What If?

[khyber]

I've been thinking about doing a "what if" campaign based on some of our past adventures.

In this campaign, I would take an important decision or action of one of the PCs and change it, then we would role-play how the new outcome would develop. For instance, what if during an adventure, one PC that originally died did not and one that lived had died.

These would be one-shot adventures and would no way affect the current timeline of our universe.

Has anyone ever done such a story or campaign? I'd be interested to know how it turned out.

[ghosty]

Sounds like the TNG episode "Parallels" where Worf saw a number of alternate universes.

I don't deny that I haven't thought about such a scenario but it was just too mind blowing and would involve too many combinations of situations which are possibly incalculable. For instance if a certain PC didn't die a year ago, could he have changed something in the future, well who knows would he make a different decision and so on and so forth. The scenario just collapsed on the weight of its own complexity.

If you want to play "alternate history" games it may be easier for the PCs to run into the alternate selves from different "univereses" eg. the Mirror Universe, the universe of Yesterday's Enterprise etc. Just my thoughts...