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|writer = Will Brooks, Steve Darlington, Robin Farndon, Nick Huggins, Derek Johnston, Mark Lawford, Dominic McDowall, Charles Meigh, Darren Pearce, Andrew Peregrine, Jacqueline Rayner, Gareth-Michael Skarka, Alasdair Stuart, Nathaniel Torson | |writer = Will Brooks, Steve Darlington, Robin Farndon, Nick Huggins, Derek Johnston, Mark Lawford, Dominic McDowall, Charles Meigh, Darren Pearce, Andrew Peregrine, Jacqueline Rayner, Gareth-Michael Skarka, Alasdair Stuart, Nathaniel Torson | ||
|release date = 14 February 2014 | |release date = 14 February 2014 | ||
|series = ''[[Adventures in Time and Space Limited Edition Rulebook (anthology)|Adventures in Time and Space Limited Edition Rulebook]]'' [[adventure seed | |series = ''[[Adventures in Time and Space Limited Edition Rulebook (anthology)|Adventures in Time and Space Limited Edition Rulebook]]'' [[adventure seed]]s | ||
|next = A Little Bit of Ice Music (game) | |next = A Little Bit of Ice Music (game) | ||
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== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
After their [[TARDIS]] is "forced out of [[the Vortex]] by a powerful force", the [[adventurers (Player's Guide)|adventurers]] land upon a "stange-looking plain, all made from coloured wood and angular blocks". Before long, they realise that they have landed in [[Celestial Toyroom|a giant "toy box"]], [[the Toymaker's dimension]], with a "vast landscape of [[doll's house]]s and [[Toy Soldier|toy soldiers]] stretch[ing] out before them". | After their [[TARDIS]] is "forced out of [[the Vortex]] by a powerful force", the [[adventurers (Player's Guide)|adventurers]] land upon a "stange-looking plain, all made from coloured wood and angular blocks". Before long, they realise that they have landed in [[Celestial Toyroom|a giant "toy box"]], [[the Toymaker's dimension]], with a "vast landscape of [[doll's house]]s and [[Toy Soldier|toy soldiers]] stretch[ing] out before them". | ||
Things soon take a turn for the perilous as the adventurers discover a stranded [[Dalek]] ship "in-between a pair of giant talking [[teddy bear]]s". Soon, the castaways discover that they are all trapped on a giant chessboard and "in the company of the one of the most cunning [[game master]]s [[the universe]] has known": [[the Celestial Toymaker]], who soon forces them to play out a real-life game of [[chess]] with the Daleks on one side and the time-travellers on the other. | Things soon take a turn for the perilous as the adventurers discover a stranded [[Dalek]] ship "in-between a pair of giant talking [[teddy bear]]s". Soon, the castaways discover that they are all trapped on a giant chessboard and "in the company of the one of the most cunning [[game master]]s [[the universe]] has known": [[the Celestial Toymaker]], who soon forces them to play out a real-life game of [[chess]] with the Daleks on one side and the time-travellers on the other. | ||
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== Worldbuilding == | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* The Toymaker is served by a number of battle-worthy [[Toy Soldier]]s. | * The Toymaker is served by a number of battle-worthy [[Toy Soldier]]s. | ||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* Although illustrated with a promotional image of the [[First Doctor]] and [[Michael Gough]]'s [[The Toymaker|Toymaker]] from [[The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)|the original TV serial]], the adventure has no set protagonists, even if the First Doctor can certainly be used. | * Although illustrated with a promotional image of the [[First Doctor]] and [[Michael Gough]]'s [[The Toymaker|Toymaker]] from [[The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)|the original TV serial]], the adventure has no set protagonists, even if the First Doctor can certainly be used. | ||
* The narration suggests at one point states of the antagonist that "he's the Toymaker and he's not going to play fair". Although the original story depicted the Toymaker as rigging his games to an extent, this perspective on his ''modus operandi'' is noticeably at odds with the reinterpretation of the character in {{cs|The Giggle (TV story)}} which asserted that he was supernaturally bound by the [[rules of fair play]], whether he liked it or not. | * The narration suggests at one point states of the antagonist that "he's the Toymaker and he's not going to play fair". Although the original story depicted the Toymaker as rigging his games to an extent, this perspective on his ''modus operandi'' is noticeably at odds with the reinterpretation of the character in {{cs|The Giggle (TV story)}} which asserted that he was supernaturally bound by the [[rules of fair play]], whether he liked it or not. | ||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
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{{Toymaker sources}} | {{Toymaker sources}} | ||
{{TitleSort}} | {{TitleSort}} | ||
[[Category:2013 games]] | [[Category:2013 games]] | ||
[[Category:Adventure seeds]] | [[Category:Adventure seeds]] | ||
[[Category:Dalek games]] | [[Category:Dalek games]] | ||
[[Category:The Toymaker sources]] | [[Category:The Toymaker sources]] | ||
