At long last, we present to you the Eclipse Phase Quick-Start Rules! In This Game, Death Is Optional These Quick-Start Rules provide everything new players need to dive right into a game of Eclipse Phase. It includes a primer to the game’s transhuman setting, where future technologies allow people to digitally back up their minds …
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Peter Watts Needs Support
Science-fiction writer Dr. Peter Watts, whose writings were one of the inspirations for Eclipse Phase, recently had an unfortunate and alarming incident at the US border (he’s Canadian) where he was beaten and arrested without provocation. You can read his account of it here, and more about the situation and the support he needs with …
Art Preview: Another Bouncer
Sometimes projects just seem cursed. Take the Eclipse Phase Quick Start Rules for example. We originally finished it ages ago, with the intent of releasing it before the core book. We used some of the art we had lined up for it in the core book, however, so we opted to get that artwork replaced. …
Brian’s presentation from the IEET conference
As promised here are the slides for the talk I will shortly be giving for the IEET conference which you can, if you want, watch live here and which I believe they will be archiving. The talk is on how we (and you) can take some of the heavier ideas about H+ and spin them …
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Five for the Future 12-1-09
Concrete cloth Surveillance minicopters can’t be kept down Titanian seasons Quantum ghost imaging Implants that bypass consciousness … and liability