DOCTOR WHO- REMNANT OF THE DALEKS

BY

SIR GERARD LUFT, KDM

The last of the Daleks have invaded the TARDIS Console Room. And it’s up to the Eighth Doctor, Romana and K9 to stop them from taking over the TARDIS. Whoever controls the TARDIS controls all of Causality.

Introduction

This game is played with two players. Each player begins with three characters cards and there own deck, as detailed below.

Set Up

The Doctor

Character Cards

Character	Power	Toughness	Tap
The Doctor	2	1	-
Romana	1	2	+2 Attack Draws to Doctor if in the same area
K9	2	2	+1 Attack Draw to Doctor if in same area

The Dalek

Character Cards

Character	Power	Toughness	Tap
Dalek	2	2	+1 Attack Draw to any Dalek in the same area
Dalek	2	2	+1 Attack Draw to any Dalek in the same area
Dalek	2	2	+1 Attack Draw to any Dalek in the same area

Deck

Area	Power	# in Deck
TARDIS Console Room	1	8
TARDIS Library	0	8
TARDIS Clock Garden	0	8
TARDIS Altar Room	0	8

Miniatures and Map

If you have any problem keeping track of who is in what area each turn, draw up a map of the TARDIS and pull out your Doctor Who actions figures or miniatures! (As a matter of fact, these game rules were modified from a D20 Time Lord conversion we did. We created this system to better capture the fact that the Doctor’s “attacks” are usually not combative per say. Additionally, the card system was created to better streamline an already streamlined system (i.e., D20))

The Turn

1. Each player lays his character cards (and miniatures) out face up before him. Then they draw a card from their deck for each of their characters, going right to left. The cards drawn indicate which area of the Console Room each individual character is that turn (If random location seems unrealistic, one merely needs to watch a few episodes of Doctor Who, Star Wars Episode IV, or any early seasons of Star Trek: the Next Generation, to see the heroes running “like chickens with their heads off” trying to save their derrières; it’s just the fun of true space operas!).
2. If any character is in the same area with an opponent character, they may attack that opponent. (e.g., The Doctor, K9 and two Daleks are in the Library.
3. Before a conflict occurs, players must decide if they wish to Tap (rotate 90 degrees/ AKA siding) a character to Support another character in the same area (e.g., K9 taps to support the Doctor, and one Dalek taps to support the other Dalek. Characters tapped due to damage taken in previous turns can not be tapped to support.
4. The attacking characters must choose their targets. A character that is tapped to support can not be targeted. If there is a character that is tapped due to damage, then that character can be targeted. Only characters tapping to support are exempted from being targeted.
5. Players should take turn attacking. However all attacks are considered to be simultaneous.
6. A player draws one card from their deck for each character attacking. The character can draw more than one card if any other characters are tapped to support him or her (e.g., Tapping Romana when in the same area as the Doctor allows the Doctor to draw two additional Attack Draws when he enters into a Conflict). Each card in the deck has a Power score (either 0 or 1). Take the character’s Power score and add that number of +1’s that he or she received from their attack draw(s). If the modified Power of the character attacking is greater than the Toughness score of their target, then that character has been injured. The first time a character is injured, that character card is tapped. For the remainder of the game, that injured character can not tap to support another card in the same area. Also, if that tapped character is successfully hit again, then it is removed from the game.
7. After all conflicts have been resolved, characters that were tapped to support are untapped. The cards drawn for character location and Attack Draws are discarded. One does not need to reshuffle the discard pile each turn. But if one does, the probability balance will be much more accurate (this we found after doing some serious play testing with this game).
8. The turn sequence repeats until all characters on one side are defeated. The player with the last “man” standing is the winner.

DW: RoD Thoth files:

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IMPORTANT NEWS

We have entered the Doctor Who fortieth anniversary celebration year! This coming year, Paul McGann continues his role as the current Doctor in an all new production of the legendary Doctor Who serial, Shada. Stay current with important news about the Doctor, Romana and K9 at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/