Oh, and the Doctor Who game frustrated the hell out of me. It’s the first RPG text I’ve read in many years that wasn’t the voice of a single author/creator, so that may have something to do with it. But I found the quality of the chapters to be wildly inconsistent. Some were amazing, clear, and hinted at a really cool game. Some were total hackjobs. And there were so goddamned many instances of, “Make sure and do what the GM says. The GM is the arbiter of everything. When all else fails, the GM’s word goes.”

(I get that that’s very standard. I can’t stand it.)