Some random fannish Dr. Who musings here. No spoilers or anything, but also of no interest to non-Whovians.

I was just thinking, first of all, that it’d be really nice to eventually see a multi-Doctor story in the current incarnation of the show. There were several done back during the old series; I’d love to see Smith, Tennant, and Eccleston together, no matter how unlikely it may be.

But I think it would be even more interesting if we were to eventually get a multi-Doctor story using a Doctor who hadn’t appeared yet.

It would require a few very specific set of criteria to make happen. It would have to happen late in Smith’s run, and he’d have to have given the producers some pretty advance notice of when he was planning to leave the part. And they’d have to cast the next Doctor earlier than normal. But I think it’d be really cool to have the first introduction of a new Doctor occur during a previous Doctor’s run (and not at the very end of it, either).

But even if that’s asking too much, I don’t think some form of multi-Doctor special would be.

(And I also want us to start seeing more of the TARDIS, damn it! The old series showed us multiple rooms of it; the current series only occasionally mentions them.)

A few minutes ago, I was washing dishes.

Not, for the most part, a particularly hazardous activity. Except when a plate decides, without warning and without obvious cause to suddenly shatter into four pieces.

There was no impact; I didn’t drop it. The water wasn’t that hot; my hands were in it. I was simply holding it in one hand, scrubbing with the other, and then suddenly I was holding only one part of it, and I was bleeding. A lot.

They are, thankfully, all minor cuts. Like, “band-aid and ointment” minor. It could have been a lot worse. But there are several of them–thumb, wrist, forearm–and they were all pretty free-bleeders. (Especially the thumb. Thought that one would never stop.) And this was a dirty dish that had been sitting in the sink, so antibiotic ointment was not optional.

There are, of course, those would say that I probably shouldn’t be aggravating them by typing up this entry. Such people are clearly neither authors nor bloggers.

So, yeah, it hurts–again, the thumb especially–but I’ll be fine. It was certainly rather a bracing experience, though.

…sitting around watching old Justice League cartoons and trying to figure out which role (controller, defender, leader, or striker) each character would fill in a 4E D&D game.

I wish I was making this up.

A porn actor, who was accused of killing a coworker with a sword, died after falling off a cliff Saturday when police used a stun gun to subdue him.

You really, really can’t make this stuff up. Even on the off chance you could actually come up with the idea, no reader would buy it.

*shakes head*

So since I still may (or may not) be in the mood to run something in the near future, I’ve been giving some idle thought to campaign ideas. And what keeps bubbling to the forefront of what’s left of my brain is to use the upcoming 4e Dark Sun setting as a baseline to build a campaign world that is actually Earth near the end of the universe’s life span, a la Clark Ashton Smith’s Zothique Cycle. But, uh, more desert/Barsoom-ish, as befits Dark Sun. The assumption being that, as the universe enters its dotage, the laws of physics have begun to fray and unravel just a bit, allowing for the appearance (return?) of magic.

So we’d still have a few scattered major city-states–ruled by Sorcerer Kings, as per the DS setting–but that are made up of a combination of medieval-style stonework and the last lingering, broken ruins of the steel-and-glass metropolises of the age of science.

What I haven’t yet decided is

A) whether to go ahead and allow the divine power source, assuming that the old gods of Earth mythology returned with the return of magic, or to keep them away as with Dark Sun proper, and

B) what the hell the campaign itself will actually entail/be about. But I really like the basic idea…