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Transhuman Sci Fi other than EP

Started by Rincewind1, January 15, 2014, 03:13:58 PM

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jcfiala

Quote from: Future Villain Band;723839GOO put out a book with a transhuman setting for TriStat called Ex Machina,

It's my memory that Ex Machina was more Cyberpunk than transhuman, although to be honest at the fringes the two do tend to blur into each other, as most genres tend to.  But the intent was more to do Cyberpunk than transhuman.
 

Future Villain Band

Quote from: jcfiala;724225It's my memory that Ex Machina was more Cyberpunk than transhuman, although to be honest at the fringes the two do tend to blur into each other, as most genres tend to.  But the intent was more to do Cyberpunk than transhuman.

You're right, but I remember Sparta, or whatever it's called, reflecting a lot of transhuman social ideas.  The R. Sean Borgstrom setting, IIRC.

The Butcher

Here's a blast form the (not too distant) past: Septimus.

Very cool game, actually, but it never stood a chance.

Sometimes I daydream of using the system for a balls-out transhuman epic space opera game, like Revelation Space with its gigantic STL freight liners and quasi-immortal, cybered-up-to-the-gills interstellar traders.

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Mindjammer is a setting-sourcebook for Starblazer Adventures that adds transhuman elements to the "80s british space opera" RPG.

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Cybergeneration had some of that sort of thing going on.
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Mcbobbo sums it up nicely.

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Gardeian

Cthulhutech has some, but it's mostly background stuff for your giant robot vs. giant fish smackdowns (All of the Archanotech). About the only places where characters intersect anything transhuman-ish are: Tagers, Psi, and the Evangelion-alike robots that I forget the name of. Of course, since moving beyond human doesn't just change, but often fundamentally breaks us in setting, it's a bit of a darker transhumanism. Also the system...not so good.

lacercorvex

Nova Praxis is a good in depth version, put it this way, nanites copy a human being, even the entire brain, the host obviously dies in such a quite gruesome way, the nanites copy goes on as if nothing happened, anyone watching the transaction wouldn't be aware of the final change, it is too much for my mind to handle, because our technology is getting to the point where nanites replacement is actually going to be a real possibility, man is reinventing himself as it stands using artificial intelligence, to me it's just playing with a nuclear bomb, eventually it will go off. My preference is to not play the game, it's well written but if technology could take over us meat bags in that manner, why have meat bags at all? They are inferior in every way to a perfect A.I. machine nanites copy. The purist Humans in the game World will be hard pressed to survive, if you played the game correctly, if you like that kind of game, Nova Praxis is the pick for you.