Doctor Lovecraft...Who?? Or, would H.P. have made a decent companion?

[The Sundered Sky]

After looking about for Doctor Who conversions or material for GURPS, I did note several decent threads in multiple areas of the forum. For the benefit of those who(like myself until tonight) haven't yet seen these threads, here are just a few:

Challenge Stat the Doctor

Doctor Who in GURPS

GURPS Doctor Who

I particularly agree with the suggestions of everyone just being a Time Lord in a single Tardis. Doctor Who without the Doctor?? Well..yeah. You can't all be the Doctor. Or can you?

Having become a nigh-obsession over the last 6+ months, I found these and decided to change the nature of my original question..

Has anyone mixed Doctor Who and Lovecraft mythology in a game before? It seems a possible fit. Doctor Who has verged on horror many times. And in stories like "The Pyramids of Mars" it is revealed that there are(or were) powerful beings in the early Universe...some good, some evil(like Sutekh). These beings are maybe more "comic book sci fi" than what I normally think of as sci fi, but Who has also included another Tom Baker series where the Fourth Doctor is in E-space and battles vampires. He reveals they used to be a race of giants, one could bleed a planet dry. In this and other stories, the Time Lords were a sort of Universal police, putting down major threats over the billions of years(like gigantic true vampires).

Anyone imagine the First Doctor finding and attempting to destroy interdimensional entities of a Cosmic Horror bent? It might cross over just a bit with the Titus Crow series with that angle(ooo..angles, geometric shapes!). But I've decided you could do worse than sprinkle a bit of Cthulu or Phantasm(evil from another dimension, of course...) horror into the Doctor's universe.

In the unlikely event anyone has run a game like this, feel free to spill the beans.

Oh, and I'm just joking about the near obsession bit. You can pretty much just drop the near part.

Oh, curse you Netflix.

[David Johnston2]

Doctor Who has done a lot of horror stories and of course Lovecraft can be stuck into anything.

[Zorian]

A friend of mine ran a DnD game (ran into epic level range -that's several thousands of points to non-DnDers <grin>) that used the Lovecraftian Mythos as the background. Way later in the campaign we contacted several people from other realities (since all are the same at the beginning and things just translate differently: example the Eye of Terror in 40K was that Universe's version of the punctured Eye to the Beyond on the Astral plane in the base campaign Universe) these people were powerful beings who could ...distract "Jacob" (main bad guy turned out to be an Avatar of one of the lesser Mythos gods-not one of the big three anyway) so we could move around without him watching every move we made.

Some of the people we contacted were The Doctor ("Jacob" liked to call himself The Master BTW <grin>), the GL Corp, Gilgamesh, Buddha (and other religious figures we hand waved this a little), Superman, The Monkey King from "Journey into the West", Dr. Strange, Granny and her coven from Disc world, Elminster and so forth. The TARDIS should not have been able to enter the ship we were on since it was less a ship and more a dimension that the entrance moved around and it had...safeguards, the Captain of the ship was VERY upset. :)

[capnq]

Lovecraft has a GURPS 3rd ed. writeup in GURPS Who's Who 1.

[Gizensha]

Originally Posted by The Sundered Sky

After looking about for Doctor Who conversions or material for GURPS, I did note several decent threads in multiple areas of the forum. For the benefit of those who(like myself until tonight) haven't yet seen these threads, here are just a few:

Challenge Stat the Doctor

Doctor Who in GURPS

GURPS Doctor Who

I particularly agree with the suggestions of everyone just being a Time Lord in a single Tardis. Doctor Who without the Doctor?? Well..yeah. You can't all be the Doctor. Or can you?

Having become a nigh-obsession over the last 6+ months, I found these and decided to change the nature of my original question..

Has anyone mixed Doctor Who and Lovecraft mythology in a game before? It seems a possible fit. Doctor Who has verged on horror many times. And in stories like "The Pyramids of Mars" it is revealed that there are(or were) powerful beings in the early Universe...some good, some evil(like Sutekh). These beings are maybe more "comic book sci fi" than what I normally think of as sci fi, but Who has also included another Tom Baker series where the Fourth Doctor is in E-space and battles vampires. He reveals they used to be a race of giants, one could bleed a planet dry. In this and other stories, the Time Lords were a sort of Universal police, putting down major threats over the billions of years(like gigantic true vampires).

Anyone imagine the First Doctor finding and attempting to destroy interdimensional entities of a Cosmic Horror bent? It might cross over just a bit with the Titus Crow series with that angle(ooo..angles, geometric shapes!). But I've decided you could do worse than sprinkle a bit of Cthulu or Phantasm(evil from another dimension, of course...) horror into the Doctor's universe.

In the unlikely event anyone has run a game like this, feel free to spill the beans.

Oh, and I'm just joking about the near obsession bit. You can pretty much just drop the near part.

Oh, curse you Netflix.

While I haven't seen it done in a game before, I believe several of the Virgin published New Adventures novels pitted the 7th Doctor against various Lovecraft entities, and iirc one of the Fifth Doctor Big Finish audios had one...

http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Great_Old_One has some references.

So, yeah, no reason at all why it shouldn't work.

[Not another shrubbery]

HPL as a companion: Hmm... the speech patterns might be a problem ;)

"Cyclopean"? There aren't any one-eyed giants here!
"wgah'nagl fhtagn"? Is that Welsh?