TIME LORD -- A Doctor Who role-playing game

     Doctor Who -- Time Lord is a pencil and paper role-playing game written by Ian Marsh and Peter Darvill-Evans. This is an archive of the files made public by the authors but which are no longer available from their former site. A new third edition of the game (the "Express Edition" is also available from Steven Ege: /p>

     The original files are zipped Postscript files, so you will need a Postscript printer or a Postscript emulator such as Ghostscript to print them out. The pages are 90% reduced from A4 so should work on A4 and US letter paper and still give you a big enough margin to put the rules in a ring-binder. The files were revised on 12th August 1996 to eliminate some problems experienced by Ghostscript users and to correct some very minor typos.

PDF Format
The complete game in PDF format, 165 pages and 732k.

PostScript Format
A set of files chapter by chapter in zipped PostScript format.
Part 1: An introduction to Doctor Who
Part 2: An introduction to role-playing
Part 3: The rules system
Part 4a: The Doctors and their companions
Part 4b: The aliens and the villains
Part 4c: Time travel and the TARDIS
Part 5a: Referee's Notes
Part 5b: Curse of the Cyclops (an easy adventure)< br> Part 6: The Appendices (Designer's notes and character creation)
Part 7: A character sheet

ASCII Text Format
This is the plain text version of the rules, available in three zipped downloads.
Rules (11 files, 68k)
GIF Images Download (7 files, 208k)
Tabulated Tables (13 files, 12k)

Time Lord Companion
This is a set of conversion notes for FASA's Doctor Who RPG, in text format.
Steven Ege's Timelord Site
Another archive of this RPG.
Ian McDonalds's Who-RPG Homepage
Another archive of this RPG, which includes an ASCII version of the rules and a number of general articles on Doctor Who roleplaying.

Original Message from Ian Marsh

     The rules are virtually as they were written in 1991. They do not take account of the new Doctor Who movie. If anyone notices any discrepancies between these rules and the original book, please let me know. A nice friendly email will do.

     Doctor Who -- Time Lord was originally published by Virgin Publishing in 1991 (ISBN 0426 203623), with illustrations by Colin Howard. It is out of print and only if you're lucky will you find a copy.

     This electronically published edition is copyright 1996 Ian Marsh and Peter Darvill-Evans. It is published on the understanding that the rights to the book have reverted to the authors. If the worst comes to the worst, Virgin didn't buy the electronic rights anyway. Ho, ho, ho. Peter Darvill-Evans has very graciously given his consent as co-author to me republishing it.

     Time Lord is freeware, but that doesn't mean you can go around abusing the authors' copyright and passing it off as your own work. Feel free to help distribute it. 

Ian Marsh (as of Oct 2002)
Green Butts, Colwell Road, Freshwater, Isle of Wight, PO40 9SL, United Kingdom
Email: ian_marsh@fighting15s.co.uk

Doctor Who -- Time Lord is copyright (c) 1991, 1996 Ian Marsh and Peter Darvill-Evans.
Doctor Who is also copyright (c) 1963, 1996 BBC.

Last modified: Sun Oct 6 16:55:59 2002