Eclipse Phase Third Printing Update and El Destino Verde!

It's a busy day at Posthuman headquarters as we have two releases—and one of them is the latest version of the Eclipse Phase core rulebook, to coincide with the upcoming third printing. There are some slight rules tweaks, some visual touchups, new pieces of art, and the PDF itself is improved with many hyperlinks and layers, so you can create your own print-friendly version on the fly. Eclipse Phase at DriveThruRPG.com!

The third printing of Eclipse Phase is at the printers, and we will announce a street date for it when the books are in our warehouse and on their way to game retailers. If you are a retailer, we'll be providing you with some cool news about the reprint very soon!

Eclipse Phase first edition cover

We're also pleased to release the introductory fiction from the upcoming sourcebook Panopticon, El Destino Verde, by Jack Graham! It's the first installment in an ongoing story.

El Destino Verde cover

Enjoy the updated and new releases!

GMs: Posthuman Studios Needs You (or your fork!)

Calling all Eclipse Phase players and supporters—we need your help!

If you have ever game mastered an Eclipse Phase game you may be able to help us out. We have three major events coming up where we’d like the help of our GMs.

Gen Con
First we need GMs for Gen Con (August 4-7, Indianapolis, Indiana). This means that if you are going to Gen Con and would be interested in helping us out by running games please email Brian Cross, who’s coordinating our convention presence, at brian@posthumanstudios.com as soon as possible. For Gen Con we have already committed to running 20 games, a significant increase over last year. And Gen Con is really a place where we’d like to show off Eclipse Phase and provide an excellent experience for people who are new to the game.

GMs who sign up to help us out at Gen Con will be compensated by both Gen Con (see the official site for details) and Posthuman Studios willadditionally compensate our GMs with either PS+ products or cash payment at a rate dependent upon the number of games run.

Actual Play Contest
Next we want to hear about your actual play of Eclipse Phase for our blog. To that end we will be running a contest. Send us your accounts of your campaigns and the major player characters in 2000 words or less. We will review all of the entries and post the top four entries on the website which will then be voted upon by you, the community. All entries must be submitted to info@posthumanstudios.com by midnight August 1, 2011. The winner will receive a fabulous prize (TBD!) and will also get their campaign and characters written in to an upcoming Eclipse Phase book.

Other Conventions
Finally we want to know if you are running any of your own games at Origins, Gen Con, PAX or any other cons please let us know so that we can make an announcement here on the website and through our other venues. While we can only run a small number of games ourselves, we want to support other GMs running our games as well!

If you have any questions please contact Brian Cross at brian@posthumanstudios.com, via the site's message system, or leave comment in this blog post.

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Five for the Future 05-03-11

EP at Japanese Science-Fiction Seminar

If you happen to be in or near Tokyo, some Japanese friends are doing a presentation on Eclipse Phase at a science fiction convention tomorrow:

Hello Eclipse Phase designers and fans,

It's obvious and wonderful that our Eclipse Phase is becoming a beloved RPG world-wide, and its shock wave is reaching Japan.

On the evening on 3 May (JST), Japanese Sci-Fi writers and gaming scholars are going to do a presentation about Eclipse Phase at the public convention "Science-Fiction Seminar 2011" in Chiyoda-Ward, Tokyo:
https://www.sfseminar.org

The brave adventurers promoting EP are Akira OKAWADA, winner of the Sci-Fi Award in Japan, Dai KURAHARA and Michie SAITO, male and female scholars on gaming culture and history.

Though the presentation will be in Japanese, the presenters can also respond to questions in English. All EP fans and friends, regardless of sex and nationality, are welcome to the presentation to discuss fascinating points about this innovative game!

For more information, see these articles in Japanese on EP by "Analog Game Studies:"

https://analoggamestudies.seesaa.net/article/193901890.html
https://analoggamestudies.seesaa.net/article/183475700.html
https://analoggamestudies.seesaa.net/article/194779119.html
https://analoggamestudies.seesaa.net/article/198290624.html

If you want to contact the staff of "Science-Fiction Seminar 2011" with any questions: sfs-info@sfseminar.org

See at the convention!