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Award-winning creator-owned design and publishing collective: game industry veterans Rob Boyle, Davidson Cole, Brian Cross, & Adam Jury. We Make Stellar Games.
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Posthuman Studios • Eclipse Phase @posthumanstudios.com · Sep 5
TableTop Vibes brings Eclipse Phase: SCUM to their table for you!

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Eclipse Phase: SCUM components, a mix of playing cards, cardboard tiles, miniatures, wooden counters and scorekeeping tokens.
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Posthuman Studios • Eclipse Phase @posthumanstudios.com · 5h
Over on The Snarl's Dev blog, we talk about a key aspect of the setting: the gargantuan trees called pillars that make up the entirety of the world.

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The Pillars
The pillars are ancient if not immortal, having existed since the dawn of recorded history.
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Posthuman Studios • Eclipse Phase @posthumanstudios.com · 6d
When you make a character in The Snarl, you can choose from twelve different species that live in the world known as the Weald. Today I’m going to talk a bit about one of the stranger ones: Clackers.
A living tree creatures, with lichen-like sensory organs and a glowing red crystal in its chest, holding an axe
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Art by @crimreaper.bsky.social !
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Clackers come in a wide variety of forms, large and small. Many mimic the forms of other Weald species; others are more esoteric. Their sap-like blood possesses regenerative capabilities.
A small quadruped Clacker tree creature with birch-like bark holding a horn
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Posthuman Studios • Eclipse Phase @posthumanstudios.com · 6d
In this way, a mind is granted a second life, in a new clacker body. Clackers are venerated as resurrected elders, each granted an opportunity to continue to share their wisdom. It is possible for PCs of other species to be resurrected as clackers if they die.
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Posthuman Studios • Eclipse Phase @posthumanstudios.com · 6d
Upon maturity, they are transplanted to a Dream Pool. As they draw nourishment from the pool’s liquid, they grow a mind crystal within their form that absorbs an intelligence from within the pool’s Dreaming.
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Posthuman Studios • Eclipse Phase @posthumanstudios.com · 6d
The clackers found among the Weald’s societies are non-sapient trees that were carefully pruned, shaped, grafted, and trained by woodshapers since they were young saplings, each grown into an individually unique form.
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Posthuman Studios • Eclipse Phase @posthumanstudios.com · 6d
In the process, their mind is absorbed into a shared consciousness called the Dreaming, which serves as a repository of knowledge and lived experiences. Living folks can immerse themselves within a Dream Pool and commune with the Dreaming.
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Posthuman Studios • Eclipse Phase @posthumanstudios.com · 6d
Before I go into clackers, however, I must first mention Dream Pools. Dream Pools are a central fixture to Wealdfolk settlements — when someone dies, their body is interred into the pool, where it is dissolved.
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Posthuman Studios • Eclipse Phase @posthumanstudios.com · 6d
When you make a character in The Snarl, you can choose from twelve different species that live in the world known as the Weald. Today I’m going to talk a bit about one of the stranger ones: Clackers.
A living tree creatures, with lichen-like sensory organs and a glowing red crystal in its chest, holding an axe
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Posthuman Studios • Eclipse Phase @posthumanstudios.com · 7d
Skill based, 2d10 vs target number, with some twists. Combat is zone-based theater of the mind with tactical elements. There's some innovative stuff with the mechanics, we'll post about that down the line.
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Posthuman Studios • Eclipse Phase @posthumanstudios.com · 8d
Hey folks, let’s talk about our upcoming weird fantasy RPG, the Snarl!

First up: an overview of what the game is — and isn’t! Every fantasy setting is based on underlying assumptions that shape the world. These are some of the defining characteristics of The Snarl.
The Snarl Is Strange. The environment is lush and wild and teeming with flora and fauna—and yet to a human’s alien eyes, it is unnatural, impossible to have grown into being by organic means. It is a place of beauty and wonder—and undefinable wrongness. The residents, of course, know no different. This Is Not Your Typical Fantasy World. There is no feudalism, no kings or queens, no peasants. The material aspects of the Weald have generated other social structures. Heroes are motivated not by greed, but by survival, loyalty, or a thirst for knowledge, justice, or adventure. The riches and loot sought by murder hoboes are absent here—no gold, no magic swords, no spell books. Treasures are gifted for social status. Monsters exist, but dragons and orcs are replaced by far stranger things. The Environment Is Feral. The Weald is verdant and alive. Millions of species thrive here—and millions more prey upon them. Outside of settlements and nomad camps, the Snarl is a dangerous place, teeming with dangerous wildlife. Stragglers and wanderers often do not return. The residents are familiar with their local regions, but the Snarl grows quickly. Numerous civilizations have been swallowed under the leaves and mulch. Magic Is Unusual. This is not a world of spells and grimoires. All denizens make use of sap reverently drawn from the pillars and consumed for supernatural effects. Spirits lurk invisibly everywhere, working as caretakers of the environment, taking physical form only when needed. The sparks who see and command these spirits also manipulate esoteric forces within the environment for their witchcraft.
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Posthuman Studios • Eclipse Phase @posthumanstudios.com · 8d
We'll be posting more about the Snarl as we head towards the Open Playtest later this year! Follow our Dev blog: snarlrpg.com/blog
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The Snarl is an upcoming weird fantasy tabeletop RPG by Posthuman Studios, the makers of Eclipse Phase.
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Posthuman Studios • Eclipse Phase @posthumanstudios.com · 8d
There Are No Gods. There are no signs of divine power or omnipotence. If there are supernatural forces behind the Weald, they are long absent and negligent in their duties. The Weald’s sapients have myths and tales and even creation stories, but no organized religions or faiths. There Are No Humans. Abandon your anthropocentric mindsets. This world was not crafted by or for human hands. Embrace your new limbs and senses. Adapt yourself to non-human modes of thinking. Threats Are Encroaching. The Weald’s ecological systems are unbalanced. The Blight and the Creep consume more of the world every day. This has disrupted the equilibrium of entire societies and bioregions. Strife looms with the displacement of refugees from their homes and never-before-experienced scarcity.
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Posthuman Studios • Eclipse Phase @posthumanstudios.com · 8d
Hey folks, let’s talk about our upcoming weird fantasy RPG, the Snarl!

First up: an overview of what the game is — and isn’t! Every fantasy setting is based on underlying assumptions that shape the world. These are some of the defining characteristics of The Snarl.
The Snarl Is Strange. The environment is lush and wild and teeming with flora and fauna—and yet to a human’s alien eyes, it is unnatural, impossible to have grown into being by organic means. It is a place of beauty and wonder—and undefinable wrongness. The residents, of course, know no different. This Is Not Your Typical Fantasy World. There is no feudalism, no kings or queens, no peasants. The material aspects of the Weald have generated other social structures. Heroes are motivated not by greed, but by survival, loyalty, or a thirst for knowledge, justice, or adventure. The riches and loot sought by murder hoboes are absent here—no gold, no magic swords, no spell books. Treasures are gifted for social status. Monsters exist, but dragons and orcs are replaced by far stranger things. The Environment Is Feral. The Weald is verdant and alive. Millions of species thrive here—and millions more prey upon them. Outside of settlements and nomad camps, the Snarl is a dangerous place, teeming with dangerous wildlife. Stragglers and wanderers often do not return. The residents are familiar with their local regions, but the Snarl grows quickly. Numerous civilizations have been swallowed under the leaves and mulch. Magic Is Unusual. This is not a world of spells and grimoires. All denizens make use of sap reverently drawn from the pillars and consumed for supernatural effects. Spirits lurk invisibly everywhere, working as caretakers of the environment, taking physical form only when needed. The sparks who see and command these spirits also manipulate esoteric forces within the environment for their witchcraft.
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Posthuman Studios • Eclipse Phase @posthumanstudios.com · 9d
Davidson from @moosewithcup.bsky.social brings us a complete playthrough video of Eclipse Phase: SCUM: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmT6...
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Sprite / Anarchotech @anarchotech.bsky.social · 14d
Are you a freelance artist who likes drawing giant trees, forests, and weird creatures? Or do you know of such an artist? Post portfolio links please!
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Moose With Cup Creative @moosewithcup.bsky.social · 20d
Just got some love from Kickstarter...
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Posthuman Studios • Eclipse Phase @posthumanstudios.com · 21d
Everyone likes a good component shot, yeah?

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sci-fi board game components: six brightly-colored play boards, large and small spaceship tiles, tarot and poker sized playing cards, many tokens and counters, and character miniatures!
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fraggingunicorns.bsky.social @fraggingunicorns.bsky.social · 22d
Some of the best people in the industry. Amazing game and I love seeing smaller companies support their ttrpgs over the long haul.
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Adam Jury @adamjury.com · 22d
Let's. Fucking. Go.

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SCUM: An Eclipse Phase Board Game
Sci-fi board game where players defend their habitat from a mysterious threat bent on its destruction, based on the Eclipse Phase RPG.
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Kindalas @kindalas.bsky.social · 22d
I just backed SCUM: An Eclipse Phase Board Game on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
SCUM: An Eclipse Phase Board Game
Sci-fi board game where players defend their habitat from a mysterious threat bent on its destruction, based on the Eclipse Phase RPG.
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Posthuman Studios • Eclipse Phase @posthumanstudios.com · 22d
From @moosewithcup.bsky.social — Eclipse Phase: SCUM comes to Kickstarter! — www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 28d
Y'all had me at "made one of the most memorable game systems and settings that I've had some of the best RP in my life in"
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David Gª-Brazales @dbrazales.bsky.social · 25d
Me encanta todo lo que te viene aquí, personajes variados con quirks sobresalientes a los que agarrarse pero con maniobra para hacerlos tuyos.
A Pivo y Zym ya los conocía, pero Pompadour Pig/Elvis Pigsley viene para quedarse.
Y la presentación también me mola.
Y gratis.
#lodelrol #EclipsePhase
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Posthuman Studios • Eclipse Phase @posthumanstudios.com · 28d
New & Free for Eclipse Phase — the SCUM Character Pack: mailchi.mp/posthumanstu...
A black and purple book cover featuring 8 different characters In hexagons; from badass robots to Neo-chimpanzees to space octopi!
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beantenna @beantenna.bsky.social · 28d
You had me at pompadour.
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