Hey guys! Has anyone done an Eclipse Phase Hack or such using Uncharted Worlds as a base?
Hey guys! Has anyone done an Eclipse Phase Hack or such using Uncharted Worlds as a base?
Hey guys! Has anyone done an Eclipse Phase Hack or such using Uncharted Worlds as a base?
What do you want from Eclipse Phase that UW doesn’t provide?
A quick skim of the Eclipse Phase wikipedia makes it sound like, while the upcoming Far Beyond Humanity text might help fill some gaps, UW will probably work as is.
Indeed, Far Beyond will certainly help with some EP setting elements.
I think the most complicated thing to get right is the whole body changing. After that, yeah, just a some equipment conversion and some new tags.
I think my biggest concern is how to give each morph its own feel.
That sounds like it’d be all in the fictional positioning of their form.
So, FBH will have info about using surgeons and stuff to install biomods/cybermods into your body. For something more like regular and painless body-changing, sounds like a custom move whereby a character can add a Tag directly to their body. I dunno the exact form the move would take, but something like that would be quickest and most painless.
It would definetly need a move for resleeving a new morph and some rules/moves attached to morph and some others to ego.
I think that part is key to the EP setting. The rest can be done with any cyberpunk game, though for EP I’d go The Sprawl rather than UW. It is grittier and matches better to EP in my opinion, not meaning it is impossible to use UW.
Does Sprawl use the PbtA engine? I can see sticking with what you know as that would make running an EP inspired game easier. I’ve been tempted to do that with a number of older titles are are too crunchy to run for my group.
Sprawl is definitely a PbtA game, and its mission structure would make sense given EP’s theme of being existential threat troubleshooters.
Eduardo Henrique Schaeffer
I have been planning to run EP using UW.
Body swapping can be easily done by applying Tags to your current body. Which ones? Fury, Menton, Futura, Exalt… they could all be singular Tags.
Also, I intend to use Urban Shadows Faction systems with UW to simulate EP’s reputation based economy.