Either modern earth or fantasy, like parts of Moorcock's Eternal Champion series (Erekose, Oswald Bastable), but excluding Planescape & Spelljammer type stuff. What are some of the best RPGs & settings with dimension-hopping as a central premise?

Quote from: S'mon;970601Either modern earth or fantasy, like parts of Moorcock's Eternal Champion series (Erekose, Oswald Bastable), but excluding Planescape & Spelljammer type stuff. What are some of the best RPGs & settings with dimension-hopping as a central premise?

GURPS Alternate Earths and GURPS Alternate Earths 2 have some pretty awesome material for travel between different alternate histories.

Can't speak to how good as I still haven't read it but the Strange?

It seems to get a lot of love elsewhere.

I was going to say GURPS too, not just because it's my favorite and default system. It's designed to handle everything consistently and logically and has material for a tons of settings, and for the Alternate Earths things, but also the 4e Basic Set decided that cross-dimension was the natural default campaign context for GURPS and has example characters based on that.

Gatecrashing is the earliest one I'm aware of being devoted to that sort of thing.

Does the Mythras-based Luther Arkwright game count? Espionage across various parallel dimensions... many alternate histories.

Not that it is the assumed default but most fantasy games I've played have some degree of travelling through dimensional gateways and such. Arduin was a dimensional hub of sorts, Tekumel is not in normal space... our Dungeon Crawl Classics games have been all about jumping around in a multiverse.

Thanks for the GURPS pointer!

After perusing a preview of GURPS Alternate Earths I've ordered a second hand copy of GURPS Time Travel, for which it is a supplement. I'm primarily influenced in frameworks for dimension-hopping play, rather than detailed alternate Earths.

Quote from: Simlasa;970670Gatecrashing is the earliest one I'm aware of being devoted to that sort of thing.

Does the Mythras-based Luther Arkwright game count? Espionage across various parallel dimensions... many alternate histories.

Yes, Luther Arkwight seems influenced by Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius, it's the kind of thing I had in mind.

What's Gatecrashing like?

Quote from: S'mon;970684What's Gatecrashing like?

I got the name wrong, I meant Fringeworthy... which is like Stargate SG1 but came out in the early 80s. It's pretty crunchy from what I recall.
Gatecrashing is a supplement for Eclipse Phase, with a similar focus... which named similar to Gatecrasher, which is a Fudge game, but has more overt fantasy elements.

I'll also endorse Gurps for materials to use, but I never really liked the background of their IW campaign.  for some reason it just turned me off.  Now another I've used is BTRC's Timelords, and there is also Tri Tac's Fringeworthy.  I have heavily used the general background from Timelords, 1st and 2nd edition, and both editions along with the various supplements are readily available on Ebay and other locations for not very much most of the time (though I tend to use Gurps for the system).  Timelords is a great background if you don't want some controlling groups over the characters.  Fringworthy had some really interesting ideas, the basic framework of their version of dimensional travel was inspired, but like Gurps IW, something about it just really didn't work for me.  Fringeworthy is also easily found on Ebay.

Odyessy Prime is dimension hopping meshed with Stargate. The world is going to end via giant asteroid, and various groups travel through "Rings" (which look like Stargates) to alternate Earths to find one they can use to save some of the human race. You play 2 characters: An Odyssey team member who explores alternate earths, and a member of Damage Control, who clean up messes Odyssey teams sometimes bring back with them to Earth. Dual statted for D20 and Unisystem

I remember having a Timelords book! Must have a look...

I always really liked Rogue Mistress for Elric!. It was a campaign centered around a flying ship that could travel to different planes.

Quote from: JeremyR;970743I always really liked Rogue Mistress for Elric!. It was a campaign centered around a flying ship that could travel to different planes.

Heh, I hated that when I tried to run it! Most appalling Railroad I've ever seen. Killed a great campaign with it.

Quote from: S'mon;970684After perusing a preview of GURPS Alternate Earths I've ordered a second hand copy of GURPS Time Travel, for which it is a supplement. I'm primarily influenced in frameworks for dimension-hopping play, rather than detailed alternate Earths.

Discovered these were both replaced by GURPS: Infinite Worlds, so ordered that & attempting to cancel GURPS Time Travel.

Quote from: Simlasa;970705I got the name wrong, I meant Fringeworthy... which is like Stargate SG1 but came out in the early 80s. It's pretty crunchy from what I recall.
Gatecrashing is a supplement for Eclipse Phase, with a similar focus... which named similar to Gatecrasher, which is a Fudge game, but has more overt fantasy elements.

Yeah, Fringeworthy is pretty crunchy and I have a soft spot for all of the original Tri Tac games (Bureau 13 and FTL: 2448 being the others). There's apparently d20 versions of Fringeworthy and Bureau 13 for sale on the Tri Tac site.