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clockworkjoe posted:I wrote up the centaur morph. Are any of you contributing to the playtest discussion over there? I've posted a few times but some of the people seem to ignore any posts that counter their arguments. Cognitive dissonance? Anyways this week I was going to sleeve characters in some of the Transhuman morphs and see how that goes since everybody in my group is attached to their egos.
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# ? Apr 8, 2013 07:57 |
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I have just finished creating my first EP character. This was so, so painful. What have I been doing to my players?
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# ? Apr 12, 2013 07:51 |
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KillerQueen posted:I have just finished creating my first EP character. This was so, so painful. What have I been doing to my players? you're not using the spreadsheet are you?
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# ? Apr 12, 2013 09:08 |
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KillerQueen posted:I have just finished creating my first EP character. This was so, so painful. What have I been doing to my players? Yeah, that's why the system is a bit horrible.
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# ? Apr 12, 2013 09:13 |
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Any chance either of Transhuman's alternate chargen systems are going to be faster?
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# ? Apr 12, 2013 09:18 |
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KillerQueen posted:I have just finished creating my first EP character. This was so, so painful. What have I been doing to my players? Now you know why we were so enthusiastic about playing more EP. Sunk cost fallacy.
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# ? Apr 12, 2013 14:08 |
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clockworkjoe posted:you're not using the spreadsheet are you? TheDemon posted:Now you know why we were so enthusiastic about playing more EP. Sunk cost fallacy. I'm sorry. Though, to be fair, I totally encouraged using the pregens at first, so I'm not a bad person. Yeah.
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# ? Apr 12, 2013 15:33 |
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Ettin posted:Any chance either of Transhuman's alternate chargen systems are going to be faster? This might be one of those things that makes me delay actually starting and running a game for
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# ? Apr 12, 2013 15:36 |
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KillerQueen posted:Yeah, it's pretty difficult to work with though it did end up teaching me more about the system. I did not know the hard limit on trait points was 50 for negative and positive before last night, I do now! It doesn't help that my version of Excel apparently hates the workbook. I actually like character creation for the characters it produces. The worst part by far is, in my opinion, gear. There's a god drat massive list over multiple books and figuring out what's basically essential, what's good, and what's useless is a pain. If you're using the spreadsheet, it's no better, because nothing there explains what each thing does. And of course if you die you lose it all, so you need to be economical too. That's part of the reason why I play a programmer in both games so far, because I have an excuse to have a massive collection of blueprints and can go hog wild spending all 100 cp worth of credits without risking losing it all later. Skills... eh, not really so bad given that you can pretty much never be short of points. Everything else, not that bad at all, unless you're min-maxing attribute points to save you the maximum you can on skills. I don't really see why there's trouble with ego/morph attributes/morph bonus either, that part is pretty clear.
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# ? Apr 12, 2013 16:23 |
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oh hey look at this an alternate character generation system for eclipse phase http://eclipsephase.com/alt-chargen-packs-draft-1-open-discussion
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# ? Apr 17, 2013 02:21 |
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e; whoops, wrong thread. Content:clockworkjoe posted:oh hey look at this an alternate character generation system for eclipse phase http://eclipsephase.com/alt-chargen-packs-draft-1-open-discussion This is a far more approachable system than the default one. It's a shame it does so by shoehorning the characters into a number of fixed concepts, but it's not like you can really do it any other way given EP's rule system. Lemon-Lime fucked around with this message at 08:26 on Apr 17, 2013 |
# ? Apr 17, 2013 08:22 |
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Nice they have a brawler aptitude template. Don't see any way to get the Reaper though.
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# ? Apr 17, 2013 08:35 |
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Ryuujin posted:Nice they have a brawler aptitude template. Don't see any way to get the Reaper though. You might just be able to swap in some of the specialized morphs for CP, then buy the Reaper with that.
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Lemon Curdistan posted:e; whoops, wrong thread. Content: It's a fairly good start on a quick creation system, but missing Gear is god drat huge. Even considering they are going to introduce gear bundles, gear should really be part of the PP packages from the get-go, because certain items really enhance certain aspects of certain archetypes. Gear has always been my biggest time waster making EP characters, too, since the list and mechanical effects are all in paragraph descriptions. Actually, gently caress, why am I posting this here, time to give them some feedback. TheDemon fucked around with this message at 15:50 on Apr 17, 2013 |
# ? Apr 17, 2013 15:46 |
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Incidentally, because I have a predilection for making comparisons between media, I connected today's Schlock Mercenary with Eclipse Phase. The two characters in the given strip are a pair of infomorphs. One was a battleship control AI, the other ran a holographic boy band. It also shows what can happen if you have to swap out of a favored morph.
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# ? Apr 18, 2013 09:27 |
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I thought this was a pretty cool way to integrate the neat aspects of EVE into a future Eclipse Phase. Definitely well thought out and a cool way to kind of turn EP into Traveller. http://eclipsephase.com/eclipsed-eve
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# ? Apr 21, 2013 00:24 |
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Transhuman Kickstarter is up: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/507486226/transhuman-the-eclipse-phase-players-guide
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# ? Apr 24, 2013 07:47 |
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clockworkjoe posted:Transhuman Kickstarter is up: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/507486226/transhuman-the-eclipse-phase-players-guide Oof, $80 is far too much for me for a book and shipping. Guess I'll back for the .pdf and wait until it appears at my FLGS before picking up a physical copy.
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# ? Apr 24, 2013 09:04 |
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gently caress, the Enabler tier at $1000 still gets hit with $30 shipping outside the US? I'm gonna hold off for a while and see if any new $100+ tiers get added, all the awesome ones got taken right away
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# ? Apr 24, 2013 09:33 |
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The stretch goals are too weak to really matter, especially for a $20 tier where it flaunts "all the extras!" when the extras are already in the pdf book (which is creative commons and free anyway) for $10.
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# ? Apr 24, 2013 13:36 |
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Fenarisk posted:The stretch goals are too weak to really matter, especially for a $20 tier where it flaunts "all the extras!" when the extras are already in the pdf book (which is creative commons and free anyway) for $10.
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# ? Apr 25, 2013 00:35 |
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Grim posted:I guess they are planning on having more extras once the first few Stretch Goals are met but just haven't announced anything yet? Here's hoping, as they're on track to double their initial funding target before end of day today. It's a good thing this game gets the attention it deserves.
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# ? Apr 25, 2013 01:14 |
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Grim posted:I guess they are planning on having more extras once the first few Stretch Goals are met but just haven't announced anything yet? well they just announced a new stretch goal - "we're also announcing the third, unlocked at $30,000: a 15% raise for all freelancers working on Transhuman. Our creative team has been amazing, and we want to reward them for their hard work making Eclipse Phase a beautiful game to both read and play!" I'm all for that.
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# ? Apr 25, 2013 05:05 |
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Are you and Caleb counted as Freelancers for your work on the traits? I'd be happy to kick in for that, i think Know Evil was worth paying for.
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# ? Apr 25, 2013 05:33 |
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Calico Noose posted:Are you and Caleb counted as Freelancers for your work on the traits? I'd be happy to kick in for that, i think Know Evil was worth paying for. Yup!
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# ? Apr 25, 2013 07:44 |
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What are features you'd want to see in an Eclipse Phase app?
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# ? Apr 26, 2013 06:52 |
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Map of the solar system with all the referenced habitats and the map shows the time and moves properly based on whether you are ego-casting or travelling by ship from place to place and also free Unicorns forever
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# ? Apr 26, 2013 08:39 |
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black metal hugbox posted:What are features you'd want to see in an Eclipse Phase app? Character creation and management, with easy resleeving and ego backups.
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# ? Apr 26, 2013 09:59 |
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Grim posted:Map of the solar system with all the referenced habitats and the map shows the time and moves properly based on whether you are ego-casting or travelling by ship from place to place and also free Unicorns forever Don't forget it calculates that based on dynamic positions based on the date. But yeah, what Flavivirus suggested would be pretty great.
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# ? Apr 26, 2013 11:10 |
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black metal hugbox posted:What are features you'd want to see in an Eclipse Phase app? Even as someone working on a *world EP hack I would pay $10 for an app on my iPad that is a dynamic character sheet that does all the math. Something like a pretty version of those character excel sheets.
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# ? Apr 26, 2013 13:36 |
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Flavivirus posted:Character creation and management, with easy resleeving and ego backups. This, this, a thousand times this.
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# ? Apr 26, 2013 13:42 |
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Fenarisk posted:Even as someone working on a *world EP hack I would pay $10 for an app on my iPad that is a dynamic character sheet that does all the math. Something like a pretty version of those character excel sheets. Yeah, the excel sheet actually does have a spot for other morphs where you can switch between them and it recalculates your stats for you. I haven't toyed with it because swapping bodies is for suckers so I dunno how effective the sheet works it.
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# ? Apr 26, 2013 16:22 |
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Because I was in bed like a stupid idiot from the wrong time-zone I missed out on the new $175 + $300 tiers, but there are still a couple of $500 left... Edit: ...and done, now my dreams of an aspergers cuttlefish will be finally realized! Grim fucked around with this message at 22:59 on Apr 26, 2013 |
# ? Apr 26, 2013 22:53 |
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RPPR's Know Evil campaign just wrapped up on their actual play feed! It was a hell of a ride to listen to, if you're into Eclipse Phase and actual plays give it a listen.
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SageNytell posted:RPPR's Know Evil campaign just wrapped up on their actual play feed! It was a hell of a ride to listen to, if you're into Eclipse Phase and actual plays give it a listen. Thanks! Our Fan Creation contest has resulted in some great pictures, stories, videos, and songs http://slangdesign.com/forums/index.php/topic,1625.0.html
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# ? Apr 30, 2013 04:11 |
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Yeah, Know Evil is basically the only reason I became interested in Eclipse Phase and pledged money in the Transhuman kickstarter. I'm glad it got above the $30K mark so Caleb and Ross got a pay raise.
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# ? Apr 30, 2013 04:34 |
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Now that I have enough of a connection to listen to podcasts without spending hours downloading them ahead of time, I've started on Know Evil and goddamn if it hasn't made me want to run a game for my friends.
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# ? Apr 30, 2013 08:20 |
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SageNytell posted:RPPR's Know Evil campaign just wrapped up on their actual play feed! It was a hell of a ride to listen to, if you're into Eclipse Phase and actual plays give it a listen. Know Evil and the previous RPPR podcasts that introduced Bartleby are simply fantastic. Caleb's campaign really is a tour de force. My favorite quote that sums up the campaign nicely: quote:(After a jaw dropping battle and Jason failing an intimidate roll)
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# ? Apr 30, 2013 10:02 |
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Donated 100$ and unlocked the 50k mark. Feels good mang.
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Barrakketh posted:Donated 100$ and unlocked the 50k mark. Feels good mang. Also I think in light of all the Furry talk on the Eclipse Phase forum I'm not gonna put together an Uplift afterall, maybe just base it on an old Infomorph I played - if anyone else has super-rad ideas though I will totally steal them!
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