Eclipse Phase

certain amount of time i think he would just become something far more other than human

we're going to discuss this at length whenever we talk about eclipse phase oh yeah it is an idea

of the setting um you know we really should just do that next we've hit shatter run we've hit cyberpunk it's like the next logical step I'll put it on the poll.

We'll do

Oh, totally.

The problem is you can't directly interact with the environment, right? But that's not that much of an obstacle, frankly.

Having played a lot of Eclipse phase, I know for a fact you don't need to have a physical embodied form.

It limits what you can do in some circumstances, but if you've got a net running aspect especially, you can quick hack things, you can negotiate, you can... use social pull there's a lot you can accomplish like being walked out of physical combat is not the worst thing because it's often the worst part of the session anyway hot take uh i think it's entirely workable to say nothing of your ability to inhabit like a cute little mascot robot and clambering like

And, uh, the world building is generally pretty ambitious.

Like, uh, you see hallmarks of that BBS setting to flesh out the personality of the world and the vibe of how Shadowrunning worked, uh, in specifically Eclipse Phase.

Like, it's, uh, carried on in this kind of sci-fi setting.

I am excited to talk about Eclipse Phase.

I actually reached out today to Posthuman Studios seeing if anybody wants to come talk to us about it, because-

Ooh.

Yeah, I'm, I'm a fan, and I know you're a fan, and we're ...

Yeah.

We've talked about it, we've talked about it enough

enoughAnother game I quite like, uh, Eclipse Phase, has morality that very much functions, like, quite explicitly as you are, are describing in Shadowrun, where there's this, uh, character creation conceit where your character has, uh, fundamental aspects of their being that they are either for or against.

And you get three.

And, uh, that determines a lot of your character.

Yeah, exactly.

And, uh, I, I think some of the most successful role playing game/settings are ones that communicate that the most clearly.

Um, the Eclipse Phase did a really good job of communicating that, I thought, and Shadowrun, Shadowrun eventually got there.

Uh, [laughs] it, it fumbled around a little bit, but it definitely got, it definitely got to a much clearer space by the time you get to third and fourth edition of Shadowrun.

[laughs]

Um, and, uh, I've done work for Eclipse Phase, Delta Green, uh, a bunch of other games.

Um, and, uh, I've done zines and scenarios and, uh, I have a Patreon where I release, uh, adventures and bonus podcasts and that kind of thing.

So yeah, RPGs, neat.