Doctors and Daleks

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Doctors and Daleks was a roleplaying game released by Cubicle 7 in 2022. It was a “parallel” game to Adventures in Time and Space: The Roleplaying Game, using a heavily adapted version of the rules for the fifth edition of Dungeons & Dragons rather than the original Vortex system rules of Adventures in Time and Space.

Publisher summary

A New Way to Adventure through all of Space and Time

Doctors and Daleks brings the epic adventures of the Universe’s most famous Time Lord to the world’s most popular roleplaying game. Running parallel to the award winning Doctor Who: The Roleplaying Game, Doctors and Daleks is a new line of products that brings Doctor Who adventures to your table using 5th Edition rules.

Releases and revisions

The releases were:

All three books were also available in a TARDIS slipcase as Doctors and Daleks: Collector’s Edition.

Game mechanics

As an adaptation of fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons, many of the basic mechanics are shared between the two games. Characters have six “Ability Scores” - Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom and Charisma - which define their basic capabilities. Each has a score (typically of between 8 and 20), and a modifier (typically between -1 and +5). To resolve an action with a chance of failure, a player makes an “Ability Check” by rolling a twenty-sided dice and adds a modifier based on the appropriate Ability Score; they may also add additional bonuses, such as a “proficiency bonus” representing training in a specific skill. If this result equals or exceeds a “Difficulty Class” set by the Game Master, the action succeeds. Attack rolls (for affecting other creatures negatively) and saving throws (for avoiding danger) are resolved in a similar way.

Differences from Dungeons & Dragons

While these basics are the same, many other rules are heavily modified to try and provide a similar play experience as Adventures in Space and Time. Some key differences include:

The fantasy classes (like Fighter, Wizard, Rogue and Cleric) are replaced with six classes based on each of the six Ability Scores, similar to the older game d20 Modern.
- These classes are the Charmer (Charisma), Empath (Wisdom), Protector (Strength), Stalwart (Constitution), Thinker (Intelligence) and Trickster (Dexterity).
- Each class has a number of “subclasses” - specialisations like “The Boffin”, “The Criminal” or “The Survivalist”.
All references to magic are largely replaced by technology, and the game uses the Technology Levels from Adventures in Space and Time to alter many roles depending on the character’s level of technical understanding and the level of technology being used.
Spells are replaced by Quips, which represent “the power of conversation in Doctor Who”. They are special abilities that usually involve using words to persuade, distract or annoy someone, and can potentially inflict “emotional damage”. All classes have access to at least some Quips, and some of them are adaptations of spells from the 5th-edition basic rules.
The game introduces many rules for non-violent conflict, including the initiative rules from Adventures in Space and Time, in which has characters who are talking go first, those who are doing something non-violent go second, and attackers go last.

External links

What is 'Doctors and Daleks'? - introductory blog post from Cubicle 7

v • e Doctor Who roleplaying games

FASA	The Doctor Who Role Playing Game • Solo-Play Adventure Games

Virgin Publishing	Time Lord

Harlequin Miniatures	Invasion Earth (Supplemental scenarios: Terror from the Deep • The Web of Fear • Revenge of the Cybermen)

Cubicle 7	Adventures in Time and Space: The Roleplaying Game • Second Edition • Doctors and Daleks

Warlord Games	Exterminate!

Cubicle 7 The Roleplaying Game Adventures

Original Standalone Adventures

1st Edition Tenth Doctor version	Arrowdown • Judoom! • Prison of the Slavers • Mind the Gap • The Next World • The Rosetta Plague

1st Edition Eleventh Doctor version	Arrowdown • Knight of the Comet • Ashes of the Daleks • Cat's Eye • Medicine Man

1st edition Twelfth Doctor version	Stormrise • Seeing Eyes • Asteroid Day • Ghost Engines • The Northern Knights • Schrödinger's Expedition • The Tomb of Cleopatra • Death Comes to Toytown • The Grip of the Kraken • The Bellagio Imbroglio • A Study in Flax

2nd Edition Thirteenth Doctor version	The Einstein Engine • The Beast of the New Forest • The Appliances of Auttley Isle • Do Androids Dream of Electric Antelopes? • Flesh of the Vampire • Ground Strike • The Mad Gasser of Mattoon • The Night Terrors • Unwelcome Guests • Endless Summer • Time and Time Again • The Terror of Elbonia-2

Campaigns

1st edition Doom of the Daleks	Down and Away Below • The Space Trap • The Tendrils of Neox • Nowhere • Coils of the Serpent • Lunchtime of the Dead • The Matter of Silver • The Patchwork Man • Marked • Ice • The Face in the Mirror • Neverwas

2nd Edition Starter Set	The Timeless Library • The Echo Chamber • The Hermit's Lantern

2nd Edition The Secrets of Scaravore	Paradise Lost • A Kind of Magic • Westward Bound • The Mandala of Scaravore

2nd Edition A Stitch in Time	Hi-De-Hide • The Most Dangerous Monster • Silver Screams • Everything Must Go • Protect and Survive • Emergency Ward 26 • The Great Sonic Caper • Return to Sender • Green for Danger • Save Nhein

2nd Edition Sixty Years of Adventure	The Lustre of Starlight • The Cloud of Death • Invasion of the Chronovores • The Curse of Starlight • The Sontaran Stalemate • The Prize of Peladon • The Prince's Stone • The Tick-Tock Kingdom • The Dalek Death Diamond • The Diamond Heist • Green With Envy • Search for the Stars • Debt Repaid • Reparations • Division of Angels • An Unearthly Power

Adaptational Adventures

The First Doctor Sourcebook	An Unearthly Child • The Daleks • The Edge of Destruction • Marco Polo • The Keys of Marinus • The Aztecs • The Sensorites • The Reign of Terror • Planet of Giants • The Dalek Invasion of Earth • The Rescue • The Romans • The Web Planet • The Crusade • The Space Museum • The Chase • The Time Meddler • Galaxy Four • The Myth Makers • Mission to the Unknown • The Dalek's Master Plan • The Massacre • The Ark • The Celestial Toymaker • The Gunfighters • The Savages • The War Machines • The Smugglers • The Tenth Planet

The Second Doctor Sourcebook	The Power of the Daleks • The Highlanders • The Underwater Menace • The Moonbase • The Macra Terror • The Faceless Ones • The Evil of the Daleks • The Tomb of the Cybermen • The Abominable Snowmen • The Ice Warriors • The Enemy of the World • The Web of Fear • Fury from the Deep • The Wheel in Space • The Dominators • The Mind Robber • The Invasion • The Krotons • The Seeds of Death • The Space Pirates • The War Games

The Third Doctor Sourcebook	Spearhead from Space • Doctor Who and the Silurians • The Ambassadors of Death • Inferno • Terror of the Autons • The Mind of Evil • The Claws of Axos • Colony in Space • The Dæmons • Day of the Daleks • The Curse of Peladon • The Sea Devils • The Mutants • The Time Monster • The Three Doctors • Carnival of Monsters • Frontier in Space • Planet of the Daleks • The Green Death • The Time Warrior • Invasion of the Dinosaurs • Death to the Daleks • The Monster of Peladon • Planet of the Spiders

The Fourth Doctor Sourcebook	Robot • The Ark in Space • The Sontaran Experiment • Genesis of the Daleks • Revenge of the Cybermen • Terror of the Zygons • Planet of Evil • Pyramids of Mars • The Android Invasion • The Brain of Morbius • The Seeds of Doom • The Masque of Mandragora • The Hand of Fear • The Deadly Assassin • The Face of Evil • The Robots of Death • The Talons of Weng-Chiang • Horror of Fang Rock • The Invisible Enemy • Image of the Fendahl • The Sun Makers • Underworld • The Invasion of Time • The Ribos Operation • The Pirate Planet • The Stones of Blood • The Androids of Tara • The Power of Kroll • The Armageddon Factor • Destiny of the Daleks • City of Death • The Creature from the Pit • Nightmare of Eden • The Horns of Nimon • The Leisure Hive • Meglos • Full Circle • State of Decay • Warriors' Gate • The Keeper of Traken • Logopolis • Shada

The Fifth Doctor Sourcebook	Castrovalva • Four to Doomsday • Kinda • The Visitation • Black Orchid • Earthshock • Time-Flight • Arc of Infinity • Snakedance • Mawdryn Undead • Terminus • Enlightenment • The King's Demons • The Five Doctors • Warriors of the Deep • The Awakening • Frontios • Resurrection of the Daleks • Planet of Fire • The Caves of Androzani

The Sixth Doctor Sourcebook	The Twin Dilemma • Attack of the Cybermen • Vengeance on Varos • The Mark of the Rani • The Two Doctors • Timelash • Revelation of the Daleks • The Mysterious Planet • Mindwarp • Terror of the Vervoids • The Ultimate Foe

The Seventh Doctor Sourcebook	Time and the Rani • Paradise Towers • Delta and the Bannermen • Dragonfire • Remembrance of the Daleks • The Happiness Patrol • Silver Nemesis • The Greatest Show in the Galaxy • Battlefield • Ghost Light • The Curse of Fenric • Survival

The Eighth Doctor Sourcebook	The TV Movie • The Night of the Doctor

The Ninth Doctor Sourcebook	Rose • The End of the World • The Unquiet Dead • Aliens of London/World War Three • Dalek • The Long Game • Father's Day • The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances • Boom Town • Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways

The Tenth Doctor Sourcebook	The Christmas Invasion • New Earth • Tooth and Claw • School Reunion • The Girl in the Fireplace • Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel • The Idiot's Lantern • The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit • Love & Monsters • Fear Her • Army of Ghosts/Doomsday • The Runaway Bride • Smith and Jones • The Shakespeare Code • Gridlock • Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks • The Lazarus Experiment • 42 • Human Nature/The Family of Blood • Blink • Utopia • The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords • Voyage of the Damned • Partners in Crime • The Fires of Pompeii • Planet of the Ood • The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky • The Doctor's Daughter • The Unicorn and the Wasp • Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead • Midnight • Turn Left • The Stolen Earth/Journey's End • The Next Doctor • Planet of the Dead • The Waters of Mars • The End of Time

The Eleventh Doctor Sourcebook	The Eleventh Hour • The Beast Below • Victory of the Daleks • The Time of the Angels/Flesh and Stone • The Vampires of Venice • Amy's Choice • The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood • Vincent and the Doctor • The Lodger • The Pandorica Opens • The Big Bang • A Christmas Carol • The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon • The Curse of the Black Spot • The Doctor's Wife • Rebel Flesh/The Almost People • A Good Man Goes to War • Let's Kill Hitler • Night Terrors • The Girl Who Waited • The God Complex • Closing Time • The Wedding of River Song • The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe • Asylum of the Daleks • Dinosaurs on a Spaceship • A Town Called Mercy • The Power of Three • The Angels Take Manhattan • The Snowmen • The Bells of Saint John • The Rings of Akhaten • Cold War • Hide • Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS • The Crimson Horror • Nightmare in Silver • The Name of the Doctor • The Day of the Doctor • The Time of the Doctor

The Twelfth Doctor Sourcebook	Deep Breath • Into the Dalek • Robot of Sherwood • Listen • Time Heist • The Caretaker • Kill the Moon • Mummy on the Orient Express • Flatline • In the Forest of the Night • Dark Water/Death in Heaven • Last Christmas • The Magician's Apprentice/The Witch's Familiar • Under the Lake/Before the Flood • The Girl Who Died • The Woman Who Lived • The Zygon Invasion/The Zygon Inversion • Sleep No More • Face the Raven • Heaven Sent • Hell Bent • The Husbands of River Song • The Return of Doctor Mysterio • The Pilot • Smile • Thin Ice • Knock Knock • Oxygen • Extremis • The Pyramid at the End of the World/The Lie of the Land • Empress of Mars • The Eaters of Light • World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls • Twice Upon a Time

The Thirteenth Doctor Sourcebook	The Woman Who Fell to Earth • The Ghost Monument • Rosa • Arachnids in the UK • The Tsuranga Conundrum • Demons of the Punjab • Kerblam! • The Witchfinders • It Takes You Away • The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos • Resolution • Spyfall • Orphan 55 • Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror • Fugitive of the Judoon • Praxeus • Can You Hear Me? • The Haunting of Villa Diodati • Ascension of the Cybermen • The Timeless Children • Revolution of the Daleks • The Halloween Apocalypse • War of the Sontarans • Once, Upon Time • Village of the Angels • Survivors of the Flux • The Vanquishers • Eve of the Daleks • Legend of the Sea Devils • The Power of the Doctor • Redacted

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