/th/ - Transhumanism

I don't understand how anyone has the patience to play traditional games. How long did it take you to memorize the gameplay guide? Years? How do you actually find people to roleplay with?

It took about a month of occasional reading. I went over the whole book at least three times. I find people to RP with online. I usually use Roll20 for actual gameplay.

Don't act like I'm some kind of freak just because you lack discipline.

How do online rp games go? Does a game ever actually last for a decent ammount of time?

>>58
Some of my D&D games have, but with EP I got into it the same time I got a new job that doesn't have a regular schedule so I can't plan game night on a specific day of the week any more. That really threw a wrench in things. It's more my problem than a problem with the game or tabletop in general.

The real problem with online is that things take twice as long because some of my players have ADD and I've had to threaten to boot them from the game before for surfing the net or jacking off when they should have been paying attention.

>>62
That's exactly what I imagined playing tg online would be like. That being said, I think I'll read the ep book front to back atleast once. Seems like a decent source of transhumanist themed scifi knowledge.

Some of this stuff is pretty ridiculous, but there has to be at least some cosmic horror shit or there's no game.

>>68
It's in the final chapter. This is technically a spoiler, but fuck it, 99.9% of you will never play EP anyway.

There is a race of alien life out in our Galaxy that pretty much "owns" the whole damn thing, although their structures are mostly limited to the rim. Think of the entire species as being almost like one big godlike being spread out across all of its component parts, be they "people" or structures or even nanites. It essentially IS the galaxy we live in. We, as an entire species, represent nothing more than a minor bacterial infection, lesser than the hundreds to thousands your body is fighting off at this very moment. The Exsurgent Virus, which keeps species like Humanity from progressing past a certain point at breakneck singularity-speeds, is like their immune system. Or possibly only one layer of their immune system.

Unless transhumanity becomes aware of the threat and figures out a way to either avoid it or defeat it then they will eventually be destroyed by the superior alien species that is over a billion years ahead of us.

>>73
Another Anon here…

I read some of the EP fluff from time to time, it's pretty fun.

I have a hard-on for these guys:

https://eclipse-phase.wikispaces.com/Ultimates

Would you happen to have any of those wall-of-text pics that go into the history of the Ultimates' leader?

I remember seeing them on a forum a while ago, but didn't save any, and now I can't find them.

There were 3-4, each filled with a huge wall of text on a cyan-ish background.

Would really appreciate it if you could upload a few! (if you know what I'm talking about)

Or any art of the Ultimates themselves. The EP wiki is notoriously bereft of pics.