History TabletopGame / Alternity

!!Tropes found in ''TabletopGame/{{Alternity}}''

* ''TabletopGame/DarkMatter'', a modern-day setting of [[ConspiracyKitchenSink Conspiracy Theories]] and ParanormalInvestigation.

* ''StarCraft Adventures'', a licensed adaptation of Creator/BlizzardEntertainment's popular video game.

A TabletopRoleplayingGame published by TSR, Inc. (then newly a subsidiary of WizardsOfTheCoast) in 1998. Just as TSR's flagship RPG, ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', provided a way to play almost any kind of {{Fantasy}} campaign, ''Alternity'' was intended to do the same for ScienceFiction, with rules and scenarios for FasterThanLightTravel, PsychicPowers, {{Alternate Universe}}s, and other common sci-fi tropes.

''Alternity'' was discontinued around the same time as ''D&D'''s 2nd edition. Because Wizards still owns the intellectual rights to ''Alternity'', some of its elements have cropped up in later products, including remakes of ''Star*Drive'' and ''Dark•Matter'' in ''{{d20 Modern}}'' and another new edition of ''Gamma World'' based on ''D&D'' 4th edition rules.

* ''StarCraft Adventures'', a licensed adaptation of BlizzardEntertainment's popular video game.

* ''TabletopGame/DarkMatter'', a modern-day setting of [[ConspiracyTheory Conspiracy Theories]] and ParanormalInvestigation.

* ''[[TabletopGame/DarkMatter Dark•Matter]]'', a modern-day setting of [[ConspiracyTheory Conspiracy Theories]] and ParanormalInvestigation.

* ''[[DarkMatter Dark•Matter]]'', a modern-day setting of [[ConspiracyTheory Conspiracy Theories]] and ParanormalInvestigation.

* ''[[StarDrive Star*Drive]]'', a SpaceOpera universe designed to show off almost all of ''Alternity'''s features.

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!!Tropes found in ''TabletopGame/Alternity''"

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A TabletopRoleplayingGame published by TSR, Inc. (then newly a subsidiary of WizardsOfTheCoast) in 1998. Just as TSR's flagship RPG, ''DungeonsAndDragons'', provided a way to play almost any kind of {{Fantasy}} campaign, ''Alternity'' was intended to do the same for ScienceFiction, with rules and scenarios for FasterThanLightTravel, PsychicPowers, {{Alternate Universe}}s, and other common sci-fi tropes.

A TabletopRoleplayingGame published by TSR, Inc. (then newly a subsidiary of WizardsOfTheCoast) in 1998. Just as TSR's flagship RPG, ''DungeonsAndDragons'', provided a way to play almost any kind of {{Fantasy}} campaign, ''Alternity'' was intended to do the same for ScienceFiction, with rules and scenarios for FasterThanLightTravel, PsychicPowers, {{Alternate Universe}}s, and other common sci-fi tropes. Unfortunately for sales, the game was hindered by a clunky ruleset.%%Please expand on this!%%

The game had four basic "Professions", which roughly mapped onto the D&D [[FantasyCharacterClasses character classes]], but without the fantasy feel. In the absence of magic, Wizards were replaced with Tech Ops (technical operatives; all kinds of scientists and engineers) and Clerics were roughly replaced with Diplomats (in concept, but not in role; TheMedic would be a Tech Op). Fighters were renamed Combat Specs (specialists) and Rogues became Free Agents. Optionally, there were also Mindwalkers in place of Psionists. Because these Professions were generally broader than the clear archetypes of D&D classes (sci-fi versions of Barbarians and Paladins, for example, would still be Combat Specs), the game gave the players greater opertunity to customise their character than 2nd edition D&D.

The game had four basic "Professions", which roughly mapped onto the D&D [[FantasyCharacterClasses character classes]], but without the fantasy feel. In the absence of magic, Wizards were replaced with Tech Ops (technical operatives; all kinds of scientists and engineers) and Clerics were roughly replaced with Diplomats. Fighters were renamed Combat Specs (specialists) and Rogues became Free Agents. Optionally, there were also Mindwalkers in place of Psionists. Because these Professions were generally broader than the clear archetypes of D&D classes (sci-fi versions of Barbarians and Paladins, for example, would still be Combat Specs), the game gave the players greater opertunity to customise their character than 2nd edition D&D.

The game had four basic "Professions", which roughly mapped onto the D&D character classes, but without the fantasy feel. In the absence of magic, Wizards were replaced with Tech Ops (technical operatives; all kinds of scientists and engineers) and Clerics were roughly replaced with Diplomats. Fighters were renamed Combat Specs (specialists) and Rogues became Free Agents. Optionally, there were also Mindwalkers in place of Psionists. Because these Professions were generally broader than the clear archetypes of D&D classes (sci-fi versions of Barbarians and Paladins, for example, would still be Combat Specs), the game gave the players greater opertunity to customise their character than 2nd edition D&D.

* ''GammaWorld'', a remake of TSR's classic PostApocalyptic RPG.