Not to bury the lede: the Kickstarter campaign for Eclipse Phase: SCUM, a board game set in our favorite horrific future solar system is now live! It's produced by Moose With Cup Creative, a new board game venture formed by our long-time colleague Davidson Cole.
The board game is the main draw, but there are reward levels that include Eclipse Phase Second Edition (the shiny second printing!) plus a brand new adventure framework The Scum Must Die!
To support the campaign we've also made available the free SCUM Character Pack for Eclipse Phase Second Editionfeaturing all six of the playable characters plus Elis and PompadorPig as EP2 characters. Snag that free download to get introduced to Zym Riz and Poly Genic — and to see Pivo, Killjoy and more in a whole new style!
And Now, the Backstory...
Every year, we try to get all the Posthumans together in a room for a few days — not at a convention! — to talk about the future, to pitch each other game ideas, to play some games.
A few years ago, we were talking about the idea of making a small Eclipse Phase card game. That version didn’t happen, but a couple of years later Davidson brought it back up. “So I’ve been noodling around with a board game.”
Board game? What had happened to the card game?! Well, that small Eclipse Phase card game would have to wait because Davidson couldn’t be stopped. With Popping Wheelies in the center, the scum swarm began to grow, the rules refined and tweaked into an intricate and smooth-flowing eurogame.
After a bit more time Davidson came back with: “Gang, I’ve been thinking it over and I want to start my own board game company. And I’d like to start out with SCUM. This is how I want to tell stories.”
(Davidson, beyond his tabletop writing, has written award-winning video games like The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners, written and directed feature films, including a Sundance Premiere. He can’t just tell you something – he always has to tell you the story around it.)
SCUM is live on Kickstarter now, and obviously we want you to support Davidson’s venture — Moose With Cup Creative — to take Eclipse Phase to new places in new styles.
SCUM is a fabulous interpretation of Eclipse Phase, the game is lovingly crafted, and we’re thrilled to be bringing Eclipse Phase to your tabletop in a new stellar way!
Hey folks — short update. Shipping continues, and almost all of the remaining complicated USA packages will be dispatched by end of day today.
After that I'll be diving back into international shipments; our partners at Atlas have fulfilled a number of Character Options books in recent months to international backers and we need to double-check that we aren't double-shipping — unfortunately the syncing issues between BackerKit <-> Shopify <-> Shipstation are making this a laborious process.
SCUM Character Pack We've released a free SCUM Character Pack for Eclipse Phase Second Edition to tie in with the Kickstarter launch of Moose With Cup Creative'sEclipse Phase: SCUM board game. The Character Pack contains all six playable characters from the board game with full EP2 stats, plus Elis and Pompadour Pig fully playable as well! The Eclipse Phase: SCUM campaign launches tomorrow
A long overdue update, and no need to belabor it: shipping and communications on this project have been less than stellar, and we're sorry. There's been a number of mishaps and annoyances that have slowed things down and made it frustrating for everyone — backers and Posthumans alike.
The good news is: we're shipping rewards to all backers — even if your rewards include the Morph Recognition Deck, which is still in progress. This means that if your rewards include the Morph Recognition Deck you will get two distinct shipments, exact timeline on the Deck to be determined.
Since the beginning of August, we've shipped out rewards to over 200 more backers, with under 200 left to go. Many of these remaining orders are on the more complicated side, but wrapping fulfillment up is my number one priority. The end is in sight, and we'll all be very glad for that.
We'll be back by September 1st with an update on shipping progress, and also good/fun news on the crowdfunding campaign that Moose With Cup Creative will be running for SCUM: An Eclipse Phase Board Game, the open plates for our upcoming weird fantasy RPG The Snarl, and more!
A few weeks ago our reprint of Eclipse Phase Second Edition arrived in Duluth and then Minneapolis. The reprint looks great; I’m beyond pleased with the work of the new-to-us printing company and I know you’ll love these books.
Happy Pallet Day!
Shipping Update USA and Canadian shipping continues. Originally, we were going to hold all orders that contained the Morph Recognition Deck until it is complete, but that is no longer the case. This means that in the coming days more BackerKit orders will be locked down and moved into the shipping queue.
Internationally, we’re working with another company to get all the required books + merch over to Europe and from there many international orders will be sent, although I’m still looking into the possibility of sending some of them from the USA.
There’s a lot of manual de-tangling happening to get this done, and we appreciate your continued patience and support. Fulfillment for this project has — obviously — taken longer than anticipated and we are committed to seeing it through to the end.
Eclipse Phase Second Edition 1.4 Errata
Part of the EP2 reprint was compiling and integrating corrections, and we’re glad to say that Character Options did not need any corrections during that phase!
The PDFs of the following titles have been updated:
Whether you get your PDFs from Posthuman.Shop or DriveThruRPG, those updates are free to everyone who has already. On Posthuman.Shop visit Your Account to access previous orders with downloads, and on DriveThruRPG check your Library!
The Print on Demand versions of EP2 and EP2 Condensed Player's Guide will be updated soon; we are waiting on proof copies of both.
We do not expect the ongoing tariff unpleasantness to directly impact the remainder of this campaign's fulfillment, but we are obviously keeping a close eye on the situation.
I want to apologize for the lack of communication over the last couple months, and that all rewards that can be fulfilled have not yet been.
There's been a lot of moving pieces lately at Posthuman with the EP2 reprint — which is just about ready to ship from the printer! — production work on SCUM: An Eclipse Phase Board Game, and work on both announced and unannounced projects. That amount of work lead to some mistakes in prioritization and it snowballed into the current situation, which is a bunch of people are still waiting for their books and merch.
So: I'm going to dive heavily into support emails and fix or communicate about as many things as possible, and in no more than two weeks follow up with a progress report and a good news post, because we *do* have a bunch of good things in the works for you!
One piece of news before that — we'll be at Dice Tower West in Las Vegas this week (March 6th-9th) with Moose With Cup Creative showing off a fully playable prototype of SCUM! If you're attending the show, check us out at booth #23. If you're not, stay tuned for previews in the coming weeks.
