Alternative Doctor Who Christmas Special, RPG-style

Not had the chance to blog for a while, due to holidays and other awesome things, but rest assured that work is progressing on the continuation of the Nazi-robot epic, Das Metallreich, and the new episodes of the ongoing game campaign with The Doctor, Esther, Lim, Stephen and Knute, which I'm calling "War and Peacehaven".

There's been some discussion in the games about an RPG Christmas special for our respective game-Doctors. The idea is to try and get a date where we can play and one-off, one-day adventure special, crossing over the timelines of both Doctors and producing an epic and seasonal adventure! This is a great opportunity to invite some other friends who might not want to play the game every couple of weeks, but are up for a "taste" of tabletop roleplaying.

 

May or may not be representative of included plot

Plans are in process, but in the meantime, here is the plot setup I've distributed to the invitees...

North Pole, 1977

'Twas the night before Christmas and all through Plaisted Station
not a creature was stirring...

Apart from Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart and a team of U.N.I.T. troops. Lethbridge-Stewart has been dragged out of retirement after only a year and he isn't happy about it.

He's unhappy that Dr. Giddings, who has requested him personally, keeps ranting about Alien interference in his experiments. He's unhappy that they appear to be investigating the wrong Pole. He's unhappy that he's had to fly out to the Polar Scientific Research Station "Plaisted" on Christmas Eve.

Finally, he's particularly unhappy that a freak snowstorm is likely to leave them cut-off until New Year...

Andromeda Sector, Far Future

War has raged throughout the sector between the Independent Colonies and the Great Empire.

When an Independent Dreadnought is left drifting after a major conflict, the surviving crew release an S.O.S., while Imperial Intelligence receive a tip off that the ship may contain information vital to the war effort.

Ransacking a ship with survivors is against the articles of war, but the Empire have no wish to lose face or the war. Luckily there are plenty of mercenaries for hire who can murder the survivors and retrieve the information without ever implicating the Great Empire...

ROME: ?BC

The dominance of the Roman war machine is felt throughout known civilisation. Rome is expanding, by conquest and by influence. It is a time of great superstition but also promising great progress and technological advancement.

Into this world comes a fearsome creature of terrifying proportions, laying waste to whole settlements and slaughtering the inhabitants.

The people wait for a saviour: born of a virgin on December 25th. They wait for a god to free them from their terror. They wait for a warrior to protect them from The Beast. They wait for Mithras...


Meanwhile, The Doctors have been plucked out of their existing travels and pulled into a twisted and macabre plan of the most terrifying and deadly scope...