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craigoxbrow) wrote2010-06-25 12:30 pm
craigoxbrow) wrote2010-06-25 12:30 pm
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Hordes Of The Things
Having preordered Aliens And Creatures for Doctor Who from C7, they were kind enough to send out a free copy of the PDF.
Good stuff all round, not just the big descriptions of the monsters but especially the extras like the adventures book and a simple but evocative planet creation system, and giving some space to the original Cybermen as well as the modern parallel ones. (Which apparently might be addressed in the computer game released tomorrow apparently, but these things happen.) And there's an adventure hook that draws from the Dave Gibbons run of Who comics (best tie-in comics ever? I'd give them a supplement all to themselves...) and a shot of the back of Christopher Eccleston's head.
It goes up to Planet Of The Dead, so the nice Time War Daleks get on the cover rather than the weebly new ones but that was to be expected. More susprisingly it stops there, three hours short of the end of the Davies era, so there are no stats for the Flood or the dying electric Master. I'd say the former could be covered in a generic "zombie with a power" template of course, and the system's so simple I can cook up monster stats in three minutes if I even need to use them at all, but various zombies with powers get their own writeups. The Master would probably need his own chapter.
Good stuff all round, not just the big descriptions of the monsters but especially the extras like the adventures book and a simple but evocative planet creation system, and giving some space to the original Cybermen as well as the modern parallel ones. (Which apparently might be addressed in the computer game released tomorrow apparently, but these things happen.) And there's an adventure hook that draws from the Dave Gibbons run of Who comics (best tie-in comics ever? I'd give them a supplement all to themselves...) and a shot of the back of Christopher Eccleston's head.
It goes up to Planet Of The Dead, so the nice Time War Daleks get on the cover rather than the weebly new ones but that was to be expected. More susprisingly it stops there, three hours short of the end of the Davies era, so there are no stats for the Flood or the dying electric Master. I'd say the former could be covered in a generic "zombie with a power" template of course, and the system's so simple I can cook up monster stats in three minutes if I even need to use them at all, but various zombies with powers get their own writeups. The Master would probably need his own chapter.