History
Timelords was developed by Greg Porter while attending college at Virginia Tech, and many of his fellow Wargaming Society members are immortalized in the first edition as sample characters.
BTRC was started by Greg in 1987, and Timelords was its first product. It was not initially well received, but maintained a cult following that allowed a second edition to be published in 1990. Several books of adventures were published in the early 90's for use with the second edition.
Starting in 2003, BTRC stopped paper publication of all of its games, and made them available only in a downloaded PDF format, or published on-demand.
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