Oooohhh …

Oooohh …

Now that does take me back …

Now, as you might no don’t have noticed, by now, I’m something of a Dr Who fan.

You could probably hardly miss it, could you?

Not by now, at any rate, says I, grinning to my self …

But at any rate, the point I’m trying to make is simply the fact I’m a fan.

And one who’s been — in his time — a former role-playing-gamer.

Which some would ague is a bit of a weird hobby to follow.

But let me ask you this: what do you call a bunch of saddoes that get together at the weekend to sing strange songs and wear funny costumes?

I call ’em football fans …

But I’m going sideways …

The point I’m making here, as I have many times, before, is simply that different people have different passions, causes, hobbies, what-have-you: which, a lot of the time, involves humans getting more tribal than we think we are.

And two of the tribes I happen to have been at various points …

You get me drift*!

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Let me get moving on, shall I?

Yes.

I’ve old friend, over in the States, called Sean.

Now Sean and his wife, Laura, have run a little game store in Athens, Georgia, called Tyche’s Games, for many a year. And Sean, like me, is something of a Dr Who fan.

And managed to mention that a British company called Cubicle 7 have managed to do an updated take on a Dr Who role-playing game.

Now I was interested.

Certainly interested enough to have a look both at C7’s home page, and the link Sean sent me, to the page on their Dr Who gameº.

Which certainly looks rather good, and tempting enough to try.

Once I’ve got some disposable income to go and get a copy … !

* Going totally sideway’s, here, I’ve just taken a look in my mug. You know, if Tony Robinson and the rest of the Time Team crew don’t find some fascinating archeology at the bottom of my teapot, I’ll be bloody surprised …

º And certainly looks — to me, at any rate — as if it catches the feel of the new series rather well. Oh, I’ll give the FASA Dr Who rpg credit for being a nicely balanced — and very well presented — take of the series, but I always felt that it didn’t quite managed to get the continuity right. Or, at least, to my liking.