Quote from: RPGPundit;430197Well, if you really want to take that line of argument, what you'd actually have to say is that I stole a SHITLOAD of stuff from Doctor Who, not just the Daleks.

Actually, outside The Doctor, the TARDIS, and the Daleks, there's little to steal. Most of it standard stuff, made up or itself borrowed as the need arose.

Quote from: RPGPundit;430197In any case, let's say that your position is correct, and that was the case, what exactly would be bad about that?

Nothing. I didn't say there was anything bad about it. I said, basically, that it was pointless to use the Doctor Who universe with key elements of said universe.

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Quote from: Rubio;430247Little different than running a Star Wars game in the Legacy or KotOR era. Same universe as Luke/Leia/Han, but they're not making appearances in this game.

Well, now, I'm going to play devil's advocate against my own position in this thread and say that I do understand how some would take the perspective that Dr.Who is different than Star Wars in this regard; you an argue that star wars without the characters still has a highly defined universe: the Jedi, the Sith, the Old Republic, alien races, etc etc.
And likewise, you could claim that Doctor Who, without the Doctor or the TARDIS appears to have a far less defined universe; particularly if you also ignore some of the 20th century institutions like UNIT, Torchwood, etc.

However, I do think that there's a great deal of material in the Doctor Who universe (particularly in the "expanded universe" of the other media, but even if you rely solely on the TV series (original and current)), that certainly does come together in a defined universe; the difference from Star Wars being that it covers a much wider span of chronology and size.
Even without the Doctor, TARDIS or 20th century earth, you still have the Federation, 1st and 2nd Empire (and the different space communities after them, which are less defined), the Draconian Star Empire, the Sontaran and Rutans, the Cybermen, Ice Warriors, the ancient ones and their remnants, the Zygons, the different races of the galaxy that interacted with humans (Alpha Centauri, Sil, etc), Ogrons as space-mercenaries (who didn't just work with the Daleks, remember), the Shadow Proclamation and the Judoon, and of course the influence of the Time Lords (prior to the Time War at least).

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