Unlikely, Transhuman Space lacked much potential for gameplay not totally centered around social stuff.

This is awesome. I love it.

Anonymous 2009/09/17(Thu)23:37 No. 2359 ID: 5a1906
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Balancing suggestions?

Elite

Enhancements: Access Jacks, Basic Mesh Inserts, Cortical
Stack, Cyberbrain, Mnemonic Augmentation, Enhanced vision
Aptitude Maximum: 40
Durability: 40
Wound Threshold: 8
Advantages: +10 COG, +5 REF, +10 SOM, +5 to two
other aptitudes of the player’s choice, Armor 8/8
Mobility System: Walking (4/24)
Disadvantages: Uncanny Valley trait, Social Stigma (Clanking Masses) trait
CP Cost: 70
Credit Cost: Expensive (minimum 40,000+)

I'm digesting the sucker now. I plan on running a mix of Magnum PI meets Mission Impossible on Venus. It's going to be grand.

The funniest thing I've heard about this is that, in the long run, the best body to have is a standard human one.

olol.

>>316233
most likely because computer viruses and stuff.

Eclipse Phase is pretty good as a concept, and the background fluff is amazing! The rules though, some of them are questionable. But as a setting and concept work, it is true genius.

Anonymous 2011/04/08(Fri)15:40 No. 6251 ID: f5c7b6
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>>1996

Not really. You could have, say, combat heavy games.

You just couldn't really have them in First-Wave nations, much like how in the modern day you don't have frequent bouts of murderous mayhem erupt in the streets. First-Wave is more for social stuff and stuff in the vein of CSI or so on.

If you wanted messy, combative shit you set yur campaign in 3rd-Wave nations, much like how pretty much all current-day wars, mercenary operations, etc. are set in our 3rd-world nations.

Or you did stuff in space. Space is serious grey-area shit in THS.

Fluff is good. Mechanics are terrible.

Needs a re-write.

>>316255
>>316243
Agreed, the background fluff for Eclipse Phase is great, and the fiction in the books is awesome (Sunward!) but the mechanics can fall flat at times. If you play with a really good group, you'll get some great mileage out of the game.

The mechanics just need a new system.

d100 and they way they've used it, is too complex for what they're doing. Some neat ideas in there, like faster reflexes allowing more actions, but again, they make it too complicated, and the more complicated it gets the worse the balance is, and Eclipse Phase pretty much throws attempts to balance out the window.

It's tempting to try and re-write all the mechanics myself, but I'm not sure I really want to invest into doing that...

>>316269
Again, if you play with a good group, it's awesome. Balance only comes into play when dealing with THAT GUY.

How did I know it was THAT GUY again...

What do you even DO in these kinds of games?

>>316463
Son, you never played an RPG before?

It's all about telling a story, except instead of gathering around grandpa and listening to him tell it, you get to join in the fun and create the story with him as you go.

>>316463
You can't play it like a video game dungeon romp, nor a tabletop skirmish game, that's for fucking sure. This isn't your dad's "fantasy wish fulfillment" gaming; this is the even-older-school "what would you do if ...?" speculative role-playing.

If you're stuck for how to GM a transhuman & postscarcity setting, you can always hit The Big List of RPG Plots.
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Big_List_of_RPG_Plots

Anonymous 2016/03/15(Tue)18:33 No. 11173 ID: 201f97
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I've had a lot of fun with Eclipse Phase. My current attention is focused on Mars due to the potential for mixing up cyberpunk and western tropes (with a layer of transhuman goodness and conspiracy).

Sorry for bumping an old thread but I LOVE Eclipse Phase. I have physical copies of the books. I've made like a dozen characters. I really REALLY want to play but I can't find a group. All my friends are only interested in D&D

EP looks really neat but unfortunately the two games I've been kind of fell apart more or less in the first session.

One, alas, was more or less due to the strain on the GM of arbitrating space-google and our team was... not very coherent. We had a megalomaniacal socialite, a stealth operative guy with no feelings (which made him very sad) who wanted to take his sniper rifle everywhere, a small annoying child, a psychic OCD space gypsy, Cortana and an octopus.

Unfortunately they couldn't all be the best character like the space gypsy.

>>6228
I'm trying to run Cowboy Bebop/Futurama in the vicinity of Mars, sounds like some overlap.

Has anyone tried the Fate hack of Eclipse Phase? I like the setting but feel the game system's really clunky.

>>11436
Yeah, it is pretty clunky. (especially combat is awful)

I'd like to give the Fate hack a try but haven't had the chance.

>Glad to see transhuman gaming getting some love. Hopefully it will spur Steve Jackson Games to release more Transhuman Space.

do not wat