Alternative History

For Want of a Musketball

"Heh, guess his sides weren't made of iron after all." -George Goring For Want of a Musketball is an alternate history timeline diverging from our own on July 2 1644, when Lieutenant-General of the Horse and member for Cambridge, Oliver Cromwel...

Alternative History Flintlock Political Religious Speculative

Magic Earth

What is Magic Earth? [quote]Imagine that magic is real on Earth. Magic and Technology has always coexisted with each other. This is what I explore in Magic Earth![/quote] [container:document] Extracts from the United Nations Magi...

Alternative History Fantasy Fantasy, Urban Science Fantasy

Kaestra

In a different universe, on a planet not unlike our own, humans never existed. Instead anthro animals have taken their place. From the frozen north to the warm deserts, anthro mammals rule the lands. Meanwhile reptiles, birds, and other creat...

Adult 18+ Alternative History Fantasy, Low Magic Weird

The Hummelverse

Artificial intelligence and war machines and the end of the world as we know it: In an alternate timeline of our Earth, humanity wiped itself out and left behind sentient vehicles that continued fighting their war until there was little left to f...

Alternative History Military Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy

To The Left of Us

Welcome to the Left of Us. This is Earth, exactly as you know it... but slightly to the left. It is not just humans who inhabit this Earth, not just science which runs our machines, not just fish which swim the seven seas... This Earth is a...

Alternative History Fantasy, Urban Supernatural

The World of Magi PI

Magi PI is a series of short slice of life, mystery and adventure stories set in an alternate version of Earth where magic has always been there. Society and technology have grown up round it with history altered by its presence. The short stories re...

Alternative History Historical MagiPunk Slice of Life Victorian

Alvez

Kroashent is a fantasy setting inspired by the legends and history of Brittany, drawing from Celtic myth, French folklore and medieval history. The story is set in the Universe of Alvez, where two separate realities, the mortal world of Bedouar and...

Alternative History Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Romantic MagiPunk Medieval

Hastened Delight

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Alternative History Dieselpunk Exploration Medieval Victorian

Earth 2.0

Alternative History Superheroic

Telluria

Telluria is a rocky planet with a molten core, which orbits the Sun at an average distance of 66,924,360 wmi. Telluria's circumference at the equator is 18,157 wmi. It is the third planet from the Sun, orbiting between Véineas and Mhars...

Alternative History Dieselpunk Science Fiction

Rajah’s Curse Universe

The RCU is a combination of Tiger’s Curse and Disney’s 1992 Aladdin and other properties including Heracles, Takanda (Indian Wakanda), and many more. The stories to go along with my world can found here on [url:https://www.fanfiction.net/u/9254608/an...

Alternative History Fanfiction Fantasy, Romantic

S'ard

Since the dawn of time humans basked in the illusion of being the only sentient creatures to inhabit the Earth. Some of them always knew the truth, populations that managed to nurture a positive relationship with spirits and magical creatur...

Alternative History Fantasy, Urban MagiPunk Solarpunk

Atlantica

Atlantica is a fantasy exploration setting for role playing that focuses on the discovery and exploration of the relatively newly discovered territories of Atlantica. Set in a world that could be considered a VERY alternative history of...

Alternative History Sword & Sorcery

Asyur

The Galaxy At Large The current galaxy is connected to many other crystal spheres and their inhabitants. At the rim of the galactic arm that houses the Sigma Star System sits the Fractured R...

Alternative History Comedy Fantasy Historical Horror

Curse You

There's a land full of magic and the magic bites back. Keep your wits about you and watch your every step. The city of Taresh might welcome you with open arms, but do not turn your back to its monsters lurking i...

Alternative History Comedy Fantasy, Urban Science Fantasy Supernatural

Tyllus

In a parallel world to ours, the Roman Empire rose amongst nations of elves and dwarves, orcs and bugbears. The Empire has long endured, but recently, disaster struck. Northern outposts have been destroyed, leading the client states of the elves and...

Alternative History Fantasy

Magic Earth (Old)

Extracts from the United Nations Magical Security Act, New York, 17th of June 1970 "All magic-users no matter what type of magic they are practising are obliged to register themselves as mages at the nearest police station which is authorized by t...

Alternative History Fantasy, Urban

Utopia

Utopia is a project based around the idea of a drastically different version of Earth, maybe not the best version of Earth, but surely a different take on it. DISCLOSURE The main focus of this project is NOT...

Alternative History Military Political Science Fiction Weird

New Luoyang

What if Chinese mariners found the New World before Columbus did? When Tang Sanzang returned from his longest journey to the west, his journals ignited curiosity to search for the western paradise the holy sutras spoke of. In the end, the Chinese...

Alternative History Steampunk Superheroic

Itxaro

"I am a discord, and before me you shall bend. And then you shall break."

Alternative History Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Sword & Sorcery

Inundated Earth

Alternative History Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Urban Historical Modern

Beyond Ragnarok

Alternative History Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic

The Food Chain

Alternative History Biopunk Post Apocalyptic

Adanor

Ce monde est en cours de développement. Il est l'univers dans lequel je réalise tous mes jeux de rôles.

Alternative History Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Science Fantasy Steampunk

Cimmerian Shade

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Alternative History Horror Political Supernatural

The Great Lakes Wastelands

War. War never changes. It has been two hundred years since The Great War. Since then, mankind has been brought down to its knees. However, the Great Lakes Wastelands has begun to rebuild. Settlements and cities have begun to rise, and there are talk...

Alternative History Atompunk Biopunk Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction

Up&Down

Contains mature themes. [aloud]A post-apocalyptic Earth, roughly 200 years after the end of WW3. Humanity has somewhat recovered from the societal collapse following the devastating fallout of atomic bombs, but faces several struggles. Modern...

Alternative History Military Modern Post Apocalyptic

Universal City

Alternative History Modern Superheroic Supernatural

Earth

It's Earth as you know it, except in this reality ancient gods and monsters try to find their way through space and to invade. Some wish to rule it, some don't care about it, most would destroy it. The luck that has kept the Earth sanguine long enoug...

Adult 18+ Alternative History Historical Horror Supernatural

Tsuwamono

A wide-scale kingdom-building sandbox fantasy game using the Anima system and a setting based on the Sengoku period of Japanese history. Hashinara Katamoto, usurped from his position as clan Daimyō, left...

Alternative History Fantasy, High Magic Historical

Dalen-Toril

Alternative History Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic

The Wastelands

With the Second Empire a distant memory, the inhabitants of the Wastelands are trying to scratch out a life of their own. Whether it be with the United Cities, @[The Holy Nation](organization:0b6b...

Alternative History Dystopia Fantasy, Low Magic Post Apocalyptic

The Broken Path

Fate. Free will. An economy built on the souls of the dead. It's like the 18th century we know, but a bit different. By harnessing magical energy from the transit of spirits en route to the afterlife, societies worldwide have developed diffe...

Alternative History Fantasy Flintlock

The Wheel of Worlds

Eons ago, a race of aliens began exploring space, leaving behind portals that would allow intelligent beings to travel from planet to planet without need of spacecraft. They created a network of pathways to promising worlds throughout their galaxy, a...

Alternative History Exploration Modern Science Fantasy

Smallscale

[quote]An alternate 1920's earth with mysterious spirit magic and a secret race of bug people hidden out of sight.[/quote] When traveling merchant Symon Cantillo finds a mysterious artifact during a...

Alternative History Fantasy, Low Magic

Malefic

Welcome to the world of Malefic! This world takes inspiration from countless religions and cultures and blends them into one super pantheon. Pantheons like Greek, Aztec, Celtic and more myths are all real to a certain extent. Some gods are even mista...

Alternative History Fantasy, Dark Religious Science Fiction, Modern Supernatural

Empire Naufragé

Depuis près de 20 siècles, l'Humanité s'est lancée à la conquête des étoiles, grâce à une invention révolutionnaire, l'EM-Drive. Régnant sur la quasi entièreté de la @[Bulle Locale](locatio...

Alternative History Exploration Science Fiction Space Opera Transhumanism

The Realm of Ard'Vanwa

[aloud]Legends speak of a realm outside of the multiverse, a place where things that go missing end up. A trinket that falls behind a chair, never to be seen again, a friend who ventures into the woods, only to never return. Every world...

Alternative History Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval Science Fantasy Sword & Sorcery

The Eleventh Dimension

A realm of magic and war, the Eleventh Dimension is the central beam that holds all of creation together. It stands as the Central Dimension of the Meta-Physical World Tree. What happens in each dimension ripples across to its neighboring dimensions...

Alternative History Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Sword & Sorcery

Planejammer Chronicles

The syncretic Omniverse of the Planejammer Campaign Series, running since 1979 AD. From the very beginning my games all had a shared universe and generational basis. CHaracters that are the descendents of other PCs and so forth. This has created...

Alternative History Fantasy, High Magic Political Space Opera

Fringe Earth

Welcome to Earth, citizen! I bet you don't know anything about it! You might think you do, but you're wrong. Earth was once filled with Magic, and Magnificent creatures had roamed the lands, and powerfull spellcasters could unleash the migh...

Alternative History Fantasy, Dark Historical Sword & Sorcery

Iron Horizons

Alternative History Dieselpunk Religious Space Opera

Raguk

Raguk looks much like our own world, but the race of man has not pushed the other races into the shadows and they remain powerful. So powerful that they have instead rewritten the most powerful empires and kingdoms to instead be ruled by the races ot...

Alternative History Sword & Sorcery

Arta

A historically referenced fantasy tale with floating continent and cosmic deities. The planet of Arta is ruled by a flow of energy maintained and directed by the three patron Uvaran entities of this planet, Moyadeen, Thrane, and Terrus. It is their b...

Alternative History Dieselpunk Fantasy Science Fantasy Science Fiction

Korinthos

An Empire Broken and Reforged [youtube:https://youtube.com/watch?v=USz9cwVSaqg]Aetas Romana - By Adrian von Ziegler Korinthos and it’s surrounding kingdoms are loosely based on a 4th century Byzantine Empire with major Roma...

Alternative History Ancient Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Historical

Tales from the Other Worlds

The Event. It sundered my world and joined it to another; one of fantastic flying ships and miraculous music boxes sending voices across the sea. "Like a mismatched holiday egg" I once heard an otherworlder call the Event. That makes it sound merry,...

Alternative History Science Fantasy

Exalted Greece

Disclaimer: This is just for fun. I am by no means an expert on any of these cultures and there are many instances where I have changed details to add more flavor to the campaign setting.

Alternative History Ancient Historical Superheroic Sword & Sorcery

The Five Realms

Known. Wild. Lost. Paranormal. Eternal.Humanity has re-emerged from the darkness into a world quite different from today. The younger mortals nations of the Orqui, the Hobbledehoys, and Human Ffolk, too busy with surviving to notice their le...

Alternative History Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Science Fiction Speculative

The Cluster

Somewhere outside the fabric of reality exists a loose collection of world fragments linked by mysterious teleportation chambers. These chambers are typically well-hidden or difficult to reach, but these world fragments often hold strange and mysteri...

Alternative History Ancient Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy Surreal

The Divided States

The United States approximately 1,000 years in the future after the Faro Plague caused by Ted Faro(HZD). After the extinction of life on earth, CYAN was instructed by GAIA, to activate the Yellowstone volcano, burying the inactive machinery under lay...

Alternative History Dystopia Fantasy, Urban Military Modern

Le Corps du Génie

Le Corps du Génie est une série de High Fantasy, de Science Fantasy, d'Histoire Alternative, et de Romance. L'histoire se déroule dans une France magique du XIXe siècle et se concentre sur le corps du génie de l'armée française....

Alternative History Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Romantic Science Fantasy

Iron Stars

A play by post adventure (This game has no real time or voice sessions). Five years have passed since The Scream, a psionic disaster responsible for killing billions across the galaxy in one swift stroke. Humanity has clung to life now forced to c...

Alternative History Child Safe Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy Science Fiction

Deicide

Humans a glorious species of many different traits and talents. Their potential is limitless, having discorvered many different technologies and mastered countless arcance arts. But it wasn't allways so.. 2000 years ago humans were dominated by Go...

Alternative History Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Urban

OmniVerse

[quote]You have many worlds ahead of you, my student. Locations unlike anything you've seen here. I've been able to see every inch of these worlds, before I was cast away into this one. I want you to see what I saw when I was younger... And when y...

Adult 18+ Alternative History Science Fantasy Supernatural Surreal

Valeryn

Adult 18+ Alternative History Fantasy, Dark Victorian Western

The Johannesburg Archives

July 15th, 1999. This is the day the world ended. Or at least that's what was supposed to happen. Every religious and mythological apocalypse happened simultaneously, and in effect canceled each other out. Angels fighting Dragons. A monstrous Wolf-li...

Alternative History Fantasy, Urban Post Apocalyptic Slice of Life Young Adult (YA)

OLYMPUS

Alternative History Ancient Cyberpunk Dystopia Science Fantasy

Terraria

Terraria is a parallel of our Earth. However Terraria, as a planet, began to sustain life hundreds of millions of years before ours. There's also traces of the initial primordial elements all around. It's highly volatile and reactive to every other a...

Alternative History Flintlock Science Fantasy Speculative Sword & Sorcery

Compass Rose and the Relic Wreckers

A world-weary archaeologist gets chased by reckless treasure hunters, who end up destroying more artifacts than they steal. But when ancient gods start running amok, those two-fisted two-timers might be all who stand up to them (because the ruins are...

Alternative History Ancient Comedy Dieselpunk Exploration

Post Collision

(Svenska) Efter kolikonen mellan två dimensioner. D&D och våran dimension år ca 2010.

Alternative History Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Urban

The Curse of Dreams

The world shifts and buckles under the social and political dynamism of the burgeoning 20th century. Amidst the crawling chaos of 1920s New York, beset by waves of immigrants and refugees fleeing the war-torn world of olde, strange occurrences are a...

Alternative History Gothic Horror Neo Noir Supernatural

Devonia

In 1821, the Caledonian Mercury wrote of the British Empire, "On her dominions the sun never sets; before his evening rays leave the spires of Quebec, his morning beams have shone three hours on Port Jackson, and while sinking from the waters of Lake...

Alternative History Comedy Cyberpunk Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction

Pirate Republic

Pirate Hunter: Duty Bound & Dead Man's Game [url:https://www.pinterest.com/benjixan/sb-pirate-hunter/]Pinterest Board People make history. History shapes nations. Nations create people. And where there are people, t...

Alternative History Flintlock Historical

Eorzea

Alternative History Comedy Fantasy, High Magic Political Steampunk

Stars & Shadows

No one expected Dracula to wake in the middle of World War II. They also didn't expect him to be a dragon, and for him to expel the Nazis from Transylvania, nor for what came afterward.That was the first sign of superpower...

Alternative History Superheroic

The Esmosian Multiverse

The planet of Esmos is tangled in battles of magic and technology. Portals to other worlds have let in humans from earth, Ramakian Bat-people, Voth warriors and more. Chaos reigns as Voth try and reinstate a centuries old dictatorial empire by racing...

Adult 18+ Alternative History Clockpunk Exploration Fantasy

Ouresboros

[quote] I looked to the sky and found my self seeing nothing but a bright white light. The gods had passed judgement upon the Uran invaders, but my men were also to suffer. Their skin turning red and giving way to boils as if burned[/quote] Missive...

Alternative History Horror Supernatural

Juncuda

Mechs and humanoids. Humanoids and Mechs.

Alternative History Mecha Military Political Science Fantasy

The Roam (Working Title)

The world beyond ours. A dream, a shadow, or something else entirely? It is the throne of various powers clawing clawing to crawl above one another, forcing their influence on the waking world and ascending Beyond. There is space beyond it, beneath i...

Alternative History Horror Modern Supernatural Weird

Terra After Earth

Willkommen im Zentralen Archiv des Ordens der Vereinten Kolonien! Ich bin das Bioneurale Interface Bunny und trage in diesem Archiv das gesamte Wissen der Galaxis zusammen. Wie kann ich helfen?

Alternative History Military Science Fiction Weird

Disverse

After a series of mass dis- and reappearances in the 70s, people began manifesting superpowers. These "supers ", unable to reproduce with normal humans and thus considered their own new species, have r...

Alternative History Modern Superheroic

Tovedorp

Ragnarök has come for the settlement of Troumwarft! One peaceful day nearly twenty moons ago a sudden and bright light blinded all men, women, and children - and changed their world forever! Were they just normal @[Chauken](ethnicity:e270ff7...

Alternative History Fantasy, Low Magic Historical

Andalusada

As far as the world is concerned, today is 22 Nisan 5690, the final day of Passover. Today is 20 April 1930, Easter Sunday. Today is 22 Dhu'l-Qi'dah 1348, a day for Muslims to ignore the ulama, bring dessert to someone else's holiday, and get drunk....

Alternative History Dieselpunk Hard Science Political Speculative

The Engineering Corps

The Engineering Corps is a series of High Fantasy, Science Fantasy, Alternative History and Romance. The story is set in a 19th century magical France and is focused on the engineering corps of the French army....

Alternative History Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Romantic Science Fantasy

Issolum

[p][/p][p]The world of Issolum is a medieval world in harmony with magic both practical and fantastical - with just a hint of technology to boot.[/p][p][/p] This is a land where dragons exist, fey creatures roam freely, and nearly everyone born of t...

Alternative History Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Urban Medieval Young Adult (YA)

Terra Antiqua

Terra Antiqua is a world not quite in the Dawn of it's growth, but not near noon yet. Technologically, it is solidly Bronze Age, though the greater empires have comfortably embraced Iron Age technology. Civilization is very much in it's infancy, tho...

Alternative History Ancient Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic

Tales From Elsewhere

Alternative History Fantasy, Urban Soft Magic Supernatural

Alternate Earth: Civil Technologies

This game is able to be played during any of the eras listed within the primary timeline. The timeline for this alternate earth starts with John F. Kennedy not being shot but his wife, Jackie Kennedy, was shot instead. This had meant that computer...

Alternative History Crime Gothic Science Fiction, Modern Weird

Fey Realms

Welcome to The Fey Realms, a universe created by a technically advanced, godlike race. Two mirrored dimensions The Fey Realm and its counter part The Earth Realm are joined together and are under constant assault by an ancient and completely insane b...

Alternative History Science Fantasy Speculative Superheroic Weird

Earth 000: SDAR reality

Earth 000 is an alternate reality where in 1973 an extraterrestrial structure was discovered in Argentina, this structure was opened in 1979 where it was found to house a machine that could view alternate timelines. The structure was later named the...

Alternative History Science Fiction, Modern

The Naturali Compendium

The first book in the Naturali Compendium series is currently being serialized on Sequel for their beta writer program. It costs $4 and a new part is uploaded every month until I can get it on a better schedule. Please click [url:https://joinsequel.c...

Alternative History Fantasy, Urban Modern Supernatural Young Adult (YA)

Ecclésia

Ecclésia Au cœur d’une uchronie folk-punk vivez une aventure épique ! Le Saint Empire Ecclésiastique lutte sans relâche face aux forces infernales qui n’aspirent qu’au chaos. Choisissez votre position dans ce conflit titanesque, louez le seigneur et...

Alternative History Fantasy, Urban MagiPunk

Rozerwanie i kolaps dwóch wymiarów

Alternative History Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction

Doctor Who Alternate Universe

Le monde dans lequel Mara et ses compagnons sont arrivés après avoir vaincu le Celestial Toymaker. Dan, Natrish et Skellig sont originaires de cet univers.

Alternative History Science Fiction

Plasontis

Plasontis is a largely undiscovered world, with most of the continents keeping to themselves aside from a few trading ports. Our journey begins on the continent of Rhaegios, more specifically in the Krysos Islands to the South. The people of Rhaeg...

Alternative History Ancient Fantasy, High Magic Historical

Left in the Dark

What if the stories are true? What if monsters truly do exist? They are out there, lurking in the dark. The invisible threat and source of legends, myths and horrorstories. Invisible to most of the world, but not for you.

Alternative History Fantasy, Dark Horror Modern Supernatural

D.C Waterworld (Earth 19)

In 1986-1988, the world was hit by a series of floods that increased the water level to over 1500 meters above sea level. The mass displacement of people, the casualties caused by the incident and the PTSD that some still suffer is a constant reminde...

Alternative History Gothic Political Post Apocalyptic Superheroic

London Calling

Storie di personaggi disparati che si intrecciano nella Londra Vittoriana, durante l'inizio di un'epidemia di colera, l'afflusso dell'immigrazione irlandese, e l'espansione della capitale dell'Impero Britannico. Powered by [url:https://it.wikipedi...

Alternative History Neo Noir Victorian

Antipodean Moon

Antipodean Moon is a historic Australian colonial setting for Victorian-era fiction and role-playing campaigns. The Colony of South Australia is the location in which most events occur, a bright southern land on the other side of the world fr...

Alternative History Gothic Horror Supernatural Victorian

Abskaron

There are a myriad of worlds, universes and stories, Abskaron is the possibility of these worlds existing concomitantly. Maybe only lazy copies of already successful creations, but a way to appreciate them nonetheless.Há...

Alternative History Fantasy Sword & Sorcery

《Haven Slate》

Under heavy work! This world is mostly empty so please use your time on other worlds. Finished Articles: 0

Alternative History Hard Magic Science Fantasy Speculative

Albastion

In a world where 3 gods named Vols, Yargo and Kritis created a world named Albastion and to inhabit Albastion they created 3 races. Our story takes place when one meaningless Argana (created by Yargo but decided to abandon him as god) finds a wrist...

Alternative History Fantasy, Dark Flintlock Superheroic

Hexerei, the Three Witches of Würzburg - Malleus Maleficarum

A war fated to endure for decades is smothering the Holy Roman Empire. The Coven rises! Blood drenches the cromlechs, and litanies call for the Devil’s boon. They are answered! Three Witches rise, three Witches to be vanquishe...

Alternative History Fantasy, Dark Flintlock Horror

The World of Promania

Adult 18+ Alternative History Child Safe Flintlock Medieval

Beris

Rework: Millessia is a world with computers, telephones and television, but they are only for the rich and or powerful. The world has been mainly peaceful since the immortal Empress conquered the world with her legions, three hundred years ago. Bu...

Alternative History Fantasy, High Magic Political Sword & Sorcery

Shedim

“They sacrificed to daemons, no-gods, Gods they had never known, New ones, who came but lately, Who stirred not your fathers’ fears.” The world stands at the dawn of the 21st century, entering an uncertai...

Alternative History Modern Speculative Supernatural Weird

Mars 2530

Planet Earth lies barren and depleted, racked by centuries of war that erupted into a nuclear holocaust. This catastrophe stemmed from a resource war between two global powers. The Mugong Compact comprised of Eurasia and Africa. Fighting against t...

Alternative History Cyberpunk Dystopia Horror Science Fiction

Ashgrip City

POPULATION 3.8 MILLION The year is 1927. Ashgrip City sits on the coast of an icy ocean, sustained by naval trade. After two decades of remarkable technological advancement, Ashgrip is in the balance between old and new. The city...

Alternative History Victorian

Project Europa

"A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One." - Georg Cantor Eons ago - no one when exactly, nor how or why - the gates opened, and the worlds collided. The boundaries of sense and reason were...

Alternative History Modern Science Fantasy Speculative Urban

Ardhaina

Ardhaina is a vast world full of many countries, empires, and kingdoms. Each one different and unique and each one with a story to tell. There is the dazzling and powerful empire of Amaryllis known for its power and grace and the beauty of its capita...

Alternative History Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Medieval Sword & Sorcery