*Being reposted from another playtest thread. Hardening - I want to double check this. Is all things you can be hardened to listed on (Core Rulebook, p. 215), or does it include everything that might cause stress? I want to know if something like resleeving or continuity is a source of stress you can be hardened to?

I think that you are not normally allowed to be hardened before character creation. I think the hardening trait you speak of is one of those character creation traits that offer an advantage earlier than you normally should have them. Its like the trait where you can start with a skill at 90 instead of the normal limit of 80. I think the cost of 10 CP is the cost to be hardened before anyone else could.

Valid point. I don't recall any of the rules saying to no to characters that were hardened or especially hardened before a campaign begins. However, one of the problems with the rules (and I suppose the devs might have noticed this since they are changing it) is that if you don't plan on buying lots of moxie (or plan against it), then it is a free resource to spend. You don't need to buy moxie to lower your cap for moxie. At character creation (if you allow hardenings then), you can spend 9 points of moxie cap without consequence. When it comes time for the 10th hardening, not only do you need to spend a moxie cap, but you also need to lose your free point you get at character creation. It is also not clear if you can get 11 or more hardenings, and what would happen if you did. I suppose this would be a valid reason to rewrite the rules. By giving it a CP cost, it given actual weight, so you now have to choose between being hardened or buy another trait or skill, where before you could spend all the moxie cap you had without consequence (if you wanted more moxie, you go through the process to "recover" so you could raise your cap). Personally, I would rather they got rid the moxie cap cost than remove the CP cost. Make the CP cost 15 if they must (which is the cost to raise your moxie by 1). I don't think that moxie cap and hardening should be mutually exclusive things.

so out of curiosity (and possibly a little disappointment) what happened to the skill trick traits? ie. Freerunning tricks and trick shot. have they been moved to something else or have they all been cut? thanks-

hi, just one thing I find kinda odd. it says "The Uplift background from the core book (p. 132, EP) can be used for any uplift that has been active in transhuman society for some time and has had more opportunity to adapt to their position in broader transhuman culture." That means that the uplifts with the background in EP has been is society longer, why do they have as a disadvantage must start with uplift morphs and not these ones. If they have been in transhuman society just a short while they seem more likely to be the ones who have their original morph

I think there might need to be a larger list of mental disorders for exhumans. I can't find many in the core rulebook that fit your garden-variety predator or psychopath exhuman particularly well. I know a starting PC probably won't be too far from humanity (yet), but I find the list limited. Will more normal mental disorders be in the transhuman book? Is the doubling social skill/halving techy-skill costs being dropped from AGI backgrounds? I understand it was considered extremely powerful (and yet crippling in some cases), so it would make sense to drop.