Not that I’d actually play the game, but I’ve definitely heard good things about those Doctor sourcebooks.
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That’s a lot of books! Not really my thing, but I hope this brings happiness to those who are into this kind of stuff!
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I’m a casual role player with friends (usually doing GURPS), but I’m kind of interested in the sourcebooks because I heard on one of the Doctor’s Beard Patreon episodes that ( and I think I’m remembering this correctly) the First Doctor Sourcebook has what-if scenarios for each serial. So I’d be interested for that kind of stuff over the game itself.
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I’ve just purchased this and came here to post about it.
I was thinking of starting a thread on Doctor Who role playing.
Definitely need all of this added to the site @shauny 
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Fact is that I already own a lot of these, though I’ve never played it. I bought a previous bundle of Doctor Who RPG books.
And I just looked, and the copy of the first Doctors sourcebook I already have does, in fact, list scenarios for what looks to me to be each serial.
The Doctor’s Post Box: The Doctor appeared
to use 76 Totter’s Lane as his address on
Earth (certainly, it’s on his library card!). Why
would a wanderer in time and space need a
postal address? Who’s writing letters to him?
The Doctor could have abandoned all sorts of
intriguing plots when he was forced to leave in
a hurry. You could start a campaign with one
of the characters finding an undelivered letter
addressed to the Doctor at 76 Totter’s Lane.
Tribe of the Atom: The Doctor left his Geiger
counter behind in the distant past. What could
a tribe of Stone Age humans do with a Geiger
counter? Well, for one thing, they could locate
deposits of magic ‘hot rocks’. Fast forward a few
thousand years, and imagine a society dominated
by atomic priests, who dwell in temples where the
walls glow with radium lights, and whose flesh is
scarred with the holy marks of the sacred stones!
The Art Collector: At one point, Ian and Barbara
throw a sculpture down a lift shaft to block an
approaching elevator full of Daleks. Hang on, a
sculpture? In a Dalek city? Who made it? Was
it a relic from the days when the Kaleds were
philosophers and teachers? Or did the Daleks
themselves make it? Could it have been a rare
example of Dalek art, and if so, what does it say
about the psychology of their race? An art collector
might pay any price to have that piece recovered.
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Do all the Doctor sourcebooks have that kind of stuff?
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I’m tending to assume so.
From the fourth Doctor’s sourcebook:
Scavenger Hunt: The new Keeper (Luvic) asks
the player characters for help once again. The
Source Manipulator was badly damaged by
Adric’s device and now barely functions. He
needs the player characters to track down the
parts required to fix it, and find someone who
knows the design now the plans have been
destroyed. Unfortunately, with the system not
entirely under control a new cult has appeared
on Traken who believe the end times are coming.
They believe the Keepers have had their time and
Traken must fall at last. When this doomsday
cult discovers the player characters’ quest it
sets out to stop them.
From the tenth Doctor’s sourcebook:
A portrait of Madame de Pompadour has hung
in every major gallery on the planet for 500
years. Someone has died each time it’s been
exhibited, their bodies horribly mutilated. Each
time the method of death is different but each
death occurred at the exact same time. Now,
a Torchwood Archive special unit have taken it
to an old abandoned moonbase for study. The
portrait is never observed directly for safety.
But when the TARDIS doors open onto it it’s a
little hard to miss. Now the characters have
less than 24 hours to solve the Pompadour
curse or they’ll become its latest victims. And
why can they hear ticking all of a sudden?
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This is very tempting, but I already own more than half of it from a previous Humble Bundle and the only way to get most of the stuff I don’t own is to get the most expensive option. However, this is still a great deal even just for the stuff I don’t yet own so I still might end up buying it.
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I have the previous bundle but the more recent stuff was worth it for less than 20 quid - especially bearing in mind the rrp of just one volume.
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That’s true. I’ve been interested in getting Doctors & Daleks for a while and, while I prefer physical books for this kind of thing, this is still a great deal.
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this is how I discover there was a doctor who ttrpg
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I have 2 of these, but I may be forced to get all of this.
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This is the first Doctor Who Humble Bundle I won’t buy, simply because I don’t have anyone to play these RPGs with 
and if I did, I’d want physical copies.
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Well, honestly, since my RPG group pretty much broke up and I haven’t gone looking for a new one, I don’t really have anyone to play it with either.
I enjoy reading/looking through RPG books, though.
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Oh I got it anyway. More Doctor Who! Yay 
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Yay!
If you go to page 202 of the tenth Doctor sourcebook, that’s where Silence of the Library is, including stats for River Song…
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