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Maxil

***General Maxil*** was a member of the Gallifreyan Chancellery Guard before eventually being promoted to General during the events of the Time War. He survived the Time War without ever dying, meaning he kept his appearance - which matched that of the Sixth Doctor - until he was shot by Roman aboard Meat Base Alpha.

## Pursuit of the Doctor

Tasked with tracking down the Doctor on behalf of the Time Lords, Maxil caught up with the Doctor and Roman at Meat Base Alpha where he successfully impounded the Doctor's TARDIS. After the Doctor escaped, however, Maxil was prepared to kill Roman, only to get shot in the gut, forcing his first regeneration. As his form changed, Maxil was filled with one desire - to capture and kill the Doctor.

Maxil later caught up with Roman at Disneyland, California on opening day as Roman had brought Millie there. Maxil's new form was of a lean black man in a Hawaiian shirt, shorts, and a Goofy baseball cap. Roman helped Millie escape with the aid of a Time Ring, leaving Roman's fate unknown.

Maxil later caught up with the Doctor, Travis and Millie on Colony 47 and was prepared to kill the Doctor, but was ordered to hold off by Rassilon.

## Parallel Universe

In a parallel universe, Maxil had killed Rassilon - self-proclaimed Emperor of the Time Lords - and placed himself in power, but he was too late to undo whatever Rassilon had done. He was torturing the Doctor's previous incarnation. In this universe, Maxil retained his original face and had not regenerated.

## Behind the Scenes

* Maxil appeared in one classic *Doctor Who* story, *Arc of Infinity*, where he was played by Colin Baker.
	+ In The Handheld War, the players posit that Maxil would look like present-day Colin Baker as opposed to his appearance circa 1982.
* Maxil's second incarnation is explicitly described as resembling British actor Paterson Joseph.
Reyla's TARDIS

***Reyla's TARDIS*** was the name given to a mythical TARDIS believed lost to time.

Reyla's TARDIS was referred to in a Gallifreyan nursery rhyme:

*Reyla and his TARDIS too,*
*Reyla took her somewhere new.*
*Reyla broke his TARDIS' heart*
*And pulled his very world apart.*
According to Arch-Cardinal Kalen, the Time Lord High Council had known for some time that the TARDIS was in fact real, and believed it to be the location of an incredibly dangerous weapon known as the Reaper Cortex. After capturing the Doctor, Travis and Millie on Colony 47, Kalen tasked the Doctor with traveling to Reyla's TARDIS, which was trapped inside of the time vortex itself, to retrieve the Cortex. To reinforce their threat, they revealed they had dropped Millie back to her proper place in time, bringing forward the date of her mysterious disappearance from 1987 to 1982. The Doctor instead escaped Gallifrey, but opted to go to Reyla's TARDIS anyway.

Reyla's TARDIS was in fact revealed to be Roman's TARDIS, with an elderly Roman found in the console room trying to hold his ship together. It was also revealed that the Time Lords had also sent a rogue Time Agent, Captain Greg Kinnear, to retrieve the Reaper Cortex. The Cortex was revealed to be a fiction concocted by Roman to distract the Time Lords during their pursuit of the Doctor. (*Active Decay*)
Both Ends Burning

***Both Ends Burning*** is the first part of the eighth serial in season 2. It features the return of Roman, albeit a past version of the character appearing shortly after his reveal in *The Handheld War*. Notably, the episode is a "Doctor-Lite" episode, with Riley Silverman appearing only at the very beginning and briefly at the end.

## Synopsis

Travis talks to himself. Carrie meets an old friend. The Doctor begins the end.

## Cast

* The Doctor - Riley Silverman
* Travis - Dan Peck
* Carrie - Kate Lê
* Roman, Norman, Engineer - Michael Nixon
* Game Master, all other characters - Ben Paddon

## Crew

* Editing and Sound Design - David King
* Theme music arrangement - Drew Krassowski
* Additional music - Luke Baldridge
* Story - Michael Nixon, Ben Paddon

## NPCs

### Major

* Norman
* The Wire
* The Other Travis

## Production

* This is the first Doctor-lite story since *Roman Holiday*, which was also the last single-part adventure.

## Links

* Both Ends Burning at TheGameOfRassilon.com
VITAL

***VITAL*** was the name given to an artificial intelligence of unknown origin designed to gather knowledge, having observed the planet Earth since its earliest days. When its databanks were damaged in 1836 due to a temporal event, it set out to re-learn about evolution in part by accelerating the process, creating Barnacloids as a result.

VITAL was encountered by the *HMS Beagle* at this time, giving its occupants - among them, Charles Darwin, an up-close-and-personal experience with both evolution and barnacles. Also present were the Doctor and Travis, having been lured to this point in space and time when VITAL reached out to Travis' cybernetically augmented mind and piloted him towards that space-time destination. (*Evolve or Die*)

## Appearance

VITAL was a large sphere capable of producing bio-luminescent lights across its surface.

## Behind the Scenes

* VITAL shares its objective with Light. Like Light, VITAL set out to catalogue data pertaining to the planet Earth. Unlike Light, however, VITAL sought to learn more about the evolutionary process rather than seeing it as a roadblock in its quest to gather knowledge about the planet.
* The temporal event VITAL encounters is likely the result of the Keeper and Rassilon's plan to destroy the Web of Time. (*The Enemy of the Good*)
Season 4 soundtrack

***The Game of Rassilon: Regenerated - Soundtrack*** is a playlist on Spotify and YouTube Music collecting music used during season 4.

The playlist was curated and maintained by season editor Ben Paddon, with regular updates as new episodes of the season dropped. It was initially available solely on Spotify, but a YouTube Music version was created close to the end of the season. According to Ben, the playlist contains "almost" all of the music featured in the season.

## Behind the Scenes

* The music from the series is made up of licensed music. The only original pieces created for the show areAdam Sakellarides' version of the *Doctor Who* theme, which was introduced in *Missing Time*, and Luke Baldridge's version, which is used in the Behind the Screen bonus Patreon episodes and has been used since Season 1. Neither of these pieces are included in the playlist.
* "Phoenix Rising" is used as the Dan!Doctor's theme and appears in multiple episodes in the series. Notably, it can be heard playing on one of the Speakr drones in *Terms of Service*, making it the only piece in the soundtrack to appear both diegetically and extra-diegetically.
* The Various tracks that play overlapping from the Speakr drones during the same episode are not included in the playlist, although a couple of standalone pieces do appear.
David King

***David King*** was the editor and sound designer for the majority of episodes of The Game of Rassilon from seasons 1-3. He edited almost every episode of the podcast during this time, with the exceptions of *Perfection* and *Recursion of the Daleks*.

His last episode for the show was *The Enemy Within*. Ben Paddon is taking over as editor as of season 4.

Outside of this podcast, King is also the creator, editor and host of the podcasts *Midnight Marinara* and *Undercooked Analysis*, and has contributed to a number of songs by the musical group Random Encounters on YouTube.

## External Links

* Midnight Marinara at the Benvue Network
* Midnight Marinara at Creative Horror
* Undercooked Analysis
Eleventh Doctor

The ***Eleventh Doctor*** was the twelfth incarnation of the Time Lord known as the Doctor.

## Within the Game of Rassilon

### Podcast

Though the Eleventh Doctor has not appeared in the podcast, the existence of the War Doctor and the Twelfth Doctor presupposes his existence in podcast canon.

### Live Shows

The Eleventh Doctor, along with companions Donna Noble and Roman, faced off against an alliance of the Doctor's enemies in Time Square, New York on New Year's Eve, 202X. (*Time Squared*)

## Behind the Scenes

* The Eleventh Doctor was played by Ben Paddon in what was their first and, to date, only time portraying an incarnation of the Doctor.

## External Links

* Eleventh Doctor at the TARDIS Data Core
Getaway

***Getaway*** is the seventh serial in the show and the Season 1 finale, consisting of three episodes.

## Synopsis

The Doctor and Travis arrive at the Staycation Destination – a world that feels strangely familiar. Millie finds herself grounded.

## Cast

* The Doctor - Riley Silverman
* Travis - Dan Peck
* Millie - Melinda-Catherine Gross
* Engineer - Michael Nixon
* Game Master, all other characters - Ben Paddon

## Crew

* Editing and Sound Design - David King
* Theme music arrangement - Drew Krassowski
* Additional music - Luke Baldridge
* Story - Michael Nixon, Ben Paddon
* Producers - Melinda-Catherine Gross, Michael Nixon, Ben Paddon

## NPCs

### Major

* Dr. Joan Hodgman
* Jessie
* Russell Turner
* Albert Einstein
* Lord President Maxil
* The Wire

### Minor

* Janet
* Rita and Anita
* Small Hadron Collider scientists
* Temporal refugees

## Continuity

* This story is set approximately 20-25 years after the events of The Cost of Progress, a story to which it is ostensibly a sequel.
	+ Different timeframes are given by the GM. Initially, it is explicitly stated that 20 years have passed since The Cost of Progress. Later, however, Russell Turner says it's been "almost 20 years".
* The Doctor overrides the TARDIS randomiser.
* Russell Turner returns, and has turned his attention to helping temporal refugees.
* The Doctor and Travis are reunited with Millie. They were separated during the climax of Devils From The Deep. From Millie's perspective, it has been five months.
* Each of the three members of Team TARDIS is pushed into a separate parallel world where their fates differ from their own:
	+ The Doctor is pushed into a parallel world where Maxil has overthrown Rassilon and is now Lord President of Gallifrey.
	+ Travis awakens in a version of New York where he partnered with the Wire to dominate humanity.
	+ Millie finds herself involved in a "Small Hadron Collider" project, working with Albert Einstein.
* In the parallel universe the Doctor is pushed out to, Maxil had been torturing a parallel universe version of her predecessor.
	+ The previous version of the Doctor wears a jacket made of a leather-like material that shimmers blue in the light, carries a gnarled walking stick, and a satchel adorned with badges and patches of places they've been.
* Rassilon, mentioned in the show's name, makes his first appearance in this story.
* Though not seen, the Daleks are heard in this story.

## Production

* Recorded in one session at Geeky Teas & Games in June 2019.
* Episodes 2 and 3 are the first episodes to feature a recap that doesn't use the track "Previously On" by Luke Baldridge. Episode 3 uses the piece during the narrative as incidental music.
* The piece of music that plays as the Doctor, Travis and Millie escape from their parallel universes in the stolen TARDIS at the climax of episode 2 is “Race Against Time” by Hampus Naeselius. This is also used for the recap at the beginning of episode 3.
* Joan Hodgman and Jessie share their names with *Judge John Hodgman* hosts John Hodgman and Jesse Thorne.
Fnarg

***Fnarg*** was a security guard at Epoch Talent. The only alien guard encountered by the Doctor, Travis and Millie during the adventure, Fnarg is described as having green skin and three legs. He is also notable for his distinctive, ugly crying. He is later offered a job on an unnamed police force after the Doctor prods one of the officers in his direction.

Fnarg was later found at Colony 47 where he helped the Doctor rescue the residents, becoming the de facto Sheriff of a community deep inside of the TARDIS called TARDIS Town. He was involved in investigating the murder of a resident there. He left with the rest of the TARDIS Town residents to found a colony named after lost TARDIS companion Amelia Earhart.

He later moved to the planet Trope, where he opened a detective agency and had a son, Grarg. When Fnarg went missing while investigating bootleg Trans-Mat pads, Grarg called a phone number found on a Post-It on his father's desk. This was, in fact, the phone number for the Doctor's TARDIS, and the Doctor, Travis and Carrie helped Grarg track down his father.

## Behind the Scenes

* Fnarg's name comes from a joke made by former Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat in 2009 as a joke number for what became series 5 following a minor controversy after it was announced that Matt Smith's debut season would be marketed as "series one" and then, later, as "series 11.1".
Ben Paddon

***Ben Paddon*** served as Game Master for The Game of Rassilon during seasons 1-3, planning the campaign with Michael Nixon. They also voiced the War Doctor, the only incarnation of the Doctor to appear on the show and not be voiced by a special guest.

For season 4, Ben is instead returning as a player character named Lita. They are succeeded in the GM role by Riley Silverman. They are also taking over editing and sound design duties from David King, who left at the end of season 3.

Ben is the originator of The Game of Rassilon, having originally GM'd a live show under the same name at the Gallifrey One convention in Los Angeles, and SD Who Con in San Diego. When the show transitioned to a narrative actual-play podcast, the only players to continue from the live shows were Dan Peck and Michael Nixon, though Joseph Scrimshaw later went on to appear as a guest player as the Previous Doctor.

As well as the podcast, Ben is also the creator of the YouTube series *PortsCenter*, executive producer and writer for the scifi comedy webcomic and upcoming audio drama *Jump Leads*, and co-host of the podcasts *The Life Toyetic with Ben and Molly* and *Out on her Fanny: A Podcast About The Nanny*. They are also a standup comedian performing in the Los Angeles area.

## Trivia

* Stepped down as Game Master *entirely of their own free will.*

## External Links

* BenPaddon.net
* Ben Paddon on IMDb
* Ben Paddon on Twitter
* Ben Paddon on Instagram
Retirement Day

***Retirement Day*** is the seventh episode of season 4. As well as returning to elements from season 3, more specifically *The Enemy Within*, the episode also includes some new information regarding plot threads introduced during the episodes this season.

## Synopsis

The Doctor, Carrie, and Lita arrive at an annual carnival beset by an old foe of the Doctor’s.

## Cast

* The Doctor - Dan Peck
* Carrie - Châu Kate Lê
* Lita - Ben Paddon
* Engineer, The Fool - Michael Nixon
* Game Missy, all other characters - Riley Silverman
* The Master - Dino Andrade (archive audio)

## Crew

* Editing and Sound Design - Ben Paddon
* Theme music arrangement - Adam Sakellarides
* Story - Riley Silverman, Michael Nixon

## NPCs

### Major

* The Fool
* Carvinal

*To be added*

## Continuity

* Despite the digital signal being suppressed by UNIT, the analog signal of the Master's speech during the Stonehenge incident made it out into the wider universe. (*The Enemy Within*)
* The Fool, also known as the Engineer, is the person who scammed Lita out of her life savings, leaving her stranded on a space station where she was eventually scooped up by the TARDIS. (*Missing Time*/*Living Space*)
	+ He is also an an old foe of the Doctor's.
* The Doctor is given a confession dial. (*The Magician's Apprentice*, *Heaven Sent*)

## Links

* Retirement Day on TheGameOfRassilon.com
The Inside Job

***The Inside Job*** is the second serial of season 2. It sees the return of Fnarg, an NPC who first appeared in *The Cost of Progress*, and who made a minor cameo at the end of *Active Decay* linking that serial to this one.

## Synopsis

Fnarg returns to reveal that there’s been a murder on-board the TARDIS.

## Cast

* The Doctor - Riley Silverman
* Travis - Dan Peck
* Engineer - Michael Nixon
* Game Master, all other characters - Ben Paddon

## Crew

* Editing and Sound Design - David King
* Theme music arrangement - Drew Krassowski
* Additional music - Luke Baldridge
* Story - Michael Nixon, Ben Paddon

## Production

* Recorded in one session at Geeky Teas & Games in January 2020.
* This is the first serial since Millie's departure just to feature the current core TARDIS team of the Doctor and Travis, with no guest players or characters (although Fnarg could arguably be considered a companion depending on one's definition).
Total K-OS

***Total K-OS*** is a one-shot adventure that was originally released exclusively to Patreon backers in 2022. The first episode later appeared on the main feed on March 22nd, 2023. It marks the second story GM'd by Dan Peck after the live show *Time Squared*.

## Synopsis

Dan GMs an outer-space adventure in the Farflung system!

Join Chet Vagabond (Ben Paddon), Sonique Thunderstone (Châu), Killsphere (Michael), and the illustrious Ka Ren (Riley) as the story begins.

## Cast

* Ka Ren - Riley Silverman
* Sonique Thunderstone - Châu Kate Lê
* Killsphere - Michael Nixon
* Chet Vagabond - Ben Paddon
* Game Master - Dan Peck

## External Links

*To be added*
Hammikeer Schlemarr

***Hammikeer Schlemarr*** was a trader on Meat Station Alpha with a pawn shop specializing in technology.

He had a particular interest in Game Boy Pocket consoles, which by his era were frequently used as hacking and digital lockpicking tools thanks in part to their proprietary link cable port. When Travis refused to sell his Game Boy Pocket, Schlemarr hired mercenaries to intimidate him into handing over the device. When this didn't work, Travis challenged Schlemarr to a Pokémon battle, which Travis won. As the loser, Schlemarr was forced to hand over his own Game Boy Pocket. (*The Handheld War*)
Ikue Otani

Ikue Ōtani (大谷 育江 Ōtani Ikue, born August 18, 1965) is a Japanese actress, voice actress and narrator from Tokyo. She is best known for her anime roles in the Pokémon series (as Pikachu), One Piece (as Tony Tony Chopper), Naruto (as Konohamaru Sarutobi), Detective Conan (as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya), Uchi no Sanshimai (as Fu), and Konjiki no Gash Bell (as Gash). She is currently attached to Mausu Promotion. Her pet name is "Iku-chan". She is known for playing both male and female roles, and sometimes plays multiple roles in one production. She is a native of Tokyo, but grew up in Niigata Prefecture.
Christopher Jones

***Christopher Jones*** is a comic book artist living in Minneapolis, MN. He is a frequent guest at Gallifrey One, where he appeared as one of the players during The Game of Rassilon live shows at the con in 2017 and 2018. In the first, he played as K9 and was famously hoisted above the head of 80s-era Companion Peri (played by Joseph Scrimshaw, who had aced a Strength + Athletics check).

Jones has worked on a number of comic properties including *Young Justice*, *Batman ’66*, and *Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes*. Within the world of *Doctor Who*, he provided the art for Titan Comics' *Doctor Who: The Third Doctor* miniseries written by Paul Cornell.

## External Links

* Christopher Jones on Wikipedia
* Christopher Jones on Twitter
* Official website
Live Shows

The Game of Rassilon began life as a series of live shows billed as ***The Game of Rassilon: Funny People Playing the Doctor Who Roleplaying Game*** at two California-based *Doctor Who* conventions.

## Format

### Conventions

Live shows at conventions take a different format that predates the podcast. For convention live shows, each player picks a companion and Doctor from the run of *Doctor Who*, and at the top of the game Ben Paddon, serving as DM, rolls dice to determine who will be playing as the Doctor, with everyone else assuming their selected companion characters.

Live shows taking place at conventions are not considered canonical to the podcast, though the Gallifrey One 2018 Live Show is notable for marking the debut of the Somnivores, and the events of that live show are alluded to in *Lethargica*, in which the Somnivores make their podcast debut.

### Other

Outside of conventions, live shows typically feature the characters from the podcast in stories set between other adventures from the podcast. For instance, the live show *Roll For Initiative* takes place between *The Inside Job* and *The Russian Worm*.

As the live shows predate the podcast, the core podcast group would not participate in a live show together until *Gallifrey One: 30 Years in the TARDIS* in 2019. Prior to this, however, Dan Peck and Michael Nixon had appeared in live shows prior to this.

A free online streaming live show, *The Search for Fnarg*, took place on March 27th, 2021. The show streamed on the Game of Rassilon YouTube channel. It was later released in edited form on the main podcast feed.

To date, all non-convention live shows are canonical, but have not featured elements which impact the ongoing narrative of the podcast.

## List of live shows released as podcast episodes

**¹** Dan Peck is the first person other than Ben to GM a live show.

**²** This is the first appearance of a character originating from the podcast to appear during a convention live show.

## List of other live shows

Each entry shows the participants and which character they played as. The player marked in **bold** was selected as the Doctor in that particular game.

**¹** To celebrate Gallifrey One's 30th annual convention, this show was dubbed an "anniversary special" and so became a multi-Doctor story with the dice roll determining who would play as a non-Doctor character. For the purposes of the narrative, however, the dice-roll was faked to ensure Silverman would be selected as the Companion. The actual dice roll instead determined which character Silverman would play as before being revealed as Missy in disguise.
Creatures of Instinct

***Creatures of Instinct*** is the fourth episode of season 4.

## Synopsis

The TARDIS team arrive on an alien world where a group of fishermen are being picked off one by one.

## Cast

* The Doctor - Dan Peck
* Carrie - Châu Kate Lê
* Lita - Ben Paddon
* Engineer - Michael Nixon
* Game Missy, all other characters - Riley Silverman

## Crew

* Editing and Sound Design - Ben Paddon
* Theme music arrangement - Adam Sakellarides
* Story - Riley Silverman, Michael Nixon

## Continuity

* Team TARDIS encounters a Krafayis, as well as someone who is capable of seeing him. (*Vincent and the Doctor*)

## Production

* This episode was recorded in the same session as *Terms of Service*. Perhaps coincidentally, the episodes both have titles that are structured "X of Y".

## Links

* Creatures of Instinct at TheGameOfRassilon.com
Lethargica

***Lethargica*** is the third serial in the first season of The Game of Rassilon, and explores some of Amelia Earhart's past.

## Synopsis

The Doctor and Travis work to avoid a paradox after the TARDIS arrives in Toronto, Canada in November 1918 – inside Millie’s own history.

## Cast

* The Doctor - Riley Silverman
* Travis - Dan Peck
* Millie - Melinda-Catherine Gross
* Engineer - Michael Nixon
* Game Master, all other characters - Ben Paddon

## Crew

* Editing and Sound Design - David King
* Theme music arrangement - Drew Krassowski
* Additional library music - Kevin MacLeod
* Story - Michael Nixon, Ben Paddon
* Producers - Melinda-Catherine Gross, Michael Nixon, Ben Paddon

## NPCs

### Minor

* Eleanor
* Unnamed doctor
* June Mavern
* Chumbleys

## Continuity

* Travis asks about his abduction in *The Cost of Progress*.
* The Somnivores first appeared in the 2018 Gallifrey One live show, which predates the podcast. The Doctor is said to have had a past encounter with these creatures.

## Production

* Despite being the fourth story overall, this is considered the start of the third serial - *The Edge of Discovery* is considered the first part of *Where Angels Fear To Trek*.
* This is the first story to come with its own album artwork embedded in the MP3. The album artwork was also used by several of the team to promote the first episode on social media.
* This is the first episode not to open with a recap since episode 1, and consequently the first episode since episode 1 where Luke Baldridge is not given a credit for additional music.
* As with *Where Angels Fear To Trek*, the episode opens with a cold open. This time, however, the cold open involves a moment from Millie's past and features gameplay.
* As of this serial, *The Game of Rassilon* has produced and released more individual minutes of *Doctor Who* related content in 2018 than the BBC. All serials from *The Cost of Progress* through to end of *Lethargica* run a total of 602 minutes compared to the 568 minutes that makes up the entirety of series 11 plus the 2019 New Year's Day special, *Resolution*.
* Two pieces of library music from Kevin MacLeod - “Our Story Begins” and “Awkward Meeting” - are used in this serial.
* This is the first serial in which Michael Nixon serves as GM at any point. He would later go on to solely GM *Human Nature* and *The Buzzard's Treasure* in season 3.
* Recorded at Geeky Teas & Games in Burbank, California.
Robin

Robin (ルフレ Rufure) is the default name for the avatar character in Fire Emblem: Awakening. He/She makes an appearance in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U and in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as a playable character.

## Character description

Robin is the is the player avatar and a main character of Fire Emblem: Awakening. In the beginning of the game, Robin is found lying in an open field by Chrom, his/her sister Lissa, and his/her bodyguard Frederick. They find out that Robin has amnesia and remembers nothing besides his/her own name, Chrom's name and his/her incredible knowledge and experience in fighting battles, which Chrom experiences firsthand after they manage to save a small settlement despite the strength and numbers of the enemy. Frederick suspects Robin of being an assassin due to him remembering Chrom's name before his own, but Chrom is convinced of Robin's good intentions and invites him/her to join the Shepherds as their chief tactician, with the two quickly becoming close friends. Ylisse, Chrom's home country, is then faced with a war against Plegia (which is later revealed to be Robin's home country) and another against Valm two years later, both in which Robin's tactical expertise proves very helpful, especially given Ylisse's limited number of soldiers. There is also the constant threat of the Risen, undead soldiers who terrorize parts of the continent of Ylisse. As the Shepherds continue to fight and recruit more capable members, Lucina, Chrom's daughter from the future, properly introduces herself to them, having only met them while she was disguising herself as Marth. She travelled back in time to warn them about the revival of the Fell Dragon Grima after having her own world on the brink of destruction courtesy of him. Robin, Chrom, Lucina, and the rest of the Shepherds make it their new mission to prevent the Grima of the current timeline from surfacing.

In game, Robin starts in the Tactician class exclusive to him/her, his/her potential children, and DLC characters, which enables them to attack with magic tomes as well as swords. As the avatar character, Robin and his/her potential children can switch to any starting class the player desires using a Second Seal (aside from Lord, which is exclusive to Chrom and Lucina), making for one of the biggest skill pools possible for a single character. Robin can also support with every other character (as could Kris previously), and marry any opposite gendered character the player wants, including the future children of other Shepherds that are met via Paralogues (side stories) as more characters within the Shepherds marry each other. Robin's customization focuses more on appearance and even features several options for voice.
Bad Habits

***Bad Habits*** is the fifth episode of season 4, and the first half a two-part "celebrity historical" featuring Julie d’Aubigny as a supporting character.

## Synopsis

The TARDIS arrives in 1600s France – just in time for the Doctor and friends to help with a most un-convent-ional rescue.

## Cast

* The Doctor - Dan Peck
* Carrie - Châu Kate Lê
* Lita - Ben Paddon
* Engineer, Adele - Michael Nixon
* Game Missy, Julie d’Aubigny, all other characters - Riley Silverman

## Crew

* Editing and Sound Design - Ben Paddon
* Theme music arrangement - Adam Sakellarides
* Story - Riley Silverman, Michael Nixon

## NPCs

### Major

* Julie d’Aubigny
* Adele

*To be added*
Michael Nixon

***Michael Nixon*** is one of the producers of The Game of Rassilon, and also co-writes the campaign alongside Ben Paddon. Within the show, he is also the sound engineer, and has voiced a couple of minor characters. Most notably, Nixon is the voice of Roman, a male incarnation of classic series character Romana.

Nixon has written for *DC Nation,* produced web series including the second series of *Dates Like This*, and also co-wrote and starred in the YouTube parody series *Drunk Hawk Man*.

## Characters voiced by Michael Nixon

* Roman
* Ensign Xander
* UBD Patriarch computer
* Susan
* The Great Mother
* The Recruiter

## Serials GM'd by Michael Nixon

* Lethargica (dream sequences)
* The Buzzard’s Treasure: A Paradoxes & Possibilities Special
* Human Nature

## External Links

* Michael Nixon on IMDb
* Michael Nixon on Twitter
Second Doctor

***The Second Doctor*** is the second incarnation of the Time Lord known as the Doctor.

## Within the Game of Rassilon

### Live Shows

In the non-caonical story *Valentine of the Daleks* the Second Doctor, along with Ian Chesterton, Tegan Jovanka, Craig Owens and Alfie Owens, were tasked by the Time Lords to infiltrate a Dalek prison camp and rescue a member of the High Council. The Second Doctor sacrificed himself to save his companions, and regenerated into a Third Doctor, destroying the attacking Daleks in the process.

## Behind the Scenes

* The Doctor's regeneration was in part due to player Christopher Jones being double-booked.
Riley!Doctor

## Character

This Doctor awoke in her TARDIS after having crashed on Earth in the early 90s with no memory of how she regenerated and a note pinned to her jacket with one word on it, written in her own handwriting - "Run." After spending several months repairing the TARDIS, during which time she discovered a randomiser fitted into the console, she eventually traveled to a 51st-century museum operated by a company called Epoch Talent. While there she discovered and subsequently rescued Travis Killian and Amelia Earhart, promising to eventually take them home.

## Appearance

This Doctor favored long coats and occasionally a scarf. She often wore her hair in space buns.

## Companions

* Gunther (cat)
* Travis Killian
* Amelia Earhart
* Roman
* Carrie Vu
	+ Carrie's cat, Mr. Meezers

## Notes

* Riley Silverman's Doctor has primarily been referred to by the the show as "our Doctor", though she was also referred to as "Riley's Doctor" during *Recursion of the Daleks*. Fans on the Game of Rassilon Patreon Discord began referring to her incarnation as the Riley!Doctor, hence the naming of this article.
* Silverman is a trans woman, and stated in the first episode of the show that she will be playing the character "as if [she] had been cast in the BBC series *Doctor Who*." However, she has opted to leave the specifics of her Doctor's gender identity up to the listener - her Doctor is a woman using she/her pronouns, and listeners are welcome to interpret her Doctor as trans or cis.
* Silverman previously played a version of the Doctor in another actual-play show; a one-off livestream special for HyperRPG.
Dino Andrade

***Dino Andrade*** is a voice actor best known for playing the Scarecrow in *Batman: Arkham Asylum* and *Batman: Arkham Underworld*, as well as various voices in *World of Warcraft*. He is the current voice of Speedy Gonzales in *Looney Tunes Cartoons* on HBO Max.

In The Game of Rassilon, Andrade played the role of the Master.

## External Links

* Dino Andrade on IMDb
* Dino Andrade on Twitter
* Dino Andrade on Instagram
The Enemy Within

***The Enemy Within*** is the 2021 Doctor Who Day Special, and serves as the final entry in season 3. It is also Riley Silverman's last regular serial as the Doctor and Ben Paddon's final serial as GM. The last scene marks the debut of both Silverman as the GM, and Dan Peck as a new incarnation of the Doctor.

## Synopsis

The Master (Dino Andrade) returns to take revenge on Our Doctor (Riley Silverman), with Carrie (Châu Kate Lê) – and history itself – caught in the crossfire.

## NPCs

### Minor

* Chancellery Guard
* Prime Minister Cari
* Prime Minister Rosen
* Vistan
* *To be added*

## Cast

* The Doctor - Riley Silverman
* Carrie - Kate Lê
* Engineer, Susan - Michael Nixon
* Game Master - Ben Paddon

* The Master - Dino Andrade
* Introducing Dan Peck as The Doctor
* Introducing Riley Silverman as the Game Master

## Crew

* Editing and Sound Design - David King
* Theme music arrangement - Drew Krassowski
* Story - Michael Nixon, Ben Paddon

## Continuity

* The Doctor and the Master are seen in their youth, laying on red grass
* The Master is still out for revenge. (*Family*, *Universe on Fire*)
* Gallifreyan society has been largely reformed, with elected leaders from both the Time Lords and the Sisterhood of Karn. (*The Enemy of the Good*)
* The former UNIT soldiers are still active and doing good in the world. (*Devils From The Deep*, *The Russian Worm*)
* The Master's "retirement speech" at Stonehenge is a parody of the Eleventh Doctor's speech in *The Pandorica Opens*.

## Production

* The serial title comes from a proposed name for the otherwise untitled 1996 TV story, which also features the Doctor facing off against the Master.

## External Links

* The Enemy Within on TheGameOfRassilon.com
Gallifrey One 2017 Live Show

The Game of Rassilon's second live show took place at ***Gallifrey One: 28 Years Later*** the 28th annual Gallifrey One Doctor Who fan convention at the Los Angeles Airport Marriott Hotel. This was the first live show to take place at a Gallifrey One event, and the second overall.

## Synopsis

The Doctor and his companions have arrived at a large museum starship just in time for the unveiling of a new statue - a Weeping Angel.

## Players

* Dan Peck as the Twelfth Doctor
* Lauren Peck as River Song
* Joseph Scrimshaw as Peri
* Christopher Jones as K9
* Ben Paddon as the Game Master

## Continuity

* The Weeping Angels would later appear in Where Angels Fear To Trek.

## Production

* This is the first Game of Rassilon contribution for all of these players. All but Lauren Peck would return the following year - she was scheduled to return but had to cancel due to illness.
* Of this lineup, only Dan Peck would continue on to the podcast.
Somnivores

The ***Somnivores*** are an alien race who, as their name would imply, feed on "somnatic" energy, also called dream energy. While there are many different lifeforms in the universe that are classified as somnivores, including some Earth animals and plants, the alien race referred to as the Somnivores are more aggressive, attempting on at least two occasions to colonize the Earth and turn its inhabitants into dream batteries.

## History

The First Doctor had an undocumented encounter with the Somnivores. (*Lethargica*)

A group of Somnivores were encountered by the Doctor who found them in the silent ward of hospital in 1918 Toronto, Canada were they were found to be responsible for the Sleeping Sickness. (*Lethargica*)

Another group of benevolent Somnivores had been living as cats in Disneyland, CA where they fed on the joy and emotion generated by the park's attendees and used their abilities to close space-time rifts that opened periodically throughout the park, the result of a prior temporal incursion by the Time Lords. They performed this task as part of an arrangement with "the mustache man". (*Roman Holiday*, *The Game of Classilon: Jinkies & Zoinks*)

### Non-canonical appearances

The Somnivores were encountered by the First Doctor along with companions Nardole, Turlough and Captain Jack Harkness, who had been abducted and placed into the Somnivores' dream engine. They managed to escape and prevent the Somnivores from placing humanity in the engine, effectively stopping the conquest and colonization of Earth. (*Gallifrey One 2018 Live Show*)

## Behind the Scenes

The Somnivores were the first original alien to appear in any form of The Game of Rassilon, and are one of only four enemies aliens (along with the Daleks, the Weeping Angels and the Master) to appear in the live show *and* the podcast.

*Lethargica* alludes to a previous encounter with the Somnivores featuring the First Doctor. This is likely a reference to the aforementioned live show, however the podcast production team has stated that Gallifrey One live shows are non-canonical.
War Doctor

***The War Doctor*** is the ninth incarnation of the Time Lord known as the Doctor. This incarnation primarily fought in the Time War, having been regenerated from his previous incarnation for this specific purpose.

Within The Game of Rassilon, the War Doctor was the first to learn of the divide between the Sisterhood of Karn and the Time Lords, beginning a trail which leads up to the events at the beginning of the podcast.

## Within the Game of Rassilon

After the Sisterhood of Karn aided the Eighth Doctor into regenerating into an incarnation better suited for war, this new Doctor learned a great secret at the heart of the relationship between the Sisterhood and the Time Lords - the Sisterhood originated on Gallifrey, and left as a result of "*something to do with the Matrix. Something that the Sisterhood knew couldn’t be fixed.*"

The War Doctor wrote in his diary hoping that, if he survived the war, he might be able to set right "*The schism in our people.*" (*Perfection*)

## Behind the Scenes

The War Doctor is voiced by Ben Paddon. He was the first canonical incarnation of the Doctor to appear in the podcast, and the only incarnation of the Doctor that appears in this episode not to be voiced by a special guest.

The War Doctor's diary entry was written moments after the events of *The Night of the Doctor*. Big Finish would later launch an audio series, *The War Doctor Begins*, starring Jonathon Carley as the War Doctor. Like the diary entry heard in *Perfection*, the first set in this range takes place moments after the Eighth Doctor's regeneration into the War Doctor.

By their own admission, Paddon got the courage to use their impression of John Hurt in the podcast after using it to voice Lorem the Wise, an NPC they voice in the YouTube D&D series Hot Quest. Notably, Hot Quest also features Elisa Melendez and Mikey Neumann, who would voice two other incarnations of the Doctor in *Perfection*.
The Game of Rassilon

***The Game of Rassilon*** is a actual-play podcast where the participants are playing the Doctor Who Roleplaying Game. The players use their own incarnation of the Doctor - referred to exclusively as "our Doctor" - with a number of traveling companions. The production describes the podcast as one that "[tells] stories with a brand-new Doctor exploring time and space with a crew of unlikely companions, with an emphasis on great stories and, we hope, big laughs."

Episodes of the podcast are published on a fortnightly schedule, with episodes ranging from 50 to 120 minutes. As with classic *Doctor Who*, episodes join together to form serials. The first episode was released on January 16th 2019, and was the first in the four-part serial "The Cost of Progress". The show is recorded at Geeky Teas & Games in Burbank, CA.

The podcast was inspired in part by The Adventure Zone, another comedy-focused actual-play podcast on the Maximum Fun network.

## External Links

* Official website
* Apple Podcasts page
* Google Podcasts page
* Spotify page
* Stitcher page
The Doctor of Peace

***The Doctor*** was an incarnation of the Doctor that existed after the Twelfth Doctor and another Doctor, but before the previous Doctor and the Riley!Doctor.

## History

Following an unseen adventure, this Doctor wrote in his diary about the nature of conversation, and extending the olive branch of peace. He later went on to muse about whether the Sisterhood of Karn and Rassilon spoke before their falling out over the creation of the Matrix. (*Perfection*)

## Behind the Scenes

* This incarnation of the Doctor is played by Mikey Neumann, who is best known as the creator of Movies with Mikey and the writer of the video game *Borderlands*.
* Neumann is, along with Elisa Melendez, one of the players in Hot Quest, a *Dungeons & Dragons* YouTube series GM'd by Ben Paddon.
* In the Doctor's chronology, Mikey Neumann's Doctor is the second post-BBC Doctor in the podcast, and the third non-BBC Doctor we learn of.
* The Doctor of Peace was named as such in the Season 2 Credits released on December 4th, 2020.
Sophie Iles

***Sophie Iles*** is a writer an artist. They have written multiple Big Finish audio adventures and contributed art for *Doctor Who* projects including Doctor Who: Lockdown!.

Iles is the co-creator of the *Paradoxes & Possibilities* RPG system which was used for the one-shot spin-off serial *The Buzzard’s Treasure: A Paradoxes & Possibilities Special*. Iles also wrote the campaign used for this serial.

Iles also provided the voice of Ro in the season 4 episode *Cat People*.

## External links

* Sophie Iles on Twitter
* Sophie Iles on Instagram
* Sophie Iles on BigFinish.com
Cat People

***Cat People*** is the eighth episode of season 4. It is set entirely within the Doctor's TARDIS - the first episode to do this since *The Edge of Discovery* - and furthers the season arc.

## Synopsis

Following a cat-astrophe, The Doctor and Carrie must work with Lita to restore order to the TARDIS – and their bodies – before it’s too late.

## Cast

* The Doctor - Dan Peck
* Carrie - Châu Kate Lê
* Lita - Ben Paddon
* Engineer, Gunther - Michael Nixon
* Game Missy, Mr. Meezers - Riley Silverman
* Special appearance by Sophie Iles as Ro

## Crew

* Editing and Sound Design - Ben Paddon
* Theme music arrangement - Adam Sakellarides
* Story - Riley Silverman, Michael Nixon

## NPCs

### Major

* Gunther (in Carrie's body)
* Mr. Meezers (in the Doctor's body)
* Ro
Dan!Doctor

## Biography

### Foreshadowing

When the Watcher of every single Time Lord appeared on Gallifrey, the Doctor's previous incarnation encountered her own Watcher, who remained even after the Doctor had stopped Rassilon and the Keeper of the Matrix. After asking for more time, the Doctor's Watcher faded away. (*The Enemy of the Good*)

Ultimately, the Doctor sacrificed her life to restore the Master's previous amnesiac existence on the planet Nark, triggering her regeneration. In their new form, the Doctor was surprised to find they were a man with a stubbly face. Before he or his companion, Carrie, could fully process the change, the Doctor's TARDIS exploded. (*The Enemy Within*)

## Appearance

This Doctor is described as having a voice "like an old friend." He has ginger stubble on his chin.

## Companions

* Carrie
* Lita

## Pets

* Mr. Meezers
* Gunther

## Notes

* Dan Peck took over the role of the Doctor at the end of season 3. His previous character, companion Travis Killian, had left the TARDIS three stories prior. (*The End of History*)
Geeky Teas & Games

***Geeky Teas & Games*** is a store in the Magnolia Park region of Burbank, CA. The store specializes in tabletop games, specialty tea blends, and some British snacks. They have a rentable gamed room that served as the recording location for the entire first season and the first half of the second season of the podcast, up to and including *Family*. Podcast recording shifted to remote sessions due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

## In-Universe

Within *The Game of Rassilon* itself, Geeky Teas & Games is mentioned briefly in *Swipe Right*, which is partially set in Burbank, CA.

## External Links

* Geeky Teas official website
* Geeky Teas on Instagram
Hard-Wired

***Hard-Wired*** consists of parts 1 and 2 of the sixth serial of first season of The Game of Rassilon. It takes place after the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, focusing on the Doctor and Travis Killian returning to his hometown, Sheffield, NJ

## Synopsis

With Millie missing, The Doctor and Travis get nostalgic in the 1990s - with deadly results.

## Cast

* The Doctor - Riley Silverman
* Travis - Dan Peck
* Millie - Melinda-Catherine Gross (archive audio only)
* Engineer - Michael Nixon
* Game Master, all other characters - Ben Paddon

## Crew

* Editing and Sound Design - David King
* Theme music arrangement - Drew Krassowski
* Additional music - Luke Baldridge
* Story - Michael Nixon, Ben Paddon
* Producers - Melinda-Catherine Gross, Michael Nixon, Ben Paddon

## NPCs

### Major

* Jennifer Gale
* The Wire

## Continuity

* The Doctor checks her Psychic Paper several times for more messages from Roman.
* Sheffield, NJ shares its name with Sheffield, the Yorkshire city in England where the Thirteenth Doctor lands in the 2018 episode "The Woman Who Fell To Earth".
* The Wire first appeared in the 2006 episode "The Idiot's Lantern". Here, it is implied that he would have been killed by the Wire had he not been removed from the timeline by Epoch Talent.

## Production

* Despite Millie being part of the narrative, Melinda-Catherine Gross was still present for recording and can be heard at several points in the background.
* Both parts were recorded in one session at Geeky Teas & Games in Burbank, CA.
Epoch Talent

***Epoch Talent*** was an organization that existed in the 51st century. Ostensibly focused on "talent acquisition", Epoch Talent would pluck people from history at or near the point of their deaths and set them to work in the 51st century as cheap labor.

Epoch Talent also operated the museum building that housed the exhibit called "The Cost of Progress", featuring actual humans plucked from various points in human history - including Amelia Earhart and Travis Killian. The Doctor encountered this museum, freed the captive humans, and shut the museum down, as well as talking the Head of Talent Acquisition, Russell Turner, out of continuing to take people from history. (*The Cost of Progress*)

Turner later went on to co-found a camp for temporally displaced persons on Colony 47. The ultimate fate of Epoch Talent is left unknown. (*Getaway*)

## Behind the Scenes

* GMs Ben Paddon and Michael Nixon later discovered that an actual company named Epoch Talent exists. Somewhat embarrassingly, Ben has friends who work for the company.
Gunther (companion)

## Gunther

*You may be looking for Gunther, the cat*
***Gunther*** was the name of a former companion of a prior incarnation the Doctor. He is described as "short and cute, in that way men only very occasionally pull off."

## Death and Impact

He died in the Doctor's arms, leaving her to wonder how many times she could endure the death of a companion. He then fades from history and the Doctor's memory, and it is strongly implied through a diary entry that the Doctor herself erased him from history.

Susan reveals his name to a later incarnation of the Doctor who had named her cat Gunther. (*Perfection*)