOG Doctor Who Roleplaying's Plans For The 50th Anniversary

Cubicle 7 publishes the official Doctor Who Roleplaying Game and it has picked the 50th Anniversary year to bring all the Doctor’s incarnations into the fun. Whilst the game itself focuses on the eleventh Doctor right now, Cubicle will be releasing a series of sourcebooks, one for each Doctor, to tie in with the anniversary. Oh and don’t worry about the game keeping up to date with the show, the eleventh book in the series is an eleventh Doctor one that covers episodes not discussed in the core rules

Each of these books will focus on a single incarnation, detail all his adventures, look at the themes and notable characters of his era and, crucially for all GMs, walk you through how to set up further adventures based on the TV episodes. The books are also going to be chock full of illustrations from that incarnation and, in a really very nice move, Cubicle 7 is even keeping the first two sourcebooks in black and white to stay true to the feel of the show.

• The second deal is called The Early Years and includes physical and PDF copies of The First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Doctor sourcebooks. Bought individually these would be £144 or $210. Bought through the deal the price drops to £120 or $175. That means you’re getting a free book and, like the full set, the opportunity to decide which Doctor you liked least and as a result didn’t spend any money on.

In terms of time scale, the plan is to release a book every other month as a minimum. Of course delays happen but Cubicle will let you know about any delays and, as a subscriber, you’ll get both the book and the PDF as soon as they’re available. Likewise, if you need to cancel the subscription at any time, your refund will be in proportion to how many books you already received. So, for example, if you took the full deal and cancelled after getting the third book, you’d get 8/11ths of your subscription fee back.