AlterEarth: A New Campaign Built out of an Assignment!

[Knightfall]

Doubles!

Okay, so an interesting idea I came up with for this campaign concept is that every person on Earth has a double somewhere on one of the otherworlds.

This includes both PCs and NPCs from AlterEarth. It could include famous people from Earth's history or just someone I know from real life. I think it would be fun to turn an old friend into a RPG character on an otherworld.

Opinions?

KF72

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Okay, so an interesting idea I came up with for this campaign concept is that every person on Earth has a double somewhere on one of the otherworlds.

This includes both PCs and NPCs from AlterEarth. It could include famous people from Earth's history or just someone I know from real life. I think it would be fun to turn an old friend into a RPG character on an otherworld.

Oh hells yes. This idea was made popular in Sliders. It is one of my favorite ideas about parallel realities. One ep of Sliders featured an evil double of the inventor of sliding of the opposite gender, so keep this in mind.

 

[Knightfall]

Oh hells yes. This idea was made popular in Sliders. It is one of my favorite ideas about parallel realities. One ep of Sliders featured an evil double of the inventor of sliding of the opposite gender, so keep this in mind.

Sliders was one of my favorite shows; although, I tended to watch it irregularly. I don't think I saw that episode but I do know about it.

The otherworlds in this campaign will include several of my homebrewed worlds, some new worlds, and the core D&D worlds such as Greyhawk and the Forgotten Realms. I'll likely use Beyond Countless Doorways with it as well. I haven't decided yet.

Slider-like Earths might be possible but I don't want to focus on that (*). More specifically, I want to create a connection from Kulan, Maran, and Rielun to AlterEarth. Regardless of which campaigns that AlterEarth connects, this campaign will be a d20 Modern campaign. Thus, if characters were to travel to AlterEarth from, say, Toril, those characters would have to be revised into a d20 Modern format.

Portals may have existed in AlterEarth's past (likely) but either these portals went dormant or were closed by some unseen force. Now, the portals are opening again.

The "current year" of this campaign will be, at earliest, 2020. That's when things start to become more "adventure worthy" as borders between certain otherworlds begin to invade upon AlterEarth.

Rielun is one such world that will "mix" a lot with AlterEarth but it is primarily one-way towards Rielun. Kulan's link is more restrictive as I want to keep it isolated from too much advanced technology. As a result, Maran is even one step further removed from AlterEarth since its link is only through Kulan.

I haven't considered my other "otherworlds" yet.

Connections are stronger to Oerth and Toril and weaker to Krynn and Mystara. Athas doesn't have any connections but The Great Wheel does connect to AlterEarth through the D&D Worlds. (The connection isn't direct.) AlterEarth isn't directly connected to my Mirrored Cosmology but that cosmology is accessible, tentitively, through Kulan.

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*Gamma World, likely. Dark Matter, not as likely. Guardian Earth, um, no.

 

[Knightfall]

Portal Connections

Check this out...

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Portal Connections

Check this out...

Hmm. Where's Seracia?

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Knightfall, check your email.

 

[Knightfall]

Hmm. Where's Seracia?

Actually, I had considered that but I don't know enough about how your altered cosmology works to incorporate it in. Plus, I only had so much room.

Knightfall, check your email.

Done and replied.

 

[Knightwind1972]

Sounds pretty spiffy. If you don't already have it I highly recommend Tangents, an Alternity supplement.

I may have to get my husband to run a game of this for me. Of course, we use Modern20.

 

[Knightfall]

Sounds pretty spiffy. If you don't already have it I highly recommend Tangents, an Alternity supplement.

I may have to get my husband to run a game of this for me. Of course, we use Modern20.

I had Tangents back in Alternity's heyday. I sold it and a lot of my Alternity products quite some time ago. I only kept a few of the main Alternity books including my Limited Edition Player's Handbook.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Knightfall, I just had an idea regarding doubles. Perhaps some earths have a slower rotation speed than others, thus making it seem like one is tyime-traveling when going to another Earth. The thing to keep in mind thaought is that 'Quantum Tunneling' between Earth's is never time travel.

One the Earth's that have a slower rotation speed, you can use to sprinboard doubles of figures that have long been dead on our Earth or just younger versions of NPCs and/or PCs.

With this idea, it might be possible to interven in the doubles character development by having the other, older double, intervene at key points in the youger doubls life.