Eclipse Phase & Posthuman Studios 2024

Fresh from our recent Character Options BackerKit, here's a group of updates about what's going on in 2024!

Fulfilling Character Options

Backers have received the Character Options digital version and a corrected update is on the way. That corrected update is what will be printed, and we aim to have the book at the printer by mid-January.

Eclipse Phase Character Options

We will open BackerKit for order fulfillment and pre-orders after the books ship from printer to us. We anticipate this to be in March 2024.

Beyond Character Options

We'll have a couple small titles coming out in the next few months, and then we'll be dealing with all the logistics of fulfilling Character Options and the Morph Recognition Deck.

After that there's the NPC File 2 book to look forward to, along with Your Whispering Muse, the "Space Combat" book we've been working on via Patreon, and a revamp to the very first Eclipse Phase adventure: Mind the WMD, from the first edition Quick-Start Rules.

NPC File 2 Preview

Patreon Highlights

  • Monthly Projects: Our Patreon delivers community-voted projects, later integrated into various formats.
  • Early Content: Patreon supporters receive playtest drafts and more, with exciting plans for 2024.
  • Current Project: December's focus is on revising Mind the WMD.

Posthuman Studios and Communications

In today's changing social media landscape, we're focusing on direct communication channels:

  1. This website, eclipsephase.com
  2. Our mailing list, which you can subscribe to at http://eepurl.com/RIsbn
  3. Our Discord server: https://discord.com/invite/bPkxUxh

We value your engagement and presence! Stay connected for the latest updates and discussions.

Thanks for Your Support!

The tabletop game business remains challenging, and our best way forward is keeping a close relationship with our fans. Beyond the above, we have some great stuff planned for later this year and we look forward to bringing it to you!

Character Options BackerKit: Closes on Tuesday!

The Character Options BackerKit is heading into the last few days, so now is the time to support this campaign and the future of Eclipse Phase. All backers already have access to the Character Options digital edition so you can start making new characters immediately. The book is finished and will be going to print shortly after the campaign closes so we plan to deliver books in the first quarter of 2024!

Character Options brings lifepath character creation to Second Edition, as well as updating and adding new morphs into the game, so you truly have a body for every possible situation or scene!

The campaign has fully-funded Character Options in hardcover, as well as an upgraded Morph Recognition Deck.

A lot of campaigns are loaded-up with stretch goals, but this one isn't. After we've produced Character Options and the Morph Recognition Deck, funds from this campaign will be used to reprint Eclipse Phase Second Edition in the glorious hardcover cloth bookmarked form you expect from us at Posthuman Studios.

It's possible that we'll have to raise the print price on this reprint, so all supporters of this campaign that add Eclipse Phase Second Edition hardcover to their rewards will lock in the current price.

There's an easy backer level that includes both Character Options and Eclipse Phase Second Edition, add-ons for the Morph Recognition Deck, and also a bunch of merchandise — including the brand new Octomorph t-shirt.

Thank you for your support!

Character Options for Eclipse Phase Second Edition coming to BackerKit!

Posthuman Studios is bringing their next book, Eclipse Phase Character Options, to BackerKit for crowdfunding in September! We had copies of the Advance Version at Gen Con 2023 — the book is complete and ready for print. The digital version will be available for backer download early in the campaign.

Eclipse Phase Character Options features an extensive Lifepath Character Creation system, ideal for building characters while learning the Eclipse Phase setting at the same time. Beyond that, the new Morph Recognition Guide includes every morph from Eclipse Phase Second Edition, new morphs, and morphs converted from first edition — well over 100 bodies to slide your ego into!

The Morph Types section includes an overview of the morph rules, including a new category — core morphs — those designed to run habitats or ships.

The book wraps up with morph creation rules, new traits, new ware, rules for identifying morphs, knock-off morphs, and elite and limited-edition morphs.

Character Options gives you all the options you need to create the transhuman of your dreams!

The pre-launch page is live on BackerKit — sign up to get notifications about when the campaign will launch. We'll be funding the hardcover edition of Character Options, an alternative softcover wire-o bound version (only available directly from us), and some modest and related stretch goals!

Print fulfillment will be done in partnership with Atlas Games, and digital rewards from DriveThruRPG.com!

Subscribe to the pre-launch page to keep up-to-date with previews and news.

Multiplicity and Synthesis for Eclipse Phase!

Over on our Patreon we do a monthly project, voted on by supporters at the Promethean and TITAN levels. In June that project was "A User's Guide to Forks and Group Minds" and it updated and added to material previously published in Transhuman—quickly becoming a 14-page sourcebook that is now available to everyone!

Multiplicity and Synthesis

Multiplicity and Synthesis dives deep into the technological and social implications of both forking—the practice of copying your mind—and group minds composed of multiple egos. This supplement is essential for thinking about character concepts who aren't limited to a single mind. It includes optional merging rules, new mental ware, a new async sub-strain (the Swarm), and new sleights.

Multiplicity and Synthesis cover

Multiplicity and Synthesis is a 14-page Eclipse Phase sourcebook with 3 pages of *Eclipse Phase Second Edition* rules + GM-specific advice. It's available via DriveThruRPG and Posthuman.Shop

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Posthuman Studios Patreon

All of the Monthly Projects on our Patreon are intended for public consumption at some point in the future, and your support helps guide the future of Eclipse Phase—plus you'll get some great benefits along the way!

Eclipse Phase Bundle of Holding: Limited Time!

We've teamed up with Bundle of Holding for a limited-time Eclipse Phase Second Edition deal that is almost too good to be true: Eclipse Phase Second Edition, multiple adventures + Nano Ops, and other GMing resources all for $14.95. That's ten dollars less than just the core rulebook PDF by itself!

This Bundle of Holding brings you much of the EP2 line:

  • Eclipse Phase Second Edition core rulebook — 432 pages with all the rules and setting information you need to play!
  • EP2 Quick-Start Rules — introductory rules plus a Firewall adventure, Acrimony.
  • EP2 Character Pack — All sixteen sample characters in a two-page quick-play format.
  • Overrun — an introductory adventure for Gatecrashing or Firewall characters. Does "hostile xenolife" say enough without saying too much?
  • Xenovore — a standalone Gatecrashing adventure brings the characters to the exoplanet Vishnu for a spectacular find, 38 pages.
  • Router Case Files — 24 pages of plot hooks covering the core campaign types—Firewall, gatecrashing, and Guanxi criminals—then spanning the solar system to deal with hypercorps, uplifts, media, politics, and more!
  • Nano Op: All That Glitters — navigate political intrigues and spy games to target a diplomat at an exclusive soiree.
  • Nano Op: Better on the Inside — Gatecrashers enter an abandoned alien tomb and find the threat of death still viable.
  • Nano Op: Body Count — rescue a triad ally’s cortical stack from a Martian Rangers’ resleeving facility.
  • Nano Op: Grinder — intercept an exsurgent packagean at an experimental food theater before it infects thousands.

This time-limited bundle is available until August 3rd 2022, which happens to be the day before Gen Con starts!