DC has always had more alternate earths, thanks to their desire to explain away continuity errors by saying they took place in another reality (Marvel No-Prizes were simpler), but then Crisis came and they got rid of them all. After a few more crises, they came back though. Check out a list of them here.
Marvel traditionally had very few and didn't give them number (too DC, I guess). In 1983, Alan Moore and Alan Davis did a story for Marvel UK where the main Marvel earth was given the designation 616. Fans ran with that, and from a throwaway line, Marvel parallel Earths got numbers, too. Find them here. Of course, this probably doesn't catalog all the dystopian alternate futures the X-Men wind up in. Those guys just can't catch a break.
Any, I'm sure all of this can be plenty useful for a superhero game.
4 comments:
Wow. That's a lot of earths. And at the very least, it justifies re-writing "history" through the game, simply by giving the game world a new alternate universe reason for existing. For other genres too, of course, like a Middle Earth campaign where the ring doesn't get destroyed, etc.
it is indeed a lot of Earths. I agree, parallel worlds could be used more in fantasy settings. It's also possible some planes could be accounted for in this way.
A spelljammer game could be justified as riding the time streams as well...
I've never seen that image before. Neat!
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