Posts Tagged ‘Doctor Who’

The Trouble With Ginormous

This article contains material generated as background reference in Mike’s Doctor Who: A Vortex Of War campaign, but it holds relevance to most campaigns including those of the Fantasy genre. Introduction Space is big – really, really, big. I’m sure most readers will have come across that phrase, or something very like it, on numerous […]

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Cosmology and Research, Part 2

This was intended to be part of a single, self-contained article – but the more I look at it, the more inevitable it seems that what did happen, would happen. Make sure you’ve read Part 1 before continuing! I intend to dive straight in and pick up exactly where I left off, but first, there’s […]

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Forbidden Weapons of the Omega Archive Pt 2

This entry is part 2 in the series Forbidden Weapons of the Omega Archive

I explained in Part 1 what the Omega Archive is, why I’m creating the contents of it, how to use the contents in your own campaigns. Instead of repeating all that, I intend to get more or less right down to the content! But first, the ongoing index list: In part 1 I covered entries […]

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Forbidden Weapons of the Omega Archive Pt 1 (Blog Carnival Feb 2021)

This entry is part 1 in the series Forbidden Weapons of the Omega Archive

I didn’t expect to be writing about this right now. I knew that I would need this sometime towards the end of the year for my Dr Who campaign, but I had months in hand. What has brought this forward is the February 2021 Blog Carnival, hosted by the Sea Of Stars RPG Design Journal, which […]

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Polytime – a plot repair technique

This is an article about a technique for repairing continuity and plot problems that is especially suited to long-running campaigns and to campaigns deriving from published sources. I’m not going to leave anyone who hasn’t mastered telepathy in suspense: the technique is Patching one plot hole with another. For some that will be enough of […]

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