Just curious...

[pyat]

[Poll #1353702]

Feel free to expand on the whys and wherefores in the comments. My choice, MERP, is based entirely on memories of good game sessions and my liking of the supplement books, rather than any great love for the system.

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[pyat.livejournal.com]

WHo is putting out Eclipse Phase? I'm always on the lookout for new SF games. :)

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Catalyst Games, the people now doing Shadowrun. Eclipse Phase is fairly hard SF (about as much as the modern space operas being written by Charles Stross, Alastair Reynolds, and Ken MacLeod), with a fairly simple percentile mechanic. Percentile systems aren't my favorite, but they definitely work w/o too much complexity. Here's the official website (http://eclipsephase.com/). The game is due out any time now, which I think means March. I'm exceedingly pleased with what I wrote about it, and the influence I had on the setting (the aerostats [aka cloud cities] of Venus were my idea).