How often, in game sessions (assume 1 session is 4-5 hours) do you switch morphs in your Eclipse Phase games?
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In my game, switching morphs happens somewhere between 0 and 1 time per session. I don't think we've had a session yet where they've switched morphs twice! It's probably something like every third or fourth session, depending?
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How often do you switch morphs in your game?
Sun, 2015-05-31 19:08
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How often do you switch morphs in your game?
Sun, 2015-05-31 21:55
#2
My players don't switch
My players don't switch morphs too often. Once an arc maybe? Their shoddy opsec is about to change that.
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Sun, 2015-05-31 22:48
#3
My view is that a morph fills
My view is that a morph fills a role in transhumanity roughly equivalent to that of a modern day car. Your average person my switch to a new morph once every 5 years or so, but within that average you have a lot of variability. Some people might swap as often as every six months or so, so people might hold a morph for over 15 years (especially if the morph is a 'classic'). Some people run their morph into the ground and some people take exceptional care of their morphs. Most people only own a single morph though enough people own more than one that it is hardly an eyebrow raising surprise to find someone owns multiple ones.
I find that thinking of morphs in these terms really helps with a lot of things (incidentally, I also tend to think of ego casting in terms of modern day air travel). It lets me understand that in some locations there are probably a much higher number of people without any morphs (i.e. infomorphs). The structure of where they live means that they can get by fine without owning a morph the vast majority of the time. On those occasions where they really do need a morph (such as going on a vacation) they just rent one.
There may even be setups where unattended morphs kind of sit around and anyone can rent the morph for a few hours (similar to how Car2Go works). There are certainly the companies that rent morphs for average use for people who are ego casting or who are unable to use their current morph for some reason. There are also companies that deal with specialized morphs such as morphs for construction projects or luxury morphs.
With all that said my answer of how often a player has to resleeve is 'it depends'. Players probably go through morphs a lot more often than your average transhuman (PCs being exceptional individuals) but that will still usually translate to not terribly often (unless they are upgrading) in most cases. On the other hand campaigns in which characters are trouble shooters and ego cast throughout the solar system will often have a high rate of resleeving and likewise a campaign where the characters are the transhuman equivalent of James Bond might have them resleeve every mission (Let's go through a few of the more interesting features of your new morph, 007).
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Mon, 2015-06-01 13:24
#4
In the last three sessions
In the last three sessions there's only been a single temporary resleeving, where a player temporarily ran as an infomorph in a vehicle while their body was being rebuilt. I'm running a gatecrashing game though, so morphs tend to be fairly heavily upgraded (most are in the 60-100 CP range) so resleeving doesn't come up as often as it could.
Mon, 2015-06-01 15:37
#5
10 Moxie a day keeps the psychosurgeon away
If I threw a bunch of stuff tailored to the 10 Moxie character at the party before the more dangerous parts of the mission there'd probably be more resleeving. Even half those uses can cover a lot of asses! I feel like this game is too lethal if no one thinks to get more than 2 points of Moxie, but it's almost a cakewalk if even one person has 9 or 10!
Mon, 2015-06-01 15:53
#6
Four of my five players have
Four of my five players have 7-10 MOX, but the fifth had 1, recently got a second with REZ because damn... he was going to die a lot more.
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Exhuman, and Humanitarian.
Tue, 2015-06-02 13:32
#7
Usually around once every 1
Usually around once every 1 or 2 sessions. Mostly from farcasting around the solar system. I had one session where all the players switched morphs 3 times in the same session.
Tue, 2015-06-02 17:36
#8
So like, in that session
So like, in that session where they farcasted 3 times... what morphs were they sleeving into?
Wed, 2015-06-03 01:26
#9
It was the Mind the WMD
It was the Mind the WMD scenario. 2 PCs didn't live on Locus, so they had to farcast (bouncer and ghost, I think. One PC actually lived there). Then they had to farcast to mars (barsoomian, slyph, arachnoid I think). Eventually they all got blown up by the WMD and were restored to their original bodies. Now that I think about it I think that was over 2 sessions, so really only 2 players had to resleeve twice in a single session.