In the "The Doctor Who Role Playing Game" published by FASA in 1985, the "Meddling Monk" is stated to be a disguise of an earlier incarnation of the Master, who is depicted as being his sixth incarnation which he personally chose after a failed rebellion on Gallifrey forced him to flee. After the events of "The Time Meddler", the Master was able to replace the missing dimensional components, but a minor miscalculation sent him, and his TARDIS to a planet in the "crack" between realities, a planet which he later named "Merast" and used as a base of operations. It also cost him a full regeneration, however he was able to keep his current appearance. After the Master's next encounter with the First Doctor on the planet Tigus, he regenerated into a "strikingly handsome, middle-aged man".