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Developer Explains Clone/Transhumanist RPG

Posted by Soulskill on from the gamers-don't-like-words-that-big dept.

destinyland writes "How much would you use technology to change yourself if humanity faced extinction? In this interview, the two creators behind Eclipse Phase explain their bizarre role-playing game, which 'expands the transhuman conversation.' All the characters can be identical clones, and when you switch bodies, it affects your core characteristics while damaging your sanity. But its spookiest concept is close to reality today: the idea of universal surveillance in which 'everything is networked and equipped with sensors and all meshed together.'"

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  1. What a pity.. by Nareth · · Score: 3, Informative

    As I was reading, I was thinking what an innovative and interesting game this would make, one thing the mmorpg market hasn't seen yet. ...And then, much to my distress, I realize it's a pen-and-paper game.

  2. And it's licensed under creative commons. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    It looks like the developer has licensed the game under Creative Commons as well, and are seeding their own torrent of the rulebook. ENWorld thread here: http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/264237-eclipse-phase-legal-torrent-creative-commons.html

  3. Re:Pic from TFA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    If it's any consolation, there are, in fact, transhumanist furries. Of course, they don't call themselves that...

  4. Greetings, Friend Citizen! What is your clearance? by E-Sabbath · · Score: 3, Informative

    Hm. Multiple clones. Universal surveilance. Questioning what it means to be alive and human in a world that values neither.
    I've been playing this for years! Except it was a bit more brightly colored. And had more Bouncy Bubble Beverage. (It's the Mandatory Thing, you know.)

    I'm so far behind the cutting edge I'm in front of it, apparently. Well...

    Friend Computer, how may I serve the Complex today?