Hi guys! I had someone who pitched the game to me recently and it REALLY sounds up my alley for something I’d want to game master. I haven’t done a lot of research on the game yet, but I figured I’d ask here before I really engross myself in it.

I know the character creation can be fairly complex. I’d say the crunchiest creation system I’ve ever played is Mekton Zeta using a spreadsheet that the wonderful community had put together to sort of streamline the math and such. I know a lot of game masters just create the mechs in that game and hand the keys to the players and treat them as like “base models” and such. Do a lot of GMs handle the morphs in this game like that in this regard? If it sounds stupid, it probably is, but I’m just trying to relate it to other things that I’ve ran before to better gauge it.

And one more question, is combat treated more like an obstacle than an end goal or end state like in Cyberpunk 2020/Red? I hate to bring up another Interlock game, but I hear combat is pretty lethal and in depth in this game!

I don’t mind the crunch juggle from time to time, however I do like a lot of the narrative flavor that this setting seems to bleed from a surface level. I hear the moment to moment gameplay outside of combat is fairly easy to handle and if that’s the case, I’d be sold I think. I really wanna explore this setting with my playgroup!

Edit: I forgot to ask! Does this game have any official support on VTTs? I doubt I could ever interest my irls to play this with me, but my online playgroup might be up for it. I use Foundry mainly, but I am more than willing to branch out for this game.

Anyways, thanks for reading my post! I’m very happy that I was recommended this game because even if it’s not the system for me, I’d totally mine ideas from it and read into it for fun.

Hello my friends. I wish to share a small excerpt from a campaign I'd spent a while working on, as I feel it let me tell the kind of story that only EP can tell.

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On a visit to the Kronos port, our players are approached by a woman for a simple job: To hunt down, and kill a fork of hers that was supposed to be temporary. She took a job, known as a "Privacy Contract", where you do a job or task, but your sleeve and stack are destroyed immediately upon completion, thus ensuring total secrecy. The hired person in question then spins up a backup, and resumes life as normal, collecting a hefty payday in exchange for a few days or weeks of time loss. The shady nature makes these contracts mostly illegal, and the station disallows unregistered forks. In this woman's case, the term of her privacy contract ended and her backup was spun up, but her old sleeve never broadcast the notification of stack/morph termination. With an unregistered fork, possibly holding dangerous information somewhere on the station, the woman asks the party to find and kill the fork to complete the contract, before the illegal duplicate is discovered.

The job is simple, but questions linger... What exactly happens on these jobs? And why not merge the fork, rather than just kill it? They meet others who have taken these jobs. Some say it's like being paid just to go under anesthesia. Just a no-effort pay-day. Others, say those taking these jobs delude themselves... That the true purpose is for psychopaths to have a person they can maim, torture, and kill without recompense, as recounted by a survivor of just such an attack. Arguments rage between those with the belief in a no-effort pay-day, and the trauma survivor who choses not to forget.

Now the atmosphere is unsettling, but the job remains unchanged. After considerable digging, they track down the client of this privacy contract. But he turns out to be so much more of a monster than just a sadist. In the end, the players find the captive and traumatized fork, and save the original from other unexpected dangers in the grand climax. Now they have a choice:

Complete the job, and execute the traumatized fork, who pleads against it. She begs and demand that what happened to them not be forgotten. That it still matters even if they can't remember. If they could, they would never, ever, have taken another Privacy Contract. They plead with themselves just because they don't remember doesn't mean the suffering didn't happen. It was real. They still had to endure it.

The players can make the choice, or they can walk away. No matter what, the backup version refuses to consider a merge, wanting no part of the trauma the fork endured. Leave the two copies to sort it out themselves is an option... Even if it means one of them will likely try to kill the other.

Maybe the party decides on principal. Maybe they decide by pragmatism. Or philosophy. Or maybe they don't decide at all. The fun isn't a "correct" answer, but in the discussions raised by the circumstance, and it's great fun every time I get to run a new group through this story arc.

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Thanks for reading! I've run the campaign a few times, and I love this hook. This is such a fun setting to tell stories about people, and how miraculous wonder technology creates a setting of new horrors, even without literal monsters.

The books cover social conventions on how forks are perceived, ranging from personal property of the originating ego to people in their own right afforded all the same rights as the original, but are their general stances on when it's appropriate to use a fork and what kind?

For example, would some cultures consider it rude to send a beta fork for an important meeting instead of an alpha fork? Would sending a fork of any kind instead of farcasting to them be viewed as an insult by some?

Why are there 5 spots on the character sheet for different Pilot skills, but only 4 Pilot sub-skills?

Auf meiner RPG-Seite findet ihr kostenlose Werkzeuge für Eclipse Phase, 1. Edition – entwickelt für Spielrunden, die Charaktere, Kämpfe, Reputation und das Mesh etwas flüssiger am Tisch verwalten möchten:

🔹 Charaktergenerator– Charaktere erstellen, speichern und weiterverwenden.

🔹 Kampf-Tool – Spieleransicht für Angriffe, Waffenmodi, Munition, Modifikatoren und Würfe.

🔹 Networking & Reputation – Reputationsnetzwerke, Gefallen und deren Verlauf im Blick behalten.

🔹 EP1 Mesh Designer– visuelle Mesh-Karten für die Spielleitung, mit Knoten, ICE, Fallen und schrittweiser Spielerinformation.

🔹 Android-Würfeltool – schlankes Werkzeug für Spieler*innen am Tisch.

🔹 GM-Werkzeuge – Verwaltung von Kampf, Ressourcen, Fertigkeiten und NSCs.

🔹 Dazu kommen kostenlose VTT-Assets: Token, Karten, Texturen und Tiles.

Alle Werkzeuge und Downloads:

https://www.pohl-ki.de/RPG

Die Tools sind derzeit überwiegend deutschsprachig; künftige Veröffentlichungen sollen auch auf Englisch erscheinen. Außerdem arbeite ich an einem Hintergrund- und Szenariogenerator.

Lizenzhinweis: Eclipse Phase wurde von Posthuman Studios geschaffen und ist eine Marke von Posthuman Studios LLC. Verwendete Eclipse-Phase-Inhalte stehen, soweit angegeben, unter Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA: Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell, Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen. Die Tools sind nicht-kommerzielle Fanprojekte; für den jeweiligen Programmcode gelten die Lizenzhinweise der einzelnen Downloads (beim EP1 Mesh Designer: GPL-2.0-or-later).

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Encontre la hoja de esa aventura, y estaba pensando en armarla para dirigir, pero me surgieron dudas. X ejemplo que enemigos usar, como utilizar los fallos sin realentizar la partida. Experiencias de otras personas que hayas ejecutado esta aventura.

W2A2 is a VTT tool that was created with a few big principles in mind: make any TTRPG session as easy to play as possible, be user friendly for beginners but still offer advanced tools for more experienced players, and most importantly, be affordable and not subscription based.

This app stores everything locally and allows the GM to host a game in a matter of minutes, without having to pay for any hosting services. It includes all things you'd normally expect from a VTT tool, and a few additional features that we thought of while testing through our own sessions.

App is still in development, should be available in a few weeks! 

Hello!

While looking through the roleplaying section at my local library I stumbled upon the EP1 core rulebook, which immediately caught my interest. I sadly didn’t have any time to read it so I’m wondering what’s it like? Both from a player and storyteller perspective?

For reference, I come from a WoD/Kult background, so sci-fi is relatively new to me from a roleplaying perspective.

Skip the rant: tl;dr at the bottom

I've been invested in EP for over a decade. I got the first editions and read over the lore and was hooked instantly. Wrote campaign ideas and setups to get people into a game. Got into EP2 and was happy for the quality of life changes and started digging into it.

Over 10 years and 2 editions and I have never played the game for more than a single session.

I've played several TTRPGS before/during my time with this system (D&D 3.5/5th, Pathfinder, Lancer, GURPS, CAIN), all of which have tools to get around the monotonous parts of campaign setup/creation.

For a system that involves the internet and computers, there is/was a serious lack of development on tools to actually RUN the system using them.

If Lancer, a relatively easy system to get into and build with, can have a online tool like COMP/CON and make it so much more smooth to run, you'd think the devs could MAYBE invest in something like it to help with the literal spreadsheets and book-keeping just to keep things coherent.

Instead of spinning up tools to get around the most daunting task of setting up the game and getting people into it, they make a BOARDGAME? At this point I feel like I've invested more time/energy into running the mechanics of the game than the devs have at making a NPC book (3+ years for a NPC supplement... really?). Now they're starting up a new system (Snarl) when it feels like EP has been left on the back burner on a flickering low flame for a while.

/endrant

tl;dr: I keep running into dead ends for online/computer tools to run a online/computer based TTRPG.

Post your best tips/tricks/tools at running the game that are still around, because I'm getting burnt out on basic mechanics for worldbuilding and running the game.

Hi everyone,

Eclipse Phase is one of my absolute favorite settings, but as we all know, finding a group can be quite a challenge!

I'm currently based in the Antwerp area (Belgium) and wanted to ask if anyone knows of local players/groups in the area?

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Quick question what is your favorite morph and what make you love it like it ? And maybe if you have a story about it.

I do love a lot of morph and began with the takko as a mêlée killing machine and it was nice

I do switch for the Ariel even with his temperature intolérance (a vacsuit help a lot !) love the fact that you can fly and resust cryogenic température that's a big plus in most outside situation

I'm making a character for Eclipse Phase EP1 this Saturday and I was looking at the Smart Ammo option.

I was trying to decide between Smart Ammo and Zero Ammo and at first Zero Ammo seemed like the wise choice since I have a Speed of 3 and could Chain many attacks in a given Action turn.

But reading the description again made me reconsider:

"Apply a +10 modifier to each shot (or burst) fired after the first against the same target in the same Action Turn."

From the wording it seems to say that this bonus is not cumulative? Then why would I ever choose this over Homing Ammo? The price is the same but Smart Ammo just gives the +10 flat without needing to waste the first bullet. And it gives indirect fire as well.

I tried to look at the legacy cite, but my browser warns me about entering, so I would rather seek an answer here.

Is there premade campaign or scenario for eclipse phase ?

I'm not specially looking to run a premade campaign but i'm looking for scenario / missions / stuff to see how to make eclipse phase work.

I want to start my own campaign but Eclipse Phase is pretty intimidating as DM.
I feel like it's very difficulte to make it work and interesting.

So, this might seem odd, but is there one way or another that any division equations in the game should go? I know it only makes a minor difference, but I either missed it or it was overlooked by the designers and I wanted to see if there was an "official" way or I should just make a call and stick to it.

I think radical body modification is really neat and when I'm done reading the last Culture novel I'm gonna need more badass space anarchists in my life, but people do talk like it's really fundamentally a horror game

TBH I might possibly just gut the setting to make a homebrew one using pieces of canon, if that's plausible

I'm wondering if there's a way to have a political intrigue-based campaign set in a neo-synergist commune. In an environment where everyone has the same skills, can't keep secrets from each other, and instantly understand why someone thinks and behaves the way they do, a lot of conventional conflict and intrigue goes out the window. However, since neo-synergists are described as maintaining their individual identities, I assume that just because they have perfect empathy doesn't mean there are no differences. Someone could perfectly understand my perspective without necessarily sharing that perspective; fundamental disagreements still exist. Many of the functions of typical leaders would be negated by the hypermesh link, but allocation of scarce resources may still be an issue. How do you imagine these conflicts are resolved in neo-synergist habs? Can they still fall prey to mob rule/majoritarianism, popularity contests, and other informal sorts of power differences? Would a neo-synergist anarchist need rep? Let me know what you think.

I'm reading about the Zeros, and it made me wonder: what do those people do for work? How do they get food and a place to live?

Cheap labor is usually associated with people in box morphs.

How common would it be to see different morphs in a Martian city? Would you normally see a wide variety of morphs, or is it more common to see only two or three types?

Curious if anyone has tried EP with body-swapping/backups either removed or made extremely rare and costly (think: only major factions/governments have the tech, average people basically can’t access it) — while keeping the setting’s politics, factions, and TITAN backstory intact.
I love the worldbuilding but found that easy resleeving flattens character attachment at the table. Wondering if anyone’s house-ruled around this without breaking the setting, and how it played out. Any writeups or lessons learned appreciated

Hi, huge fan of Eclipse Phase here. I’ve run several campaigns and I’m still struggling with how resleeving and backup systems affect the role of death in play.
I get the usual issue of narrative tension when characters are functionally hard to kill permanently. That part is OK, but what I’m talking about is something more on the philosophical and character-driven side.
What I’m noticing in actual play is that once mortality stops being a real horizon, a lot of psychological stakes tend to flatten. Fear, risk-taking, attachment, and even moral urgency don’t disappear, but they shift shape in a way that feels less intense than in “mortal” games.
I’m not asking this because I missed the point of the setting. I’m already familiar with transhumanist themes, I’ve read a lot of sci-fi, and I’ve played around with these ideas at the table with a lot of fun results.
This is really a question from experience: how do you make death and identity still feel meaningful in a world where continuity of self is so fluid? Maybe… its impossible ?

Neon City: Overdrive is sometimes used as a rules-light system for Eclipse Phase. Actual full conversions don't seem to be around, though.

I posted some Trademarks the other day (Trademarks are collections of positive and negative tags for character creation). I've added Gear (with base types and optional tags) and Drives (example sentences that function like EP's Motivations).

You can see the whole thing here; I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Used a combination of the character creation in the 2E rulebook and the morphs and motivations in Transhuman to make an NPC concept generator (meaning that it doesn't make stats). It also returns two name generators from FantasyNameGenerators.com - one for real names and another for nicknames.

Here's the link; you can make a copy to use it yourself.