The Morph Recognition Guide and Cards are a book and set of cards, respectively, that compile all the morphs published in Eclipse Phase books into one title. The guide has a compilation of morph-related rules, as well.

Mostly compiled stuff, but there is a lot of new art (we show every morph) and some IC text about the morphs (in the guide).

Yay, glad to hear it!

Yeah, I am expecting the art to focus on accuracy for this, given it's the morph recognition guide. So, right number of arms, gliding membrane, mechanical tail, etc. Also, wait, what?

Check out Adam Jury's tumblr for a sneak peek at some of the art. I'll admit it, I *squeed* a little when I saw them! The well endowed raccoon-thing ...you mean the Jenkin?

Urthdigger wrote:

...I really don't think anyone was asking for a description.

Then they should be glad I didn't provide one. :)

ShadowDragon8685 wrote:

We actually hashed out what it looked like and how it worked.

... ... ... [i]Why?[/i]

ThatWhichNeverWas wrote:

ShadowDragon8685 wrote:

We actually hashed out what it looked like and how it worked.

... ... ... [i]Why?[/i]

Boredom and curiosity, mainly. Also, he decided to offhandedly seduce the kind of NPC who would broadwave the XP to the whole solar system.

Urthdigger wrote:

Because she was curious mostly. Shadow, I don't mind you sharing those details... when all present want those details. In this case, we were discussing scurriers, and then a comment was made about a different well-endowed morph. Nobody was asking about a scurrier's junk, so please make sure that's what people want before sharing my details again.

Sorry. I saw "well-endowed raccoon thing," and immediately thought "Well, that could only be Scurriers, couldn't it?"

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Back on topic, I checked out Adam Jury's blog and saw the art. Some I recognized, most I did not. Can't wait to see the rest.

Link? Linklinklink?

Just got it and.... it. is. AWESOME!

They are a nice touch, especially the nod to urthdigger on the scurrier page! I'd been kicking around the idea of a swarmanoid doing the "ball bearing" trick and to see that mentioned gave me such a grin :). Usually I pictured the Samsa to be a bit like the Garthim this version works just fine!

It really a great book; the comments are fantastic.

MAD Crab wrote:

Any word on when those who missed the kick starter could obtain the guide?

PDF: July 16th Print: TBA

Great product, really. The size comparison is a great idea. I thought Flats were taller, as tall as the average human morphs :-) The image of the scurrier is the same of the manual and it has 4 limbs (plus a tail)

I used to make an errata thread for each release. That worked quite well. Someone who actually has the product might think about doing the same.

Chernoborg wrote:

They are a nice touch, especially the nod to urthdigger on the scurrier page!

I need this even more now.

Armoured wrote:

My only quibble, having skimmed through it, is the use of "moffie"as slang for a pleasure pod in its chat commentary. Its South African slang for a homosexual, but is almost exclusively used here in a negative fashion, much like "faggot" would be in the US. I'm sure PS+ or the contributors didn't mean anything by it, but I wonder if its connotations were appreciated by a non-South African while adding it to the book.

Slang probably wouldn't remain unchanged over so long, but for a pleasure pod slang might not be positive, either. In EP there's a bias against pods, and pleasure pods could get it the worst.

Lord_Asmodeus wrote:

The Samsa gets a +20 bonus to intimidation checks, but also -20 to social skills. Is this meant to cancel out so your intimidation stays the same, or is it supposed to apply a +20 bonus with intimidation being unaffected by the -20?

The intent is that it's supposed to be +20 to Intimidation, unaffected by the Unattractive trait (which, if anything, would help the intimidation in this case.)

Smokeskin wrote:

Slang probably wouldn't remain unchanged over so long, but for a pleasure pod slang might not be positive, either. In EP there's a bias against pods, and pleasure pods could get it the worst.

I'll grant you that in-universe such slang might be used, but there is still the question of whether it is appropriate for a out-of-context quote within an official sourcebook. It is entirely comparable with a comment in the book calling a male sylph a "faggot morph", or a reference to something as a nigger. That is the way the word is used in local language in South Africa. I'm not going to make this into a crusade, but I just thought I'd try to explain it clearly. The slur struck me as being really out of place, especially with the otherwise overwhelmingly inclusive directions taken by Posthuman Studios.

Armoured wrote:

My only quibble, having skimmed through it, is the use of "moffie"as slang for a pleasure pod in its chat commentary. Its South African slang for a homosexual, but is almost exclusively used here in a negative fashion, much like "faggot" would be in the US.

I'm the one who put that line in. When I was coming up with slang terms, I intentionally went looking for a non-English term roughly along the lines of "fag" in English, with the idea that over time, terms are often recuperated and turned around and used in other ways, much like "queer" was reappropriated by the gay rights movement into a positive thing. There's power in taking terms that are offensive and repurposing them, stripping them of that offensive context. With pleasure pods in particular, I figured that some of those old homophobic terms would have have been taken and given new context more appropriate to EP's culture(s). After all, the setting of EP with its body-swapping of any sex and pleasure pods with their fluid sexual characteristics really help to address how ridiculous homophobic notions like that are and will be in the future. I understand that it might raise an eyebrow with someone reading it who's aware of its current usage. Not being South African, I of course don't know the full cultural impact of that term, and using slang from outside your normal cultural context is always potentially dangerous territory. We're obviously opposed to homophobia, though, and I expect our readers can grok the intent and see that we're not using it in that derogatory context. Thanks for bring it up, though -- I appreciate that our customers catch stuff like this and bring their concerns to our attention. I hope you realize where we were coming from and take the whole line about pleasure pod slang as an exploration of how such things might really be in the future, and not with any sort of offensive intent -- and also as an opportunity to discuss these kinds of things.

AdamJury wrote:

Morph Recognition Guide is now available: http://eclipsephase.com/morph-recognition-guide-pdf-online

Its so big....

in all seriousness thank you thank thank you for this book. it really helps consolidate all the morph and biomods and cyberware across half a dozen books into one place. only thing better would be EP's integration into a place like d20srd Also can anyone confirm that it is supposed to end on the morph consipiracies segment with no follow up credits and references section and the like? drive through rpg source 130 page pdf

ORCACommander wrote:

Also can anyone confirm that it is supposed to end on the morph consipiracies segment with no follow up credits and references section and the like? drive through rpg source 130 page pdf

Yes. It's a 128 page book.

Well, I finally have my own copy. Can't see the alleged reference to me, unless they mean the bit on quadruped variants so folks like me shut up about the image used :P In any case, loving this. I've been a scurrier since the day I picked up this game, but having a nice way to look through them all, with images and lore bits on each, made me really consider branching out to other morphs. Even some of the human ones!

DW i think that is because the guide completely lacks the build your own morph section from transhuman

I'm still just giggling over the reference to one of my screen names in here. *does the squealing fangirl dance for a moment then goes back to being the faceless infomorph*