Eclipse Phase Character Options

Hey Backers!

Today we're starting the Smoke Test for backer surveys. This means we going to send out surveys to roughly 5% of you (randomly chosen) so we can make sure that there aren't any problems with surveys, backer levels, add-ons, and everything else.

If you get a survey in the next 24 hours, it would be a great help if you filled it out ASAP — especially if you're getting items that have options (like t-shirts).

If you run into any problems or confusion, email [email protected] so we can get things figured out.

On a somber note: if you're effected by hurricane Helene and that will get in the way of you finishing the survey, receiving a shipment or paying for shipping/etc, please reach out to [email protected] and we'll accomodate you.

Hello everyone!

Just letting y'all know that we're in the final stages of making an agreement with a company to handle all of the non-USA non-Canada shipping, and once that's finalized we'll be sending out surveys and opening BackerKit for finalizing shipping and add-ons, including the upcoming Eclipse Phase Second Edition core rulebook reprint!

There's been a lot going on since Gen Con, so we will start with the summary and move into details:

Staff Returns

It’s exciting that two owners are increasing their roles in the company at the same time! Bringing Brian back into the fold has already increased our human bandwidth and started pushing projects forward. Also … it’s fun to have his sardonic sense of humor around more often.

Eclipse Phase Second Edition Core Rulebook Reprint

We are working with a new printer to get the Eclipse Face Second Edition core rulebook reprinted — you may have seen over on the Patreon or our Discord that we have been compiling new corrections for this printing, and that the preliminary errata document can be viewed here.

Other touchups beyond errata will happen in this reprint — here's a work-in-progress on a revised Character Archetypes spread:



As always, the PDF update will be free for anyone who has already purchased it, and we are set to release all of Eclipse Phase Second Edition (plus a little bit more) in a wiki format.

Finally: pre-ordering the EP2 reprint via BackerKit will lock you in at the $60 price for the reprint. It is highly possible we will be raising the print price with this reprint due to overall rising costs to produce printed books of the quality we do.

Mind the WMD Resleeved in Print & Digital

Our latest adventure is Mind the WMD Resleeved, a thorough updating of the adventure originally included in the First Edition Quick-Start Rules. The print edition will be available in the Character Options BackerKit!

Mind the WMD: Resleeved is an adventure that brings the Scum swarm Ecstatic Metamorphosis to life. From the swarm itself and then onto Mars it provides many investigative routes, including options for entering the TITAN Quarantine Zone. 
 
MtWMD is a great scenario for starting a Firewall campaign or inserting into an existing one, and it leaves plenty of dangling threads at the end that can be used to tie into a longer campaign. It is also tangentially connected to the Eclipse Phase Second Edition opening fiction, Infamy.

Mind the WMD: Resleeved is a 32-page printed book with 3 detailed battlemaps, each available in multiple versions, drawn by Miska's Maps, perfect for playing the scenario on a VTT. All book purchases include digital copies of each battlemap plus variants!

Digital version of Mind the WMD: Resleeved are available on DriveThruRPG and Posthuman.Shop



Wrap Up!

Thanks for supporting Eclipse Phase Character Options! Please post any questions or comments below, jump into our Discord, or email [email protected]

Thanks to a speedy pivot by our printer, we have copies of Character Options for Gen Con 2024.

If you backed this project and want to pick your print copy up at the show, fill out this form!

(A limited number of copies will be available for sale for $55, the only print copies that will be distributed before all backer copies are mailed out!)

We're at booth #349 — please join us for some new books and some SCUMtastic things! :D

Hello All!

It is the week before Gen Con. Large suitcases are being lugged. Endless UPS deliveries arriving and departing. Battery backups  being charged, backup credit card readers  being paired, box cutter blades being replaced.

We're at booth #349 at Gen Con — for those of you who have visited in years past, this is the same space we've occupied for several years. Look for Pivo & Berk welcoming you to the scum swarm!

Hey backers,

We know you're eager for your copies of Character Options, and we want them in your hands too! We've hit a few small bumps along the way, but we want to reassure you all that these are just bumps and while printing has been a slower process than expected, nothing dire is going on.

After delivering every backer the PDF version, we made a bunch of corrections to the book in response to feedback. Those corrections have already been integrated into the PDF version. This lead to us delivering the print files to our printer later than expected, in the middle of their busiest season.

The current estimate is that our books will be complete and begin shipping to our warehouse and shipping office sometime in July. From there, we'll move to turn around rewards as quickly as possible.

The delays are unfortunate, but over the 10+ years we've worked with this printer they have made huge efforts to get our books finished in time for Gen Con and other commitments. If this is Printer Karma finally coming back to bite us, I can't say we haven't earned it!

We’re still working hard on our Patreon projects and other books and will have news about a couple soon. In addition to that, we'll be working with a print broker on future projects to handle some of the logistics.

The Cool News Department:

Late last year Sprite finished work on his first full-length album, and we were planning on releasing it ourselves — until German electronic label HANDS came calling — and so we're real excited that Anarchotech's Origin Stories is now available from HANDS. It's not an Eclipse Phase album, but... it's not NOT an Eclipse Phase album. We'll have physical copies of the album available soon on our store!

Origins:

Adam is going to be at Origins this week, June 20-23. No booth, working for the day job, but drop a line by email ([email protected]) or Discord if you are also there and want to say hi!

Gen Con:

Of course, we will be at Gen Con. :)

Thank you all for your support. We'll have a news update in July — or sooner if situations change — regarding fulfillment, BackerKit opening, and any other news.