Cubicle 7 Entertainment has just released the Doctor Who: The Roleplaying Game Second Edition in PDF and are currently taking preorders for the physical hardcover. This new edition promises a faster pace and an entry point for gamers of all experience levels. Climb aboard the TARDIS and get ready to thwart the evil machinations of the Cybermen, Daleks, Sontarans, The Master, and more! The 256 page hardcover core book is available as a preorder (which includes the PDF) for $49.99 or grab the PDF alone at DriveThruRPG for $29.99. Expected release for the physical book is Q1 of 2022.
About the book:
The award-winning Doctor Who: The Roleplaying Game has regenerated into a new Second Edition that is faster, easier, and even more exciting. This book presents all the rules and background you need to voyage across space and time with the Doctor, or as new characters experiencing brand new epic adventures.
This core rulebook includes:
- Complete character creation rules to allow you to bring to life a new time travelling adventurer to explore space and time aboard the TARDIS. They could be companions to the Doctor, or a new Time Lord of your own creation, Time Agents, or investigators and defenders of planet Earth.
- The complete revised rules for playing Doctor Who: The Roleplaying Game. The new and updated version of the popular Vortex system is completely compatible with the First Edition of the game. Second Edition makes gameplay faster, easier, and quicker to learn, while keeping all of the dramatic action you’d expect from an episode of Doctor Who.
- Advice for Gamemasters, new and old, on how to make the experience of Doctor Who: The Roleplaying Game feel like you’re living an episode of the TV series, as well as how to create exciting storylines and continuing campaigns.
- Revised rules for creating your group’s own TARDIS, or other time travel device to allow them to adventure from the dawn of history to the very ends of the Universe.
- An expansive look at the history of the Universe, detailing many of the aliens and creatures the Doctor has encountered across space and time.
- Pregenerated character sheets for the Doctor and her companions, ready to play straight away!