Eclipse Phase

Eclipse Phase, Second Edition Open Playtest

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plain-dealing-villain:

posthumanstudios:

The Eclipse Phase, Second Edition Kickstarter is going awesome! We’ve unlocked sweet stretch goals like Your Whispering Muse Series 1, NPC File Volume 2, and a raise for our freelancers!

Today’s update also brings the start of the Open Playtest, so check it out if you’re curious about the mechanics of EP2 and helping shape them!

Bay Area people! Anyone want to run a session of this? I’ll GM.

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#Eclipse Phase #the more you know #(note: I’m not in the Bay Area) #I’ve never actually played this game but the sourcebooks are a fun read #so I’m happy to hear there will be more sourcebooks

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(Note: I do not do pranks. In any case, I encourage you to check this thing out for yourself.)

Today I learned that you can download the entirety of Wiktionary onto your smartphone. Speaking as someone without a cellular data connection who likes her apps to be as self-sufficient as possible, this is so cool.

(The downloadable Wiktionary is about a month out of date at the moment, but Wiktionary-as-it-was-one-month-ago is a lot better than nothing, and quite a bit better than an offline dictionary that only defines English and can’t be stored on the SD card.)

If I had a larger SD card, I could even get Wikipedia! (Or rather, Wikipedia as it was ~3 months ago, but still.) (~18 GB for an imageless version, 50-something GB for the full copy.) So, while I currently still don’t get to have Wikipedia at my beck and call at all times, the problem is now merely “too little storage space”, which is much easier to fix than “how the fuck do you even download Wikipedia”.

I haven’t played around with it that much yet, but initial tests are promising. (I tried using my local copy of Wiktionary just now to double-check my usage of “self-sufficient”, and it worked fine.)

(A while ago I was reading the Eclipse Phase RPG sourcebooks, and at one point they mention a device characters can get that stores a local copy of space-Wikipedia, automatically updating itself whenever you have space-Internet access and providing you with Wikipedia-as-of-the-last-time-you-had-Internet when you don’t have Internet access. And I was like “Damn, *I* want one of those”. Turns out, you can pretty much have one of those.)

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#I mean there’s a lot of tech in Eclipse Phase that’s like ”damn I want one of those” #but that one stuck out because it seemed like it might actually be feasible at our current tech level #and indeed it is #give or take a live-update mechanism #(which might very well be the hard part) #oh look an original post #proud citizen of The Future #Brin owns *two* 2010’s computers now #the more you know #(the following category tag was added retroactively:) #101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers

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probablybadrpgideas:

You are one of the greatest authorities on the Fall in the solar system. Alas, no-one listens to your expertise because of your insistence on calling it “The Clash of the TITANS”

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#Eclipse Phase #I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog

Eclipse Phase PDFs

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ilzolende:

If you are a Tumblr transhumanist you should consider reading the Eclipse Phase PDFs (the horror themes are less pervasive than is implied).

If you are the sort of Tumblr leftist who hangs around with transhumanists, you should also consider doing that. They have multiple protagonist-y anarchist factions and other stuff that might be appealing. (I wouldn’t really know, all the politics stuff I have done has been through the [Redacted] Young Democrats (funded by [Redacted] Democratic Club) which are basically what you would expect from a group that does voter registration campaigns and owns a life-size cardboard cutout of Hillary Clinton, but the authors are clearly sympathetic to this stuff and it shows.)

[ulterior motive: I want to play Eclipse Phase, but I don’t want to be a GM, so I want to get someone else enthusiastic enough about this game to run it.]

Image description: Book cover with the title Eclipse Phase, crescent moon in between words. Subtitle: The Roleplaying Game of Transhumanist Conspiracy and Horror. Image is of a robot arm reaching out of a damaged space station to grab a rat-like humanoid in a space suit, but not as tacky as that description sounds.

Never played a tabletop RPG in my life, but Eclipse Phase has sounded interesting ever since I proofread a (sadly unfinished) story set in the Eclipse Phase universe, and I have heard that the game books are themselves an interesting read.

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#transhumanism #Eclipse Phase