WELCOME to a world where power armor wielding marines storm the battlefield. Battlefields are bombarded with ground based artillery and from spaceships in orbit. Mages wade into combat alongside them, harnessing the spirits to aid them. Psions wield powerful mental abilities to aid their allies and hinder their foes. Nanite-augmented engineers perform repairs in a flash and then join the fray without a second thought.
WORLDS THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN is an RPG built off Wizard of the Coast’s SAGA Edition ruleset, designed for their Star Wars Saga Edition game. It takes place in an alternate universe, where the forces of the supernatural are quite real but rare, and coexist with modern science.
Star Wars Saga Edition and the rules it contains are property of Wizard’s of the Coast (presumably, not sure where it stands since they lost the Star Wars license). I make no claim of ownership on any of the rules contained in this site, only on the setting I have designed.
A LITTLE HISTORY OF THE FICTIONAL HISTORY
Basically, this whole thing began back around 2007, when I was taking a creative writing class in college. I’d tried my hand at writing some (bad) fanfiction before I took that class, and I decided to scrap the majority of that fanfiction and start making something slightly more original. The concept I chose to work off of was “what if we never stopped once we got to the moon?” That great question asked by so many scientists and engineers since 1972 when the last man walked on the moon. What if JFK had lived, and his and Kruschev’s plans for a joint moon landing with the USSR had come to fruition?
That was where it started, and that was the end of my fanfiction endeavours and the beginning of Worlds That Might Have Been. It’s been through a lot since then – me giving up on writing a novel and just wanting to work on a setting, then I turned it into an RPG, then I added psionics, then somehow magic got rolled in. NPCs have been created and then written out of existence later on. Entire species have been renamed (the Dwellers began as alien expys of the Kei Pirate Guild from Outlaw Star who I just called the “Tao,” then became the D’Arsay, then the Darsee, and then finally the Dwellers). Species have had their biology radically altered (the Proximans originally exploded in Earth-standard atmospheres). And the entire meaning of the “Worlds That Might Have Been” name got changed when I abandoned the novel’s original dimension-hopping idea (honestly, I have no idea what the name means anymore).
And then there was that time I realized I had to scrap the entirety of World War III and re-work it since in reality humanity never should have survived that war in the original form I had it in.