Hoo boy. So I'm 30 (as of last May), currently living in the boonies of North Carolina in the good ol' USA. While I majored in Applied Physics in my brief stint in college, I was far from an ideal student, and a combination of a lack of drive along with my inability to develop a grasp of (or interest in) Calculus lead to me dropping out after my second year. I've bounced from random job to random job afterwards, eventually settling to my current "career" as a technical writer for a government contractor. While mind-numbing in the boredom it produces, it pays the bills and leaves me with large swathes of time during my eight-hour workdays to sift through various RPG books and write stories. I harbor aspirations of perhaps becoming a real writer someday, and I like to think my writing ability has grown enormously since I stopped writing awful fan-fiction in my tween years and starting moving up to legitimate storytelling, though my challenge remains trying to find an idea worth writing about and then turning it into a story worth reading. Still, I can dream, I suppose. In my spare time I'm an avid gamer, playing the vidya games among various consoles and handhelds as well as my PC, and I also run weekly tabletop games for my group of friends, mostly consisting of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay and Shadowrun, though we branch off into other systems now and then to try and mix things up and keep things fresh. My dissatisfaction with D&D--the first game system we tried--led me to pursue other, less-popular avenues of roleplay, and than in turn led me to Eclipse Phase. I mentioned in one of my earliest (if not first!) posts that the good folks at Role-Playing Public Radio were the ones that drew my interest in EP, though I knew of the system before I listened to that initial actual-play. Initially I wasn't very sold on the setting (having known one too many so-called pretentious "transhumanist" jerkoffs in college that were only interested in the concepts because they seemed to feel it made them smarter than everyone else), but after listening to RPPR and reading some of the books, I couldn't help but be drawn in. I'm certainly not on the level that many on this forum seem to be in regards to transhumanism in general, being a newcomer and all, which is one of the reasons I'm relatively quiet around these parts. Still, the ideas interest me on various levels, so I try to contribute what little I can here and there. Rest assured, even if I don't post much, I'm probably still lurking about. All right, better cut myself off here before this turns into an essay. Y'all take it easy.

I'm Cody, 23 and living in the Las Vegas area of Nevada, USA. Currently I am a student here, studying Microbiology, intending to focus on Virology. I'd love to work with the real interesting stuff at a BSL 4 Laboratory, but so far my experience has been limited to a standard hospital lab as a hybrid of responsibilities of a Medical Laboratory Technician and Clinical Laboratory Scientist for the US Military. I have still yet to play Eclipse Phase as my gaming group is mostly Pathfinder and World of Darkness, with very little spare time left over, but I absolutely enjoy the setting presented. Otherwise I'm just hanging out with friends, or working on my studies.

I hope that by introducing myself I'll be less of an observer and more of a participant in the community! Douglas, Brazilian, 32, born and raised in Victoria (400km north of Rio de Janeiro), a small (around 1million souls) port and industrial city (steel and paper). Oddly enough for an EP fan my degree is not in technology, but language and literature (although, I have a long background in chemistry, a bad marriage that ended in divorce). I work as a safety/security officer in a oil rig drilling 300km off the coast... living in a habitat does mean something to me!! ;-] In my free time I try to bridge the gap between latin american writers' tradition of magic realism (jorge luis borges, isabel allende, saramago, gabriel garcia marquez) with the aesthetics and rythim familiar to modern science fiction / fantasy fans. I also have an unhealthy interest in close quarter combat techniques: krav maga, mma, muai thay, wing chun. I am big fan of great authors that never quite hit it big: steven pressfield, tim powers, and alastair reynolds. My first serious contact with rpg was Shadowrun in the 90's, but as too many people I ended up narrating way too many chronicles in DnD and WoD... Mage and Werewolf were my favorites for sure. I've been following up every EP release in awe of its overall quality. What attracts me the most in EP are the the infinite new storytelling possibilites that the setting's technological possibilites allow: forking, neurosurgery, egocasting, sleeving, pandora gates, basiliks hacks, etc. The setting also reminds me a lot of Revelation Space, which I love. I intend to run a chronicle covering 3 stages prior to the Fall and thrust new players right in Firewall's labor and baptism of fire; while at the same time put them as the original brinkers rescued by the Factors' first contact (I suppose it's not even close to a new concept). I come here because EP has probably the most educated and thought provoking fan base in the whole rpg-sphere. Prazer em conhecer e até breve!

I'm new to Eclipse Phase -- haven't played yet, but I'm loving the core book and setting. I have a BA in philosophy, and am now a graduate student in Philosophy of Religion at Yale Divinity School (starting this autumn). I like social and political theory, so that's one of the things I like most about Eclipse Phase. I'm hoping to get a PhD in a field related to ethics or cultural studies. Not sure what else to say. Married, two toddlers and a newborn (due any moment). Played 3.x D&D, 4e, Pathfinder, Eberron, Dark Sun. Used to be a hardcore PC gamer, played EverQuest many years. I mostly enjoy FPS games, though. But I'm chiefly interested in postsecular political theory.

Hello everyone, I'm just shy of 35 (a few weeks away) and after a decade or so of working for or with the US military, am coming home to Oklahoma to start work on my PhD in political science in August. My interests in the field revolve around international relations and comparative politics. Unless I fall in love with teaching college while I'm a TA these next few years, I'll very likely return to civil service once I'm done, though I can certainly see myself continuing to teach part-time, particularly with one of the online schools. I've played RPGs for better than 20 years now, starting with Top Secret SI, TMNT, Rifts, and various others. I was also fairly hooked on MUSHes for quite a few years. I owe two things to my interest in Eclipse Phase -- the cover art and creative commons. The cover art was intriguing enough to make me pick up the book and jot down the name to look up later when I saw a copy in my FLGS. I don't buy games that I don't play anymore, though, so it wasn't until I found out that the line was creative commons that I decided to seek out and download the main book (and have since bought it and the rest of the line -- I prefer PDFs to hard copies.) I still haven't gotten to play _much_, but I had a short-lived online game that lasted a couple of sessions, and I started a game with friends of mine RL that I hope to pick back up here in a few weeks once I get back home to stay.

Hello, I am Noah and i am an RPG-aholic. I am a 30 year old Communicaitons Officer and Emergancy Services Dispatcher in Texas. In other words, I answer 911 calls and dispatch for Police, Fire, and Emergancy Medical Services. I hae a terminal education, i am always taking classes with no intent or idea how or if I will ever use what I learn, but thanks to a rather bad case of Depression a few years ago and an interesting mix of ADHD, dysgraphia, and aixelsyD I have no degrees but am a couple of classes, each, away form earning at least 3 or 4. My spare time, what little I have, is filled with RPGs, cooking, reading, learning anything I can, and cooking. I am an avid Sci Fi fan and have been into the Transhumanist thing for some time before a friend of mine found Eclipse Phase and picked it up mainly because of the art and great quality of the book and then introduced me too it. I have not had a chance to play the game, can't find any groups in my area and every time I run across info on an online game I waned to join they had already fallen apart. I love creating interesting and different characters, and have whole binders of characters of just about any game you can think of that I have just never had the chance to play.

Hi there! I've had EP for about 6 months now and haven't played it yet. But I think it's one of the best settings I've seen, if not THE best. Anyway, I'm Justin from Seattle, but for most things on the interwebs I go by rogue-z. That's an autocad pun in case anyone is wondering. I'm pretty embarrassed with all these smart computer type people to say I've got an art degree and am pretty crappy at math these days. I still know F=ma, but that's about it. I've been a big pen and paper RPG gamer since about '89. I guess I've been more or less stuck in the early '90s as far as games: Shadowrun, Cyberpunk 2020, Mekton, and god forbid, Rifts. I've been pretty active the last few years in some PBP games. I really like that medium, it fits my time constraints better than the real life version. I don't really write beyond gm stuff. I draw lots of crappy pictures though. I'm actually an industrial designer, so I guess some of my pictures aren't actually that crappy... Most of my time is spent working, parenting and reading. I like gizmos and gear. I love anodized aluminum, but anodized titanium is better. I got a shear bolt from a Boeing FOD bin, and I'm pretty sure it was anodized titanium. It was a joy to hold and weighed almost nothing. I want my house made out of that stuff!