[*]What is it?
Eclipse Phase is a pen-and-paper RPG designed for transhuman horror and conspiracy campaigns.
It's also a game that was released under the Creative Commons License, so people can redistribute the .pdf all over the place legally.
The standard campaign setting makes the players members of a secret organization called Firewall that deals with threats to transhumanity, namely the TITANs, the Exsurgent Virus, and TERRORISTS.
The TITANs are a bunch of self-improving AIs that went batshit insane and either directly or indirectly waged war on humanity while forcibly uploading people before disappearing into space, it is rumored that they left through the Pandora Gates, artifacts of an extraterrestrial race that act as the FTL in the setting, near as I can tell. The Exsurgent Virus is a nanovirus that can infect meat and machine alike, and may have been created by the TITANs or aliens.
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There's also the Resources section on the site, where you can download a quickstart and some other stuff.
Of course, we can always choose to just throw all the original setting fluff to the wind and just do whatever is awesome at the moment.
[*]Other fun links
*MUSE*
http://epmuse.farvista.net/ Guy is trying to set up a bunch of useful tools for players and gamemasters.
*Hard Takeoff*
http://sites.google.com/site/hardtakeoff/ Website that basically redoes the crash-course to the setting, has some custom rules.
*Firewall Darkcast*
http://www.firewall-darkcast.com/wiki/w ... l-dcs-wiki It's a wiki.
*Cargo Culture*
http://www.cargo-culture.net/blag/ Some helpful stuff, a primer and an excel character sheet.
[*]When are we going to play, and with whom?
Right now, TheClamV2, Kallemort, and Control are known to have interest in playing.
Clam says he wants to do some gatecrashing (go through pandora gates to see the other side for fun, profit, and mental trauma), and Kallemort made a spacecrab mechanic. I have a lot of ideas for what can be done but I am up for just about anything really. Running sessions will be challenging until I can get good schedules for this, so if you're interested (this includes you, calm/kalle/ctrl), please post your timezone and any days/times when you definitely cannot play.
Character sheets should be done using one of the editable character sheets in the download earlier in the post (yes, the .txt file is a character sheet that I made myself). I'll be making a post or something later to explain chargen because for some reason people get really confused with it.
