So was re-reading Augmentation and Runners Companion recently after having been stalking the Eclipse Phase site for a few days. I got to thinking after reading about biomorph drones in Eclipse Phase. Are Jumping Jacks and Biomorph drones from the SR books one and the same? Rigger adapted blank clones? What a great idea the rigger can customize his "street sami" clone for on site work. What if some company/organization was able to duplicate the abilities of the "Soulkiller.....err I mean JackBNimble" program. Then Runners could possibly have the ability to swap bodies for job specs and keep copies of themselves some were safe. As a gm I'm liking the idea (insert strangled laugh).

Be careful with that, because if you rule that that is possible in the SR universe - and possible at the level of shadowrunners, as opposed to megacorporations - then every SR team will start doing it. Understand how it's going to totally remodel the game universe before you do it.

Why not just play Eclipse Phase?

I have to imagine cost would make it prohibitive. And the latter part of my post still seems out of reach in the SR universe.

"We want you to change his mind," the Johnson said, flashing his theeth. "It's on file somewhere..."

Haha, nice.

I did, in fact, run an ENTIRE game around this concept about 3 years ago. I highly suggest running with it if you wanna - it's fun, it's high tech, and puts a lot of the Neuromancer into your game if you're in the mood for that.

I also figured that JackBNimble'd people couldn't change - their code was hard-set, and only those with the most heavy amounts of self-awareness (and Computer skill) could change their core directives. the plot centered around a group of Banded who had been Jack B. Nimbled and who were hell-bent on continuing their war, even though their war was for all intents and purposes, over.

Richard K Morgan

Totally awesome Takeshi Kovacs trilogy [Richard Morgan - Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, Woken Furies] or Greg Mandel trilogy [Peter F Hamilton - Mindstar Rising, Quantum Murder, Nanoflower].

Or just read and use GURPS Transhuman Space material that's been kicking around for years...
..Eclipse Phase is years late for the RPG concept.

Battletech and Shadowrun borrowed alot from earlier concepts too, but they did do it better.

Funnily enough, that's not that far from what's happening my game...



- J.