History TabletopGame / GURPSAlternateEarths

* GivingRadioToTheRomans: Someone from Homeline illegally introduced [[KillerApp electronic spreadsheet software]] (which had somehow been skipped over by Dixie's computer scientists) and caused a minor revolution in the business world.

Diverges with the assassination of UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt. During the terms of Charles Lindbergh and the not-that-competent John Nance Garner and Henry Wallace, the US become politically split and polarized. Meanwhile, the Nazis and Japanese conquer half the world in the 1940s, and then finish the job with the aid of subversion from William Dudley Pelley's fascist Union Party.

Instead of the sinister Tiberius, a surviving Drusus takes over Rome after Augustus' death. During the following two millennia, Rome will expand, fall apart twice and reunite again and expand further. Their technology also develops, albeit not as fast as in our world.

An eccentric Muslim scholar refutes the pagan Greek philosophers using rationalism. In combination with an Arab printing press, the Muslims take over the world and also develop science and technology way faster.

The Carthaginians discover America, so the Old World diseases hit America two millennia earlier. The Roman Empire falls apart after Nero's been killed, and the various barbarians make sure Europe never recovers. Then the Aztecs start the Industrial Revolution.

* RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman: Malcolm Little (Malcolm X) as VP of the rest-US in a world where the CSA successfully seceded. David Duke as POTUS in a world where The Nazis win World War II and the US become their fascist satellite. Jabir ibn Hayyan as a Roman chemist inventing mustard gas in 767. Swedish king Charles XII invading Britain. Roman emperor Heraclius founding a new empire in Africa after Constantinople falls. And Adolf Hitler ending up in an insane asylum painting more watercolors.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Gurps Infinite Worlds.

Starts to diverge when filibusters take over Nicaragua and help the CSA become independent. Later, they will take over most of Mexico and Central America. The US are allied with Germany and help them win UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne.

Diverges with the assassination of UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt. During the terms of Charles Lindbergh and the not-that-competent Nance Garner and Wallace, the US become politically split and polarized. Meanwhile, the nazis conquer half the world.

Starts to diverge when filibusters take over Nicaragua and help the CSA become independent. Later, they will take over most of Mexico and Central America. The US are allied with Germany and help them win WorldWarOne.

* ColdWar: USA vs CSA. In-universe called The Long Drum Roll.

* GaulsWithGrenades: Charles de Gaulle invents "guerre-eclair" (blitzkrieg)
* ImperialGermany
* JohnFKennedy: With [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X Malcolm Little]] as his VP.

* ImperialJapan
* NaziGermany
* NazisWithGnarlyWeapons: Gnarlier than ever. In the present, their army has kevlar armor, tanks with railguns and neutron bomb howitzers.

* WorldWarOne: The Pyrrhic War occurred for much the same reasons as WorldWarOne did historically (a GambitPileup of secret alliances that finally blew out), but it began in 1927 and ended in a stalemate that precluded any chance of a WorldWarTwo.

NikolaTesla marries the daughter of J.P. Morgan, gains financial support to take out Edison, and can realize all his cool inventions.

* UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement: Set back a few decades due to the lack of WorldWarTwo and the Holocaust, which in our world discredited the concepts of eugenics and scientific racism. Women's rights have also been set back; they have the vote in the US, but haven't gotten past the 1920s.

* TheFifties: Even about twenty years later, the world is still much like this. (WorldWarTwo was avoided, the war which brought down the SovietUnion was shorter and more one-sided, thus less upsetting for the world.)

* NikolaTesla

* JapaneseChristians: In this reality Japan is almost entirely Christian, having converted in the 16th century.
** ChristiantyIsCatholic: In great part thanks to above and Japan also being by far the world's most powerful nation, almost 50% of total world population are Catholic - rising to 90% with the elites.

* SillinessSwitch.

Diverges with the assassination of FranklinDelanoRoosevelt. During the terms of Charles Lindbergh and the not-that-competent Nance Garner and Wallace, the US become politically split and polarized. Meanwhile, the nazis conquer half the world.

Turgot manages to reform France, which prevents TheFrenchRevolution - and TheAmericanRevolution as well, since he won't support republicans against one fellow king. Only two centuries later, one great power (Russia) becomes the republican Dominate.

* TheAmericanRevolution, TheFrenchRevolution and RedOctober: The Austrian revolution is a mix of all of these, though it bears the greatest resemblance to the failed Revolutions of 1848.

* {{Pirate}}: Everyone's doing it. Except for the Scandinavians (no surprise), the [[LongList Gujerati, Yanomami, Japanese and many other people]] are also into it.

* ShoutOut: The picture shows a CSA officer named [[GoneWithTheWind "Butler"]] looking much like ClarkGable.

* Creator/AynRand

* AlternateHistoryWank: Centrum. That is all.

* ColonyDrop: A rogue asteroid collided with Earth around the turn of the [=XXth=] century; this is what collapsed the previous empire.

** The sequel had some more of these. [[AynRand Alissa Rosenbaum]] writing novels about heroic rail builders in Nationalist Republican Russia. Japanese admiral Hiyoshimaru fighting European pirates for the Ming emperors. St. Bernhard of Clairvaux and St. Dominic de Guzman converting still-pagan Scandinavia to a somewhat different Christianity. Ibn Sina inventing calculus in 1006. Jan Masaryk elected Archon of an Austrian empire turned republic. And finally, Otakar Przemysl kicking out the Mongolian oppressors from the Holy Roman Empire in Centrum.
* SpiritualSuccessor: Gurps Infinite Worlds.

* AynRand

The scenario "Centrum" inspired @/MaxSinister's WebOriginal/ChaosTimeline.

The scenario "Centrum" inspired @/MaxSinister's ChaosTimeline.

* JohnFKennedy: With Malcolm Little as his VP.