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I NFINITE W ORLDS . . .

I NFINITE A DVENTURE !

The good news is, there are other Earths.

Maybe an infinite number. The bad news is,

somebody out there doesn't like us.

Welcome to the core setting of GURPS Fourth

Edition ! Every other GURPS setting is on one of

the Infinite Worlds timelines . . . whether they

know it or not! GMs can use this to create a whole

meta-campaign, or just as an excuse to move char-

acters between worlds when the plot requires it.

Compiled by Kenneth Hite, the master of alternate

histories, GURPS Infinite Worlds combines and

updates material from GURPS Time Travel , GURPS

Alternate Earths , and GURPS Alternate Earths 2

into one volume, and has dozens of new worlds to

explore as well! This is the complete genre book on

both alternative-world gaming and time travel. It

also provides a wide variety of suitable threats and

hazards -- from evil cross-time Nazis and cosmic

conspiracies to "ordinary" monsters and disasters.

Whether you're playing accidental travelers or the

hardened troops of the Infinity Patrol, this book is

your gateway to adventure. Infinite adventure.

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known errata to that edition have been corrected,

as of the publication date of March 10, 2006.

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C ONTENTS

2. E NEMIES

E VERYWHEN . . . . . . 45

C ENTRUM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Centrum Today . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Centrum World Classification . . . . . . . 51

Centrum Parachronics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

The Interworld Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Centrum Plots to Foil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Centrum Campaigns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Alternate Infinite Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Centrum Dark, Centrum Light . . . . . . . 56

R EICH -5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Geopolitik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Technology on Reich-5 . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Outtime Discoveries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

SS Raven Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Glorious Goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

T HE C ABAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Truth and Lies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

The Cabal in the Campaign . . . . . . . . . 69

L ESSER T HREATS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Organized Crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Swagmen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Freelance Criminals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Where Are the Starships? . . . . . . . . . . . 72

P ARACHRONOZOIDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Spoor and Stigmata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

O THER H AZARDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

The Spaces Between . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Banestorms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Reality Quakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Mathematical Bafflegab . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Going Elsewhere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Reality Quakes in the Game . . . . . . . . 78

Gates of Thoth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Shiftrealms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Echoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Putting a Little English on It . . . . . . . . 87

Parallels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Te chnology Variants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Challenge Worlds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Unusual Civilizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

H ISTORY , A LREADY IN P ROGRESS . . . . . . . . 96

Direction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Alternate Greats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Plagues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Generational Cycles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Civilization as Biology . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

A LTERING W ORLDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Timeline Shifting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Try to Change the World . . . . . . . . . . 105

1. I NFINITY U NLIMITED . . . 5

Infinite Worlds Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

T HE I NFINITY P ATROL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

The Mission and the Mindset . . . . . . . . 8

Human Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Headquarters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Intervention Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Infinite Justice, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Cover Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Penetration Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Recon Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Miracle Workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

ISWAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

P ARACHRONIC L ABORATORIES . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Further Infinities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Personal Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Homeline TL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Projectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Standard Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Conveyors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

In the Cube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Conveyor Loadout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

T HE U NITED N ATIONS

I NTERWORLD C OUNCIL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Infinity Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Alternate Outcomes, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Crosstime Colonies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

“Eternity’s Rangers” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

C ORPORATE S TRUCTURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Infinite Darkness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

O UR C ORPORATE P ARTNERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Cliodyne Research Group . . . . . . . . . . 37

Consolidated Mines, Unltd. . . . . . . . . . 37

Time Tours, Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Johnson Crosstime Incorporated . . . . . 38

Time Tours in the Time Campaign . . . . 39

Our Corporate Rivals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

White Star Trading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

T HE P UBLIC S ECTOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

The United Nations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

National Governments . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Israel and the Alternity Exodus . . . . . . 43

Non-Governmental Organizations . . . . 44

Rogue States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

4. W ORLDS

E NOUGH . . . . . . . 107

A RMADA -2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

A TTILA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Other Mongol Conquests . . . . . . . . . . 111

A ZOTH -7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Other Azoths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

B ONAPARTE -4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Other Bonapartes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

B RITANNICA -3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Other Britannicas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

C ALIPH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Other Muslim Worlds . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

C AMPBELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

C ENTRUM B ETA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

D IXIE -1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Other Dixies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

E ZCALLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

F RIEDRICH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

G ALLATIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

G ERNSBACK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

H ELL W ORLDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Ariane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

The Gotha Parallels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Lenin-2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Leviathan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Madland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Taft-7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

J OHNSON ’ S R OME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

L ENIN -1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Other Communist Worlds . . . . . . . . . . 132

L UCIFER -5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

3. P RESENT AT THE

C REATION . . . . . . . 81

T YPES OF A LTERNATE W ORLDS . . . . . . . . . . 82

Empty Worlds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Infinity’s World Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Dinosaur Hunting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

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C ONTENTS

W ELCOME TO

A NYWHEN . . . . . . . . 4

About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Prepress Checkers

Managing Editor

Other Lucifers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

M ERLIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Other Merlins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

M YTH P ARALLELS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Burton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Camelot Parallels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Mandeville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Nottingham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Sherlock Parallels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

N ERGAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

N OSTRADAMUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

O RICHALCUM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

P UZZLE W ORLDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Blip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Enigma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Microworld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Möbius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Rustic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Vanish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Wyvern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

R EICH -2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Other Reichs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

R OMA A ETERNA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Other Romes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

S HIKAKU -M ON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

U NITED S TATES OF L IZARDIA . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Y RTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Other Fantasy Parallels . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Reich-5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Other Opposition . . . . . . 195

Bystanders . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Locals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

W EAPONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Firearms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

8. A LTERNATE

I NFINITIES . . . . . . . 212

T HE O RDER OF THE H OURGLASS . . . . . . . . 212

Villains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

The Great Work of Time . . . . . . . . . . 215

Hollow History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Campaign Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . 216

T HE T IME C ORPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Agent Slang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Mechanics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Time Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

The Enemy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Time Agent Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Visitors From the Future . . . . . . . . . . 223

Detecting Interventions . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Gross Changes: A Bad Idea . . . . . . . . 225

Changing History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Campaign Assumption . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Operation Archduke:

ATypical Mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

T HE H ORATIO C LUB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Campaign Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . 231

7. I NFINITE

C AMPAIGNS . . . . . 201

C AMPAIGN A SSUMPTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

The Hardware Dilemma and

the Software Mismatch . . . . . . . . . 202

Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Adding Worlds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Paraphysics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Genre and Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

C AMPAIGN E LEMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Through the Rabbit Hole . . . . . . . . . . 206

Visiting the World Next Door . . . . . . 206

Things to Invent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Black Powder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

The Bad Old Good Old Days . . . . . . 210

Mission Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

The Time Is Out of Joint . . . . . . . . . . 211

B IBLIOGRAPHY . . . . . . 232

I NDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

5. . . . A ND T IME . . . . 152

T EMPORAL P HYSICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

The Physical Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Can of Infinite Worms . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Paradoxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Chronobabble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Other Useful Postulates . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Talking to Yourself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Communication and Observation . . . 158

We Will Have Warned You

in the Past . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

The Observer Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Time Viewers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Time Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Dangers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Staying in Period Character . . . . . . . 164

P SIONIC T IME T RAVEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Physical Projection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Mental Projection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Attunement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

T HE F UTURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Getting There Faster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

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6. I NFINITE

C HARACTERS . . . . 171

A DVANTAGES , D ISADVANTAGES ,

AND S KILLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Advantages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Disadvantages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Wealth, Status, and Reputation . . . . . 178

Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

A LTERNATE H UMANS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

C HARACTER T EMPLATES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Infinity Unlimited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

UNIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

The Private Sector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Centrum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

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