Going to play a fantasy RPG called The Snarl. It's written by the folks behind Eclipse Phase.

Hey! The newest #EclipsePhase second edition books actually exist and have arrived (after some intervening years)!

1: #DSA #DasSchwarzeAuge #TheDarkEye
2: #Paranoia or #Shadowrun, not sure
3: #ADnD #ADnD2nd
4: #DnD #DnD3rd
5: Tough call, I love my whole (indie) collection: #TalesFromTheLoop #Mothership #EclipsePhase #Ratten #Cairn #Twilight2000 #Numenera #CyberpunkRed #CY_Borg #Unwritten ...
6: #Vampire #VampireTheMasquerade
7: #DnD5th

1. First #ttrpg you ever played?
2. First you ever ran?
3. Played the most?
4. Run the most?
5. Favorite?
6. Most recently played?
7. Most recently run?

Another not-exactly #solarpunk #TTRPG I'm adding to my #gamedesign blogpost is "After the War": https://genesisoflegend.com/products/after-the-war/

The setting looks like an existential horror sci-fi similar to #EclipsePhase (strong recommendation), but the game puts a very strong focus on communities rebuilding after a war and character convictions.

I love that character building is based on their story, traits and beliefs, not combat skills, HPs and weapon systems.

If I have time, I'll write a proper review.

Transhuman Space is one of the few #GURPS books I kept for a long time (the other being GURPS Cabal). It was a great sci-fi and cyberpunk setting with great inspiration for #Cyberpunk, #Shadowrun, #EclipsePhase, #BluePlanet, and its ilk.

The #BundleOfHolding has a deal up for it now: $18 for the core and $30 for what might be the whole line. That base book is worth the entry price alone.

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Transhuman

#ArsMagica #ttrpg, famed for it's flexible magic system and troupe-style play, has launched their definitive edition crowd funding on #backerkit. Although the overall system is a bit clunky, the magic rules for casting freeform spells are great, and I try to play the game at conventions, etc, whenever I get a chance.

https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/atlas-games/ars-magica-5th-edition-definitive

And, as part of their stretch goals (which they have already reached a bunch), they are releasing the game text under #OpenSource #CreativeCommons licencing, joining a bunch of other great open games (#Fate, #DungeonWorld, #BladesInTheDark #bitd, #Gumshoe, #EclipsePhase,#Ironsworn, and -- of course -- #DungeonsAndDragons #dnd).

Bacteriophages

#Bacteriophase, #EclipsePhase, #LatentPeriod, #LysogenicCycle, #LyticCycle, #Phage #Virology Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria. They are commonly called as ‘phages’. Phages occur widely in nature in close association…. Medical Microbiology & Recombinant DNA Technology (RDT) Labs | Read More -

https://micrordt.wordpress.com/2024/04/26/bacteriophages/

The #EclipsePhase subreddit is currently flooded with pictures of the eclipse and I'm laughing my ass off.

Looks to be a mixture of bots and people who just plain don't read.

@vger I like reading the lore behind them, never actually played a game. #EclipsePhase for example, cracking background and some cool short stories based in that universe.

What are some of the best space adventures you’ve ever seen, for any game system? What made it great?

Back in 2010 I drew this artwork of two of our #EclipsePhase #TTRPG characters. I play the octomorph Hokusai Tarnungshaut.

** Pop Goes The Star **

It was an absolute anomaly. There's been centuries of theoretical and practical work suggesting that Population III stars, the first to form after the Big Bang, no longer exist. Stellar observation has failed to find a single one — either they were too large to survive to the present, or too far away to see, either way they were outside transhumanity's reach, short of time travel.

But here, in front of the team's eyes, was a small, decrepit red dwarf comprised almost solely of hydrogen and helium, with no metallic doping of any kind. A steadily shining fire hanging in an almost completely empty void, with just a sprinkling of dimmed dots behind it, pointing back towards that furiously dense patch of activity we call The Observable Universe.

The Vulcanoid Gate had opened up this spot on its own. Well, that's what the techies said, swearing blind it wasn't a miss-dial. Understandable really, given the transport team had been kitted out for a quick jaunt to Justin Case rather than a walk into the insta-death of a broken glass sphere, irradiated and exposed to freezing vacuum. Now the First-In team (well, second) was getting a good look at an impossibility. In fact, two impossibilities. Because there was an exotic reading coming from inside the star's convective zone.

And it was moving.

This is pretty weird for me. In Eclipse Phase, Bletchley Park was a UK AI enforcement agency. The PCs in my first playtest campaign were agents; later, with Earth destroyed, they joined Firewall. And now we have a warning about AIs called the Bletchley Declaration. Reality needs to stop imitating our dystopian sci-fi setting right the fuck now, please. https://www.reuters.com/technology/britain-publishes-bletchley-declaration-ai-safety-2023-11-01/

Looks like that DriveThruRPG sale also includes #BlueBeardsBride for free, which is _fantastic_ but also _not for everyone_. https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/224782/bluebeard-s-bride

They also have a bunch of other titles on sale (notably #WorldOfDarkness #MonsterOfTheWeek #NightsBlackAgents #TrailOfCthulhu #NeverGoingHome #CallOfCthulhu #EclipsePhase https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/browse?promo=45295

Zufallsfund - das #EclipsePhase Abenteuer "Continuity" hat eigene, englische Audiodateien.. Funksprüche und Audiologs.. wir haben das mal als Actual Play gespielt, dafür neue Sounds aufgenommen und - wie fast alles, was wir machen - auf #Freesound veröffentlicht.

Heute sehe ich zufällig diesen Kommentar, der ein Jahr später an uns geschrieben wurde <3

Manchmal weiss man nicht, wieso man sich so viel Mühe macht, aber sowas erinnert wieder daran warum.

If Fractals are "remarkably dangerous" and "an ultraviolet level threat" then why are they so friend-shaped hmmmm??? #eclipsephase