This page provides various resources for Eclipse Phase fans, whether you are playing a game, running a campaign, or creating your own homebrew material. We have a lot to offer, so the list below will help you jump directly to the section you need.
- Creative Commons Licensing
- Eclipse Phase Quick-Start Rules
- Character and Record Sheets (see also various fan creations)
- Errata
- EP Promotional Material
- Game Tips
- Toolkits for Fans
- Fan-Created Material and Websites
- EP's Creators, Writers, and Artists
- Book Previews
- Delicious News and Links
- Transhumanism and Accelerating Technologies
- Politics and Economics
- Sci-fi Writers to Watch
Character and Record Sheets
Things that may come in handy for your Eclipse Phase game:- Morphless Character Sheet (PDF, designed to be used with Eclipse Phase Modifier Cards and Morph Recognition Cards)
- EP Character Sheet (PDF)
- Morph Record Sheet (Two-Up) (PDF)
- Sample Characters, formatted for iPad, Landscape and Portrait. (These PDFs are free, but if you think they are useful you can buy them for $5 from DriveThruRPG. No obligation!)
Errata
Though we aim for perfection, until the AIs come, we must admit to making mistakes. After the AIs come, it's their fault!- Core Rulebook Major Errata Version 1.4 (PDF), which just lists the major rules and setting fixes. These corrections are included in the fourth printing PDF and print release (June 2014).
- Sunward Major Errata Version 1.2 (PDF), contains the corrections in the latest PDF version of Sunward and the 2nd Printing, and complete corrected pages for the Mobile Scientist and Synthmorph Activisit sample characters.
- Gatecrashing Major Errata Version 1.2 (PDF), contains the corrections in the latest PDF version of Gatecrashing and the upcoming 2nd Printing.
Promotional Materials
Flyers, postcards, ads, wallpaper, and similar promotional items we've used to plug Eclipse Phase. Feel free to print these out and share them at your local FLGS or sci-fi/gaming con!- EP Logo: PSD - Black, PSD - White
- EP Poster (PDF) (Origins and GenCon, July 2008)
- EP Promo Postcard #2 (PDF) (For WorldCon and GenCon, August 2009)
- iPhone/iPod wallpaper: Core Book, Glory, Sunward, EP Tagline
- iPad wallpaper: Core Book, Glory, Sunward, EP Tagline
Game Tips
Advice, suggestions, plot hooks, and other freebies we've posted on our blog:- Get Your Stealth On
- Identifying and Analyzing TITAN Artifacts
- What's a Red Market?
- Can I Be A Collective Mind?
- 5 Martian Plot Hooks

Toolkits
To help people take advantage of the Creative Commons license, here are a few toolkits:- Character Sheet Creation Package (InDesign files)
- Character Sheet Creation Package (InDesign files + GPLed font, contributed by Garrett Guillotte)
- EP Quick-Start Rules Package (RTF files)
Fan-Created Material and Websites
The Creative Commons license detailed above allows you to modify and remix Eclipse Phase material (as specified on the CC licensing page). Here is a collection of interesting and useful fan-created mods, mash-ups, and original material. Note that we both link to the fan sites when possible (so you can get the most up-to-date versions) and mirror the download here (possibly out-of-date) just in case:
Character Sheets and Player Tools:
- Character Generation Spreadsheet (XLS) by Kindalas (Version .95 mirror)
- Character Generation Spreadsheet (XLS) by Tony Lee (Version 3 mirror)
- Alternate-Color
Character Sheets (PDF) by James
Knevitt
- Form-fillable Character Sheet with GPLed fonts (PDF) by Garrett Guillotte
- Form-fillable Character Sheet (PDF) by Stephen Slater-Brown
- Character Sheet (PDF) by the Mad Ruster
- Character Sheet (PDF) by TreChriron (v2 mirror)
- Excel Character Sheet (XLSX) (XLS Version) by Radoslaw Kasiuk
- Character Portfolio by Ryan Northcott (Version 6 mirror)
- An EP Primer (collection of tables, timeline, map, rules summaries from core book) (mirror)
- Portrait Character Sheet (PDF) with OmniGraffle files for hacking by Unpossible Labs (v1.5 mirror, source file mirror)
- Form-fillable Landscape Character Sheet (PDF) with OmniGraffle files for hacking by Unpossible Labs (v1.3 mirror, source file mirror)
- Dual Morph Character Sheet (PDF; see release notes) with OmniGraffle files for hacking by Unpossible Labs (v1.4 mirror, source file mirror)
- The pre-gen Sample Characters from the EP Core Book, Quickstart Rules, and Sunward, in a print-friendly no-pictures PDF format, thanks to the Alexandrian (mirror).
- Extended and form-fillable character sheets in red and blue from Mephil (red mirror/blue mirror)
GM Reference, Cheatsheets, and Rules Hacks
- 10 Things You Should Know About Eclipse Phase, a useful guide by David Cooper, one of our Gen Con GMs (mirror)
- An Introduction to Eclipse Phase by Marc Huete, one of our writers and Gen Con GMs (mirror)
- Landscape Version of the EP Gamemaster Screen by TreChriron (mirror)
- Sir Jelly's Totally Awesome EP Reference Sheet (mirror)
- A Hacking Cheatsheet by VoidState (mirror)
- An EP core book Gear List with prices and page references by NoirFatale (mirror)
- Codebreaker's Compendium of Custom Morphs
- Custom Biomorph Creation Rules
- Psi Sleight Tables (XLS format) for quick lookups by nielsk (mirror)
- Weapon Tables (XLS format) for quick lookups by nielsk (mirror)
- Primitive melee and ranged weapon stats (PDFs) by Colin Chapman (melee mirror, ranged mirror)
- More neurological damage by Anders Sandberg (mirror)
- Prep Notes and new maps for running Ego Hunter, by the Alexandrian
- A wealth abstraction system, by Oroborous (mirror)
- Distances in the solar system (PDF), by Anders Sandberg (mirror)
Book Formats
- The EP Core Rulebook converted to lightweight HTML (Latex files) (mirror)
- The EP Core Rulebook converted into ePub (mirror) and MOBI (mirror) by nielsk
- A mobile version of the EP Core Rulebook PDF optimized by Decivre (mirror)
- An EP Core Rules Wiki by Jay Dugger
- EP core book and Sunward converted into HTML (along with some image files) by Gee4orce (mirror)
- Sunward converted into Mobi and ePub formats, and source files, by nielsk (mirror)
The Eye Fanzine
- Issue #1: EP vs. Mass Effect, Interview with David Brin, swarmanoids, adventures, and more! (mirror)
- Issue #2: Aquatic morphs, nanofab, heavy weapons, fiction, and more! (mirror)
- Issue #3: New reputation rules, flexbot rules, psi, morphs, and then some. (mirror)
- Issue #4: Dust to Dust scenario, plus articles on neo-avians and other uplifts. (mirror)
Apps and Software Tools
- An EP Dice Roller App for Android smartphones by MDS (mirror)
- An online Combat Manager for EP on the Muse fan site
- A .NET 3.5 dice roller for EP (mirror)
- An EP Core Rules C++ Code Library by Joël Lamotte
Adventures
- Think Before Asking, an adventure by Anders Sandberg (mirror)
- Lurking in Every Flower, an adventure by Anders Sandberg (mirror)
- Indigo Latitude, an adventure by Anders Sandberg (mirror)
- The Black Spot, an adventure by Anders Sandberg (mirror)
- Armstrong's Gold, an adventure by Anders Sandberg (mirror)
- From Blinding Heights, an adventure series by AW Daberton: Chain Reaction (v1.2 mirror, no key map), Dance with Devil (v1.0 mirror, no key map), and Kill the Queen (v1.0 mirror, no key map)
- An rpg.net thread on transhuman campaign ideas
Source Material
- A forum thread on Building Extropia and detailing the habitat
- Meltwater Mars habitat community project
- 6 NPCs and 3 Locales with source file by Unpossible Labs (version 1.1 mirror, source file mirror)
- A selection of Character Options (new backgrounds, factions, morphs, traits, and rep networks) by Mephit James
- Kalevala, an exoplanet cut from Gatecrashing, by Malcolm Sheppard (mirror)
- An RPG.net thread on 101 Rimward habitats (12 listed)
Rules Conversions
- A conversion of EP to the D6 system
- Eclipse Fate: A conversion of EP to the Fate system. See also this project, this thread and this one.
- A conversion of EP to the Hero system by Legendsmiths, Inc.
- Savage Singularity: a conversion of EP to the Savage Worlds system by Chris Guiney (mirror)
- A Strangely-Eclipsed Aeon: an EP-Cthulhutech mashup by EarthScorpion
- Strange Aeon: Adding the Cthulhu Mythos to EP by Gullinbursti
- Converting EP spacecraft to GURPS
- Eclipse Maid: a rather odd mash-up of EP and Maid by David Prokopetz (rpg.net thread)
- A hack of EP for the FU system by Jean-Baptiste Breton (mirror) (rpg.net thread)
- Eclipse Fiasco, a Fiasco playset mash-up by Paul Ettin
- An Eclipse Phase conversion to Marvel Heroic Roleplaying by that70sbloke
- Converting EP to the World of Darkness (rpg.net thread)
- Eclipse Cthulhu, with writeups on Setting, Bestiary, and Pressure (a scenario set on Europa) by Mellonbread
- Playing Eclipse Phase with the Gumshoe system, along with notes for running the Continuity and Ego Hunter scenarios, by gitkrax
Images
- The Political Bloc Faction Icons, exported from the PDF (ZIP) by Democritus
- Paper character figure popups by kindalas (mirror) -- also in a smaller version (mirror)
- Sunward hack pack images reformatted by CodeBreaker
- User Bars for Displaying Your Faction on the Forums
Maps
- A printer-friendly inverted color version of the solar system map from the EP core rulebook (thanks evapor8d!) (large version mirror)
- A space station map by Cereth-Roh (mirror)
- EP Mind Maps by Jay Dugger
- A Solar System Map Scaled by Population Density by Kindalas
- Corvalis Synthetics Battle Map for the Bump in the Night scenario by Kindalas (mirror)
- A modified version of the Mars map from Sunward by Chuck Lang
- A kmz format map of Mars for use with Google Earth by Anders Sandberg
- Mars elevation map from Kindalas (hi-rez version) (mirror)
- Titan map updated with new actual topography from Kindalas (mirror)
- A printer-friendly map of Legba for the Devotees scenario (mirror)
- ArcGIS map layers for Mercury, Venus, and Mars from CircaGIS
Translations
- EP Quick Start Rules French translation by Black Book Editions (mirror)
- Eclipse Phase core book French translation by ohkin
- Eclipse Phase core book German translation project (incomplete) by nielsk
- EP Quick Start Rules Italian translation
- Partial EP Quck Start Rules Spanish translation
- Eclipse Phase Wiki en Español
- Lack translated into Italian by Chris B. Ware (mirror)
- Some parts of the core book can be found in Italian at Sentinelle del Firewall
- Japanese-language translations of the Eclipse Phase Quick-Start Rules: Introduction, Adventure, Character Sheets (on the scum barge), and Character Sheets (on Mars) by Janus
- Japanese-language translations of Lack, Enter the Singularity, A Time of Eclipse, Game Mechanics, Character Creation, Skills, Sample Characters, and Action and Combat from the core rulebook by Janus
- Some of the other downloads listed here translated into Spanish by Albertorious
- Eclipse Phase character sheet in Spanish by Ashen Victor (mirror)
- Keep up or join in with other translation projects here!
Actual Play
- Through a Glass Darkly - by Role Playing Public Radio
- EP Glory Scenario Actual Play - A Glorious Fall - by Role Playing Public Radio
- Know Evil - the longest EP actual play campaign so far, with 24 episodes and counting -- by Role Playing Public Radio
- Think Before Asking - by Role Playing Public Radio
- Dead Run - by Role Playing Public Radio
- The folks at Rag-NERD-Rok have a number of actual plays up, including: Bump in the Night, Delta Fork, Godfire, I Heart Tartarus, Mind the WMD, Self-Discovery, and You Can't Go Home Again
- To Each His Own by Cardboard Castle
Fan Websites
- Firewall Darkcast Wiki+
- Path of Totality - Anders Sandberg's site, loaded with great material!
- Stumbling Out of Twilight (Kindalas)
- Hard Takeoff
- Muse
- Black Ocean Datanest
- October Northwest
- Antarctica Starts Here
- EclipsePhase.fr (French-language community)
- Analog Game Studies (Japanese language)
- Unpossible Labs
- Mephit James' Games
- Farcast, an Eclipse Phase Yearblog
- Sentinelle del Firewall (Italian site)
- Transhumanismo, o no (Spanish site)
EP's Creators, Writers, Artists, and Publishing Partners
Aside from this website, there are a few ways to keep in touch with Posthuman Studios and the creators of Eclipse Phase:
- Eclipse Phase on Twitter
- Eclipse Phase on Facebook
- Posthuman Studios website
- Rob Boyle's Professional Site
- Rob Boyle on Twitter
- Brian Cross on Twitter
- Adam Jury's Personal/Professional Site
- Adam Jury on Twitter
- Jack Graham's Blog (Lonesome Robot)
- Jack Graham on Twitter
- John Snead's Professional Site
- John Snead's Livejournal
- Contributor Bios
- Artist Websites
- Our publishing partner, Sandstorm Productions
- Black-Book Editions, our French-language partners
Book Previews
Excerpts from upcoming Eclipse Phase books:- Gatecrashing Preview #1: Fissure Gate
- Gatecrashing Preview #2: Gatecrashing Ops
- Gatecrashing Preview #3: Sky Ark
- Mercurial Scavenger sample character (PDF) (Core Book Preview #1)
- "Lack" fiction piece (PDF) (Core Book Preview #2)
- Character sheet (PDF) (Core Book Preview #3)
- Table of Contents (PDF) (Core Book Preview #4)
- References (PDF) (Core Book Preview #5)
- Hypercorp Black Marketeer sample character (PDF) (Core Book Preview #6)
- Misc. art previews
Delicious News and Links
An updated list of tech news and other interesting internet resources can be found on our delicious.com bookmarking page. Links are tagged with different categories, organized on the right side of the page:Transhumanism and Accelerating Technologies
Explore the science, politics, technology, and philosophies behind Eclipse Phase. Gamemasters might find these resources valuable in enhancing play and creating stories in the Eclipse Phase universe.
- Transhumanism on Wikipedia
- Accelerating Future
- Accelerating Studies Foundation
- Center for Cognitive Liberty&Ethics
- Center for Responsible Nanotechnology
- Foresight Nanotechnology Institute
- Humanity Plus
- Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
- Institute for the Future
- Kurzweil - AI/Accelerating Intelligence News
- Lifeboat Foundation
- Open the Future
- Sentient Developments
- Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
- Smart Mobs
- Transhumanist Declaration
- Transhumanist FAQ
- Transhumanist Network
Politics and Economics
Eclipse Phase explores a number of political and economic models that are not widespread today, but which have potential in the future. These sites will provide you with more information on these ideas:- Anarchism on Wikipedia
- An Anarchist FAQ
- Anarcho-Transhumanism
- Cognitive Liberty on Wikipedia
- Democratic Transhumanism
- Free Culture
- Gift Economy on Wikipedia
- Morphological Freedom on Wikipedia
- Nanosocialism on Wikipedia
- The Politics of Transhumanism
- Post-Scarcity Economy on Wikipedia
- Techno-Progressivism on Wikipedia
- Transhumanist Socialism
Sci-Fi Writers to Watch
Eclipse Phase borrows heavily from a genre of science fiction that is in turn influenced by several key writers. Here's how you can follow these authors and/or find out more about them and their work.- Iain Banks (Culture universe)
- David Brin (Uplift universe)
- Warren Ellis (Transmetropolitan and Global Frequency, among others)
- Peter Hamilton
- Ken Macleod
- Richard Morgan (Takeshi Kovacs novels)
- Alistair Reynolds (Revelation Space universe and other stories)
- Kim Stanley Robinson (Mars trilogy)
- Bruce Sterling (Schismatrix and Holy Fire, among others)
- Charlie Stross
- Vernor Vinge
- Peter Watts