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Favorite transhuman scifi

Started by jan paparazzi, August 15, 2015, 06:40:02 PM

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Omega

Back on topic.

White Wolfs Aeon/Trinity RPG was an interesting take on the transhuman aspect as that was the whole thrust of the PCs as they were humans who had had psi powers awakened by a special process so as to combat the superheroes of the previous Aberrant RPG. Toss in a little biomodding as well.

Moracai

I like Corporation RPGs fluff.

I see it as some kind of midwaypoint between Cyberpunk 2020 and Eclipse Phase. It has geopolitically located megacorporations (kinda like Mutant Chronicles) and a multicorporate United Nations-like organization that is supervised (ruled?) by an artificial intelligence.

Omega

whoo. Totally forgot one.

Buck Rogers RPG from TSR. The whole setting premise was transhumans colonizing the solar system and then overthrowing the Earth government. Each planet having some adaptations to the terraformed environs or added animal genes to aid in adaption.

Christopher Brady

I rather liked Aeon/Trinity.  The system was super clunky, but its the White Wolf's one, so that was to be expected, however, the story and lore was much better than anything I had at the time.  I still have the original books.
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Omega

Of the three, Aberrant had the cleanest playing system. Aeon/Trinity felt a little less refined. Which makes sense if it came out before Aberrant? I have the odd "black binder" version with the Trinity title