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Posthuman Studios • Eclipse Phase • The Snarl
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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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Who doesn’t want to play a carnivorous plant?

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A sapient carnivorous plants with a caterpillar body, vine-like tentacles, and a flower "face" wearing clothes and equipped with a hand crossbow
November 13, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Optimized characters are fun, but so are flawed-but-capable characters! So the character creation rules in our upcoming weird fantasy RPG, The Snarl, provide options for both.
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A small clacker tree-person and a character sheet with"non-optimized" ticked off.
November 4, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Under 12 hours to go in the Eclipse Phase Collection on @bundleofholding.com — bundleofholding.com/presents/Ecl...

For less than the price of Eclipse Phase Second Edition you get core rules, multiple full-length adventures, Nano Op scenes, and more game mastery resources!
Two explorers on a martian planet, obviously equipped for low-oxygen atmosphere.
October 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Gukri are a species of gliding lizardfolk you can play in our upcoming weird fantasy RPG, The Snarl.
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Art by @crimreaper.bsky.social !
A lizard person with a short snout and gliding membranes, wearing a tabard, holding a staff, and summoning a wispy ball of light
October 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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The Jolt System represents one of the unique ways in which we handle combat in our upcoming weird fantasy RPG, The Snarl.
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A lizard-person miniature on a zone map from our playtest games with several tokens next to them indicating jolts.
October 24, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Probably the most unusual species in The Snarl is not a single creature type, but 2 telepathically linked creatures that act as one.
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A sapient blue-faced monkey holding a bow as it rides the back of a raptor with read feathers and an alien beak
October 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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You can now order the hardcover offset-printed version of Eclipse Phase Second Edition from @drivethrurpg.com — www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/2...

More titles coming soon!
A screenshot of the DriveThruRPG website, highlighting the "retail book" version of Eclipse Phase Second Edition
October 17, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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This is a prototype zone map we are using for our upcoming weird fantasy RPG, The Snarl!

Read more about how we apply zones on our Dev blog! snarlrpg.com/zones/
A map with 3 zones: engaged, ranged, and skirmish. The engaged zone also has smaller clusters. The skirmish and ranged zones are repeated, so you can keep PCs on one side and NPCs on the other.
October 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Notches - extra dimensional spaces, big enough for cities.
October 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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The Roots - underground. Worm tunnels, buried cities, danger.
October 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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The Mulch - the bottom. Dark, murky, muddy, Creep-infested.
October 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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The Tangles - the middle realm. Thick, entangled, dim, misty
October 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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The massive sylvan environment of our upcoming weird fantasy RPG, The Snarl, can be divided into four distinct zones/layers—and a fifth otherworldly outlier.
The Canopy: the treetop realm - light, balloon ships, safety
October 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Beetle people! Kalioctera are one of the species you can choose from when making a character in The Snarl (our upcoming weird fantasy RPG).

(Art by @crimreaper.bsky.social )
2 kalioctera beetlefolk. A large female and a small colorful male perched on her shoulder.
October 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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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
October 2, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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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
October 2, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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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.
September 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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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.
September 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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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!
September 17, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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ICYMI: Eclipse Phase: SCUM from @moosewithcup.bsky.social is coming to Kickstarter on Sept 16th! Check this link for more info and the free SCUM Character Pack for Eclipse Phase Second Edition: eclipsephase.com/2025/09/10/e...
Space station, space octopus, and other cool characters that are playable in SCUM!
September 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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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!
September 9, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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TableTop Vibes brings Eclipse Phase: SCUM to their table for you!

www.instagram.com/p/DOM9FRmjiHB/

Follow @moosewithcup.bsky.social's Kickstarter project, launching Sept 16th: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
Eclipse Phase: SCUM components, a mix of playing cards, cardboard tiles, miniatures, wooden counters and scorekeeping tokens.
September 5, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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At Gen Con we announced our upcoming weird fantasy RPG: The Snarl! Check out the flyers and keep an eye on snarlrpg.com/playtest for the Open Playtest we'll be running this Fall!
A tree creature known as a Clacker holding an Axe. Text: The Creep Rises from the Mulch, warping all life. The Blight encircles all, its strangling touch devouring life as it presses inward. We are in the middle, among the Snarl, fighting annihilation. Clinging to our precious verdant pillars, fueling our struggle with the sap that is our lifeblood. Art by Luis J. Figueredo. 2 fantasy beetle people, accompanied by text: The Snarl, a vibrant gnarled twist on the fantasy genre from Eclipse Phase creators Posthuman Studios. Unique PC species: telepathic symbiotes, carnivorous plants, living trees with resurrected minds, and other strange creatures. Zero humans. Surreal Sylvan Setting: a woodland landscape of kilometer-high trees, abundant and deadly. Zone-based combat: dynamic & tactical - every action has an impact! Mystic Sap: magic abilities tied to a collectible resource. Join the playtest, set down roots
August 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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We've been having a great time at #GenCon — hard to believe that it's half over already!

Come check us out at booth #529 to see the Eclipse Phase SCUM board game demo, learn about our upcoming weird fantasy RPG The Snarl, or get your hands on the latest Eclipse Phase!
A cool tree-creature! Eclipse Phase Second Edition books Board game components for SCUM
August 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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We're going to be dropping a big Eclipse Phase VTT token pack next week — nearly 100 tokens, variants of each one, and additional frames so you can customize them!
A screenshot of many small icons for VTT play.
June 20, 2025 at 9:42 PM