"Have Time Machine, will travel throughout Space·Time. First need to escape from the British Library. Urgent help needed."

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Acknowledgements

This game is strongly inspired from the BBC TV Series Doctor Who.

Some inspiration may also be found in the Role-Playing Games Everyway, Engel and Amber Diceless RPG.

Open-source

This book is may be copied and modified, as long as you respect the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. License for some illustrations may vary, see at the end. You may find the unformatted source code for this book on Github (https://github.com/Yoric/ronin-time-bureaucrats/) and read it online on Gitbook (https://legacy.gitbook.com/book/yoric/rogue-time-bureaucrats).