/epg/ - Eclipse Phase General

>>52892726

http://eclipsephase.com/eclipse-phase-second-edition-be-released-2017

For those who missed it.

>Actually bought the physical first edition rulebook
>Second edition announced
It hurts me deep

>>52892726
>http://eclipsephase.com/eclipse-phase-second-edition-be-released-2017
Let's hope the mechanics are tightened up.

>>52892917

Well, that really seems to be the only thing they're doing is mechanical. In an FAQ PS stated like 95% of the material in the splats would remain unchanged and usable in 2E.

Does anyone have the Mac OS X installer for Singularity? The OP link only has Win7.

>>52894334

Is it time to fractalpost?

>>52895205
Do it

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>>52895234

>>52892795
>Not downloading the shareware PDF while supporting the devs by giving them rep but otherwise contributing nothing to their ongoing survival or work

HYPERCAPITALIST GET OUT REEEEEEEEEE

is it going to suck or what?

>Faster Character Creation — package-buy character creation lets people build characters quickly without overlooking necessary items. Point-based character creation and tweaking is still available.
>Streamlined Resleeving — an aptitude-linked pool system means that skills don’t need to be recalculated when a character resleeves.
>Updated Gameplay — number of skills reduced, necessary skills made easier to acquire, gear costs eliminated.
>Four Sample Teams — pre-fabbed teams can be dropped right into a game and serve as examples of balanced parties.
>Redesigned Book — a spread-based organization keeps material close-at-hand with less page-flipping.

They've also said that the skill list has been cut down by about half, and that the setting isn't really going to be changed.

>>52896057
Seems like pretty good changes honestly, hopefully they don't fuck it up.

>>52895575
I saw it at my FLGS and I needed it, if only I had known the pain I would feel.

>>52895530
This is a good pain.

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>>52894334
>tfw no fractal gf

Lets say the Jovians somehow ended up being taken to the Nier Automata setting. How would the Jovians, Androids and Machines react?

>>52896577
BECOME

AS

GODS

>>52894283
> The 5% change will be more anarcho-kids giving the finger

>>52896975
explain

>>52897216

I'm pretty sure the 5% is all the gear/morph related stuff which would probably need conversion for the new skill/morph/gear systems.

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Time to exhuman!

>Enter gate
>Local star is an orange dwarf
>Mother of monsters is now a satellite of the only planet in the system
>Her offspring populate said planet as a growing exhuman polity

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>>52898603
>target-rich environment

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>>52892726
>>52835875
Is this true? I'm having a hard time believing that this is true. It doesn't help that the poster didn't give any source or quotes.

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>>52895680
Remains to be seen. The promised updates to the mechanics sound good but if you've got issues with the setting you're not going to see any improvements there.

Not that we'll know for sure until they start releasing playtest material. Maybe that'll cut down on the shitty editing of the first release.

>>52892795
Did you recently buy a copy? You might have lucked out and gotten one of the recent printings with most the day zero fuckups fixed and the updated mechanics.

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>>52900249
I bought it about a month ago, so I think I've probably got a good version. I could go through the recent pdfs and look for every difference but I can't be fucked. Guess I'll just add it to the other out of print books I've got on my shelf and pick up the 2e book.

>>52899540
This sort of thing really needs a source, I don't believe it for a second. Tbh, it's probably just someone salty about how the game deals with their particular political system.

>Singularity has numerous bugs, still lacking content from latest books
>Months of silence

>User tries to buy a license but has issue processing payment
>http://eclipsephase.com/order-not-processing
>Posthuman responds within 45 minutes

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tomorrow 8pm at gmt-5

be ready

>>52902935

New art?

It's way better than most 1e stuff.

yepperoni

>>52902935
holy fuck that arts good

>>52902935

I adore that hideous 70s orange and that cute bot. Source?

>>52902935
what's happening tomorrow at 8pm gmt-5?

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>>52902935
I'm kinda surprised this doesn't have a bouncer in it.

I really hope we get better art for some of the more common morphs. I'd really like to see another Remade.

>>52904046
The guy could be a bouncer. We can't see his feet.

Is there any art of neo-orangutans? If not we need more of it, orangutans are chill as fuck.

>>52893556
There's no blood or screaming or uploading going on in that last panel.
>>52871508
I read those, but it honestly came across as what they listed in the core but expanded and fluffed up.

Not that the game lasted long before we moved on, anyway.

>>52892726
Will they be rewriting any of the setting?

>>52908763
They're mentioned that some things have changed, like the Mars space elevator is at Pavonis Mons rather than Olympus - so they're not afraid of moving stuff around. But the setting is "mostly the same" so what that amounts to is right now a big pile of 'who knows'.

>>52908942
Pavonis mons is way closer to the equator. Good choice.

>>52909013
I agree that that particular choice makes sense, but how stuff like that extends to various other speculations like maybe making the Jovians/PC more well rounded is very much up in the air. So far, there's no indication of a broader reimagining or updating of the setting beyond technical 'accuracy'.

We'll see soon, I suppose. Or not. All I've heard is that the Kickstarter launches, doesn't mean the beta test launches too...

>>52897389
WE WILL DIE AND BECOME GODS!

>>52902935
>>52904045
It could be the kickstarter being opened up? The post announcing 2e did say they would be starting a kickstarter soon, probably just to fund printing etc.

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Oh fuck, d'yknow what I just realized?

The new edition is going to have a non-zero amount of anti-Trump butthurt. I bet the Junta named a habitat after him. Hell, I bet he's going to be the only US president mentioned by name in the "so here's how we got to the apocalypse" history briefing chapter.

>>52910254
Fuck, I really hope you're wrong but you might just be right. Hopefully they have enough sense to just avoid the topic entirely...

>>52910001
Yes, the Kickstarter begins today at 8PM CST. No word on whether the playtest also begins. Source: the mailing list.

>>52910397
Any word on reward tiers or similar? I'm considering backing this one.

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Let's say you're an anarchist in the transhuman space future, and you want to take down the Junta. How do you start the fires of revolution?

>>52910966
I would probably cut my losses and leave

>>52910782

Nothing from the mailing list yet.

>>52910782
No idea! The email didn't say.

>>52910966
Emphasize autonomy over anarchy - anarchy can come later. Focus on the many habitats who want to do their own (still statist, but less repressive) thing, emphasize democracy and social support systems. Try and make the Jovian military seem comical, oppressive, and hypocritical. You can seduce the independent republics to whatever flavor of anarchy you're into after you've broken the grip of the Junta.

>>52910966

Probably do what subversives do now, try and educate the locals through the filtration and censorship by the government. Let them know that there's reliable nanomedicine which is not killing the millions of people outside the republic. If they're all lifeless copies, the 200 million people on Mars are living pretty normal lives for it.

The anarchist angle would be to emphasize that hey, you don't need a massive government to lead a safe, productive life. People are out in the void doing it with much less resources and space than the Republic wastes.

>>52910966
Establish an antipope on Mars, probably

So, what do you expect the KS addons will be?

>>52913298
Physical book, maybe an art book, maybe a novel or something.

>>52913298
>>52913321
A buggy chargen app coded by an amateur, delivered late and incomplete.

>>52913347
At least this time it will be free

>>52913347
For only 40$ you can attempt to wrangle the app into compliance and create an approximation of the character with a sheet that can only be accessed with the app and not exported.

How much are you donating to the KS /tg?

>>52913407
I got the books I was missing recently. So now I must buy EVERYTHING or my collection will get outdated!

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>>52913620
So it's time to buy it all again! On the upside though, they did say that most of the fluff books will be compatible with 2e, so having the splats is still probably fine.

How far would people go to modify themselves for working in 0 g? Pic related, the opposable thumbs on the feet would be pretty useful in 0g.

>>52914715
All that good shit form basic biomods is nice (no bone density loss, etc). For a morph which is never expected to serve in a gravity well having another pair of arms instead of legs is useful, sort of like a tree-living monkey.

>>52914715
Oddly, it's the most recent splatbooks that won't be compatible. You know, the ones they've been working on alongside 2E.

Well except for the Argonauts book but that one has zero rules or mechanics.

>>52914715
RCS/TCS and radial symmetry

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>>52914801
That is incredibly weird, I wonder why? Perhaps they were developed by separate teams and there was a miscommunication?

>>52914897
A body with radial symmetry would look pretty bizarre, but it would definitely fit well in 0g. RCS too, means you can't get stranded away from a surface to push from.

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>>52914715
>>52914897

>>52915091
Not radial enough

>>52915125
If the tentacles stretched out it would be pretty much radially symmetric from the top down.

>>52915148
No. It has binocular vision off the alleged axis of symmetry

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>>52915125
>octopus
>insufficiently radially symmetric

>>52915206
You know they're not actually radially symmetric, right? Not like a sea anemone or true roundworms

>>52915033

Nah, post human is by like 3 core people at all times. I assume X-Risks was intended basically to kind of cap off 1E with all the material they had - or perhaps designing so many stat-blocks made them realize how they could improve but didn't want to delay such an anticipated title.

>>52910254

The Trump moon will be a bloated, overdesigned housing complex for the Jovian rich, covered in rotting orange plantlife from a botched terraforming attempt.

>>52915376
Well, hopefully it'll be relatively easy to port over to 2e, since they're keeping mostly the same ruleset right?

>>52915388
Dear god I hope not.

>>52915270
Sure, but they're close enough surely. You can't get much more radially symmetric than an octopus and still be practically useful.

>>52915986

I think the FAQ does basically say 'Yeah, so all the stats in X-Risks will be incorrect in 2E but conversion won't be hard". Since that is the 5% which they claim is invalidated in like every other splat book I'm assuming conversion/compatibility is a design goal here. We'll see tonight maybe when they start the KS and outline it.

>>52915986
>You can't get much more radially symmetric than an octopus and still be practically useful.
Counterexample: something like an octopus but with true radial symmetry

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>>52916195

>>52913298

I expect additional adventures or other stuff in 2E form - maybe even some lofty goals - otherwise probably it's just little stuff like the morph cards or something. Changing editions gives them a lot of room for little addon levels and stretch goals. And they're pretty tied in in some tabletop communities to, like RPPR is going to blast about this while it's going on, probably will several other podcasts and associated game designers.

Hour until kickstarter drops, wallets at the ready boys.

>giving any money to SJW cucks who stated that men shouldn't have rights and EP purpose is to indoctrinate players

>>52918785
Source this and maybe I'll consider believing you.

>>52918795

He's bitching about when MRAs were banned from the official forums.

ONE HOUR TO GO

>>52919271
Holy fuck he's right.
http://eclipsephase.com/regarding-mras

>We believe we live in a world where patriarchy and male privilege are real, ongoing problems, and equality for all people, regardless of sex, is a worthy goal.


>Here's our stance: If you self-define as an MRA, please fire yourself as an Eclipse Phase fan. We don't want you. We want our forums to be open and inclusive, and we don't see the point of debating with you anymore. You have other places on the internet where you can wallow in the awfulness of your male privilege.

Suddenly the Trump references seem a lot more credible, hopefully they know enough to keep current politics out of their work, but shit I don't know anymore.

>>52919467
>know enough to keep current politics out of their work

Motherfucker, these authors are diehard socialist-anarchists and have built their entire setting around it. The game has been political from page one of book one.

>>52919492
You're probably right, I didn't notice the bias on my skin through but I didn't look too far for it. At the very least, I can take the rulesets and fuck with their setting if I get the book. Genuinely wondering whether I want to back the KS though.

>>52919467
Dude they pushed for the use of singular they/them pronouns all the way back in 2009. Are you really surprised that this is a thing?

>>52919540
Skim through*

>>52919547
I wasn't paying attention to EP at all in 09, I only downloaded the core book in maybe 2012, then it just sat on my hard drive because I haven't been able to set up a game for it.

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>tfw you agree with most of the devs political views and enjoy that they try to have diversity in the setting but you find the obvious pro-autonomist bias in the setting material annoying as shit and just want a game you can enjoy without turning on your political brain.

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>>52919695
>tfw you're a pretty diehard lefty and huge on queer stuff but don't trust full anarchism and wish the opposition blocs in EP could be presented as interestingly flawed rather than as cartoonishly evil because it gives you more options as a GM

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/507486226/eclipse-phase-second-edition

It's live.

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IT"S OUT MOTHERFUCKER

>>52920389

Holy shit, ~74 backers and $7.4 k there must be some real big fish on the line already.

Anyway, so 20 bucks for your PDF, 60 for print, 40 for PDF+Strech goals (not yet announced), 75 for Print+PDF, 100 for Print/PDF/Stretch.

Addons are any 1E print titles, including the fiction collection and their cardgame thing.

>1000$ stretch goal
>Everything Posthuman makes until 2020
I question the value of this.

>>52920474

That's not a stretch, it's a reward. But yeah, so basically anything PS produced in print an electronic form for the next 4 years basically will be delivered to you. They say "trinket" so that probably means physical merch too.

Have they said whether this game is going to be open source like 1e? There doesn't seem to be a mention of it on the KS page.

>>52920562

Yeah, it's CC as well, and they're doing an open playtest at some point.

>>52919695
>I like politics unless they aren't my politics

>>52921092
y'know there's a difference between a game having a lot of representation and having the bloc that aligns with the devs political views be condescendingly perfect while any blocs that aren't are mustache-twirlingly evil (at least on the surface level), right?

>>52918785

who let this nazi out of /pol/?

>$20k in the first hour

wowzers

>>52921563

And all the slots for the $300 dollar "your character as art" reward are gone.

So, let's hope the stretch goals are cool and don't take five years to get done, because I'm pretty sure this son of a bitch gonna fund.

>>52921252
The AA contains the most literal slavers in the setting

>>52921373
Who let the cuck out of his shed?

>>52919695
>>52919985
DESU, it's not hard to have a very obvious, very anarchist/left-wing bias and also not have the anarchists come off as insufferable and everyone else as terrible. This is just one part of the writing that didn't really hold up, and I'm hoping years of criticism on this front has prompted at least a change in presentation.

>>52921747
I hope ShadowDragon was one of those $300 backers.

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>>52920462
>20 shekels for PDF, 60 for print
>75 for print plus PDF
>buying the print book doesn't get you the PDF

>>52923101
the pdf is free

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>>52923101
ep is creative commons brah

>>52923129
>>52923158
That's even dumber

>pay an extra 15 dollars for something free

>>52923175

everything is free with piracy

>>52923192

space god bless piracy.

And also space piracy.

Arr.

>Single Hardcover EP2 Shipping International Overseas: $40-$55, depending on country.
>Print 60$
>Shipping costs another book
Are they retarded? They can't get local printing in Europe and other places?

>>52924371

The alternative is to be like Chaosium, lowball your international shipping, and literally bankrupt yourself.

Retard.

>>52923030
Doubtful, I noticed they got more political in recent years and quality of products declined too.

>>52919467
Anonymous Sat 06 Sep 2014 15:15:44 No.34672423 View

http://borderhouseblog.com/?p=3098
Brian Cross says:
Quinnae,
" Both Rob (the other creator) and myself put a lot of our own personal politics into the game and wanted to create a world that was both grim (to drive dramatic elements) but also hopeful in what new technologies may mean for challenging oppressive power structures and as avenues for liberation and expression. "

http://eclipsephase.com/regarding-mras?page=1
"As I said not exactly. I don't believe that men, as a group, have valid rights claims."
Brian Cross Posthuman Studios

The New Laboratory of Dreams: Roleplaying Games as Resistance
Women's Studies Quarterly
December 2012
Authors: Katherine Cross
In brief, it is a theoretical argument that roleplaying games-- as highly malleable, interactive media-- are fertile sites of political imagination. I perform an exegetical analysis of Eclipse Phase to illustrate the potential of truly politically sophisticated games and suggest that they can help to shift peoples' consciousness in less prejudiced directions, as well as engineer empathy for others.

http://rhrealitycheck.org/author/katherine-cross/
Katherine Cross is a pizza loving feminist sociologist, trans Latina, and amateur slug herder, working on her PhD at the CUNY Graduate Centre. When she's not studying or gaming she can be found at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project. Her blog can be found at quinnae.com and her writing has also appeared in Women's Studies Quarterly, Bitch Magazine, Questioning Transphobia, and Kotaku.

>truly politically sophisticated games and suggest that they can help to shift peoples' consciousness in less prejudiced directions, as well as engineer empathy for others.
>truly politically sophisticated games
>engineer empathy for others.
>politically sophisticated
>engineer empathy
>politically
>engineer.

>>52924822
>and Kotaku.
OF
COURSE

>ITT: people act surprised that a game about TRANShumanity fighting against capitalism and hierarchy is political

And it has funded, ladies, gentlemen, singular theys.

>>52920474
There is no possible way Posthuman is going to produce a thousand bucks worth of books in two and a half years - especially when you consider half of 2017 is going to be spent on the 2E core book.

>>52924666
I get 20$ on drivethrurpg to my shithole country, so no, you are retarded.

Retard

>>52926785
>different publishing houses have different infrastructure and different customer-facing rates
wow I am so surprised

>>52926864
>nearly 8 years in the business
>still shit at getting your product to your customers
try harder

>>52926876
If Posthuman went with a distributor that offers shit rates in your part of the world, then I'm sorry buddy but you aren't the customer they're targeting.

>>52926885
They could have done what Opaque are doing for Song of Swords and just get the printing and distro done through DTRPG. Lightning Source is a pretty good printer. Probably aren't doing it because of the USB key full of files you can get.

>>52924990
kek

>>52902935
I like how none of those characters fell victim to the typical sci-fi fashion disasters that plague so many settings. That they look like, I dunno, regular people with regular clothes?

>>52924990
lmao XD

>>52924371
Even local packaging would suffice

>>52919467
>giving a shit about fucking virginal faggot Plebbit MRA cucks

Kill yourself.

>>52928510

who touched you anon

>>52928694
A cishet man-filth

>>52928694
I think the problem is that no one has. Ever.

How much have you backed it for /tg/, be honest now.

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>>52929266

:40bux:

>>52929266
5 @rep

>>52929266
37 NuYen

>>52921944
Extropia?

>>52926565

Well, it's not just books though. They say it's literally anything that they release, so stuff like a 2E GM screen, adventures, little accessory cards, possibly including shit like T-shirts and the like.

It's really just an excuse to throw them a fuckton of money though.

>>52929266
I'll wait a bit hoping shipping to EU comes down a good bit.
If not I might just get the pdf once it's out and print it in a print shop and give Posthuman some @Rep

>almost at double goal
>still no stretch goals

>>52931843
>tfw Caleb Stokes is a stretch goal even though you know he's too busy for it

>>52931843
>They're waiting to add more goals when the funding slows down so they can get even more money.

You know it to be true

Almost 60k. Do you think they'll announce stretch goals then, or wait until double and be like "BTW, here's what already unlocked?"

>>52933530
hopefully the latter, the former always feels scummy

>>52933570

Well, we're on fucking day 2 and they're probably gonna double their goal before it's over - I think it's kind of good to be like "hey, so we planned some stuff for this giant milestone we've already hit, here it is". I don't think PS is trying to be scummy.

But I'm more wondering if they're waiting just for a right round number or some big milestone.

>>52933673
Stretch goals are supposed to be coming in the next 24 hours.

Alright, they updated.

They're working on trying to get cheaper international shipping, and will release the open playtest on the 5th.

First two stretches were announced, at 70k all freelancers get 10% extra cash (which Is cool for them I guess) but at 85k they will release an NPC File 2.

>>52929266
+1 Like

>>52937020
The drum should face the other way. I want to like it, but I just can't.

>>52939700

It looks like it's anchored to the pistol grip. Any particular reason it should face the other direction?

>>52937020
Clearly a helical magazine rather than a drum, and "M4 type" is nauseatingly vague

>>52940645
B-b-but it's a cylinder and all cylinders mean drum mags! /s

>>52939124
I feel like it's a bit odd to put your first stretch goal at double the actual goal, but I guess since they said in their update that the original goal was only half the actual price it makes a bit more sense. Hopefully they don't go overboard with the stretch goals and end up pulling a star citizen, since this looks to be getting a lot more than the goal.

>>52940683

Well, hopefully they learned from Transhuman NOT to overburden themselves with promised products - even if they're just digital. I suspect though they'll have a few things in their back pocket to encourage international backers if they get the shipping sorted out. They also seem like they're getting a few retailers to jump in so they might have bonuses geared toward that as well.

The new NPC File looks like a good option, one that'll be more robust than the first NPC file (and presumably in 2E).

>>52940683
>>52940645

Well, it is a concept art.

It's an M4-type thing with a big drum-looking magazine, which the art depicts fairly well. Perhaps this was the instructions given to the artist, perhaps it is how the artist chose to title the concept based on how they drew it. Either way, technical specifications and terminology are for an entirely different box of nerds to sort out.

>>52940974
>an M4-type thing
What does that even mean though?

>>52941036

Well, since this was for a movie (Elysium) it probably lets your propmakers and/or CGI artists know to base the design on the M4.

>>52940645
Helical magazines store rounds that are pointing parallel to the axis of rotation. This clearly holds them perpendicular to the axis of rotation, which makes it a sort of pan magazine, which are also called "drum magazines", which can also refer to magazines that store rounds in an outwardly spiraling manner.

>>52939700
That way the tips are on the inside rather than the rims. The fat end on the inside makes it much more difficult to feed and makes the whole thing bigger.

Shit. Second quote in >>52941617 was meant for >>52940099

Well at lest this kickstarter and new edition won't be a clusterfuck like Exalted 3e.

>>52941617
>Helical magazines store rounds that are pointing parallel to the axis of rotation.
Not necessarily. Any helical configuration will qualify as helical.

>>52941617
>This clearly holds them perpendicular to the axis of rotation
You would need a minimum diameter of 8 inches to do that.

>>52941663
What happened with that?

>>52942165
Oh god where do I even begin.
>The game was delayed by four years. Advertised as coming out in 2012 but instead came out in 2016 to backers.
>No open play testing because the devs were worried about leaks and criticism. It was leaked twice and most of its criticism was never fixed.
>The two lead devs though they were God's gift to the gaming industry and 3e was a divine gift with no flaws. They were recently fired.
>The stretch goal promising cool art resulted in art that was mostly a mixture of semi plagiarized art, unfinished art, and art that looked like shitty 3d porn.

And from the exalted thread.
>>52942539
>1. They unwisely published some provocative material (the infamous Abyssal "Rape Ghost" charms), although the internet reaction was, as always, more than it merited.
>2. As a result, they clammed up and refused to divulge any information at all.
>3. They underestimated their time frame by an order of magnitude (and no, that can't all be explained away by health issues from one of the devs)
>4. They refused to offer any concrete timeline as to when anyone would get their books.
>5. The devs were dicks to fans (the "bad rules you think you want" comment being representative)

As I said lets hope Eclipse Phase 2nd edition doesn't end up a clusterfuck like Exalted.

>>52942668
>(the infamous Abyssal "Rape Ghost" charms)

Do I want to know?

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>>52942668
>As I said lets hope Eclipse Phase 2nd edition doesn't end up a clusterfuck like Exalted.

Even the worst case scenario seems relatively mild compared to that. This was already in production and they have a solid timeline, with plans for digital versions to be complete by GenCon (in August), and playtests to begin to backers a week after the KS launches.

The only real problem I have with them is Singularity, and that seems like some amateur fuckup garage developer telling them "hey any developer that's not a complete idiot could do what you want, easy" - which is *true* - and then neglected to mention the part where they're a complete idiot. Which sucks, and is absolutely their problem...but it seems to be a problem that's limited to them being bad at buying software (a lot of otherwise good companies have this problem) and not indicative of broader failing.

>>52942870

Honestly, they seem kind of like they're going to obsolete the point of Singularity by making character creation inherently streamlined in 2E - I feel like the demand for such software tools was only so high because the original chargen was so fiddly, with options expanding across many books. It wasn't difficult, but it's the kind of thing which would be annoying to do say, in the moment without needing to dig through a few pdfs and scribbling lots of notes.

For luddite plebs who don't have access to ctrl+f PDFs and online character sheet sharable documents at all times - all hail internet tabletop

>>52942792
Abyssals are the default evil exalted. This is from their 3e preview.

>Soul-Feeding Fascination: The Lover’s apprentice can drain her victims through sexual intercourse. The deathknight may choose a resource to sap from her victim: draining willpower also prevents the target from using willpower at his next Decision Point; sapping health boxes temporarily adds to the Abyssal’s health track, while reducing her victim’s—victim also suffers a penalty on rolls to resist illness or derangement. The Abyssal can also tap her target’s motes, temporarily lowering their permanent Essence by 1

>Frozen Watchfire Embrace: Sometimes the Lover’s apprentice has nothing but time on her hands. Other times, she
is simply tired of playing with her toys. This Charm allows the Abyssal to conjure lascivious specters from the echoes of the void, to set upon a paramour she has inflicted with SoulFeeding Fascination. These wraiths will attempt to ravish her target while taking the form of the Abyssal or past acquaintances of the target, sapping the victim as per the rules of
Soul-Feeding Fascination.

>Carnal Shadow Resurrection: When the Exalt has completely drained a target’s health by use of Soul-Feeding Fascination, she can trigger this Charm to turn her victim into a creature of darkness that must pursue sexual gratification in order to survive.

They're actually thematic for charms based on the Deathlord known as the Lover Clad in the Raiment of Tears.

>>52933530
>>52933570
>>52933673
>>52935618
Aaaaand it's the former. They are scummy.

>>52942998

Well, they didn't hit x2 yet, so saying they hit a milestone would have been a little cheap.

>>52942960

Ah yeah that's not really that bad. Seen weirder. Definitely the sort of shit most people give you weird looks over the table for though.

Like, "I don't want to sex people to death anymore, I'm going to summon some angry ghosts to do it instead" is a really awkward turn in a conversation.

>>52943101
They're not angry ghosts, they're horny ones. Whether that makes it better or worse is debatable.

It's also totally the sort of thing that the hyper-elite would get up to.

>>52943101
>Well, they didn't hit x2 yet, so saying they hit a milestone would have been a little cheap.
... You serious or joking? 2x the funding goal shouldn't be the FIRST stretch goal, that's just being greedy. They could at least give something insubstantial after 150% of funding goal, but no, they choose the scummy route.

>>52943149

>"Attack, my robot hooker minions! Sex my enemies to death!"
>The oligarch exits stage up, via a helicopter, laughing madly

>>52943149
Technically, is everyone in EP a horny ghost? I mean they died, exist as ephemeral information, and "Sexuality has also expanded into new frontiers and taboos . With basic biomods providing contraception and protections from STDs, casual sex is the norm."

>>52943188
>"Don't worry guys, I'm sleeved into a Jenkin. I'll handle this!"

>>52943179

I mean, stretch goal #1 is "we pay all the freelancers working on this project 10% more", that's pretty generous here.

I think just sucking your backers dicks because you hit an arbitrary milestone isn't really worth it they're already getting a reward and if you don't plan on funding completely in 5 hours and probably hitting 200% within 48 hours. You have to cut people some slack when they're more successful than planned. Additionally, they've had problems with delivery of stretch goals in the past - I'd prefer if they kept it lean if they're actually gonna deliver on any of this shit before 2020.

>>52943242

>Fist full of Alpha in one hand, fist full of Hither in the other.
>Prehensile tail holding a sprayer full of Slip, just in case.

Open Playtest should go live May 5, which means they have enough of the rules done to be confidently playable a week from now. I wouldn't worry.

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New to this game. Getting to character creation.

I want to create a super old geezer whose basically been around since our time in real life, but left Earth a long time before the Fall to go do whatever on his own, private habitat. He regularly yells at intruders to get off his habitat. What background would that fall under? Isolate?

So what exactly are the pros and cons of still having physical morphs, or even biomorphs, in spaceships? I know this is like a meme question to ask but I missed that conversation and the archives aren't giving me anything.

I'm dead serious about asking this. Why would I not simply have the crew of a ship be all informorphs, saving costs on life support and living quarters?

>>52946847
You need to either bring morphs with you or have some at the destination if your passengers don't want to stay infomorphs, and physical bodies find it much easier to do maintenance than infomorphs with access to waldos.

You could have everybody be swarmanoids or flexbots and just put the other morphs in storage.

>>52946847

Pros: Hands

Cons: Air

>>52949526
>>52946847

Also, in a more serious tone environmental/life support tech in EP is pretty advanced and stable out of necessity, some basic maker units or a more conventional air and water scrubbing system would probably be relatively cheap and low mass compared to the volume of say, cargo a Bulk Carrier would move.

>>52945585
Dunno, "Original Space Colonist" seems fitting too.

>>52946847
Or just be sleeved in a synthetic morph. No need for life support, and depending upon the morph, minimal space requirements.

>>52910966
Hit opposing protestors with a bike lock from behind while wearing a mask, then run away like a coward immediately afterwards. ;)

>>52950601

Well, the space requirements thing is a weird area anyway. The standard issue repair and maintenance drone is a medium sized bot - which means any area designed to be accessed even by AI or teleoperation from across the solar system would need to have enough space for a normal-sized morph to work with.

They hit 70k BTW

Sup /epg/ I am not precisely new to the system but not 100% savvy are asyncs still trash? And did they ever fix the sanity mechanics?

>>52923101
> A crowdfunding which is a crowdfunding and not a presell
What a bunch of scammers...

>>52943208
>With basic biomods providing contraception and protections from STDs, casual sex is the norm
>STDs and Pregnancy are the main barriers to casual sex
Man, I really don't think these people understand sexuality outside of their immediate experience very well.

>>52919985

Yeah man. I'd love to play a game where all the players feel like being a robot is weird and killing themselves is pretty fucked up just to become a different body.

I mean IRL are you gonna take the chance you die like in SOMA or just get copied? That's fucking crazy!

>>52952985

Well, I don't remember how well it's presented in that particular section - but I think in context the idea is casual sex is the norm over longer term relationships, because "til death do us part" doesn't work for most people anymore. Or at least, is not planned to. You don't hedge your bets based on mortality.

But, you never know, that'd be something to discuss with some kind of sociology expert. Give a couple decades for the technology to percolate, suddenly there is no more "don't get teen pregnant or AIDS" concern, see if people get more open about just banging.

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>>52949962

I suppose, yeah.

So far, I've created a character with an Aged, Unattractive Flat morph. My Faction choice would give me a free skill in Networking, but I deliberately left it off, so he has no Networking skills, and no Rep whatsoever.

I also specified that he has no Muse. Doesn't trust him. He's aware a lot of his stuff could be automated by said muse, but writes his own simple programs to take care of this stuff anyway, because fuck AI.

All his attribute scores are 15, so nothing special about that. He only has the base amount of money needed to do his job.

What he DOES have is 99 in every skill relevant to hacking, including Academic skills in Computer Science and Cryptography.

I plan on making him talk like an obnoxious millenial would today, constantly dropping ancient memes.

> "Lol thanks senpai ECKS DEE!"

>>52953099
I think people would be more likely to get in "Until we grow apart" relationships since sure, mortality doesn't really bind you anymore. But the idea of "casual sex is the norm" implies a lack of monogamy, which doesn't fit with the emotional needs of a diverse set of people. Would more people in the EP universe fuck casually? Totally. Would it be the "norm"? I doubt it. If anything, there's interesting room for exploration of transhumanism in relation to long term relationships. How many times have you wanted to change your body or personality to suit your partner's needs or desires? What if you could actually DO that through resleeving or psycho surgery. Your annoying tics? Gone. That unsightly body hair pattern? Gone. The capability for someone in a loving relationship to LITERALLY change who they are for the person they care about and the ramifications of actually being able to get exactly what you want out of a relationship is interesting writing space, and I hate to see it wasted.

>>52955048
>I plan on making him talk like an obnoxious millenial would today, constantly dropping ancient memes.

This is only acceptable if you also make sure to talk like an old bugger, make your voice as stereotypically old as you can.

>>52955756
Outside of a scum barge or cluster I figure there is a distribution. Belling up in the middle and tapered to either end.

At one extreme you have asexuals and non-gendered things, just doing whatever they do, or rather don't do. And then a rather broader central group of "normal" people who tend to serial monogamy or trio arrangements. Just past this would be the many-partner groups, heinlein-style line marriages and pods and clusters. The far-end extreme would probably be some kind of wackadoodle habitat with hundreds of egos in matching male and fem morph sets where everyone is John or Jane or something? People be weird, yo.

And then Scum. on a different chart entirely. because scum.

>>52955756
>I think people would be more likely to get in "Until we grow apart" relationships since sure
As opposed to what other kind of relationships? By definition any relationship ends either in death or breakup - backups and resleeving make "death" all but impossible, so all you're left with is "grow apart" as the end condition.

>>52955756

Well, this could be an issue of definition. The author's intent by what is meant by casual sex could be different than us readers, or a academically accepted definition.

Presuming people who start relationships are interested in fucking, why don't they? It's pretty intimate sure, but also supposed to be entertaining. But, we have societal hangups about the investment. But, if there's 100% reliable risk-free sex, why does that hang-up exist? It would entirely be based on other intangible and outdated cultural mechanisms. Because I don't think "can't kiss before the third date" or anything has a biological foundation - and if it does biomods might remove it. In a society with different risks, different resources and different limitations, different behaviors are promoted.

So maybe casual sex is monogamous. You see somebody, you like their body, you like their personality, you wanna bang. You can bang. Maybe it goes somewhere past that maybe it doesn't. And hey, if it doesn't work out now, maybe it'll work out and come back around again in 5 years. 10 years? 100 years? These are cultures who will have to adapt to the possibility that they are functionally eternal.

But hey, not my field of expertise, I'm just throwing darts at a board here.

>>52956549
Do you think people would keep having children after the first set?

>players track down a Seed AI only to realize it's using most of it's unbelievable computing power to simulate the entire solar system, players included
>players realize that they themselves might just be a simulation within the real AI simulating this one
>have to contend with either shutting it down and potentially killing themselves or trusting that they are the "real" versions of themselves.

Good plot or too fatalistic? If the players do turn it off they realize they are in fact the top level but still.

>>52955048
Wait, can you take Genius multiple times?

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>>52958362
>peace between worlds

>>52956524

Oh, that was totally the gimmick. He inhabits the original body he was born with, kept alive through years of treatments, but the age really shows, and it won't be long before's he's actually forced to get a new morph, or redo his old body so much that it might as well be new.

'Till then, he's an absolutely ancient codger.

>>52955756

I know, there is actually a lot of room to be explored in terms of monogmous relationships. Now that shallow concepts of beauty mean very little, what does love look like? Will more men turn 'homosexual' in the sense that they find it easier to be with 'male' egos in woman's bodies? Will there be a disproportionate amount of female morphs around? How is physical attraction effected when most everyone is attractive, and does this make people question whether getting into a long-term relationship is worth it, since finding your ideal-looking mate isn't a once-in-a-lifetime event, but actually quite likely?

When you meet someone you really like, who doesn't feel the same way for you, you can quite literally change yourself into someone they do want. How will that effect how relationships end up forming? Will people be expected to change themselves for others, or are people expected to respect personality traits and whatnot?

EP has so many fascinating consequences for all the technology it introduces.

>>52958481

Can you? It seems implied that you can't but if so, it would be amazing if this character was literally the one to write the book that built the foundations of modern computer science.

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Apparantly there are no games of this on roll20. So, I'll have to run one, despite not really knowing what I'm doing.

Any takers for an online game over roll20?

>>52958749
When would it meet?

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>>52958786

Sundays or Mondays, probably.

>>52959170
At what time?

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>>52959279

See, you're making me realize I broke my own rule: whenever you're setting up or applying for a game, always list the times of availability.

Anytime on Monday would work great. Sunday would have to be in the afternoon or evening. I'm in EST, so I'd prefer to not have people from Europe, as their times tend to work poorly with American ones. Aussies would be welcome, though.

A little surprised they didn't hit 80k yet.

>>52957873
To your question, a question: Is the only purpose of a relationship to produce offspring?

>>52955756
Are we talking actual diversity or pink-haired hipster diversity?

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> that feeling when you are Jovian and wake up in your house, next to your perfect white blonde wife, and make your way through the fields of farms to the lab where you will spend the day designing basilisk hacks to purge Solar system from software simulations of human mind gone wild

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NDjt4FzFWY

>>52950601
>Or just be sleeved in a synthetic morph
Get ready to become a puppet for some hacking wiz kid.

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>>52963485
>white blonde wife

>>52962348
Clearly not. Doesn't mean people won't though.

>>52919985

You might like Transhuman Space for that then? It's not as heavy on the wild posthuman technology, but it's a lot more balanced in how it treats competing ideologies and religions.

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>when you are Jovian soldier and capture some transtrash and start crushing crushing stacks in front of their eyes with you certified steel US baseball bat
Those simulacra make all kind of funny noises

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NkfY4F-jvY

>>52967173
Squad tactics aren't taught in bootcamp.

>>52967401
That doesn't mean that someone who knows squad tactics wouldn't also have closely related memories of bootcamp though.

>>52964258
>Those simulacra
I see you're now using the plural form correctly. Rock on.

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>>52967173
>Art skillsofts
>Profession skillsofts

You can't have skillsofts of Knowledge skills (for some reason).

>>52892726

Only a few thou away from stretch number one, currently exactly 1,100 backers.

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So I'm about to GM a game of this, and reading through all the lore and such to familarize myself with the game. I know the core book says it's full of bias from the article writers, and should be taken with a grain of salt, but I still have a few problems.

First, racial and ethnic bias being gone. Bullshit. There are almost certainly going to be old boys networks of white supremacists who were naturally born white, and still believe that whites are superior. Same with other races.

Fuck, I bet there would still be racists for whom, even if someone transferred into a white body, could never truly become white.

So bullocks to that.

Second, Christinaity dieing. LOL. Good joke, m8. I can easily see the Fall being interpreted as the literal Rapture, with the sinful being purged, and the faithful being taken up to heaven. All the logical fallacies in that probably wouldn't sway them. Even then, I could still see Christianity stubbornly surviving on.

>>52977263

Cultural and sociopolitical identity is way more important than racial or ethnic ones. While some of the Lunars still remember the scrapes and scuffles of the nations past most people in the remaining population centers of the Solar System are immigrants all of a particular time period, and national identity has typically been left in the dust on the Cradle. Racial identity is also so ludicrously easy to fake in EP there's almost no purpose in it. "racial" culture doesn't really exist, that's an illusion. Your group would have to be so insular and paranoid, they'd never amount to anything - which is the primary concern of the setting, letting you know what moves and shakes people.

Also, "white supremacy" and the like is chump change to serious eugenics groups like the Ultimates. You tell a remade he's worse off because he's brown, he'll break your genetrash ass in places you didn't know could break.

Think of it as further welcoming to the "future". The shit you think is a defining aspect of the human struggle is ultimately chump change. The desire for man to fuck over his fellow man doesn't need to keep wearing the same face, it'll change with the time.

>>52977263
My personal beef is that it's the Catholic church rather than some sect of Islam as the Jovians. It betrays the writers bias when it comes to which religion gets thrown under the bus of progress.

>>52977263
>>52977638
Besides, theres still some ethnic-based conflicts happening; some towns in the Martian outback are kinda like urban Hawai'i when my grandpa was growing up; the Chinese, Japanese, and Okinawan populations arent exactly getting along peacefully

>>52977718

Yeah, this is kind of my point - if you take a macro scale view of the setting, racism in our world view is small potatoes, people have shit like flesh vs steel and the fact that sapient AIs and Octopodes are wandering around among many other things to fight over.

That said, I think conflicts like the one you describe do have nothing to do with appearance inherently, in a corp town on Mars all those people might be Red or Silver instead of anything else - the issue is that they still think of themselves as the cultural units such as Okinawan or Japanese - just like I'm sure you'll find some Brits and Irish people squabbling in some dank corner of the System too.

>>52977695

Well, if it wasn't the Jovians who were Catholic, we'd still have a boat load of them wherever the South Americans ended up. And they would have ended up somewhere, I'm pretty sure the northern end of the continent is a great place to slap a Space Elevator.

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>>52977638
>>52977828

D-do you not understand how racism works?

White supremacists don't see race as just skin color. It's who you are, and always will be. Of course they're still going to hate anyone who isn't certifiably white - born to white people, bred from pure white genestock (without any additions from other races), etc.

People would probably go full-autist over that stuff, and found their own habitat, where everyone is 100% racially white, where they live out some wet fever dream of 1950s America.

Your response to my making this statement was that there are other, more serious affronts to racial, and even human purity. There most certainly are. Do you honestly think the fact that there are even bigger questions as to what constitutes the ideal human will stop people from being racist?

>>52977695

Yeah, for some reason the designers decided Islam would become somewhat secular, and end up surviving better than Christianity. The game designers are apparently the type of idiots to believe that because a bunch of sandpeople being angry and blowing things up for a few decades, that somehow makes them relevant.

>>52979447

Okay, so a few thousand idiots hole up in an asteroid. Why should the game note this? People who actually matter because they're in large population centers are busy being bigoted against synths and AIs and shit. And their racial purity is still like extra illusionary.

Like society is already a construct, this is an additional contrived layer which is made meaningless by the setting. There is no actual way to distinguish between the real and the fake

>>52977263
>Fuck, I bet there would still be racists for whom, even if someone transferred into a white body, could never truly become white.

What you are describing is biological realism. Simply put there are enough differences to speak about separate groups rather than one human race.

>Cultural and sociopolitical identity is way more important than racial or ethnic ones
That's a very western POV(or even Americanized).
While USA is a new country and tries to be a melting pot(not for long now though, it is already failing) the concept of nation is holy to most people on Earth.
Serbs, Poles, Czechs, Japanese define themselves as nationalities first based on their ethnicity. A black person can become Polish or Japanese citizen but will never be considered in these countries for a true Pole or Japanese

>>52979447
>White supremacists don't see race as just skin color. It's who you are, and always will be. Of course they're still going to hate anyone who isn't certifiably white - born to white people, bred from pure white genestock (without any additions from other races), etc.

There is no "white nationalism". It is something invented in America. German Neo-Nazis or British nationalists for example don't care about Poles having white skin color.
The idea that there is some unifying identity based on skin color is exclusive to USA, and maybe to some Western countries. In Europe the main differences are national and ethnic.

>>52979645
>. Why should the game note this?
It notes small habitats all the time.

>>52981040

Mind you, that also applies to 'Black'. You don't find people from Africa and aboriginal people clustering and declaring they are the same people in Australia for example.

>>52977695
>My personal beef is that it's the Catholic church rather than some sect of Islam as the Jovians.
Is Islam widespread in the Titanian Commonwealth ?
Might be useful to re-write TC in more dystopic way, and include mandatory preferential treatment of Islamic citizens for past "European white injustice" as part of its policies. Also Titanian officials giving negative reputation to anyone who researches European culture, history or national identity.

>>52977263
>>52977695
>>52977858
I find it odd that we're expected to believe that the Jovians would be Catholic because of Latinos. In Latin America Protestantism and atheism are both increasing, so if anything the Jovians should be as atheist as everyone else or at least mostly Protestant, considering they're a merger of a North American nations (largely Protestant) and South American nations (growing Protestant in the future).

And for that matter, what exactly has allowed Buddhism and Islam to thrive? Is there any explanation given for this AT ALL?

>>52981040
I think the Identitarian movement in europe can be viewed as a white nationalist movement. Haven't looked into the movement further, but that's the general impression I have.

>>52964258
>when you die at 40 from a disease that was cured decades ago everywhere else

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yLOVrFQPxA

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>>52981134

Sort of. The book notes that religion in general has seen big declines. My rational is that the writers of the book are progressive hipster pukes who have a hard-on for buddhism because it's "spiritual" without having a God or strict sense of authority. Or they just saw that Buddhism has been standing the test of time in real life because of said dipshits who want to be "spiritual".

As for Islam, I think that's just the writers letting their real-world views in. Because some sandpeople have caused a lot of trouble in recent years, that somehow means they're become relevant in our brave new frontier.

But if you're looking for an actual explanation for these things, no, they only say that for Buddhism, its philosophy fits will with modern life, and for Islam it 'adapted and even became more secular'. Because hardcore Muslims are ever going to let their religion become secular.

>>52982280
Well, the neo-Buddhism described in the books is basically some kind of hedonic utilitarian tech cult. Intentionally staying in Samsara isn't really Buddhism.

I always figured the less crazy parts of Islam ran away to space pre-fall and were disproportionately likely to survive, but that may not be a satisfactory explanation.

Personally I generally ignore the bits on religion, because religion and transhuman make for a cool mix.

>>52982280
>for Islam it 'adapted and even became more secular'. Because hardcore Muslims are ever going to let their religion become secular.
Given the resource depletion described in the pre-Fall history section of the corebook, presumably the Saudis lost a lot of their wealth, and with it, their ability to spread their Wahabbist strain of Islam.

Also most of the more extreme ones probably got hit the hardest by the TITANs along with all the other national militaries.

>>52981134
IMO, the capacity for the rich and powerful to become effectively immortal pre-fall is probably a big influence on the effectiveness of maintaining religion. Imagine if Ayatollah Khomeini was able to live as long as his considerable wealth and power would let him. What would Iran look like today? All you need for Buddhism or Islam to thrive is for someone pre-fall to use charisma and cult of personality to gain early resleeving and then be able to consolidate and maintain their power base effectively infinitely.

>>52984378
That said, Buddhist thought does seem kind of compatible with some kinds of Exhumanism/posthumanism, who have found liberation from selfhood and seek to show the rest of Transhumanity nirvana.

>>52984378
>I always figured the less crazy parts of Islam
lol

NPC File 2 cleared, they have announced the next set of goals.

At 100k, Your Whispering Muse Series 1 will be published, a block of 8 short, 4-6 page topics which seem more slight of life, like "top 10 beautiful sights in the Solar System" or "Zero-G" fashion.

And then at 115 k Freelancers get a bigger bonus.

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>>52986884

>>52977263

Third Coming Christianity is mentoned in the books, as are the celibate snythmorph christians.

>>52988239
>Third Coming Christianity is mentoned in the books, as are the celibate snythmorph christians.
Where if I may ask ? Especially the synthmorphs are interesting.

>>52958362
I'm struggling to understand how something can simulate itself in such a way that shutting down the simulated self will kill the real self.

>>52991798
It simulates reality 1 to 1. So if they shut it down in the simulation, it is exactly the same as what they do in the real world.

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>>52992254

>>52958362
If you don't shut it down, you're going to spend the rest of your life worrying about it. Better to pull the plug and find out.

>>52992278
Come now anon, this is fractal hyper-science. It literally simulates every subatomic particle in the entire universe 1 to 1, thus allowing it to simulate itself simulating itself infinitely.

>>52992254
Ah, now I get it, kind of writes you into a corner doesn't it? If they are real, and they turn it off then job's done and go home, and it's possible players don't grasp the enormity of their choice (like I initially did). If they are part of a simulation, then that's the end of your campaign, possibly (if they don't grasp what's at stake as above) seemingly totally out of the blue, or you can there transition to the real universe, which may be a little anti-climactic and wastes a bit of potential.

I think it's a good plot idea, but it'd have to be a one-shot, or the very end of your campaign.

>>52892795
I did that as well.

>>52958362
If they are well-simulated, then simulations will act the same way as the 'real' level hardware person.

Simulation traps are cool, but for this reason they don't work on Jovians. You-who-are-simulated have faith in yourself and activate the thermite atop the doom AI, and therefore you-outside-the-sim will do the same thing.

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Hey look, more social justice nonsense on the Eclipse Phase forums:

http://eclipsephase.com/ep-and-disabled

>how can we allow for disabled characters to have representation in EP?

>I'm ambivalent, at best, to the prospect of a "cure."

>>52994680
Given how common enhanced vision on places like Titan anyone who doesn't have that would be disabled proportionately.

But it's like 250$ to get that cured, so disabilities don't really exist in AF10.

>>52995200
>so disabilities don't really exist in AF10.
B-BUT THEN HOW WILL THE DISABLED PEOPLE BE REPRESENTED?

>>52994680

It's a blind guy, quizzing the forums on what they thing disabilities are like in the future. Ambivalence is on specific part of their own disability - probably same as anybody else, most humans don't like being told they can be "fixed".

That said, both he and >>52995200 are ultimately right, barring something like neural damage, only way you'll see that normally is in a Flat or some culture deliberately blocking access to cyberware/healing vats for actual injury. It would not be common at all barring rare circumstances which probably wouldn't be pleasant.

>>52994680

People who want a disability as a fashion statement probably exist in some anarch outer colonies. Failing that, people can just sleeve into a sightless synth, there must be an echolocating or bloodhound uplift morph somewhere that doesn't rely on sight.

>>52995685
Well, there's also stuff like functional autistic people. Would they exist or not?

>>52995724
Botched psychosurgery could lead to autists still being around.

>>52995724

I think we've tried to have this discussion before, but from what I remember the most we could come to was that it's inconclusive.

It would depend entirely on where autism physically lives in the body - if it's all like, core consciousness sectors of the brain that's like a permanent neural damage - your Ego will bear the marks of it wherever it goes, though of course "neurodiversity" is a thing people argue over in the setting. At the very least, if it's a genetic root there should be no new cases of autism spectrum disorders unless you're having Flats or deliberately making it.

Oh, and like >>52995748 said psychosurgery is still terrifying - you could cause autism-like behaviors or effectively create it through personality, memory and behavioral editing though making big stuff stick permanently is very hard as per the rules anyway.

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A hyper-bright variant that has horns instead of fins for cooling. Y/N?

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Are all ultimates bald or do some have hair?

>>52996519
I think hair is useless => not needed on their morphs.

>>52995883
N if you're gonna masturbate to it. Otherwise Y.

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Heavy bioweave
body mods (perfect skin, hairless, larger eyes)
Uncanny trait
mute
Clean metabolism

Trying to find some extra traits for my character to better represent her, Uncanny is a strong one.

Im not sure if i should go with a biomorph or if i should go with a synthmorph (ala liquid metal; masked variant)

>>52996519
Probably go without considering their worldview.

They might have a vestigial stubble/fuzz depending on how refined their genetic code is.

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>>52996519

I think the Remade is hairless by design - so that's certainly the aesthetic.

>>52896057
>Faster Chargen
>A good thing
Welp, rip in piss EP. You were fun. Too bad you'll now become le rules lite shit.

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>>52964258
>When transtrash has a recent backup

>>52995883
N, not enough surface area

>>52987026

Kind of surprised nobody seems to have any opinion/thoughts on this.

>>52995685
>most humans don't like being told they can be "fixed"
>tfw you have had crippling depression since early childhood and would do any heinous deed to pay for quality psychosurgery
If your disability defines you in such a fashion as to make the prospect of living without your disability a violation of your person you're an idiot.

>>52987026
>At 100k, Your Whispering Muse Series 1 will be published, a block of 8 short, 4-6 page topics which seem more slight of life, like "top 10 beautiful sights in the Solar System" or "Zero-G" fashion.
Oh good, more useless wankfic that can in no way be used to generate actual game content.

I wish Posthuman would write less fucking novellas and more adventures. This is an RPG, not a sci-fi franchise.

>>53008980
I mean, I sort of get it. I see disabled people who don't want to be "fixed" in the same way I see people who don't want cranial computers or entoptic implants.

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The book says basic biomods 'impede aging', but then one sentence later say they make you 'largely immune to aging'.

I'm guessing this means it just takes longer for the years to show on you, but what ratio are we talking about here? 2:1? 3:1? More? Does someone just look like a 20-something during all their time? Do they start looking older, or do they start resembling some ageless creature after a long while, due to the healing effects of the other biomods?

This actually important for me to get a hard answer on for an upcoming game, so any input is appreciated.

Hey /epg/, are there any announcements or plans for fluff/background updates?

>>53009357

See >>53009041
>>52987026

>>53009041

If you have to rely on pre-made adventures to spell everything out for you, and can't work off plot hooks based on fluff, maybe you need to get a different hobby.

Also, why the fuck should PS cater to you, lone gunman, this is the sort of stuff people are clamoring for all the time they want to know what basic common shit even is in this setting so they can better interact with it. You know, what that "RP" stands for in RPG?

>>53009326

The ratio would not be clear. You'll have to just make that up.

But both Flats and Splicers can take the "Aged" trait, meaning they can be old enough that they are physically impaired. Obviously, with both biomods and rejuvenation this probably takes a long time but age eventually catches up without a relseeve.

Other models of morph haven't been around long enough for people to really get "old" in them on the same level as anything else - but mechanically they don't get the aged trait (though via lifepath, if you're really old you can have reduced aptitude on the Ego). IIRC, the fluff says that the current generation of Exalt+ quality morphs should be functionally immortal - old age will never hit them, but none of them have actually existed that long to be certain.

>>52892726
Can someone give me a quick run down of the setting, I'm always looking for new RPGs to dabble in.

>>53009065
It could be a "transabled" thing where people think they shouldn't have a hand or functioning eyes or legs. Those people do need psychosurgery.

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>>53009768

>>53009879
You have my attention

>>52995723
Sensory deprivation fetishes in 10AF, spicy.

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>>53012005

>>52921092
Except that's the opposite of what he said.