Psychosurgery is said to be a two step process: diagnosis and procedure. There's even a penalty to the procedure if the preparatory diagnosis was done improperly. However, the mechanism for the diagnosis is not given.

Can we finally fix the infolife background? Now that there are other AGI backgrounds without the whole "double these skills, half those skills", I think that it should be severely toned down to be on par with other backgrounds.

The intro on synthmorphs suggest they can handle the oceans of Europa, however in other places it seems they can't even handle the 200 atm of pressure at the top of Europa's ocean. I also believe the pressure rules could mention using trimix or similar to handle higher pressure than the biomorph limits listed. Here's what one of my players dug up: EP 2nd Core p144 "Synthmorphs are built to withstand a wide range of environments, from dusty mars to the oceans of Europa, to the vacuum of space. They are unaffected by an but the most extreme temperatures and atmospheric pressures. Treat as Temp Tolerance* & Vacuum Sealing" Vacuum sealing itself does not give any declared max atm registered. It only registers a temperature tolerance limit (-75 to 100C p307). Temp Tolerance gives you -30C and 60C (p306) which is somewhat redundant, considering Vacuum Sealing is already better p200 Extreme Pressure "... the atmospheric pressures of Jupiter, Saturn and Venus quickly become crushingly deadly anywhere beyond the upper levels. Only Synthmorphs and vehicles with special pressure adaptations can hope to survive such depths." Also note, on the next page it says that movement rates are 1/4th the normal with a -20 to physical actions. p334 Hardsuit "Unlike other vacsuits, they are solid and can resist both vacuum and up to 100atm of external pressure. Characters wearing hardsuits can safely explore the upper atmosphere of a gas giant." Sunward p160-1 on Venus "Light vacsuits will protect a biomorph to an altitude of 45km, standard vacsuits to 40 km, and a hardsuit to 35km" (from the surface) "Unmodified Synthmorphs, bots and vehicles can safely descend to 35-40km, below which they too succumb to heat and pressure... Atmospheric pressure [on the surface] is over 90 times that of Earth's... Only Syntmorphs, vehicles and bots equipped with extreme pressure adaptation (p167) & Extreme Heat Shielding (p166) may survive in these environs." p167 Extreme Pressure Adaptation "[Robotic] morphs with this mod... [can] withstand pressure up to 100 atm" Rimward p185 "Biomorphs with high pressure adaptation can survive in the upper ocean levels, down to a depth of 500 atm. Synthmorphs with the adaptation can sustain regular operation down to 2,500 atm." "To proper transition, the biomorph must be slowly acclimated to increasing pressure levels... taking about 1 day." temperatures "around -20C [at the top]... around 10C [near geothermal vents]... biomorphs operating in these deep water environments require temperature tolerance (improved Cold) on p166 Sunward." [I would assume that Cryonic Temp Tol also works, as found in this book] Gatecrashing p151 Aquanaut Biomorph "They can safely descend to about 200m (roughly 6atm) without suffering narcotic effects or other diving problems." So we can assume that, because the morph is designed for this, an unaugmented biomorph can cap out at 6 with a high fatality chance. Hydrostatic Pressure Adaptation allows biomorphs to survive 500atm, and synthmorphs to survive up to 2500atm.

Kaworu wrote:

I believe some uplifts (especially intelligent birds) should be considered a small creature just like neotenics, so they will have the bonus +10 to Fray or something...?

one of the later books lists small as a morph trait granting -10 to hit and grants it to a bunch of additional morphs would be nice to see the relevant mane book morphs updated to include it.

OK, so I am coming down off of some medication, and not in the position to do it myself, but you might want to look at clarifying the way that Synthmorph armour stacks. When you updated the book in the 3rd Printing you adjusted the language so it is now ambiguous whether or not you replace innate armour of add too it when buying Synthmorph armour upgrades. It is supposed to add to. If I remember to I will find all the page references tomorrow. I'm not sure how my I'll be though, but I might forget.

CodeBreaker wrote:

OK, so I am coming down off of some medication, and not in the position to do it myself, but you might want to look at clarifying the way that Synthmorph armour stacks. When you updated the book in the 3rd Printing you adjusted the language so it is now ambiguous whether or not you replace innate armour of add too it when buying Synthmorph armour upgrades. It is supposed to add to. If I remember to I will find all the page references tomorrow. I'm not sure how my I'll be though, but I might forget.

It stacks. The given example was how the Reaper no longer has Heavy Combat Armor but instead can add it onto its existing armor for 32/32 armor ratings.

Here's a small one: the stats for the flexbot morph p.144 , updated to the yeoman p.203 in Transhuman.

OpsCon wrote:

AdamJury wrote:

We've already talked to our printer about making sure that it's bound sufficiently.

Hopefully they listened. :)

AdamJury wrote:

We're using POD for some things and will use it more in the future, but at this point, not for our large books.

Sadness, but understandable. Followup idea - a version of the core without all the setting info that can be POD softcover, just as a simple, cheaper table reference during game? Thanks for the responses.

You could take the striped down version of the main book created by Decivre http://eclipsephase.com/core-rules-stripped double check the layout (he didn’t intend it for this) and take it to your local on printer & photocopying store. They should be able to print you a copy spiral bound with a flexible clear plastic cover for a handful of dollars. The service is commonly used for printing documents like small business procedure manuals and student thesis where only one or two copies are ever needed. Take a copy of the creative commons licence with you (you should probably have a copy in the printed version anyway) to show this is legal and if feel you should give the people who wrote it some money I’m shore you can come up with a way to get it to them, maybe by another copy of one of the ebooks.

on page 27, the part about the prometheans looks like a major spoiler to me.

Oh man. I should have looked here. I just picked up a copy this week. :( I'm not far in to the book yet since I just got it, but it looks like in the Lack story one of the character's info boxes was a copy from another and only the name was changed. I forgot the names of them. But there are two with Neotenic morph hacker and only one is described that way in the story. Sorry, I know it's not a game breaker

i found two more things on page 39. The Transhumanity section in the first paragraph has "... the vast majority of humanity is smarter, healthier, and richer than any humans have ever been." and then in the fourth paragraph starts "As supporters of the status quo are fond of pointing out, even the "have-nots" are smarter and healthier than any previous generation of humans and posses..." While rules sometimes are required to be repetitious, these two are in the flavor text on the same section on the same page so I just thought I'd point it out. In paragraph 2 there "...people must make do with very basic Splicers (p. 139), Worker Pods (p. 142), Cases (p. 143), or Splicers (p. 139), while ..."

the excerpt on the futura project on page 233 you say remarked decrease in population i think you mean to drop the re part unless you meant remarkable. considering only 5% of humanity survived i think a better word is called for. like decimated or drastic.

Could you clarify that the Infolife restriction on acquiring the Psi Trait is only at Character Generation? And I might be misremembering (I will look for the pages as soon as possible), but I think there's nothing in the rules that say or imply you can't have light bio-weave armour, heavy bio-weave armour, and carapace armour all implanted at the same time. (Everyone just uses one, but we are not lacking Munchkins).

small typo on page 284 They may be acquired with Rep, following the usual rules for social networking (p. 285). • They may stolen (usually by hacking a mesh site or a nanofabricator containing such plans). • They may be self-programmed (see below). Should be "They may be stolen..."

The example on p. 192 has an error. When the assassin has to do a test for shock resistance. He uses a DUR of 35, but the rulebook p. 204 states that you use actual DUR, so morph DUR reduced by damage taken. Seeing as the assassin has just taken 4 damage, shouldn't he use a DUR of 31, setting his target to 37? Also I would like some clarification on what the knocked down status accomplishes. One can be knocked down by a called action to do so or due to receiving wounds, but nowhere in the book does it say what the effect is. Only that it takes a quick action in orde to get back up. Perhaps they can't defend using fray? Could it be used for a coup de grace? edit: On p. 202 where melee combat is described: Each attack suffers a cumulative -20 modifier for each [b]extra[/b] target. So if a character declares they are going to attack three characters with the same action, they suffer a cumulative -60 on each attack. Shouldn't that be -40? (2 extra characters).

Don't know if it's been covered, but on page 99 Ganymede and Calliisto are both physically larger than Luna

Hi, Sorry dont know if this is mentioned but could we get the images of the sample characters matchin with their equipment description? Maker Nomad Bot Jammer - equipment Sniper Rifle - Kinetic Weapons skill total : 20 - picture has no weapons = WTF? Can the equipment be changed to pistol Weapon Mount: 1/hidden Martian Ranger - Equipment:medium pistol - Gear: SMG - picture has her holding a sniper rifle/railgun sniper rifle? Can we et the equipment changed to sniple rifle. Maybe these two have their weapons lists changed? Triad Soldier - equipment: SMG - Picture: pistol (machine?) Is the picture supposed to be a pistol, cause thats what it looks like. I can assume that it might supposed to be a machine pistol/smg but with the other two mistakes in the same book im a little hesitant to write this one off... Thanks. Can we get her equi

I know it's far too late now, but on tuesday I noticed (again, since I forgot about it the first time) that a few skills are typoed under the Standard Muse in the Software part of the Gear chapter. It says, for example, Interface instead of Interfacing and Professional instead of Profession. It's not a huge deal but I figured I should mention it...

In passage on Basic Mesh Inserts we can read that it consists on 3 parts: cranial computer, radio transceiver and medical sensors. That's a bit bio-centric :) There could be a passage on technical sensors present in synthmorphs.

Something I've honestly wanted to see since the first printing is a nice handy table of how crits and high MoS work. i.e. Rolling 00 is better than Any success rolling doubles is better than Higher MoS is better than Lower MoS is better than Lower MoF* is better than Higher MoF* is better than Any failure rolling doubles* is better than Rolling 99* *in opposed tests, if both participants fail, neither succeed, regardless of exact result. It's all in there in the current printing, but it's spread out a bit over several pages, and I still see people tripping up over 00 being the best/crits beating high margins, and I'm honestly not 100% sure that a 99 on a fray check won't get you shot up even if the person shooting fails with an 88.