#the game of rassilon

[benpaddon]

Well, it's done. Tomorrow sees the release of the final ever episode of The Game of Rassilon - the Doctor Who RPG actual-play podcast my friends and I have done for five years now. For half a decade, I've gotten to tell some amazing stories with some of my closest friends in the universe. It's been an honor and a joy.

If you listen, I hope you enjoy it. If you don't listen... well, there are 107 episodes. Give it a go. You might enjoy it!

[strange-destinations]

....I need you to break down which Game of Rassilon characters would survive Dracula now please.

ah fuck okay, here we go. going by @canyourfavesurvivecastledracula's set of critera at the top of the blog...

Riley!Doctor - Wouldn't take the crucifix because she's already got several spare ones in her pockets, somewhere, maybe, she'll go looking for them later. Of course she's sneaking around and getting nosy. It's what she does. Holds Dracula's attention well enough until he says something really blatantly evil, and then she promptly snaps and ruins everything and turns the whole deal into a survival horror game. Finds a rusting sword somewhere and beats the three vampire gfs back with it. Uses her scarf to rappel her way down the side of the castle, and uses a combination of Venusian Akido and clever sonic screwdriver technobabble to disrupt the vampiric influence on the wolves. She's the Doctor. She'll be fine.

Millie - the real-life Amelia Earhart was somewhat religious, so I can easily see her taking the crucifix if offered. Talking and climbing aren't what's going to save her here. Her greatest strength is piloting and repurposing things. In the absense of a plane or spaceship, she might very well hijack the carriage Dracula drove in on. 50/50 chance of her managing to pull this off.

Travis Killian - Travis's greatest strength lies in his ability to fuck with technology, and unfortunately castle Dracula is not wi-fi enabled. He's genre-savvy enough and probably knows enough vampire lore to get a good grasp on what's going on, but that's not going to save him. I don't doubt his ability to survive a few terrifying conversations with the Count, but I do doubt his ability to climb down a ladder, let alone a massive castle wall. Probably going to die without assistance, let's hope he asks for help.

Roman - Roman would try to shoot Dracula several times and miss, every time; but that only happens at the climax of this little disaster. Vampires and Time Lords are natural enemies, so he'd have a pretty good idea what's going on from the start. Being left in a creepy old building owned by a malicious entity that wants him to suffer and lose his mind is kind of already Roman's thing, so he gets bonus points for that. Roman can absolutely talk his way around Dracula and in fact I'd pay actual money to see those conversations. When things inevitably go to shit and he has to run like hell, the aforementioned bad Marksman score kicks in. He fails to even so much as wound Dracula, and probably isn't remotely equipped to climb down the castle walls. The wolves probably get him. Sorry, Roman. He dies, but don't worry, it's all part of the plan.

Carrie Vu - after ascertaining that someone really weird is going on in the town, would turn up at Castle Dracula's front doors and offer him girl scout cookies that she doesn't own in order to sneak in and snoop around. Dracula would not be fooled but would let her in anyway. Every conversation between Carrie and Dracula is the equivalent of getting beat around the head with a rubber chicken. There's no way to predict how any of this will go. Dracula is too bemused and off-balance to contemplate killing her at first. Gets very very offended when he calls her iPhone a foul bauble of man's vanity. Would manage to get at least one good whack in with her baseball bat. The vampire GFs do eventually get her and things look hopeless, but the Corsair swings in at the last moment to rescue her, and the resulting scene is like something off the front cover of a horny romance novel.

Dan!Doctor - Would take the crucifix, insist on paying or giving something back, comedic 5-minute sequence of him pulling random currency and bizarre items out of his pockets. Solemnly promises to do something about the babies getting stolen and eaten, and this is his entire life goal for the next few weeks. Probably manages Dracula marginally better than Riley!Doctor, can keep up and hold a conversation while carefully plotting his exit route. Locates every coffin and regretfully destroys them. Very thoroughly makes sure that no part of Dracula's cunning real estate plan will ever come to pass. Escapes Castle Dracula by jumping out a window because climbing is too slow. He's good at falling off things, he'll be fine probably.

Lita Fane - Lita's wary enough that I have serious doubts she'd even go up to the castle in the first place unless coerced or forced into it. She feels much more like the person to stay down in the town and try to help the people living there. Assuming she has to go to the castle anyway - I don't know if the crucifix would be even recognizable to her as an important item, so she'd probably just be really confused about it, might take it just to be polite. Engineering skills aren't really helpful to her here. I don't think she'd be great at talking to the Count, either. Dracula sets off every red flag possible for her - Lita's having a bad time. It doesn't feel like she'd be an especially great climber, either. Lita's a survivor, but probably not in this case. Vampires were never really the thing she learned how to survive.

Stanley Campbell - Oh, god. Sorry, but there's just no way Stanley would notice that Dracula is even remotely a vampire until it's way WAY too late. 50/50 on him taking the crucifix but I'm thinking maaaybe not. He'd probably end up wandering. Dracula would lose interest in his tangents very very fast. He ain't climbing his way out, with OR without crocs. One way or another, he's not moseying his way out of this one.

bonus: Joseph!Doctor - a stick is just a stake that hasn't been sharpened yet. Dracula's going down.

[rassilonpod]

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[foundfamilyappreciation]

Round 1: Group B

Travis Killian & The Doctor from The Game of Rassilon

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Fig Faeth, Adaine Abernant, Fabian Aramais Seacaster, Gorgug Thistlespring, Riz Gukgak & Kristen Applebees (The Bad Kids) from Dimension 20: Fantasy High

[sadgician]

keeper of the matrix

[radiofreeskaro]

Radio Free Skaro #957 - What Are The Movellans Watching?

Radio Free Skaro #957 - What Are The Movellans Watching? - #DoctorWho previews in SFX, EW, and more! - #Gally1 tickets on sale! - Terror of the Autons commentary concludes!

http://traffic.libsyn.com/freyburg/rfs957.mp3 Download MP3 The hype train has left the station for Doctor Who as Entertainment Weekly, SFX, Attitude, and other pulp-based data products celebrate the impending Full-On Ncuti Gatwa Era along with the BBC and Disney+ releasing promo illustrations, and most importantly of all the release of Movellan action dollies, which caused spontaneous…

[lurking-latinist]

the other classic who/game of rassilon crossover I want is Riley!Doctor meeting Six. they’re just similar enough in personality and manner that they’d drive each other up the wall, right up until they realized they were giving the exact same rant to each other about each other. (she seems more approachable sometimes but she’s just as capable of Completely Not Getting someone’s emotions, and they have a similar rage against injustice and obstinacy-made-a-virtue, and of course they both excel at Big Doctor Speeches.)

meanwhile Peri and Travis are just having a genuinely nice time. she’s happy to meet literally the first American she’s met while TARDIS traveling if you don’t count that DJ who did the fake accent. that’s really weird when you come to think about it, isn’t it? why does everyone sound British in space? Travis thinks it’s weird, too. I mean, plenty of the people he’s met sound British—kind of a lot, actually—but not all of them. But when he asks the Doctor later she just mutters something about the constraints of the medium and changes the subject.

[thesnackist]

okay so... can someone who is well versed in Doctor Who EU explain what's with the Pythian and Imperialix 'eras' of Gallifrey history? and why I keep seeing references to Gallifrey II and Gallifrey III? does Gallifrey have a cyclical thing happening where it keeps retconing itself?

I think its a case of fandom canon welding of references from Virgin New Doctor Adventures / Wilderness Years material with the Gallifrey audio series by Big Finish but I'm honestly grasping at straws

it might have been popularized by one of several DW actual plays??

or DW fic circles on AO3??

okay somebody explain please 🫡

[stillthesunkenstars]

Charm designs

[doonpook]

Presenting the teaser trailer for the next project from the Game of Rassilon team.

[6-and-7]

Creeptober 10 - Against the Clock Scene from The Game of Rassilon episode 'Universe on Fire'

[benpaddon]

I'm currently doing sound design for the @rassilonpod finale. This is, honest-to-goodness, our last episode. I did the dialog pass over the weekend and I cried, because... that's it.

I'm halfway through the sound design phase now. I'm hesitant to finish it, because then it's Over. But I also have to finish it, because the episode drops next week.

I'm excited for what comes next. But I'm sad that this chapter is over.

[strange-destinations]

re: the 'would [x character] survive castle dracula' thing that i'm endlessly delighted by - i don't know if travis killian would survive the first few chapters of the novel dracula, but count dracula would toss his gameboy out of the window and call it a foul bauble of man's vanity. so he has one less thing going for him there.

[rassilonpod]

A brand new episode of The Game of Rassilon is out now! Stanley and Carrie fend off the MemorEyes horde. The Doctor encounters an enemy from his long forgotten past.

Listen now in your favorite podcasting app, or on our website!

[sadgician]

i’ve had this as a sketch for ages now, but i’ve decided i quite like it as it is currently <3

[ID: A digital art sketch of The Doctor, Travis Killian and Carrie Vu from the Game of Rassilon, all in the doorway of the TARDIS, which is floating in space. The Doctor is holding up her sonic screwdriver, leaning out slightly. Travis is kneeling, holding onto his Gameboy and Carrie, who is fully out of the doorway, floating in space, holding onto Travis and her bat. end ID]

[radiofreeskaro]

Radio Free Skaro #854 - The Redemption of Innes Lloyd

Radio Free Skaro #854 - The Redemption of Innes Lloyd - The digital future of the BBC and #DoctorWho - News and notes, plus The Timelash

http://traffic.libsyn.com/freyburg/rfs854.mp3 Download MP3 We return to the Times of Fallowness after weeks of blockbuster news involving new and old Doctors and other such delights, but we still have cogent analysis of the BBC’s new digital machinations, insane tale-spinning about Steven traveling back to 1975 and saving missing episodes from incinerator-loving poltroons in The Timelash, the…