So, my IRC game here morphed into a Roll20 game by mutual agreement. Our heroes prevented the hijacking and forced deorbiting of a lunar cycler by a group of radical reclaimers, taking back the command module of the cycler and re-engaging the defenses just in time to prevent the tugs that would have sent the cycler spiraling through the blockade. In the process, we learned some things. One is that I'm not terribly great at Fate. It's too easy for me to think in terms of rules as emulating some underlying reality, when Fate is very much about not doing that. Fate is about emulating a narrative process, and I frequently stumbled on this count. It brings up the question of who, exactly, this conversion guide is for. Is it for people who are already familiar with Fate but want to get into Eclipse Phase (which seems like the most useful thing the devs could do, from a financial perspective if nothing else)? Then it's missing a lot of context, examples, and explanations - obviously you don't want to reproduce the core book, but I don't feel comfortable saying I could hand this off to one of my Fate-playing friends and have them ready to engage in Eclipse Phase or make a character. Is it for Eclipse Phase fans who want to try some narrative stuff with their games? In that case, it's missing a lot of context for that - examples of how to translate EP staples into Fate-y narratives. In particular I had trouble translating situations where players were controlling drones and hacking systems by remote into Fate conflict - while I've got a handle on it now, I hope, it was really frustrating and jarring to end up in that situation with no idea how to handle it right off the bat. I'd strongly recommend at least some discussion on the use of telepresence and drones (especially drone durability and using them in conflicts) - it's a common situation in EP. There was also a basic inconsistency in that Firewall's function and place as the 'default campaign' in EP is ill-suited to Fate. Firewall acts as a way for characters from across the solar system who might otherwise never interact to join forces, and overcome (justified) paranoia by providing a layer of anonymity for agents. Firewall missions tend to be focused on accomplishing a specific task without personal complications, and the stakes a frequently so high as to default automatically to 'the ends justifies the means' (and the agents vetted to ensure that they're psychologically on board with that). This type of operation is the opposite of how Fate is designed to work, and it makes it hard to, for example, use a player's Trouble against them when they're trying to operate anonymously and maintaining a separation between their personal issues and the mission at hand. I actually had much more success in my previous game, prior to the playtest, using my homebrew Fate rules with a game set in 0.5 AF because it was much easier to connect the players and aspects to the world around them. Firewall is, in the context of Fate, a solution in search of a problem that causes more harm than it helps. Another is that field skills and tags are annoying. Extremely so. It was so bad that I lost a player who, halfway through making a character, became so frustrated with the conversion that he quit, commenting that it had "structure where it needed to leave things loose and narrative" - I think his view was that in order to make the character he wanted, he needed to spend so much on fields it would leave him feeling crippled without actually giving him enough to really work with. Morph aspects and tags went essentially unused the entire game; part of that was my fault, but I think also that the players didn't feel comfortable messing with them (well, that, and one of the players was an infomorph). Similarly, weaponry rules went unused; the players made every effort to never be in the same room with someone else with a gun who might want to use it. For veteran EP players, this is pretty much SOP when you're not wearing a Reaper, but it's also in a way of indictment of the weapon rules that the players weren't interested in using them at all - all players seemed to think that they were unnecessarily convoluted. The table of weapon lethality seems entirely unnecessary compared to simply have having a 'Damage' and 'Damage Reduction' numbers. All the table does is give you a table lookup in between figuring out what happens rather than just doing arithmetic. tl;dr: EXAMPLES. If you don't have WORKED EXAMPLES, you have NOTHING. Tags and field skills need to be rethought completely, and you need context and examples to make actually using this stuff viable. Firewall's position as the default campaign should be be reconsidered. Players: I will continue to be on #TranshumanFate on irc.sorcery.net, and I want to run another game on Sat or Sun, afternoon EST (obviously dependent on everyone's Xmas schedule). I'd also like to sit down and walk through your characters individually and make sure I have a complete record of everything and a more clear understanding of who the characters are - I'm considering running short individual sessions over the next few days if you have the time. The next game will probably be on the moon and we'll probably consider our previous game noncanonical or only loosely canonical. I'm a bit disappointed we haven't had many people drop by for general EP Fate discussion - while I no longer intend to run pure IRC games, I'd love to have an active IRC channel. (I'd also love if someone else was willing to GM a game).