Alternative History

Clarkwoods Literary Universe

The Clarkwoods Literary Universe is a fictional universe where time travel is possible, reality is cyclical, and the world as we know it is just slightly off. It is the work of author & illustrator E. Christopher Clark.

Alternative History Fairy tale Fantasy, Urban Post Apocalyptic Weird

Cimmerian Shade

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Alternative History Horror Political Steampunk Supernatural

Marcher: Empires at War

[p]The year is 1938, and an archduke of the Holy Roman Empire lies dead in the streets of Paris, his blood cooling to the cries of the revolution, and the terrible engines of war waking once more. The Great Powers make ready for battle on land,...

Alternative History Dieselpunk Military Science Fiction

Caelum Prime

Prophecy of Caelum Prime [quote]When the Shadowsong Messenger lands and speaks the words “The Night of Lightning,” the Dust Rain sha...

Alternative History Fantasy, Dark Horror Science Fiction Supernatural

The True Dark Ages

The world is now in the 9th Century, and the Early Middle Ages is in full swing. Adventurers are constantly in demand. Some act as mercenaries, others follow the path of magic and bolster their respective nations. Groups scattered here and there long...

Adult 18+ Alternative History Exploration Fantasy, Dark Horror

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

El-Sod Elohim

[section:ninsutext]I know what you’re thinking—but this isn’t your world. It’s theirs. I catch only fleeting glimpses and brief visits, like reflections on still water, or record the tales, like whispers, of my companions Tak, erik...

Adult 18+ Alternative History Fantasy, Urban Religious Speculative

Karma Police

A dark sci-fi world for a TTRPG based on the homonym graphic novel by Jorge Baradit and Martín Cáceres.

Alternative History Cyberpunk Fantasy, Urban Literature RPG Science Fantasy

Alvez

Once, the world of Bedouar stood alone, a discrete reality on the threshold of the Great Veil, a metaphysical barrier dividing it from the parallel magical Otherworld. Crossing the Veil was considered only by the very wise in their libraries and the...

Alternative History Clockpunk Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Romantic MagiPunk

Europa Mythica

Alternative History Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Historical Medieval

Barur

This is what our world was before we, humanity, took it for our own. It was not ours, not completely, and I do not think it ever truly will be, for Barur still has echoes of the great fantastical past. This world is very heavily investe...

Alternative History Ancient Fantasy, High Magic Historical Steampunk

Tales of Eximius

This sci-fi fantasy world is an earth-like planet with different continents and features. The two major factions are at war with each other to gain control of the universe.

Alternative History Fantasy Science Fantasy Science Fiction

Occult London

[quote]Far and white and straight lieth the road to Knowing, and down it in the heat and dust go all wise people of the earth, but in the fields before they come to it the very wise lie down or pluck the flowers. By the side of the road to Knowing -...

Alternative History Horror Supernatural

The Realms of Aorlis Fantasy Setting

[color:#800000]The Realms of Aorlis Fantasy Setting is designed for epic adventure, brutal combat, daring exploration, and intrigue. It is good equally for old-fashioned, crunchy dungeon crawls, or the sweeping narrative campaigns that are...

Alternative History Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Historical

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

Diner Punks

A Rockabilly Road Trip Through The American Apocalypse [p]In 1972, the world nuked itself. Now it's the 1980s and people have started to venture out of the safety of their camps to meet up with other surviv...

Alternative History Dystopia Post Apocalyptic Weird Western

The Fall

Alternative History Horror Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy Supernatural

Asyur

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Alternative History Comedy Fantasy Historical Horror

The Big Apple

This is currently mostly my campaign setup/worlbuilding and general notes. I'm trying to keep it spoiler free so bear with me. The Campaign is built largely on and encompasses all of Big Apple Sewer Samurai by Alb. [url:https://pr...

Alternative History Fantasy, Urban Science Fiction, Modern Superheroic Urban

Curiosity and Satisfaction

Welcome to Curiosity and Satisfaction. A curious but satisfying Call of Cthulhu game set in 1950's Massachusetts where feline and canine sleuths investigate and battle against the horrors of the Cthulhu Mythos. [/cen...

Alternative History Horror Mystery Supernatural Weird

Colossal Fossils

Alternative History Historical Political Science Fiction Science Fiction, Modern

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)

Musketeers

The Kingdom of France is at war with Spain once more. The King's enemies plot and scheme and the peasants tell tales of the evil creatures that have started stalking the night. While the war rages the Musketeers find themselves flitting between t...

Alternative History Fantasy, Urban Flintlock Political Supernatural

Song of Eternavis

Beridium Calendar

Adult 18+ Alternative History Child Safe Flintlock Medieval

Nova-Praxis

Nova-Praxis a solar system consisting of 5 rocky planets and 4 gas giants. All 5 rocky planets are habitable by life and two of them have been by NovaGate a powerful group from Sol the home of humans. NovaGate is a group founded by three corporations...

Alternative History Military Science Fiction, Modern

Mythic Nordland

Before the Christians the world of the North was a place of legends where the gods themselves were heroes arisen. There are supernatural creatures - immortals, undead, fey creatures, and more. The North men and women know that through their great dee...

Alternative History Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic Historical Medieval

Altairus

[spotify:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4tZGpAnelr3PjFtLTkn9sP?si=3eba56e038c1490f] Welcome to the World of Altairus! [p]Altairus is a world not entirely unlike our own. However, in Altairus, powerful magic, known as An...

Alternative History Fairy tale Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Slice of Life

Kingdom of America

In 1786, Shays' Rebellion shakes a young nation to the core. Veterans of the revolution have their lands sezed by the states, and see no compensation from a weak federal government. Led by Daniel Shays, the rebels demonstrated the frailty of the Amer...

Alternative History Historical

Lesser Pendragon Campaign

The Lesser Pendragon Campaign is my version of The Great Pendragon Campaign by Greg Stafford. Which was run over discord in 2018 & 2019. Which will be revised when Pendragon 6th Edition is released. The Greater Pendragon Campaign is produced by Ch...

Alternative History Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval

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

The SCP-verse

The SCP Foundation is an organization dedicated to containing anomalous artifacts from the world, which surely cannot handle them.

Alternative History Science Fantasy

Nomardia

A fantasy world first created from the scraps of Lego Bricks in real life is now being shown written to others with the chance of embracing brighter in glory then it could just in Lego Bricks. You want an adventure? You came to the right place, see a...

Alternative History Fantasy Medieval Supernatural

Vampire/Fae Universe

A world where both vampires and fae exist alongside the human world. The fae are more known to the human world at large thanks to their attempts to gain equal status, while the vampires are largely unknown except to the humans who work in vampire law...

Alternative History Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Urban Horror Young Adult (YA)

The Great Dust Bowl

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Alternative History Dystopia Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction Western

Cytan Cluster

A vaguely D&D-inspired dimensional cluster.

Alternative History Fantasy, High Magic Modern Science Fantasy Supernatural

HUNTAR

Adult 18+ Alternative History Post Apocalyptic

Earth 2

The story takes place in a modern world, with a twist, borders are not the same as they are now, following WWII, where the Nazi breakthroughs into the Arcane Sciences led to the allies having to follow suit.

Alternative History

Dalen-Toril

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

Eglaria

Alternative History Fantasy Political Science Fantasy

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

Iron Stars

Seven years have passed since The Scream, a psionic disaster responsible for killing trillions across the galaxy in one swift stroke. Marooned on failing worlds both human and alien alike do what they can to endure the collapse of society, the shorta...

Alternative History Child Safe Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy Science Fiction

Pantheo

The world of Pantheo is a world with four (4) mainland continents (Hellene, Ophir, Talamh, and Balad). The early years of life on Pantheo was a feral Pangaea dominated and terrorized by the likes of giants, dragons and monstrosities. A great clash be...

Alternative History Fantasy

The Golden Age

Vampire: The Masquerade, Roman Era.

Adult 18+ Alternative History Ancient Fantasy, Dark Horror

Hoist the Colors

[container:wrefrm] [container:parchment] At the stroke of midnight on October 31, 1712, the world came to an end. It wasn’t done in by blood or war, fire or famine. No, nothing of the kind. The world ende...

Alternative History Flintlock Post Apocalyptic

Toril

...Third planet from it's sun, Toril glides softly through realmspace orbited by it's lonely lunar body, Selûne... Toril is an Earth-sized planet that consists of various continents and islands, including Faerûn, Kara-Tur, and Zakhara in the cent...

Alternative History Clockpunk Exploration Steampunk Sword & Sorcery

Albion

welcome to Albion.

Alternative History Fantasy, High Magic Medieval Supernatural Sword & Sorcery

The Eight-sided Library

It has many names and many natures. It stands independent of men and nations. It may exist in any time or place. It cannot be deliberately sought out, or pinned to a map, or traced. Many have found it, a few have gained entrance, and some have told t...

Alternative History Historical Religious Science Fantasy Steampunk

Ebbavion

In the world of Ebbavion there are two major continents. Eslira where the magical chaos fills the air and everything living there. And in contrast: Valon, where humans share their control with elves and dwarves, taming, controlling and suppressing sa...

Alternative History Fantasy Medieval

The Specials Universe

Magic? Super Science? Psionics? Superpowers? In the universe of The Specials, these phenomena—and countless others—are not merely possible; they are reality. This is a world where Earth's history has been reshaped by extraordinary individuals who def...

Alternative History Fantasy Fantasy, Urban Science Fantasy Superheroic

Majicraftia

A separate universe where the game that Markus Persson built went down a more magical path. Instead of building and mining, Minecraft became Majicraft, where the inhabitants practice magic using enchanted crystals and wands.

Alternative History Fanfiction Fantasy, High Magic Medieval Supernatural

God's Haven

A world created by the gods working together.

Alternative History Ancient Exploration Fantasy Slice of Life

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

Las Islas de las Nueces

Introducción AVISO: Este mundo no es real. Toma inspiración, fechas y datos de sucesos históricos, pero las Islas de las Nueces no existen n...

Alternative History Historical Informational Military Western

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

Presidium (Lunar Animus)

The world of my D&D group. A scifi/fantasy game taking place in an alternate universe in which earth was transported to a solar system where it was destroyed, and the remaining survivors had to learn how to survive on Presidium (Prae). The ga...

Alternative History Exploration Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Urban Science Fantasy

Inundated Earth

Alternative History Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Urban Historical Modern

Call of Cthulhu: Millennium (world)

Subscribe now for new episodes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pan/id1258343195 The year is 1999--the place, Earth. A prehistoric eldritch abomination wants dominion over the human species badly by the turn of the millennium--and is having di...

Alternative History Comedy Exploration Fantasy, Dark Gothic

Legacies

The universe has been under the rule of the great Gods from Human myth and legend. Thus has been the way since the beginning with Yahweh. Currently Zeus rules Heaven and Yggdrasil as the King of the Cosmos. However he is a dreadful, corrupt and psych...

Alternative History Science Fantasy Science Fiction Shenmo Fantasy

Ocrea

Many years after the expedition of Columbus, a single ambitious explorer and conqueror going by the name Hernán Cortés set out with an expedition of Spanish conquistadors from Cuba after hearing tales from many explorers of a land in needing of conqu...

Alternative History Fantasy Medieval

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

Atlantica

Today, you are boarding a pirate ship that you lured close enough to capture for the bounty. Tomorrow you will explore a ruin so profoundly evil you will feel oily down to your soul. Next week you will be back in port, hurdy-gurdy...

Alternative History Fantasy, Dark Flintlock Sword & Sorcery

1957

French Version La Seconde Guerre mondiale est terminée. Alors que l'Allemagne a été vaincue, le Japon a triomphé. Les membres permanents du Conseil de sécurité sont la France, le Japon, l'Empire ottoman, l'Union soviétique et le Royaume-Uni de G...

Alternative History

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

Remnant Neonphage

A world too far gone, a world where new discoveries go unmentioned, plights and crisis are subject matter of comedy and entertainment, Death is a game and life is all about your next fix. A world Where a sickness needs to be purged, One bullet at tim...

Adult 18+ Alternative History Cyberpunk Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic

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

Beyond Ragnarok

Alternative History Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic

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 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

Frontier Flora

[p]The year is 18XX. The Colonies may have gained their independence, but the New World is still a trackless frontier full of both dangers and delights. Negotiations with the native People have resulted in protected commonwealth zones, where settlers...

Alternative History Child Safe Comedy Exploration Western

Ä'Resh

Alternative History Medieval Sword & Sorcery

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

The World of the Centurions

It is the early Middle Ages as western Europe is climbing out of the darkness. Charlemagne re-established the Western Roman Empire under Frankish rule over a century ago but he is dead now and his descendants are squabbling among themselves...

Alternative History Fantasy, Low Magic Historical Medieval Sword & Sorcery

Mediterra

Alternative History Ancient Military Political Sword & Sorcery

Earth-196169

Alternative History Fantasy, Urban Modern Science Fiction, Modern Superheroic

The Engineering Corps

High Romantic Science Fantasy and Alternative History series. The novels are set in a 19th century magical France and are focused on the engineering corps of the French army....

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

FTA: Wasteland

Alternative History

Verityverse

A world slightly to the left of our own, where superheroes are a new phenomenon, magic is bubbling out of sidewalk cracks, and there are probably aliens. We're not sure, they're very good at hiding. With comedy, world-ending threats, late assignme...

Alternative History Fantasy Hard Magic Superheroic Supernatural

Fallout: Emerald Bay

War. War never changes.[p][/p] Há mais de 200 anos atrás o mundo foi reduzido à cinzas num lampejo claro e radioativo, e o cenário verde da metrópolis de Seattle não foi poupado da destruição quando as bombas caíram. A radiação se espalh...

Alternative History Atompunk Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction Urban

Arcadia: The Golden Era (RWBY)

In a world where Salem and the Grimm are barely remembered nightmares, all that remains for the greatest of Huntsmen lines is to be fruitful and multiply. The official wiki for the ongoing saga of Arcadia.

Adult 18+ Alternative History Fanfiction Fantasy, Low Magic Romance

Leviathans Playground

[p]In 1878 the Polish genius Rynchowski isolated an electrical fluid with remarkable lifting capabilities. This single, pivotal event would change the world.[/p][p]The smartest military minds of the coming generation—Zeppelin, Jellico, Fishe...

Alternative History Historical Military

Iron Horizons

[quote]Einstein's radical theories flung humanity into the stars on the backs of diesel-powered starships, but not even faster than light travel permitted us to escape human nature or the sins of our past--colonialism, fascism, greed, hatr...

Alternative History Decopunk Dieselpunk Exploration Space Opera

Faerûn

The realm of DND 5e, with the Cody twist! The following pages, articles, stories, and more are the collections of the dozens upon dozens of hours of hard work and time to catalogue and file away the DND Fantasy world run by DM Cody Thomas. It is h...

Alternative History Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Sword & Sorcery

Earth Reborn

If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around to hear it, did it really fall? Similarly, if a species goes extinct on Earth, where do they go? The answer is actually simpler than you might believe: they go to Earth, Reborn. Known by its r...

Alternative History Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval Speculative Young Adult (YA)

Name TBA

Alternative History Modern Soft Magic Supernatural

The Walking Dead: Rewritten

[quote]Welcome, mortal. I see you have found your way to the steps of my altar. The world you now look at is reality. The dead are amongst you, hungry for your flesh. A stranger could be your demise. Or even a once-tamed dog. Survival is key. Unbe...

Adult 18+ Alternative History Hard Magic Horror Post Apocalyptic

Iron Crusade

Magic accompanied Mankind almost from its inception. While wondrous, it's a power too great for Men to handle. Wars it brought were terrible even in times of Rome and Greece. It wasn't until Middle Ages that the world managed to catch a brea...

Alternative History Dieselpunk Historical Mecha Military

The Latin World

Rome had one chance to conquer the world and they let it slip through their grasp. When Diocletian split the Empire in twain he set his capital in Rome and set about the process of rebuilding the Western Roman Empire to its previous heights. The goal...

Alternative History Medieval

Tempus Inopinatum

Tempus Inopinatum is an alternate history timeline created by Pegashush. Based off a combination of different playthroughs of Paradox Interactive games, chiefly Crusader Kings II and Europa Universalis IV, it tells the story of an alternate history i...

Alternative History Mecha Military Political Science Fiction, Modern

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

Bellum

Bellum is a world torn apart by war. Many power nations strive to gain control over the main continent in the center of the world where the current countries of Stanton and The Takkon Empire reside. Many of the Gods that used to inhabit this world h...

Alternative History Fantasy, High Magic Steampunk

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

1889

Welcome to 1889 - a soft horror campaign set during the late Victorian era of an alternate Earth.  It is a time where the world's last adventurers explored, discovered and thrived. @[Humans](specie...

Alternative History Supernatural Victorian

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

Esyr

Alternative History Political

Earth - ClF3

There exists a world not unlike our own, where humanity has reached technological mastery to a level that allows them to wage wars of unimaginable destruction and chaos. To complicate matters magic exists within this world and can be weaponized to te...

Adult 18+ Alternative History Fantasy, Urban Historical Military

Maöbrah

work in progress About the world The world of Maöbrah is similar in development to the world we know as Earth. There are some significant differences. I invite you to find those out by reading (or even to join...

Alternative History Fantasy, Dark Medieval Post Apocalyptic

Limaverse

A world similar to our own, until the 19th century where technological progress picked up speed. When the american civil war was going, they already had developed the radio and used it at its full potential and by the end of the century, it was becom...

Alternative History Dieselpunk Steampunk

Huangye

Sur un continent de Lüse où la guerre fait rage, deux empires se sont créés. La région nord occidentale quant à elle, Hanying, voit seulement les premiers seigneurs de guerre créer leurs royaumes. Ceux-ci se font continuellement la guerre, chacun ess...

Alternative History Ancient East-Asian

Terra Cognita

The world never lost its magic, but progress marches on... Terra Cognita is a suite of stories based in a world much like our own. The continents, the locations are much the same, but the people, the cultures, the politics are vastly different.

Alternative History Clockpunk Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Urban Gothic

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