The best worst reactions to the news that the next Doctor Who will be a woman

Roll 1d10000000 and consult table. From 00666162-10000000 you get one child. If you roll a 1, you get quintuplets. Utter ridiculousness abounds.

Any occupation that uses charcoal to create things has the rules “May only sell extra charcoal to guildmembers at fixed rate. May not buy more charcoal than needed for work.”

List of random magical effects is 2000 lines long, many of them ‘Caster must say “something specified” ‘ every time a spell is cast. Many spells specifically effect women only.

In the list of abbettors (known as “helpers” to more reasonable people), the “fact” that one of the cowriters is the “fastest and cleanest speedpicking guitarist on earth” is mentioned.

Re: Doctor Who RPG Books
That’s not the one I had, but I now own the PDFs. My old copy is copyright 1985, by FASA. Has a slightly bad illustration of Doctor Tom Baker and Leela on the front.
http://homepages.bw.edu/~jcurtis/DWRPG_9001_box_2.jpg

omg I used the heck out of hypercard!!! I have idly wondered what that was called, for like twenty years. I made a simpsons thing with it, doing a bunch of animation with a MOUSE.

I wish I still had that.

Hmm ? My answer does not display ? Maybe in moderation ? That is strange, because there is only one link, and my former comment seemed to not have needed moderation. Oh, well, that will teach me to write a block without saving it somewhere before submitting.

In other news, word on the street is that this lady will get the top job in our Supreme Court today.

http://i.imgur.com/UEm1ms6.jpg

(Don’t worry guys, the other eight are still all blokes)

Sorry I’m a late commenter on this topic, but I feel,a bit cynical regarding this decision to cast a woman as the next Doctor Who. The news only broke a couple if days before the BBC pay scandal, which proves that women are sickeningly undervalued and under paid. It also proves that we should tell them where to stick their licence fee. I haven’t paid a TV liscence for five years, after telling them where to shove it after the Jimmy Savile news broke. The BBC continues to disappoint, harbouring and covering up for paedophiles, and treating women as second class citizens, no thank you 🙁 I don’t approve of paying Chris Evans £2.5 million per annum, he ruined Top Gear and is a crap presenter and a crap person. He treated Billie Piper badly when they were married. He isn’t a nice guy. I think choosing a female Doctor Who is a pathetic attempt at ‘damage limitation’, and rather patronising when you consider that even the co anchors on The One Show, the man gets at least twice the pay that the woman does, even if she’s his senior. That isn’t just sexist, it’s ageist as well. 🙁

I haven’t paid a TV licence for five years, after telling them where to shove it after the Jimmy Savile news broke. The BBC continues to disappoint, harbouring and covering up for paedophiles, and treating women as second class citizens, no thank you

I can understand your chagrin, but tend to see it as separate. The BBC is a huge organisation, and I don’t connect what is happening in Dr Who with any of the other stuff. What will be interesting to know is if JW will be paid as much as all the other actors who have been Dr Who in recent years.

@Alan, sorry I’ve been very slow catching up on this thread, but it was me who was interested in the Tripods RPG rights, so thank you very much for the info.

Was going to mention the Doctor Who Humble Bundle but I was beaten to it 🙂 As a game it does a decent job of keeping the tone of the TV series and emphasising solutions other than just hitting something till it stops moving.

So I might just mention Bundle of Holding as an place to keep an eye on for RPG bundles as well.

They tend to offer at least one bundle a week and currently have 3 running at the moment including a Rifts bundle which is at least interesting from a historical context, even if some of the content can be somewhat… problematic.

@ JS

“don’t let rules get in the way of having fun”, which is a good rule for any non-tournament RPG session.

It’s a good rule for life full stop.

“And it harm none, do what thou will” and all that.

Have you guys seen the system Catalyst Game Labs used for Cosmic Patrol and the Valiant Universe RPG? There’s no GM, each player takes it in turns to narrate a scene based on a basic scenario, themes and complications. Everyone has a supply of points that can be used to take control of the narrative like the 7th Sea example, with a pool of points passing from narrator to narrator so they don’t need to use their PC’s points.

Best best reaction to the news:
John Barrowman (AKA Captain Jack) puts on a TARDIS dress, and offers support to the decision.

@Lorcan Nagle the same system is also used more lightweight of the classic Shadowrun RPG called Shadowrun Anarchy

So i went out to play a little board game today with some friends

One of my friends spent his time complaining about the fact that the new Doctor is a woman. And then he joked about how “i guess that’s sorta sexist.” And I said “uh huh”, and he proceeded to tell me about how it shouldn’t happen because women should just make their own role models instead of taking over men.

Didn’t have as much fun as I had hoped.