Eclipse Phase.pdf

The Roleplaying Game of Transhuman Conspiracy and Horror

Your mind is software.

Program it.

Your body is a shell.

Change it.

P R O G R A M .

Death is a disease.

Cure it.

Extinction is approaching.

Fight it.

C H A N G E .

C U R E .

F I G H T .

Produced by Catalyst Game Labs and Posthuman Studios

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PROGRAM.

CHANGE.

CURE.

FIGHT.

P R O G R A M .

C H A N G E .

C U R E .

F I G H T .

LACK

FACTIONS

THINGS CHARACTERS USE 124

Identity 124

Social Networks 124

Cred 125

Rep 125

Gear 125

Implants 126

Psi 126

Game Rules Summary 127

CHARACTER CREATION AND

ADVANCEMENT

The Hypercorps

ENTER

THE SINGULARITY ...

Psiclone

War Crimes

STARTING OUT

Union Busting

What Is A Roleplaying Game?

Political Blocs

What is Transhumanism?

Zbrny Limited + Conspiracy

Post-apocalyptic, Conspiracy, and

Horror Themes

Inner System Politics

Autonomist Alliance

But How Do You Actually Play?

Call for Solidarity

What Do Players Do?

Carnival of the Goat

128

Where Does It Take Place?

Socio-Political Movements

CHARACTER GENERATION

130

Ego vs. Morph

Neo-Primitivists

Where To Go From Here?

Out’sters

Character Concept

130

Terminology

Sybils

Step-by-Step Guide to Character

Creation 130

Choose Background 131

Choose Faction 132

Spend Free Points 134

Spend Customization Points 135

Purchase Gear 137

Choose Motivations 138

Example Motivations 138

Final Touches 138

STARTING MORPHS 139

Biomorphs 139

Pods 142

Synthetic Morphs 143

Infomorphs 145

TRAITS 145

Positive Traits 145

Negative Traits 148

CHARACTER ADVANCEMENT 152

Changing Motivation 152

Switching Morphs 152

Improving Aptitudes 152

Improving Skills 152

Specializations 153

Improving Moxie 153

Gaining/Losing Traits 153

Improving Rep 153

Making Credit 153

Improving Psi 153

SAMPLE CHARACTERS 154

SKILLS

Religious Groups

A TIME OF ECLIPSE

Criminal Factions

A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF AN

UNFORTUNATE UNIVERSE

Firewall

Project Ozma

Eclipse Phase Timeline

SYSTEM GAZETEER

THE SOLAR SYSTEM

AFTER THE FALL 38

TRANSHUMANITY 38

Inequality 38

Clades and Separation 39

First Contact: The Factors 40

CULTURE AND SOCIETY 41

The Longing For Earth 41

Nostalgia Jewelry 41

Fear and Paranoia 42

An Exsurgent Threat? 42

Real and Social Distance 43

Singularity Seekers 43

The Rise of Cultural Regions 44

Cultural Experimentation 44

Gender, Sexuality, and Relationships 45

The Diversity of Habitats 45

TECHNOLOGY 45

Living With Infotech 46

Opening Pandora’s Gate 46

Going Beyond the Known 47

Muses 47

Attitudes Toward AGIs 48

Attitudes Towards Mental Alterations 48

Travel 48

Privacy 49

Incapacitating Inputs 49

Low-Tech Existence 50

Life, Death, and Morphs 50

Entertainment and Media 51

Lost Lore 51

Metacelebrities 52

Popular Types of Entertainment 52

POLITICS AND POWER 55

The Inner System 55

The Outer System 57

KEEPING THE PEACE 58

Law Enforcement 59

Punishment 60

THE ECONOMY 61

The Old Economy 61

The Transitional Economy 62

The New Economy 62

Restricting Dangerous Technologies 63

Irreproducible Goods

Sol (The Sun)

A Quick Primer On

Transhuman Habitats

Solar System Map

Vulcanoids

Mercury

Venus

Earth

Venusian Rumors

Luna

TILION’s Jupiter Brain

Mars

Martian Manhunt

Martian Trojans

Asteroid Belt

Jupiter

Europa

Ganymede and Callisto

The Trojans (Jovian Trojan

and Greek Asteroids) 100

Saturn 102

Gate Expedition Report 901127 102

Titan 106

Uranus 107

Neptune 108

The Edge of the System 109

Extrasolar Systems 109

Analysis: Myst Trees 111

GAME MECHANICS 112

The Ultimate Rule 114

Dice 114

Making Tests 114

A Note on Terminology and Gender 114

Target Numbers 115

When to Make Tests 115

Dif culty and Modi ers 115

Criticals: Rolling Doubles 115

Defaulting: Untrained Skill Use 116

Teamwork 116

Simplifying Modi ers 116

TYPES OF TESTS 117

Success Tests 117

TIME AND ACTIONS 119

Action Turns 119

Types of Actions 119

DEFINING YOUR CHARACTER 120

Concept

SYNOPSIS

WELCOME TO FIREWALL

A TIME OF ECLIPSE

170

SKILLS OVERVIEW

172

GAME MECHANICS

Core Skills: Aptitudes

172

Learned Skills

172

Specializations

173

CHARACTER CREATION

USING SKILLS

173

Defaulting

173

SKILLS

Complementary Skills

173

Skill Ranges

174

ACTION AND COMBAT

APTITUDES

174

Aptitude-Only Tests

174

Aptitude Comparison:

Flats vs. Splicers and Exalts

MIND HACKS

174

COMPLETE SKILL LIST

176

THE MESH

Academics: [Field]

176

Animal Handling

177

ACCELERATED FUTURE

Art: [Field]

177

Beam Weapons

177

GEAR

Blades

177

Climbing

177

RUNNING THE GAME

HABITATS

Clubs

178

Planetary Settlements

120

Control

178

Space Habitats

Motivations

120

Deception

178

REFERENCE

A Diversity of Floating Worlds

Ego vs. Morph

121

Demolitions

178

The Largest Habitats

Character Stats

121

Disguise

178

Microgravity Habitats

Ego Stats

121

Exotic Melee Weapon: [Field]

178

Private Habitats

Morph Stats

121

Exotic Ranged Weapon: [Field]

178

Character Skills

122

Flight

178

Character Traits

123

Character Morph

123

Fray 178

Free Fall 179

Freerunning 179

Gunnery 179

Hardware: [Field] 179

Impersonation 180

In ltration 180

Infosec 180

Interest: [Field] 180

Interfacing 180

Intimidation 180

Investigation 180

Kinesics 181

Kinetic Weapons 181

Language: [Field] 181

Languages In Eclipse Phase 181

Medicine: [Field] 182

Navigation 182

Networking: [Field] 182

Palming 182

Perception 182

Persuasion 183

Pilot: [Field] 183

Profession: [Field] 183

Programming 183

Protocol 183

Psi Assault 184

Psychosurgery 184

Research 184

Scrounging 184

Seeker Weapons 184

Sense 184

Spray Weapons 184

Swimming 184

Throwing Weapons 184

Unarmed Combat 185

SPECIAL SKILLS 185

ACTION AND COMBAT 186

ACTION TURNS 188

Step 1: Roll Initiative 188

Step 2: Begin First Action Phase 188

Step 3: Declare and Resolve Actions 188

Step 4: Rotate and Repeat

Firing Modes and Rate of Fire 198

Full Defense 198

Gravity 198

Grenades and Seekers 199

Hostile Environments 200

Improvised Weapons 202

Knockdown/Knockback 202

Melee and Thrown Damage Bonus 202

Multiple Targets 202

Objects and Structures 202

Range 203

Reach 204

Scatter 204

Shock Attacks 204

Subdual 204

Suppressive Fire 204

Surprise 204

Tactical Networks 205

Touch-only Attack 206

Two-Handed Weapons 206

Wielding Two or More Weapons 206

PHYSICAL HEALTH 206

Damage Points 206

Damage Types 206

Durability and Health 207

Damage Value 207

Wounds 207

Death 207

HEALING AND REPAIR 208

Biomorph Healing 208

Synthmorph and Object Repair 208

MENTAL HEALTH 209

Stress Points 209

Lucidity and Stress 209

Stress Value 209

Trauma 209

Derangements 210

Disorders 211

Stressful Situations 214

Willpower Stress Tests 214

Hardening 214

Mental Healing and Psychotherapy 215

MIND HACKS 216

PSI 218

The Nature of Psi 218

Æther Jabber: Asyncs 219

PSI 220

Using Psi 221

Psi-Chi Sleights 223

Psi-Gamma Sleights 226

PSYCHOSURGERY 229

The Process of Psychosurgery 229

The Human Cognome Project 229

Psychosurgery Mechanics 230

Roleplaying Mind Edits 231

Psychosurgery Procedures 231

The Lost 233

THE MESH 234

MESH CAPABILITIES 236

Meshing Technologies 237

Information Overload 237

Legacy of the TITANs 237

Ecto(-Link) 237

INTERFACING: AR, VR, AND XP 239

Augmented Reality

ISLANDS IN THE NET

242

Darkcasts

243

MESH ABUSES

243

Hackers

243

Malware

244

AI S AND INFOLIFE

244

AIs

244

Muses

244

AGIs

244

Seed AI

245

Transhuman Infomorphs

245

Mesh Interface

245

What Your Muse

Can Do For You

245

Non-standard AIs and AGIs

245

Mesh ID

246

Accounts and Access Privileges

246

Elite Exploits

246

Mesh Gear Quality

247

Computer Capabilities

247

Software

248

Traf c Filters and Mist

248

Slaving Devices

248

Issuing Commands

248

Distance Lag

248

Accessing Multiple Devices

249

ONLINE RESEARCH

249

Search Challenges

249

Search Capabilities

249

Handling Searches

250

Real-Time Searches

251

Hidden Data

251

188

SCANNING, TRACKING,

AND MONITORING 251

Wireless Scanning 251

Physical Tracking 251

Digital Activity Tracking 252

Snif ng 252

PRIVACY AND ANONYMIZATION 252

Privacy Mode 252

Anonymization 252

MESH SECURITY 253

Authentication 253

Firewalls 253

Active Monitoring 253

Encryption 253

INTRUSION 254

Preconditions 254

Circumventing Authentication 255

Intrusion Tests 255

The Hacking Sequence 255

Intruder Status 256

Changing Status 256

Brute-Force Hacking 256

INTRUSION COUNTERMEASURES 257

Security Alerts

INITIATIVE

188

Initiative Order

189

Speed

189

Delayed Actions

189

ACTIONS

189

Automatic Actions

190

Quick Actions

190

Complex Actions

190

Task Actions

190

MOVEMENT

190

Movement Rates

191

COMBAT

191

Resolving Combat

191

257

Combat Summary

193

Passive Countermeasures

257

ACTION AND COMBAT

COMPLICATIONS

Active Countermeasures

257

193

Joint Hacking/Securing

258

SUBVERSION

259

Aimed Shots

193

Ammunition and Reloading

193

Augmented Reality Illusions

259

Area Effect Weapons

193

Backdoors

260

Armor

194

Crashing Software

260

Asphyxiation

194

Eliminating Intrusion Traces

260

Beam Weapons

194

Hacking VPNs

260

239

Blind Attacks

195

Scripting

260

Virtual Reality

240

Bots, Synthmorphs, and Vehicles

195

CYBERBRAIN HACKING

261

Experience Playback

241

Called Shots

197

Entrapment

261

MESH USES

241

Charging

197

Memory Hacking

261

Demolitions

197

Personal Area Networks

241

Puppeteering

261

Virtual Private Networks

241

Falling

197

Scorching

261

Fire

198

Social Networks

242

Shutdown

262

Mobile Of ces

242

Terminate Cortical Stack Feed

262

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