Something like... "Direct Action, though generally associated with security and mercenary work, also maintains a healthy armory division. The majority of the hardware produced by the DA Armory goes to their security and mercenary groups, however a small number of arms are regularly supplied for sale under the DA Custom brand, in areas where Direct Action does not anticipate extensive opportunities for growth. The corporate culture of Direct Action emphasizes unbridled firepower over subtlety or finesse. Increase damage in Direct Action Custom firearms by ______. Clip size is reduced by _____, due to the heavier caliber of munitions used. DA Custom typically only produces SMGs, Assault Rifles, and Machine Guns." ?

I think that something around that line has much potential, both for variation and to add more "character" to the gear, but without getting too complicated.

Rhyx wrote:

I agree that the guns as presented in the book are pretty generic however I think that since that's what they are they would probably be the "torrented" versions. Also what could be possible although it opens another can of worms would be to create company weapon "templates" for example: this company's smartgun system is linked into it's shock safety so you can hack an override and zap the user with his own gun. That other company specializes in inner ship and habitat close quarter combat so all they systems come standard with a vibro bayonette.

What about small alternative settings/scenarios for non-Firewall characters? This can be done following the reputation circles guidelines: i.e. @-rep (autonomist): a Titanian/anarchist cell and their efforts to destabilize a small corporative habitat in Venus orbit c-rep (civic): a Martian small police dept. and their investigations troubled by Hypercorps meddlings e-rep (ecologists): structure, organization and troubles of a small habitat in Outer fringe preparing for a revolutionary trerraforming project commissioned by a secret Hypercorp/Organization f-rep (media): an Xp team overview and their struggle with bigger networks for news/events (a pandora gate infiltration?) g-rep(Criminal): an Operational base and small adventure ideas for Smugglers r-rep (reclaimers): a suicide mission on Earth and so on...... what is critical, in my humble opinion, is to provide: - a new, interesting and detailed location - new, interesting and detailed NPCs and factions - some detailed, specific and flavoured equipment/tools (branded or design) - at least 1 starting/sample scenario

A pdf-digest of all this forum dicussions ? Great ideas show up, precision are made, ... but a forum is not a the convenient tool for rpg. At least a wiki could served to trim and sort all this "mess" ?

AdamJury wrote:

Teenage wrote:

At least a wiki could served to trim and sort all this "mess" ?

http://www.firewall-darkcast.com/ :-)

Clear, clean and to the point! Adam Jury, ladies and gentlemen! Something I'd like to read in PDF is a clear chronology of the Fall, the belligerents of the wars that led to it, and a world map of EArth as it is now with highlight of the "historical" key places of the Fall, like where the TITANs were known to be based and geopolitical blocks before they vanished

kylleran wrote:

So let's hear it. What do you want to see?

Adventures, adventures, and adventures. Not all fully fleshed, the campaign mini settings/adventure hooks format of Shadowrun is quite good to. Fully fleshed are good for beginner GM, and to let EP sink in. It's easy to be overwhelmed with the background (including practical or rule thing, like can I do this with Implant, or is this easy to do with Mesh, etc.), official adventures are probably the easiest way to get a feel for things. But, beside being good of course, those should be fully vetted by EP authors for rule and canon adherence. They are kind of a fun EP tutorial, so be sure the freelancer doesn't go wild with it :) As for the not-fleshed one, beside beginner GM and the tutorial thing; most people doesn't need a step by step rundown: what's happening-how-why-when, what's the PC angle, some tips as to dramatic tension and delivery (use this for misdirection, watch this it can be dangerous, try this or that for a cliffhanger or whatever). Maybe, like an adventure by column (2 a page)? Or one a page? Those could be linked to background... like a well fleshed habitat description, or a micro-faction background. As a new EP GM, I would very much like having for the next year say 1 fully fleshed adventure every two months, and one not fleshed every other month. And/or maybe a campaign. Take a year to publish a good small campaign, twelve episodes, one per month. The main goals of all of that is to help people actually playing, GMing Eclipse Phase. A lot of things are mysterious or strange, and people that _read_ EP wants to know more about this or that. That's fine, hell I'm one of them. But EP can be difficult to GM at first, anything to help GMing should have priority for a couple of years at last imho. Beside, adventures aren't graphic heavy. Some schematics here and there, nothing else. It's always nice to have great pics to illustrate something, but I much rather have two adventures for the same price :)

The Book of Brands - essentially brandnamed weapons, gadgets, gizmos, programs, bodies/morphs and so on. I mean whilst we know that a Skinthetic Sylph is not going to be the same as a Cognite Sylph morph give us an idea of the differences in the bodies between the two brands. Same with weapons, what about legal-programs, or other small programs that people would use in day to day life to aid them. Sure the core book includes things like spoof, sniffer, firewall and other such programs but what about things that aren't necessarily covered by Muses - like sleep programs (useful for those in Synthmorphs that want to dream of electric sheep - or... not dream of electric sheep as the case may be). While that wouldn't make an entire book, the suggestions made by other people about more close in looks at the ideologies and memes circulating the system are also fantastic filler. Just my thoughts anyway.

Oroborous wrote:

I would love to see a bunch of random stuff that is usable in stories. The NPC File 1 is invaluable, because the character generation in EP is so involved (lots of points and options). - Solar system & Exoplanet Locations and descriptions.

Have you seen Gatecrashing, Oroborous? :-)

Considering how often we see requests for it, how about just maps and descriptions of ships and habitats? The hard, tactical stuff you never see. Take Gatecrashing/Sunward and downshift it to just the tactical view.

please don't say Delta V, it reminds me of Transhuman Space's crunch part! That said, it's a good idea to have a travel log of sort, especially for those playing Scums

Gear: acquisition, legality and smuggling This PDF would cover, with some general descriptions but mostly examples of how a handful of different locations handle it: - what sort of morphs and gear can be arranged before egocasting in, with legal and illegal options - what sort of gear can be acquired on location, with legal and illegal options - what sort of morphs and gear are legal - for physical arrivals, how is illegal gear handled (what items will just be locked up until you leave and what will get you in real trouble, do illegal morphs get some restraint hardware mounted or are you forced to resleeve) - what can be smuggled in and how, including boarding scanning and how to beat them (physical and hacking), bribes, and backdoor airlock access - punishment guidelines for breaking the laws relating to the above, including how anarchist societies keep psychos armed to the teeth on a leash

Damn, no one is asking for a book of random tables a la the 1st Ed. AD&D Dungeon Master's Guide. I was really looking forward to seeing gems like [b]TABLE 17a: Random Habitat Service Animal Behaviors[/b] in print. 01-10 Picks up food particles 11-20 Cleans whiskers (if applicable; otherwise, roll again) 21-30 Sniffs at PC... awwww, super-kawaiiii! 31-40 Trims vegetation 41-50 Sniffs other service animal's butt 51-60 Pounces on floating litter 61-70 Disappears into a tiny trapdoor to do something in the bowels of the hab 71-80 Follows smoking PC waiting for them to discard their butt 81-90 Squabbles with service robot over who gets to remove a piece of trash 91-98 Mates with other service animal (if one of same species is present) 99-00 Actually an exsurgent. Explodes in a mass of fractal branching tentacles and begins disassembling hab. Willpower test to avoid 1d10 SV stress. Roll for initiative. OK, back to writing stuff that will actually be published...

Having made one post more ideas naturaly occur imediately. A sample Body Bank / Morph Brokerage would be intersting A description of the facility, along with a list of the morphs in storage there i.e. lot 212445 - slightly used Fury morph, +5 int, Hardened skeleton and medichines implanted. This morph has obviosly been well used, as atested by the series of scars across both forearms and what seem to be kill markers tattoed across the right shoulder. The left thigh has a wonderful and intricate tatoo of a launching space shutle. Also possibly a set of common upgrades to particular morphs, such as the fact that concealed plasma rifles are extremley popular on the liquid silver steel morph [think the TX from terminator 3]

i agree with you there lostproxy, i tend to think of the synthetic mask as being like arnie the terminators skin, possibly not quite living tissue, but bascaly the same idea and i dont think it would handle being twisted much very well, but except for that morph theres nothing to say you cant have both and be fine expanded and clarified details on the gear could include notes about incompatabilities, oversights, complementary tech [like the liquid silver having both skinflex and shape adjusting meaning it already counts as having a version of the sythetic mask and also negating the bad traits] another detail that could be given would be similar tech in books, movies, cartoons or other sources, like im relating back to the terminator franchise here, a line or two saying this is like ...... , you can get a better [and more consistent] idea that way

jackgraham wrote:

Damn, no one is asking for a book of random tables a la the 1st Ed. AD&D Dungeon Master's Guide. I was really looking forward to seeing gems like [b]TABLE 17a: Random Habitat Service Animal Behaviors[/b] in print.

That would be a very useful product. And I can expect this by GenCon as well? Thanks! You guys are awesome. :P

After having some time to think and digest. Conspiracy and Transhumanism is getting covered very well but we could definitely use more horror. More Titan info, infected, exhumans and maybe some more alien info.

Karri wrote:

I'm particularly interested in the petals, since they're sort of their own animal. Alternately an entire adventure that's actually a petal trip.

I borrowed petals from the feathers in Jeff Noon's [i]Vurt[/i]. Highly recommend that book if you're up for some SF surrealism. I've been wanting to do a full blown scenario with petals for a while, but I'd been holding off until we had a fan base that would be up for something really weird. The first few years at cons, the Shadowrun-style mission narrative needed to prevail, just so people could get their heads around the game (and buy it... cha-ching). Right now I'm working on a scenario where most of the PCs are suryas, so maybe a petal trip is next. Thing with petals: they push the game into territory most gamers aren't comfortable with. That is, they require you to render your character completely helpless & vulnerable for a pay-off that is questionable at best, and they only really work well if the whole group is down for it. (Related problem: up to the point where you start tripping, the effects of petals are very easy to throw off with augs like medichines and toxin filters... so you almost have to get the PCs to submit voluntarily). I think that to use petals well, you either need to have a group that's up for some indie-style, experimental play, or you need to dovetail the purpose of the trip really precisely with mission goals. I'll have to think about it when I finish my current project.

I wouldn't like to see anything as a pdf-only. I want to see everything in print. Why? Two reasons. 1.) I collect PDFs, but I read them even less than I do the books, which I at least actually open and turn pages of, regardless of whether or not I actually pay attention to what I'm looking at, because if I actually do read it I do better with books than with PDFs; 2.) If I were to try to overcome that, I'd need to have a portable device for the PDF, such as a laptop. While I'd love a laptop I can't afford one.

twcrone wrote:

Adventures...I'd like more like the $5 modules but they can cost more and have more content. I'd buy them printed as well thought but I definitely want more missions.

Just ... you know ... in case anyone missed it ;) (I agree. A mission set or campaign setting would be awesome. The EP version of Bugs? To die for.)

For those of us who are interested in writing, is there any kind of a 'bible' or at least a 'don't' list that Posthuman has with regard to EP content? Because I'd really, really like to see that. In regard to how people keep coming up with the 'NEEDS MOAR GEAR!' thing, I would only be interested in gear which is NOT a variation on something that exists. I don't need the Colt version, the Smith and Wesson version, the Intel version and the Asus version of roughly the same item plus or minus a single stat point. Instead, what I would suggest is to simply throw a few different middling-sized (not hypercorp, but definitely CORP) corporations out and say 'This corporation produces weaponry tailored specifically to that segment of the firearms-using populace which concerns itself with accuracy, so all of their weapons have X bonus to hit. This other corporation produces weaponry tailored specifically to that segment of the firearms-using populace which only believes bigger holes are more effective, so all of their weapons have Y bonus to damage.' Then you apply that modification to the 'stock' templates which are presented in the book. These 'corporate weapon mod templates' would be balanced either in terms of having some other reduced effect to compensate for the bonus (bigger hole = lesser accuracy, higher accuracy = smaller hole, whatever) or in terms of price (although I really dislike that given the post-scarcity systems of the game...Price should rarely be an object for items as cheap as firearms. Price really should only come into play with really, really expensive items that it's difficult to get as a 'favor', IMNSHO). Legality is also something which has been touched on. We are told that some locales tend to have a heavily armed populace because they believe people should solve their own problems, so no real 'sheriff' exists...But we don't have data on how regulated other environments are, and it really seems as if there should be some regulation. There are, for example, going to be places where you will get in a world of hurt if you suddenly turn up wearing a Reaper. There will be other places where people will just roll their eyes at you for overcompensating. I am also concerned by the idea of having 'faction books'...It seems to me that the factions, in many cases, represent a trend/tendency community. It isn't a regimented army where every individual you meet is 'just so'. There will be people who are 'barely participating' but who identify with the faction's views. There will be people who are 'faction conservative' and toe the party line for that faction very carefully. Then there will be those fringe whackos who make the centrists sigh and deny affiliation with them. For an obvious case in point, take the Mercurials. This is a definite bag of mixed nuts. There will be some who are extremely speciesist-centric. "This habitat is for avian-uplifts only. I don't CARE if you put on a bird morph, you have a monkey brain, and you're going out the airlock." There will be panspeciesists "We uplifted and created sentiences must all strive for our rights together, or we will be rendered extinct separately." There will be those who will seek to accomplish their ends by gentle education, bridge-building and creation of trust...And then there will be the bomb-planting Cephalopod Liberation Front. This sort of spectrum of values and behaviors can be applied to all of the other 'factions'. Yes. Even the Jovians. Some will be militant and hardcore, others will really not care so long as the trains run on time, and still others will be quietly risking their rep by making little, minor gestures towards less conservative views in the hope that over time those small gestures will add up and sway public opinion. Every faction will have its 'center', its 'left wing' and 'right wing', and every wing will have its 'nutbar flake group'. So I am rather averse to the idea of 'faction books'.

When are we going to see more content, its been a few months.

Doc Solomon wrote:

When are we going to see more content, its been a few months.

I don't have the inside scoop, but I know PHS has been feeling some fallout from Sandstorm's issues. They are still 'on task', so there's no concern about their disappearing, but it means they have to prioritize. Core books are first priority. They're pushing out the third printing of the main core book, and are wrapping up Panopticon. I know they also have some new missions scheduled for GenCon in the first week of August. I believe I saw four new titles lined up. I should be running at least one of them, so I'll tell you if it was awesome or not when I return (spoiler: it was). But cleaning them up for release may be lower priority than projects like Panopticon and Rimward.

Master tables of everything like is done in Shadowrun. Tables to include such things as name, source, page #, cost.

kindalas wrote:

cenrae wrote:

Master tables of everything like is done in Shadowrun. Tables to include such things as name, source, page #, cost.

That sounds like something that would make for a good fan project.

I'm thinking I remember seeing someone working on such a thing, but perhaps my memory is off?

This would be nice, as I think many of those tables need to be revisited. The Armor table includes a page reference, but most others do not. None of the gear tables include a cost column. This is a hassle that makes quick shopping / resupply events into a major page-hunt. Also I apreciate the elegance of the seeker rules, but the missle sizes are not listed on the tables for their respective launchers and the standard sizes are jacked. I mean, let me quote this here:

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Standard grenades and minimissiles are the baseline standard for listed effects . . . Minigrenades and micromissiles inflict –1d10 damage (or have another decreased effect as noted). Standard missiles double the listed DV. For weapons with a uniform blast effect or other static blast area, divide the base listed radius in half for minigrenades and micromissiles and double it for standard missiles.

Seriously? Standard sometimes means standard, and other times means extra-big? Couldnt they be Macro or Magnum or Fatty or something? Could the maths be listed out in a simple reference block with formulas rather than in a word-problem? It would also be nice to have AoE listed with the warheads. Same for Spray weapons, I know they are all standardized at 1/2/3 meter spreads, but you have to find that in the description and then refer back to the AoE description, and then to the range tables. It's sort of a lot going on over several different pages of text and tables. I dont mean to turn this into a whine-fest, but yeah. Tables. Would pay to have better.