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<blockquote data-quote="STARP_Social_Officer" data-source="post: 3638119" data-attributes="member: 41202">If it were me, there's a scenario I'd explore. I'd use a similar plot device to that in Doug Naylor's &quot;Last Human&quot;, which was a (darker) Red Dwarf novel.I'd have the PCs stumbling upon the bodies of all but one of them, the corpses having been dead a shorter time (say a few weeks). They haven't travelled in time, but crossed into a parallel universe. In this universe, things are basically the same...except that one of them has suffered some different past that has caused him to become a murderous psychopath. His counterpart has murdered his comrades (you can decide why), and it's their bodies the PCs find.From there, you could go wherever you liked. The evil version of the PC could cross over into the PCs' home universe, causing trouble there, or the PCs could pursue him across the parallel universe and discover alternate versions of others. If you really wanted to shake things up, you could have the evil version replace the real PC, played, of course, by the same player. That's always fun.The problem being, of course, that there are cliches you may not want to wander into with this scenario. &quot;Evil duplicates&quot; are pretty staple and you might not want to go down that road. One way of avoiding this would be to avoid the &quot;evil&quot; moniker. He's not &quot;evil&quot; so much as &quot;different&quot; - he killed his colleagues, but not out of malicious intent. He may have an evil alignment (and killing several people probably counts as an evil act), but you could define him more by his personality and outlook than by his alignment.Just a thought or five.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="STARP_Social_Officer, post: 3638119, member: 41202"] If it were me, there's a scenario I'd explore. I'd use a similar plot device to that in Doug Naylor's [I]"Last Human"[/I], which was a (darker) [I]Red Dwarf [/I] novel. I'd have the PCs stumbling upon the bodies of all but one of them, the corpses having been dead a shorter time (say a few weeks). They haven't travelled in time, but crossed into a parallel universe. In this universe, things are basically the same...except that one of them has suffered some different past that has caused him to become a murderous psychopath. His counterpart has murdered his comrades (you can decide why), and it's their bodies the PCs find. From there, you could go wherever you liked. The evil version of the PC could cross over into the PCs' home universe, causing trouble there, or the PCs could pursue him across the parallel universe and discover alternate versions of others. If you really wanted to shake things up, you could have the evil version [I]replace [/I] the real PC, played, of course, by the same player. That's always fun. The problem being, of course, that there are cliches you may not want to wander into with this scenario. "Evil duplicates" are pretty staple and you might not want to go down that road. One way of avoiding this would be to avoid the "evil" moniker. He's not "evil" so much as "different" - he killed his colleagues, but not out of malicious intent. He may have an evil alignment (and killing several people probably counts as an evil act), but you could define him more by his personality and outlook than by his alignment. Just a thought or five. [/QUOTE]

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