How many of you have GM'd "Alt Earth" scenarios?

[Jhamin]

When my group switched from 4th to FREd I ran a "Crisis" style multiverse spanning type game. The Despoiler actually cracked the Keystone of Reality (From Champions Universe 4e) before Doctor Destroyer and the PCs stopped him.

 

Wacky hijinks ensued.

 

My PC group has existed in one form or another for about 10 years as players drifted in and out and PCs died or were retired.

As the PCs slid from world to world they met alternate versions of their team with alternate world versions of themselves as well as alt-versions of other bygone PCs and NPCs. Lots of plotlines from past games were taken in new directions and old favorites were seen one more time before the realities collapsed back into a stable form. It was a great sendoff for the old edition and a chance to seemlessly integrate all the new baddies from CKC.

 

Among other places, they went to:

Mirrorworld - where all the heroes are violent & amoral and all the femal PCs wear halter-tops.

 

Anti-Mutant world - Where the mutant PCs and villians are nowhere to be seen and the disturbingly good and heroic Alt-PCs call on Minuteman backup when things get really ugly.

 

Apocalipse World - What happens if the current crisis isn't prevented.

 

A series of "the hunteds win" worlds - Where that alien invasion the charaters stopped had succeeded. Or where the demon summoning didn't get stopped, or where the Day of the Destroyer had succeeded. Or where Mechanon had wiped out all organic life.

 

It was a good time.