Questions tagged [eclipse-phase]
For questions about Eclipse Phase, a science fiction post-earth apocalypse game with posthuman concepts. Humanity has spread to the solar system and is starting to reach beyond, and death is no longer a barrier to people as mind and memories can be stored in a variety of forms and bodies. The players' characters belong to Firewall, a secret, cross-faction organization that protects transhumanity from extinction threats.
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How do superior successes work in Eclipse Phase 2?
Re-reading the rules for Eclipse Phase 2, in preparation for a game that I'll be running for a group that is entirely new to Eclipse Phase, I saw this:
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How can I handle blown cover in a high-stakes game as a GM?
I will be running a high-stakes Eclipse Phase game in the coming weeks and I find myself anticipating a severe problem.
The scenario (The Devotees, for any EP players) is based on infiltrating a ...
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What Lore Changed Between Editions?
Now that the second edition of Eclipse Phase is out, I would like to know what bits of lore are different in second edition. I know most of it was meant to stay intact, but that doesn't mean that ...
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What Cannot be Nanofabricated From CHON?
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My campaign's party is situated on an habitable oceanic world (specifically Droplet), but away from civilisation. They have a Nautiloid variant, with the usual internal nanofabricator and an ...
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What are the Technical Characteristics of the Thrust Vector Mobility?
Various morphs and morph upgrades have or add the Thrust Vector mobility type, apparently sometimes also referred to as Thrust-Vector and as Vectored Thrust. But due to the way things are written, I'm ...
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What is the scope of Reflex Boosters' applicability (in terms of skills/action)?
The Stunt's effect description reads:
You can activate reflex boosters to
gain a +2 to physical actions where
enhanced neural speed and reaction
time come into play.
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Hyperintelligent Tactics
In a game of Eclipse Phase I'm planning, the players are likely to run into a TITAN Delta Fork (a small fragment of the mind of a godlike AI).
This Fork has very little access to tech (one or two ...
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How do I make my hacking narration more interesting?
I'm GMing Eclipse Phase. I can describe most scenes and put my player in the mood, but when it come to hacking I'm at a loss for words.
I try to concentrate on the impact of the outcome, but my ...
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How do you keep rewriting the sheet for a new morph from breaking play rhythm?
In EP, it is as easy to change your Morph as it is to change your car today. It is much more frequent for Firewall agents who have to travel across many environments and face various threats.
I use ...
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Hyper Linguist trait and character advancement
I have a character with the Hyper Linguist positive trait, ready to advance with rez points and interested in learning languages they don't know.
However, I've got the feeling the description of the ...
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Is permadeath even a thing in Eclipse Phase?
I have little time to prepare a Sci-Fi game so I thought I would ask for some help. I kinda love the idea behind Eclipse Phase but I can't see how a game without death can be a horror game and I kinda ...
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Did X-Risks change biomorph infection rolls?
So X-Risks is out, and does a lot to define the rolls to resist exsurgent infection. Some of these apply to info previously in core or elsewhere, particularly so for the below:
A biomorph exposed ...
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How to evaluate value of an object brought back from Earth? [closed]
I have sent my players' characters to Earth. Before they leave Earth, they want to take some rare artifacts to sell. I do not want to make them wealthy, just reward them for the work. Some of the NPCs ...
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Are you supposed to buy morphs with credits or CP? It seems cheaper with credits!
When creating a character in Eclipse Phase, I faced a question from one of my players.
We agreed that the first morph cost some CP (creation points), for example 75 CP for a fury.
When buying a second ...
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In the Eclipse Phase setting, is there a solution to continuity of identity? How does it impact the setting?
By continuity of identity I mean the classic teleportation problem: when you teleport, do you arrive at the destination, or do you die and your clone arrives? The problem being that no-one other than ...
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Can a AI/Muse control an animal morph?
I'm a a new DM at Eclipse Phase and was wondering if a AI or Muse could control an evolved animal.
I have a player who wants to play an evolved flying squirrel and an evolved gorilla that escaped ...
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How do you reconcile conflicting Transhuman Lifepath results in Step 3?
In the Transhuman method of character creation, Step 3 can be rolled multiple times if you get the split or fractured childhoods. What does that mean for your morphs? Do you just default to the last ...
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How much is undone by “Ignore your last roll on the Youth Path table” in Lifepaths Step 4?
On page 59 of Transhuman, of the many background events we have:
You fall in with the wrong crowd. Ignore your last roll on the Youth Path table and take the Street Rat package (p. 21) for the same ...
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Merging egos with stress and trauma in Eclipse Phase
I'm playing a two-ego hive-mind, where I basically keep two alpha forks active in two morphs with access jacks and mnemonic augmentations so they can sync up whenever they have free time.
The biggest ...
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Hacking the Muse (Why interrogate the transhuman if Muse knows it all?)
The Muse is a AI companion that assists its owner on every day basis. Often it does so from early childhood and knows it's master very well. It resides in master's mesh inserts and to be able to serve ...
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How do people swear in Eclipse Phase?
I wonder how should I play some hot-tempered NPCs when it comes to swearing. First, there are sex-based and ancestry-based insults but even that is slightly outdated because procreation is different ...
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How to ensure that players don't forget they're always in a microgravity environment
In Eclipse Phase, the default assumption is that there is virtually no gravity.
Indeed this is the default assumption in most hard(-ish) space scifi.
There are 3 places in Eclipse Phase that have ...
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Can I program myself to use Gunnery instead of any ranged-weapon skill?
One of Eclipse Phase's taglines is "Your Mind is Software: Program it."
but is it actually legal/reasonable in play?
Eclipse has a large number of ranges weapon skills:
Kinetic Weapons: Things that ...
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Small ships and interplanetary communications
It appears that there is no method of communicating over interplanetary distances for small ships in Eclipse Phase. A large radio has a range of 5000 km in open space (page 298), a laser or microwave ...
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Dodging missiles in Eclipse Phase
Is there anything a character can do when shot at with a missile/grenade? If said grenade wasn't set to explode immediately, they can try to catch it to toss it back (REF+COO+COO), or jump on it (REF+...
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How far away can my new sleeve be when I egocast?
When using an ego bridge to egocast a live ego (as opposed to a halted fork or backup), how distant can the target be?
Eclipse Phase p. 269 says:
In this case, during the process of uploading, the ...
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What book has prices for alternative muses?
In the Eclipse Phase core rule book,
there are rules for buying a muse.
It is listed with stats and a price in the section with other AIs like Vecheil AIs and Hacking (Kaos) AIs.
It notes that all ...
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Why is time-dilated simulspace not an I Win button?
First, a bunch of relevant quotes to set the stage.
What is simulspace?
Virtual reality overrides the user's physical senses and places them inside an entirely computer-generated environment ...
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Hacking into a mesh insert in Eclipse Phase
I've read the hacking chapter of the core book repeatedly, and while I think I understand how individual parts of the system work, I have trouble putting it all together.
Assume I'm walking down the ...
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Comparing package-based and traditional character generation in Eclipse Phase
Transhuman has introduced an alternative, package-based character generation for EP. It features a sidebar on the topic on page 13:
Note that this package system builds characters that are worth 1,...
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Muse Uplifts in Eclipse Phase
Is there any guidance in EP for a skilled programmer PC to eventually uplift their muse? This could of course have disastrous consequences... but i think a distinct part of Eclipse Phase is trying ...
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How are new Egos produced & taught in Eclipse Phase?
In Eclipse Phase, we know that AGIs & AIs can exist, but how about new Bio-Egos (for lack of a better comparison term).
In this question: How does Procreation work in Eclipse Phase? , some people ...
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Games based on Eclipse Phase's world and/or system
Are there any well developed, relatively successful, and - in your own experience - well playable, unofficial (and Creative Commons licensed) RPGs based on Eclipse Phase's world and/or system, as of ...
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What happens to rez points when you merge (alpha) forks?
This is a question asked on a french forum: http://www.black-book-editions.fr/forum/index.php?topic=3484.0
Let's say you have a fork (in particular, alpha fork) and you merge. The fork might have ...
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Do bonuses from cyberware and the like apply before or after the morph-imposed attribute maxima?
One of my players asked the above and the text isn't very clear. Reading the Improving Aptitudes section on p. 152 of the core seems to indicate as such.
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How likely would a character be to identify a Futura morph?
I have a player who is playing a member of the Lost generation and since we're just starting is required to be in a Futura morph. Part of the backstory I've laid out for the game is that the ...
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Are grenade attacks made against opposed Fray tests?
Do Throwing Weapons (by using a grenade) attacks require opposed 1/2 Fray tests to connect and damage enemies within the explosion area, like every other ranged attack?
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Justifications for the existence of cyberpsychosis
Several games (Cyberpunk, for one) have an effect like cyberpsychosis (defined here as "a psychotic aberration suffered by excessive users of cyberware"). Others, such as Eclipse Phase, consider ...
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How does Procreation work in Eclipse Phase?
How is procreation handled in Eclipse Phase? Given that morphs are highly interchangeable this heavily shifts the normal perception of how passing on your genetics would work. Also can infomorphs ...
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Rules for a play-by-post forum?
With my RPG group we decided to setup a private online forum to play in differed time together (and other reasons that are not the subject of the question).
Installing and setting the forum itself ...
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Do the mesh rules in Eclipse Phase permit the concept of a gateway node?
The hacking/interfacing rules for Eclipse Phase suggest that I can use a "disposable" ecto to cover my tracks when I'm doing something unscrupulous on the network. It suggests (but doesn't give clear ...
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Eclipse Phase and... the soul?
What is Eclipse Phase's take on the soul? Does such a thing exist in the game world? Are there in game debates about it (with factions opposing body switching and so on)?
If someone dies then having ...
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Availability of body switching in Eclipse Phase
How affordable is body switching in Eclipse Phase?
(Please assume I know very little of the game.)
How much does it cost relatively to switch bodies? Is it something available for anyone, or just ...
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What kind of SF horror does Eclipse Phase lend itself to?
Assume I know only the barest minimum about Eclipse Phase: just read a blurb or two.
What kinds of horror stories does Eclipse Phase lend itself to?
(What are the 'signature' horror elements of the ...
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When purchasing a robot, do I have to purchase an AI to operate it?
When I buy a robot (buying gear at character creation), does it come with a basic AI that knows how to operate the 'bot, or do I have to purchase the AI separately?
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How to effectively run a "Petal" trip or other dream-like sequences
A little background:
Eclipse Phase has a drug in the setting that creates a shared hallucinated experience among participants. These drugs, called Petals, are also designed to have some sort of ...
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What kind of Muse do you start with in Eclipse Phase?
In Eclipse Phase, the character creation rules state that every character gets a Muse for free. Later in the book it details multiple kinds of Muses, including one called a Standard Muse.
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Game-within-a-Game Cross-Genre Ideas [closed]
I've started running the starter adventure on Eclipse Phase. I have an idea for our first full-length campaign, but it's a little complicated. I need a (relatively) simple game to play the part of a ...
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High-Tech Dungeon Crawling in Hard Sci-Fi [closed]
I've started playing Eclipse Phase with a group of friends. Most of them have a Dungeons and Dragon history, and love getting magic items and such. I've already made up my mind to take the party on ...
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How to design a character in Eclipse Phase?
I'm a bit overwhelmed with all of the options available. We haven't run a full session yet, but the two test runs I've done have both revealed glaring holes in the character I designed using the book ...
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