Eclipse Phase

Get the free stuff.
https://robboyle.wordpress.com/eclipse-phase-pdfs/

Eh. It's a reasonably neat setting but the writers are very...left. And it shows. The system is alright if a bit lackluster but really it's the setting that people come to EP for

>>54022205
>https://robboyle.wordpress.com/eclipse-phase-pdfs/
In what ways?

>>54022108
Thanks this is awesome.

>>54021965
The setting is nice, but the devs insist a bit too much on anarcho-communism.
Other than that it's a good game, the second edition is supposed to come in august with a more streamlined character creation (the open playtest is free on drivethrurpg).

>>54022598
In the latest version they removed one of the major factions because they didn't want people to play fascists.

>>54022682
Wait, did they remove the Jovians or whatever they were called? To what extent?

>>54022682
thats fucking lame. making an entire arc of facists out of spite now.

>>54022682
They removed the Jovians?

>>54022682
Yeah, 2e is self-inflicted idiocy from a perceived backlash towards their beliefs.

I wish the Ghost in the Shell conversion was completed/updated...
https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?675751-Ghost-In-The-Shell-Conversion-for-Eclipse-Phase

>>54022733
The Ultimates, not the Jovians.

>>54022789
In that case, are the Jovians still being used as a general scapegoat for the authors to take all of their real life frustrations on?

>>54022682
That's literally wrong though

The politics in EP are like "muh deep, character driven stories" in WoD. Everyone besides the writers ignores them and just fucks around with superpowers.

>>54022911

Then what's the literal truth?

>>54022992
They got removed from the basic list of factions, which is pretty meaningless because a faction is just a motivation and 1 skill now because people kept fucking them up. The devs made a vaguely snarky comment which *triggered* foolish people on the internet though.

>>54022849
From what I read, some positive light has shone towards them. The big bogeymen are now the Ultimates.

>>54022789
Who were the Ultimates?

>>54024683
PMC philosopher kings that want to steal the solar system's wormholes

>>54021965

A shit game for shit people.

Also a ripoff of Transhuman Space with psi and a lot of tumblr and angst added.

>>54025047
>A shit game for shit people.
Well shit anon, care to explain why?

>>54025047
yeah seems pretty fun to me with a lot of room for fun ideas to play around with.

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>>54025047
The issue with both settings from a tech level and politics perspective is that Transhuman Space tries to much to play it safe on both fronts, resulting in setting that is in a word, beige at first sight, but inoffensive and somewhat nuanced on further inspection
(ie the Japanese aid workers that drop in from orbit). Eclipse Phase on the other hand, goes a bit nuts on both fronts which leads to a setting that is very interesting, but has a) way too much going on, or b) is too damn political (all the metaplot hooks that will inevitably go to waste, early Jovians). You can see a similar problem with Degenesis

tl;dr TS is hard to get into, but has a lot of interesting potential for campaigns on further inspection, while EP is has a better hook, but can sometimes get bogged down in its craziness.

>>54024818
If they didn't want people to play fascists they shouldn't have made them so interesting

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>>54026195
And that is why Im ignoring the dumb "ultimates are an X-Threat" metaplot thats happening and replacing them with Rortrians.