Eclipse Phase: SCUM Coming to Kickstarter Sept 16th!

SCUM Launch Graphic reading Sept 16

Our long time collaborator Davidson Cole has spun up a new board game company: Moose With Cup Creative, and their first title is SCUM: An Eclipse Phase Board Game — a standalone board game. It’s launching on September 16th, and we’re excited to show you more: Let’s hear directly from Davidson!

SCUM on Kickstarter — Sept 16th!

A week until Eclipse Phase: SCUM launches on Kickstarter . Nerve-wracking and thrilling at the same time. It’s been a whirlwind two years of crunchy game dev, no-brainer artistic decisions (“Should the Neo-Pig criminal broker have a pompadour?” “Of course he should!”), and our usual injections of narrative flair (what other board game offers threat cards like Mass Basilisk Hack or Polycule Breakup Crisis?).

If you haven’t followed the Kickstarter page yet, we would really appreciate your support. The larger the number, the friendlier the algorithm on launch day. As most of you probably already know, the first 24 hours of a crowdfunding campaign are critical to its success, so if you are planning on supporting us, an early backing would be amazing.

SCUM Character Pack

We have a little free treat for all Eclipse Phase players — the SCUM Character Pack for Eclipse Phase Second Edition featuring all six playable characters (Berk, Killjoy, Pivo, Poly Genic, Qi, and Zym Riz), from the Eclipse Phase: SCUM board game plus scum fixers Elis and Pompadour Pig.

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The Scum Must Die!

Our reward tier The Scum Must Die! will include not only the SCUM board game but a brand new 24-page Adventure Framework titled— you guessed it— The Scum Must Die!

The adventure framework is based on the narrative of the board game: an investigative romp through a Scum swarm loaded with vibrant and shady NPCs, very lethal pillars of conflict, and all of it leading to a showdown with the mastermind behind the conspiracy to obliterate the entire swarm from the solar system.

But … we aren’t going to hold your hand through this one: There will be multiple potential masterminds (just like the board game) and how your players move through the scenario will determine who they will ultimately face down!

SCUM Must Die! cover

Watch the Tabletop Vibes Video

Take a closer look at Eclipse Phase: SCUM with the preview video from Tabletop Vibes!

See you next week!

We'll have more about Eclipse Phase: SCUM next week in time for the campaign launch!

Eclipse Phase Second Edition: Reprint in Stock + Digital Updates

The Eclipse Phase Second Edition reprint is now in-stock in our web store and ready for stores/distributors to order! It's a great-looking reprint with one change in form: there's one ribbon bookmark (black) instead of two ribbon bookmarks.

Beyond that, we've integrated a bunch of corrections and touched up some sections visually/organizationally.

Eclipse Phase Second Edition

Of course, we've also updated the digital versions — the PDFs of the following titles have been updated:

Whether you get your PDFs from Posthuman.Shop or DriveThruRPG, those updates are free to you. On Posthuman.Shop visit Your Account to access previous orders with downloads, and on DriveThruRPG check your Library!

Eclipse Phase Character Options: PDF Available!

The greatly-desired Second Edition updates to the Morph Recognition Guide and Transhuman’s Lifepath Character Creation system are now available as Eclipse Phase Character Options!

From the edge of the sun to the far reaches of the outer rim: create the character you’ve always wanted.

Physical copies are being shipped to BackerKit supporters in the coming weeks, and the digital version full of hyperlinks and bookmarks and morphs and morphs and morphs is on sale now:

And here's a couple looks at the hardcover version!

Lifepath Character Creation pages

Lifepath Character Creation

Morph Recognition Guide pages

Morph Recognition Guide

Print Pre-Orders

Step on over to the BackerKit pre-order store to get your print copy as soon as possible!

Character Options & Eclipse Phase Second Edition (reprint) Pre-orders!

The Character Options BackerKit campaign will start fulfilling next week, and we've opened up pre-orders for anyone who didn't support the original campaign!

This includes Character Options and a reprint of Eclipse Phase Second Edition! After the original Character Options campaign, demand for the core rulebook jumped and so we’re just about ready to reprint — the core rulebook is being updated with corrections and a few graphical touchups — the same great Second Edition made a little better!

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As always, when we release the updated digital version it will be free for everyone who bought previous versions, and we’ll also be rolling out a wiki-based version of the core rules + a little bit more at that time.

Pre-orders will be open for a limited time, so jump in!

Posthuman Studios Gen Con News: SCUM and Mind the WMD

We’re back from Gen Con 2024 — it was great to see so many of you at the show. For those who weren’t there, here’s the news and a new Eclipse Phase PDF release!

SCUM: an Eclipse Phase Board Game

We're making an Eclipse Phase board game and it's set on a SCUM SWARM — Get Your Ass To Mars to be precise. This project has been brewing for a while and we are finally able to share what we've been working on with our amazing community!

SCUM is a collaboration between Posthuman Studios and Moose With Cup Creative, a new tabletop publisher started by one of Posthuman’s co-owners Davidson Cole. SCUM will be Moose With Cup Creative’s launch title in 2025.

MWCC has their own newsletter and we encourage you to sign up to get the most detailed news from the swarm! For bite-sized visual news, head over their Instagram.

Mind the WMD: Resleeved

Mind the WMD: Resleeved is an adventure that brings the Scum swarm Ecstatic Metamorphosis to life. From the swarm itself and then onto Mars it provides many investigative routes, including options for entering the TITAN Quarantine Zone. The PDF is available now on Posthuman.Shop and DriveThruRPG!

Mind the WMD Resleeved cover; a humanoid in a spacecraft cockpit

A great scenario for starting a Firewall campaign or inserting into an existing one, Mind the WMD: Resleeved leaves plenty of dangling threads at the end that can be used to tie into a longer campaign. It is also tangentially connected to the Eclipse Phase Second Edition opening fiction, Infamy.


Mind the WMD: Resleeved is a 32-page PDF + 3 detailed battlemaps, each available in multiple versions, perfect for playing the scenario on a VTT. These maps are our first collaboration with Miska’s Map — let us know what you think!

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One more thing…

We’ll be back in your inboxes Very Soon with an update on the Character Options BackerKit campaign, and perhaps some more resleeving. See you then!