What's your favorite transhuman (or posthuman) scifi rpg? And why?

Contenders will probably be Nova Praxis, Eclipse Phase and Mindjammer. I don't much about the genre, so I let you surprise me with your answers.

Of those three I have previously known only Eclipse Phase and it is my fav transhuman game. I even GMed it for a while.

Nova Praxis and Mindjammer are strickt no-no's for me, as I am allergic to anything powered by fate.

I've read GURPs Transhuman Space and it was a bit meh. I haven't followed Eclipse Phase since it's beginnings, but to my knowledge it has a metaplot, which threw me off as well. It could be ignored, but I seem to have a hard time getting anyone to play it, and also hard for me to vision any sort of overarching plot for the players. Firewall is kind of boring, but it is pretty much the only faction capable of sending PCs to all the cool far-reaches of the solar system and beyond.

I don't care much for the genre, but I have played in a couple Gurps Transhuman Space campaigns. They were entertaining, and were quite different in theme when compared with one another.

I played in a few sessions of "Eclipse Phase" but the GM substituted a lighter system, so I don't really have any familiarity with its system. I'm not familiar with MindJammer or Nova Praxis. Never even heard of the latter.

Definitely Nova Praxis for me. I don't care too much for FATE, but the Savage Worlds version is very good.

There are two things about NP that make it my favorite. First, right out of the box it provides the GM with a lot of different campaign styles. The basic campaign setup is for the PCs to be Shadowrun-style disposable agents working for the megacorporations (Houses) that run everything. But there are plenty of options besides that. I'm particularly intrigued by the possibilities to be had in a man vs machine campaign where humanity tries to retake Earth or the one where the group gets its own ship and a ton of resources to act as an elite band of troubleshooters taking care of all sorts of threats. I know this isn't unique to NP, but it handles these different options well and I like the setting it presents. It provides for a lot of different possibilities.

The other huge reason I prefer NP (and why I can't stand Eclipse Phase) is that NP isn't biased. It doesn't present one viewpoint as explicitly right. It's actually totally okay if you're not comfortable with the idea of switching bodies. Plus, there's an actual reason why people would do such a thing. In EP, everyone just commits suicide with a smile on their faces. NP at least puts forth plausible ideas for why people would be willing to walk into certain death, confident that they'd wake up when their backup was downloaded to a new body.

Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0.

The first that dealt with the topic, and one which will hold a special place in my heart.

Eclipse Phase. I like the system, though chargen takes a bit. The setting is wilder and weirder than GURPS Transhuman Space. The Eclipse Phase games I've played in were real mindfucks.

I've never ran either though I've borrowed elements of them both freely to use in my homebrew fantasy setting... lots of transhuman ideas already have a fantasy corollary.

I have to go with Blue Planet v2 on this one.

Quote from: Christopher Brady;849100Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0.

The first that dealt with the topic, and one which will hold a special place in my heart.

Another CP2020 fan right here.

I have transhuman settings. But the PCs usually are not part of that culture. Just passing through. The PCs are just aware that transhuman stuff is going on in the world they're on. Any game system can handle that much of it.

I didn't think that CP2020 would have been accepted in this category, but if it is, CP2020 all the way with SLA Industries coming a close second!

Quote from: Moracai;849241I didn't think that CP2020 would have been accepted in this category, but if it is, CP2020 all the way with SLA Industries coming a close second!

Yeah, I accept it. Transhuman scifi is so close to cyberpunk I can't really tell the difference anyway. Maybe cyberpunk focuses more on the megacorps and transhuman scifi is more navelgazing?

Quote from: Brand55;849092Definitely Nova Praxis for me. I don't care too much for FATE, but the Savage Worlds version is very good.

Yes, Nova Praxis has both a fate and a savage worlds version. Another good sw cyberpunk game is Interface Zero.

Quote from: jan paparazzi;849246Yeah, I accept it. Transhuman scifi is so close to cyberpunk I can't really tell the difference anyway. Maybe cyberpunk focuses more on the megacorps and transhuman scifi is more navelgazing?

Transhuman SF is afaic more a descendant of/heir to cyberpunk SF than anything, meaning the two are at least closely related.

Quote from: jan paparazzi;849246Yeah, I accept it. Transhuman scifi is so close to cyberpunk I can't really tell the difference anyway. Maybe cyberpunk focuses more on the megacorps and transhuman scifi is more navelgazing?

A person at TBP once put it in a way that nails it perfectly for me.  They are pretty much the same coin.

To paraphrase (whom I cannot remember the name, I'm so sorry):

"Transhumanism is about how technology will change us for the better.  Cyberpunk is how it won't."

Quote from: Christopher Brady;849263"Transhumanism is about how technology will change us for the better.  Cyberpunk is how it won't."

Exactly!