Sontaran Shenanigans!

Following on from last week's teaser, Alasdair Stuart, in the first of his "Doctoring The TARDIS" columns, gives us some insight into his thinking behind the initial pdf adventure he has penned for Cubicle 7's Doctor Who: Adventures In Time & Space roleplaying game.

He introduces the column with: "As well as the Ninth Doctor boxed set, which I’ll be talking about in a couple of columns time, I’m also working on a series of PDF adventures, the first three of which have to feature a Dalek, a Cyberman and a Sontaran..." then goes on to fill in some background detail to the Sontaran-themed tale set amongst the Vikings of 11th Century Earth.

For the full column, and lots of tasty details about the adventure set-up, visit the Bleeding Cool website.

[UPDATE: The article now appears to have been withdrawn - possibly because of the NDAs the playtesters etc were under.]

Meanwhile, the game is the subject of a full-page article in the latest issue of SFX magazine (#190), entitled The Long Game, which quotes system author David Chapman and Cubicle 7's Dominic McDowall-Thomas.

The article gives a broad overview of the game, its possibilities and its initial coverage of the television show from the Christopher Ecclestone era through to Matt Smith's Doctor.

Dominic concludes the article, on page 17, by saying: "We're currently considering our plans for covering other eras, and other perspectives, such as Torchwood."

On the subject of the game's approach, David says: "This game will allow not only gun-toting UNIT soldiers, but proves that your brains are just as powerful at stopping the alien menace - just like The Doctor."