Jerry G. on our Facebook page asked, "Any thoughts on how you would do a Borganism PC?" I really ought to be working on the opening fiction for Hotfix right now; thank science for this enticing distraction! So, to complement the GMing posts I’ve been doing, my first post on being a player… First off, …
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Brian G. asked this question on our Facebook page: “The *Glory* adventure refers to one of the NPCs as part of the ‘red market’ dealing in ‘red tech.’ I can’t find an explanation of what that means. Is it just ‘black market’ dealing in ‘illegal tech,’ or something more specific?” Sort of. It’s a concept …
Here’s the second in a series on running Eclipse Phase. Advice here is based on our experience running our own EP campaigns and shouldn’t be taken as a canonical interpretation of the rules. Hopefully it will be helpful to GMs feeling their way around situations that the rules don’t yet cover in detail. Someone on …
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So, Eclipse Phase is kind of a weird game. Explaining it to people unfamiliar with the game commonly provokes one of two reactions: The person’s eyes light up with excitement, and they say something like, “Wow, cool!” Then they start asking questions about the world, the mechanics, or whatever weird train of thought hearing about …
Questions and comments concerning our treatment of religion and old nation-states in Eclipse Phase have arisen in a couple of different forum threads. I’m going to try and explain the thought processes behind some of the decisions we made with the setting, so folks can at least understand a little more clearly where we’re coming …