/epg/ - Eclipse Phase General

>>53257275
>Your career choice will also determine your starting gear package
Oh neat, that helps people pick gear appropriate to their skillset and circumvents the problem of being a broke infomorph with godlike skills and stealing everything. Finally, a change I like. Of course, it's counterbalanced by Exotic Skill being "all the things we cut, plus a few niche things that would just be a specialty in another skill," but at least it's something.

Also, rest in peace INT + SAV + WIL checks.

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>>53257275

They also updated the game mechanics in response to feedback - notable "rest" is now "recharge" so you can be less butthurt and it explicitly says per 24-hour period, so nobody can be an asshole about how long a venusian day is.

>>53257808
>it took them a week to find Rest and replace with Recharge

>>53257836

Editing pass was on the CC section, pretty sure.

>>53257275

>Exotic Skill (Field)

Well, this is either the best thing or the worst thing - it probably depends on how big an assholes your players or GM are.

Also, you can clearly see the FATE version really rubbed off on them with the skill terminology.

>>53257936
And yet we still have three seperate skills for social interaction, and four for using the mesh.

At least weapons got condensed from eight skills down to two.

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>>53257275
>you can spend 2 CP to raise SAV by 1 point
>or you can spend 1 CP to get +5 on SAV tests

>>53258287
That might only increase the base aptitude tests, not related skills.

>>53259684

Yeah, it's kind of unclear - I hope that gets a bit more clarified in future revisions.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/507486226/eclipse-phase-second-edition/posts/1884590

So, sample of the music, a new stretch goal (which totally isn't a goal ) and talk of their plans for release over the next couple years.

Notable is the "Solar Gazetteer" release, possible "reprint" of Sunward and Rimward or just a locational focused release without maybe the tighter factional discussion? Crime & Coercion still on the block, and Space Combat also planned for 2018.

>>53259339
What does this one entail?

>>53262588
It's a module written by the guy who made the Lamia morph.

>>53262588

It's a gatecrashing adventure.

>>53262745

Solid meme

>>53258060
>3 skills is too many for social interaction

Are you serious?

>>53263635
Are you?

>>53263789

I mean, if you want to get minimalist, why need skills at all? Don't all 6 aptitudes cover everything?

>>53263811
How do you feel about weapons skills being condensed from seven down to two?

>>53263893

Me personally? I mean, I've stood on the side of the very fiddly and technical definition of keeping ranged weapon skills seperate, but if we're streamlining we're streamlining. I'll only be bothered if those fine technical differences don't carry over well into the classes of weapons themselves though it does seem like they still might. Weapon diversity is good for the game, it can keep the combat from becoming even more generic and repetitive.

Also it's still like three skills, Exotic Skill can cover really exotic/archaic weapons still.

>>53263967

What we should be concerned about with the combat system is what "armor piercing" means, as that seems to just be a quality of some weapons now. Because if it means "fuck you no matter how much AV you have" then that's probably gonna cause some issues. Like "why the fuck do I invest in armor if any srcub can just pick up a 2d10 Microwave gun?".

But that's yet another discussion we'll have to delay until the combat section appears.

>>53264039
And while we're on the subject, let's talk about E and K armor...

>>53264052

Well, it still exists, probably, as AV for various armors is listed with the /.

This is /probably/ good since guns are rolled into one skill - if you encounter an enemy with higher kinetic than energy you might use a weaker weapon which is resisted less and can do so without a skill switch. Again, unless AP is just really fucking good.

>>53264104
I suppose we'll have to wait and see how E and K armor is distributed. In 1E, if something didn't have equal E and K armor, it almost always had more K.

>>53264130
Looking through the listed starting gear and implants it looks like this is still true.
>>53264039
My guess is that it ignores half, but that's a pretty naive guess.

>>53264945
I think it's going to be like the new Delta Green. "Armor Piercing" will mean the weapon ignores flat value from the target's armor, probably 5 or 10

>>53265011
Oh yeah, that makes sense. I shouldn't sleepypost.

>>53265038
You can be forgiven for assuming Eclipse Phase wouldn't make sense.