Ok, I can allocate a sizable chunk of my free time this week to these playtests. Given the time limit, I assume that you guys are not accepting any radical new ideas. I'll put my ideas on hold for now... Anyways, are we going to see updated rules on morph creation?

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Particularly, we know the space that the headers of tables takes up is a known inconsistency.

Does that mean that package tables might have a tittle header in the final? Cause that's my major bitch with what I see. I hate unlabeled tables. Since I'm already off topic; The Price buttons are excellent! That sweet little gradient makes them pop and the placement probably saves space. Very cool. I'll try to proof. I'm going to work in 5 page sections. Page 8, Brawler "Even in a universe of talking apes and wormholes to other planets..." Well that ends the wormhole debate :D Page 9 Choose Packages, 4th paragraph "For example, you can one package..." For example, you can [choose/buy/purchase] one package... Page 10, D100 Roll Faction. Percentile issue: 77-[b]78[/b] Ringer, [b]78[/b]-81 Sapient Can't have two 78's one of them needs to be changed. Page 11, Background Packages "...represent a character's upbringing, earlier life, and[u],[/u] possibly, the place they still..." Counting commas; White, and, Strunk will kick your ass for bracketing ,and, :) Page 11, Background Packages Skill Points I'm just assumeing at this point that the points assigned to each skill are what they are intended to be. I notice that 1pp packages do not have equal numbers of knowledge and active skills. I have no way of knowing if there is a typo. Page 11, Background Packages, [b][Hard Returns] and cell margins:[/b] Example: Colonist: Science Staff, 1pp package. "Accademics: (Choose [hard return?] One) 40," It looks like there is an unintended hard return in the first line. It would be nice if; "Accademics: (Choose One) 40," were all on the same line. Seems like it should fit within the cell margins and I don't see a reason for the break. This is just the worst example, there are many other lines where the associated rating is broken from the skill. See, Colonist Flight Staff: 3PP, First line; "Free Fall 40, hardware: Aerospace..." These, unnecessary breaks are going to be problematic for a reader at this font size on paper. I suspect that it's a copy/paste issue from one app to another and I hope you can address it before print. On a similar subject; the size of the 3PP cells is crowding the 1PP cells. There is a lot of vertical dead space in the 1PP cells but it might be best over all if they could borrow horizontal space from the middle column. You might end up with fewer breaks between Skill and Ranks in the first column. And you always have at least one line to use in the middle column. (I'm just suggesting. I know you've probably played with this allready and found the best fit.) Page 12, Drifter, description "... or your kind of [b]special skills[/b] were needed. You may not be as highly specialized as some..." That's pretty klunky to imply special skills then imply that the character is not a specialist. Perhaps when the author is referring to special skills he's talking about the "Noble Tradesman" or "Craftsman" such as a vac-worker, asteroid miner, or hydroponic farmer? Just a suggestion; the blue-collar immigrant is on my mind lately and that's what the rest of the text seems to be talking about. Page 12. Bottom of page. WTF?! the whole bottom of my page is just this ugly green. I'm pretty sure there's supposed to be awesome art here and I'm getting tired of waiting for it! ;)

I checked CP calculation on packages　and I found some packages don't match "1 PP = 100 CP" rule, like below; Background Packages Colonist: Command Staff, at 1 PP Total cost is 110 CP, but it should be 100 CP. Colonist: Flight Staff, at 1 PP Total cost is 95 CP, but it should be 100 CP. Colonist: Security Staff, at 5 PP Total cost is 505 CP, but it should be 500 CP. Colonist: Science Staff, at 5 PP Total cost is 490 CP, but it should be 500 CP. Colonist: Tech Staff, at 5 PP Total cost is 490 CP, but it should be 500 CP. Drifter, at 5 PP Total cost is 490 CP, but it should be 500 CP. Earth Survivor, at 5 PP Total cost is 500 CP, exclude Neural Damage trait (-10 CP). Fall Evacuee, at 5 PP Total cost is 515 CP, but it should be 500 CP. Hyperelite: Scion, at 5 PP Total cost is 525 CP, include Patron trait (30 CP). Infolife: Emergent Uplift, at 5 PP Total cost is 485 CP, but it should be 500 CP. Infolife: Humanities AGI, at 5 PP Total cost is 490 CP, but it should be 500 CP. Infolife: Research AGI, at 5 PP Total cost is 490 CP, but it should be 500 CP. Isolate: Separatost. at 3 PP Total cost is 310 CP, but it should be 300 CP. Isolate: Survivalist. at 1 PP Total cost is 85 CP, but it should be 100 CP. I figure it should include +1 Moxie. Lost: Masked Normalcy. at 1 PP Total cost is 95 CP, but it should be 100 CP. Lost: Masked Normalcy. at 3 PP Total cost is 295 CP, but it should be 300 CP. Uplift: Feral, at 5 PP Total cost is 490 CP, but it should be 500 CP. Faction Packages I couldn't find any miscalculation. Focus Packages Covert Ops, at 5 PP Total cost is 450 CP, but it should be 500 CP. Medic, at 5 PP Total cost is 505 CP, but it should be 500 CP. Pirate, at 5 PP Total cost is 520 CP, but it should be 500 CP. Savant Async. at 1 PP Total cost is 95 CP, but it should be 100 CP. Savant Async. at 3 PP Total cost is 295 CP, but it should be 300 CP. Savant Async. at 5 PP Total cost is 495 CP, but it should be 500 CP.

Also, since it needs to be said: [url=http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/02/space-marine-copyright/]Games Workshop[/url] has a history of getting tetchy over other people using the term "Space Marine", and Eclipse Phase, as an RPG, almost certainly falls into one of the domains in which their trademark applies. If it's a renamed Battle Pod, you might want to rename it back.