Dr Who 2e - A Stitch in Time - Review

Pages: 112
Run Time: 10 sessions.
Pre-gens: None

This campaign is really 10 scenarios that have nothing to do with each other. Each scenario lets the PCs collect some items or information that might be helpful in the 10th scenario. The scenarios are fairly short and very straight forward. I would run the 10th scenario last.

I think the scenarios are ok, but on the whole unmemorable and too simple.

Of the scenarios, I'd recommend: The Great Sonic Caper, Silver Screams, Everything Must Go. 

Most of my sessions are 3 hours long. Different groups take different times, but my run times are here for comparison purposes.

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Time Period: Sept 23, present day.
Location: Fairway Holiday Camp, England, Earth
Pages: 9
Run Time: 1 session
Hook: Temporal disturbance at a sleepy seaside (camping) resort.

A pretty straightforward scenario.

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The Plot: Escaped alien prisoners, Jackda scientists, crash land on Earth. Slovari military come to capture the escaped prisoners. 
The Bad Guys: Slovari.

I had no idea what Tealcoats were. So, I had to look them up.

Tealcoats - Forestry Service

I found some actual photos of Space-X launches, so I used them for the crash landing.

Lights in the Sky

Lights in the Sky

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The Most Dangerous Monster
Time Period: 24th century
Location: Former Cazralat prison complex
Pages: 9
Run Time: 1 session
Hook: PCs have won an all expenses paid trip to the opening day of Deadly Prey Executive Holiday Experience by Targetzone Tours.

I had fun with all the NPCs.

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The Plot: The mostly disabled Dalek is being hunted by the guests. Get the Dalek before it repairs itself.
The Bad Guys: Other guests, disabled Dalek, Targetzone Tours

I just used various TV families for the other guests.

Desire Imperdire

Atherton Arms Quiz Team

Daryl and Farnworth Shankly

Freda and Oscar Nibelraus

Hetherington-Smythe Family

Hobson Family

Rostophalnagapolitus Couple

Circle of Daskir 5 Stenza

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Silver Screams

Time Period: 1932
Location: Burbank, California, Earth
Pages: 9
Run Time: 1 session
Hook: A vacation to checkout Hollywood.

My players enjoyed this scenario.

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The Plot: Nestene animate monsters and toons. Figure a way to wipe them out and stop the signals from a tower.
The Bad Guys: Tentacle film monster, Cartoon Characters, King Kong, Giant Film Monster.

Sort of Who Framed Roger Rabbit and King Kong.

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Everything Must Go

Time Period: 23rd Century
Location: HYNAX Gigacomplex
Pages: 9
Run Time: 1 session
Hook: Obnoxious advertising drive the PCs to a Sale. Everything Must Go!

A great place to get various items such as your own Psychic Paper.

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The Plot: Unknown to the PCs, the managing director is auctioning off various illegal items. The security system goes haywire and starts kidnapping shoppers. PCs need to fix the HYNAX AI core to free the kidnapped shoppers.
The Bad Guys: Secu-Swarm, Krillitane, Ice Warriors, Sontarans

The reward for fixing HYNAX and arresting the managing director is a free item for each PC. This is a great opportunity to get something cool. Gadgets will still cost Story Points.

Personal Shopper

Secu-Swarm

AI generated - Bookshop shopkeeper

AI generated - Urbolo Zeem auction

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Protect and Survive

Time Period: 1066
Location: Battle of Hastings, Earth
Pages: 9
Run Time: 1 session
Hook: Let's checkout the Battle of Hastings!

I liked this because of the Battle of Hastings and the Bayeux Tapestry.

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The Plot: The king's brother is attacked by a creature, who is being held captive. It's a Silurian awoken from hibernation. An army of Silurians are going to wake up. Make sure they stay in hibernation, so history stays intact.
The Bad Guys: Various armies, Silurians.

Battle of Hastings battlefield

Death of Harold

Bayeux Tapestry: https://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/collections/britains-bayeux-tapestry

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Emergency Ward 26

Time Period: unknown date
Location: Urd
Pages: 9
Run Time: 1 session
Hook: The TARDIS gets a time-space SOS and PCs are whisked away automatically.

In concept, I thought this was a pretty cool scenario. But in play, it was ok, but not as interesting as I thought it'd be.

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The Plot: Unknown to the PCs, they're stuck in the heart of another TARDIS in siege mode. It's losing the battle to survive a Time Vortex. Echoes of its past reverberate inside it. And the PCs see ghosts scenes play out. The PCs are also split into two groups, a past and a future. To the PCs they're in a hospital. The past and future groups need to communicate the clues they find to each other.
The Bad Guys: Time itself.

Intercom between past and future

Past Hospital

Past Hospital

Future Hospital

Future Hospital

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The Great Sonic Caper
Time Period: 2515
Location: Anahera, New Stenport, Earth Empire
Pages: 9
Run Time: 1 session
Hook: Someone steals the Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver.

This one is actually pretty fun. Sort of an Ocean's Eleven thing going on.

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The Plot: A Museum Magnate hires someone to steal the Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver for his museum (tech level 7). PCs need to break into and steal it and other items from the museum.
The Bad Guys: Pickpocket, Museum Magnate, Bodyguards, Museum security. 

Since I didn't have the Doctor in my game, she appeared in a short guest appearance. The PCs are with her, her Sonic gets stolen, but an emergency calls her away and she tasks the PCs to recover her Sonic for her.

I didn't want it too easy, so I made the Anaheran sculpture the PCs promised to steal very large. After the PCs got the sculpture, they wondered what the Redistributor was going to do with it. I put it prominently in The Knife and Scales pub, where the locals drink to it.

Ceiling Dome

Museum Event

Guests

Party!

More Party!

Early Anaheran sculpture

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Return to Sender
Time Period: 57th century
Location: Harmenhout, planet FBK-113
Pages: 9
Run Time: 1 session
Hook: Investigate a pan-galactic kidnapping.

I liked the setting and messed up society.

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The Plot: A colony ship crash landed and its inhabitants are ruled by a totalitarian state. To keep the inhabitants in check, the leader is kidnapping random people and using surgery to make them into monsters. He then drugs them and lets them loose, so his Jolly Pals can beat up the monsters and keep his people in check with fear. PCs need to rescue all the kidnapped aliens.
The Bad Guys: Jolly Pals, Orbgig (their leader).

I actually like this one because it's a mix of 1984 and Clockwork Orange.

Note that the Pting which is rescued is the same Pting in Save Nhein. Though I thought making it missing an arm was a bit harsh. There must be a better way to identify it.

Below pics are all AI generated:

Getchel Fargoulet

Getchel transformed

Sonoran lobster monster

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Green for Danger

Time Period: 2147
Location: Boston, Earth
Pages: 9
Run Time: 1 session
Hook: Watch 2147's Hover-Hockey's historic final match.

Sort of a bait and switch as this scenario has nothing to do with Hover-Hockey.

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The Plot: People are breaking out in green patches. What is this disease? A clinic is using alien technology to cure people, but the side effect are these green patches. Stop the mad doctor before he uses the alien device to terraform the whole neighborhood.
The Bad Guys: Unethical doctor, Security services, Hostile locals, Crooked customs official.

AI generated - Saira

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Save Nhein
Time Period: 26th century
Location: Nhein
Pages: 11
Run Time: 1 session
Pre-Gens: None
Hook: PCs are snatched and dropped on Nhein.

For a finale, I felt this was a bit meh.

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The Plot: A Pting is eating everything and growing exponentially. Eventually, it becomes Godzilla size. Fix this somehow.
The Bad Guys: Targetzone (from The Most Dangerous Monster), Bureaucracy, Pting (from Return to Sender).

The only reason the Pting is from Return to Sender is to guilt the PCs into thinking they caused this.

Basically, use the stuff gathered from previous scenarios, figure out some sort of solution, you don't need everything. Put the Pting to sleep. Reminds me of the story, The Hungry Thing.

In my game, the PCs had the city build a dome over the sleeping Pting and made it a tourist attraction.

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