tell me more.

from a sentient abortion? you mean there was a sentient dead fetus, who probed your mind, killing you?

>Went insane from a mind probe by a sentient abortion

wat

>>12975793
>Went insane from a mind probe by a sentient abortion.
wut?

>>12975813
That is correct. It was an Adeptus Evangelion game.

What game?

FOURTEEN YEARS?

>Went insane from a mind probe by a sentient abortion.

Hell of a way to go. How do you feel op?

>>12975801
Seconding this.

>>12975793
So, how did she go from being driven insane by the mind probe to being dead?

>>12975828
I saw 2001-2015 and thought that was how long you played the character. It was only after I made this post that I realized my error.

I think I'll go to bed now.

>Went insane from a mind probe by a sentient abortion.

wut

>>12975832

I AE, sufficiently insane is dead. You can keep playing all the way through excessivley gratuitous stages of madness, but eventually you hti the point where the character is knocked off because it's just not playable any more. Why is left up to you.

Some of the things I'm working on give you novel and specific consequences for hitting the unplayable madness mark, but they're not even past draft yet.

>>12975793
backingaway.jpg

>Went insane from a mind probe by a sentient abortion
Guess it's time to break out the emergency rum.

>Went insane from a mind probe by a sentient abortion.
>14

>>12975793

>>12975832
I hit 100 insanity points, and the DM said I'm dead. I might get to reroll, but I'm not sure if I'm gonna.

Atropals will fuck you up

>>12975820
>It was an Adeptus Evangelion game.
The combination of 'killed by sentient abortion mindrape', 'born in 2001' and the anime image posting led be to suspect this.

So are we going to get any details on just what went down? Did the angels get you pregnant and the baby caught out through your thoughts, hatching like a butterfly out of the wreckage of your shattered psyche?

>>12975793

I think I'm one of the few people not particularly horrified by this. Still, would you care to provide any more information? I'm curious.

>>12975913
Yes, but what pushed you over the edge? Was it a long battle of attrition against the nameless horror, or did the last good chunk of your self-identity just go all at once if the face of something really awful?

>>12975870
Well, color me curious. With much anticipation I will await the forthcoming results in 8-12 months time.

Basically the angel was just a giant aborted fetus. It kept teleporting between Europe, where our TRIDENT pilot and the Operations Directors were, and the Sahara desert, where the evas were. Its primary attack was a mindprobe that made you do a willpower test. If you fail, you take insanity damage, and every time you fail, the damage you take was doubled.

It self-destructed, I was too close to get clear, so I tried to shoot it and kill it before it blew up. I hit, but it didn't do damage, so it exploded. We ended with her Eva (which she -just- got this session) collapsed, and Mira not responding. The DM said it'll be up to him what happens to her, but she's no longer playable under any circumstances.

So yeah.

>>12975913

Just 'you're dead'? Who are you playing with? None of the GMs I can think up offhand would tolerate such lack of details, and if they did I shall say some mean things to them in a rude fashion.

>>12975970
Oh, also when the session began, I had eleven insanity points, most of which were from a flaw.

So yeah.

>>12975979
I bet it was zhakuuvan

so, what kinds of abortion is it?

>>12975979
I'd prefer if I didn't start drama over it. I'm not really bitter, I just wanted to mourn the first character I've ever had to permanently, irrevocably be rendered unplayable.

>>12975970
That... ugh. Throwing insanity points at the players like that seems like a wasteful squandering of what should be an interesting descent into madness on the part of the players. It turns the sanity mechanic into just another hit point gauge.

>>12975967

This particular project is scaling drawbacks. Instead of taking your standard allotment at creation, you take just one of these. It tracks a stat, generally IP but I plan for Ego and maybe something else, and the extent of the drawback increases with it. At first they seem a very good deal, but as you play the game you're forced to go to more and more extremes to play around them. They also come with 100 IP/Ego game over variants, that are more specific than usual. My personal favourite is one that makes your character one of the SOMEBODY LOVE MEEEEEE types, and ends with you giving somebody your heart, neatly gift-wrapped. That is not a figurative statement.

I wouldn't get too exctited about their current state. They're quite tricky to do, and will likely change substantially before they go in whatever it is they're going in.

>>12976017

MY THOUGHTS ON MINDSCAN EXACTLY.

INSANITY-INDUCING POWERS ARE FINE, BUT "0IP" TO "DEAD" IN 3 ROUNDS IS FUCKING POINTLESS.

IT WASN'T EVEN MY CHARACTER AND I'M BITTER ABOUT IT.

>>12976017
The series did have one angel that mind raped with its attack. It was a hit point gauge even before the AE.

>>12975982
>going from 11 to 100+ insanity in a single session
What the god balls? I don't think things are supposed to work like that.

>I just wanted to mourn the first character I've ever had to permanently, irrevocably be rendered unplayable.
If I were you, I'd be commiserating the first character you've ever had be rendered unplayable by a GM who decided that he was going to get revenge on game balance because it killed his parents.

>t tracks a stat and the extent of the drawback increases with it. My personal favourite is one that makes your character one of the SOMEBODY LOVE MEEEEEE types, and ends with you giving somebody your heart, neatly gift-wrapped. That is not a figurative statement.
NICE

>>12975970
Did the DM at least play Hallelujah during the Angel fight?

>>12976017

It usually is, because it's meant to happen slowly and ainfully, with many new and interesting psychological disorders cropping up along the way. By the time your character hits the magic mark, their unplayability should feel liek a natural consequence, not an arbitrary decision.

There are weaknesses to this, primarily in the Angelic attacks. They have to be able to inflict devastating psychological damage in short orde,r but there's no way to mechanically support that with fluff. We've done what we can to give GMs to the tools to make the abrupt annihilation of one's sanity interesting, but I can't make them use them. It's up to GMs to make use of such a potent element in the narrative of their game, and thep layers to take the initiative to ask for it, and encourage it through good roleplay.

>>12976060

ARAEL'S MENTAL ATTACKS ARE *WEAKER* THAN MINDSCAN.

Was this the first fight? Because having to fight an Arael-equivalent right out of the gates is kind of idiotic.

>>12976060

NGE was an example of how it would work with a good GM. He makes it hurt, but stops it exactly before the character is RFGed, and instead has them play out a near-RFG-experience in detail. He also gives them a last moment of glory, which, in true AE fashion, fails.

I've voiced my opposition to midscan many times in the devroom, and done what I can about it, but there's not much to do beyond either take it out, or hope the GM using it is competent. I mean, Angelic mindrape to insanity an event that I made into a whole-session thing that needed extensive support and some of the most tortuous mechanics to make it work, and here it's one diceroll.

>>12976096
No, just the first one where I had an Evangelion of my own. Before this, I was co-piloting with another character, which basically means I took their half-action.

>>12976072
>>12976060
Halleluyahmind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=munuk5sS5Ro&feature=related

Is there a more up to date version of AE than the one on RS?

>>12976165
Poor Arael. Even it saying hello counts as mind rape.

"Sup Asuka, what's going on, sweet ti- OH FOR FUCKS SAKES NOT AGAIN."

>>12976118
If Evangelion had been a game, Asuka WAS rendered basically unplayable until it was time for her so very very very very very very very brutal end.

You remeber that dont you? Dont make me post the video. Please dont make me post the video.

I wondered what we would've seen if Arael mindraped... Gendo, for example.

>>12976205

Which one is that? There's the original release, the second release, and the updated second release.

After that there's going to be a short rerelease with slightly more stuff at the end of the year while someone figures out what the hell we do with Rewwrite to make it fit in the damned book. After that WWE and the Hunt for Adam. Beyon that there's a bunch of individual projects that generally expand the system to work with other types of robot fightan,

>>12975793
>>12976230
I forgot, can you post the video? The only end I remember to evangelion is shinji sitting in a room for three fucking episodes.

>>12976251

You haven't seen it. If you saw it, you'd remember it.

It's End of Evangelion, the seperate film-length thing.

>>12976278
I still wanna see it.

>>12976306
OP here. No you don't.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWmJfX2AI2Q

>>12976251
>>12976306
>>12976278
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH32Chen5Vo&feature=related

I hate you for making me dig this up. HELLO REPRESSED MEMORIES!

Dont say I didnt warn you.

>>12976321
Well luckily I wasn't emotionally invested this time or my chest might begin to hurt.

Oh.... There it goes.

>>12976321
Why is everyone's blood orange?

>>12976382

>implying that's blood

>>12976382

Welcome to Neon Genesis Evangelion. Have your complimentary glass of tang.

OP I think you should talk to your DM about this
This sounds like a very "no fun at all" approach

>>12976411
I really liked Eva. It was the first anime I ever saw. And I had nightmares about it. I'd be floating in on a bit of metal in the middle of nerv, while off in the dsitances, Eva's just.. sat. Sometimes they'd be whole, but usually in their 'released' form, or partially human - released as in, with real eyes and maybe a hand showing, or human as in somewhat armoured, without their limiters. They'd be missing an arm, or just legs. And sometimes, they'd look at me. Among other things.

I still sometimes have those nightmares.

>>12976321
I have absolutely 0 clue what the fuck just happened.

But I feel bad now.

>>12976448
Shinji killed the world because he's a pussy.

Good job there, Shinji.

>>12976476
Explain more? As someone who as actually watched evangelion, I never understood the ending anyway. So I figure everyone needs a little learning.

>>12976338
"HEY HONEY IM HOME, WHATS FOR DINNER?"

>>12976516
"OH WELL I THOUGH WE MIGHT HAVE OURSELVES SOME BROCHETTES"
"SOUNDS GREAT, LETS DIG IN!"

I wrote out a huge thing on this, but it's actually waaay more concise to give you the wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_evangelion

You might want to look up eva geeks, it's pretty solid and *mostly* accurate.

>>12976516
>>12976544

YOU'RE SUCH A DICK.

>>12976544
"THAT WAS GREAT HONEY, YOUR BROCHETTES ARE THE BEST!"
"AW, YOURE MAKING ME BLUSH"

>>12976561

and now I'll be eternally thinking of the MP Evas as being really camp gay guys.

I dunno if this makes them more or less scary, but it does explain the lips a bit.

>this thread

>>12976321
>>12976338
Thanks for reminding me of the extreme case of "I'm 16 and what is this?" when I saw that, to a lesser degree the "I'm 12 and what is this?" when Eva was first broadcast in my country.

>>12976503
Near as I can tell, Rei, Lillith, the mass-produced evas and Unit 01 all merged into one super-entity, but with Unit 01 as the controlling intelligence. Only it doesn't really have a controlling intelligence, so that leaves Shinji. Wonderful.

After that Rei/Lillith/Evas/Unit 01 merge the AT fields (and thus souls) of every living being on Earth, creating a single super-being composed of all the conciousnesses of everyone on the planet. This is, of course, a bag of ass for anyone with a sense of identity, so Shinji decides he'll not be having any of that and promptly pulls himself out of the collective, which it is strongly implied anyone else with a strong sense of self could do. Of course Asuka did it too, and then Shinji decided to choke the shit out of her again, presumably because he gets off on that now. Then she called him pathetic, which I can't exactly disagree with. I mean fucking A, he was in the pilot seat of God for a few minutes there and all he did was dump himself on the ruined shores of a sea of blood on his own personal dead planet. Way to go.

>>12976561
"HEY, YOU KNOW WHAT GOES WELL AFTER DINNER?"
"WHAT?"

>>12976621
"A NICE GLASS OF TANG"
"I WAS -JUST- THINKING OF THAT"

>>12976598
Actually, disregard my bit, >>12976552
says it better.

>>12976633
"I LOVE YOU GUYS"
"DAW, COME HERE YOU!"
"GROUP HUG!"

>>12976675
Sup fellas.

>>12976633
>yougonnagettanged.jpg

I love you.

All I know is,
Fuck the insanity, we are currenlty playing an AdEva game set in the Shinji and 40k universe, and it is fucking epic

>>12976702
Might I interest you in some of our other products?

>>12976711
Haven't seen Rebuild 1.0/2.0 yet, makes me saaaaad! But I get the reference.

o_you.png

>WUTWUTWUTWUT
Libris Mortis fucknuts, read it.

So, in summary OP
Evangelion is fracking weird
Shinji is a pussy
And you're DM is being kind of a dick
Talk with him and see why he effectively killed off your character
If you want, see if he can't be persuaded to let you have her back

>>12976750
Here is Evangelion.

>>12976682
"OH GREAT ITS THAT CREEPY BOY/GIRL GOD-THING FROM NEXT DOOR"
"HEY! THIS IS A PRIVATE BARBECUE"
"COME ON GUYS, THE MORE THE MERRIER"
"SHUT UP KEVIN"
"IM JUST TOO DRUNK ON THIS TANG TO CARE"

>>12976750
>Shinji is a pussy
EXCEPTION: Rebuild 2.0

>>12976789
Evidence:

>>12976750
>Shinji is a pussy
I'm sure you were a bad ass at age 14 too.

>>12976803
Thats one of the things I like about the new movies. For one they dont make me want to punch the living snot out of Shinji.

>>12976816
Wait.

/new/ movies?

>>12976803
If you accept the view of the general consensus, the new Evangelion movies are a sequel to the original show; and this time, Shinji's gonna do everything right, instead of pussyfooting around too much and watching uselessly as the world crumbles.

Or if he fucks up again, Anno will probably make another reboot/season of the anime.

Wait, what game is this?

>>12976824
So.... they're retcons? Or is there an actual reason why this is happening over.

>>12976820
The "Rebuild of Evangelion" movie series.

>>12976807

Its an anime. He has a big huge fucking (not)robot.

He HAS to be badass.

>>12976820
The first 2 are already int he states, 3rd in Japan. The first movie was just the first 3 episodes redone. After that it diverges.
Like Asuka gets an eye patch because SHE pilots the possessed Eva.

>>12976832
Not a retcon. It's like, the universe ended in the first show; and this universe is literally a reboot, so things can go right this time, instead of failing like they did last time.

Beats me what "right" is, though. Maybe "right" is Shinji not being a faggot any more, and following in the footsteps of our spiritual liege, Kamina.

Requesting that comic where Shinji is not a faggot. You know, that one when he pilots the EVA voluntarily and Misato and Ritsuko are like "Whut"

>So.... they're retcons? Or is there an actual reason why this is happening over.

There seem to be two Lilliths, and graphically it looks like the first remake picks up where EoE ended.

>>12976837
>He HAS to be badass.
You have, obviously, never seen the original series.

http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=241336

I could probably find better places to link to, but this one's opening post seems to have the picture in question.

>>12976820
Well yeah. The old movies were End of Evangelion and Death&Rebirth which concluded the original tv series.

The new movies are the Rebuild of Evangelion movies which, as th name implies, are a remake of the original tv series in movie format with a more optimistic plot and some drastic changes to the plotline (even if it is implied it is a sequel to the original series).

The Angel redesigns look badass as well. Ramiel especially:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8HqgM1qcdo

>>12976854
I thought I had the shot comparison between the first two movies and EoE (like the MPE's and stuff), but I can't find it.

My first character death was when I was 13.
Playing a druid having probably the most fun at DnD that I have ever had in my decade of playing.
We fight a mindflayer and it grapples me and eats my brain.
The DM was amazed at how well I took it and gave me 500 bonus exp for my next character.
It didn't take away the hurt of losing my first character I had ever played.
Rest Zora Reinstorm in eternal glory.

>>12976862

Aight', lemme rephrase that.

He's SUPPOSED to be badass!

>thread attention dies as everyone looks up Evangelion's sequel theory

>>12976885
The whole point of the original series is how a disfuncional 14 year old would realistically take being forced to fight ungodly space abominations in a sentient robot while the fate of the world hangs on his shoulders.

BADASS, as you know it, didnt apply to it.

>>12976807
>I'm sure you were a bad ass at age 14 too.
Do you know the first thing your average kid would do when handed the keys to a giant robot at age 14? I'll give you a hint: It's not cry about his daddy not loving him.

My characters don't ever tend to die.

Captured, tortured, and then reemerge crazy with what may or may not be the best interests of the group at heart, yes. Three characters, in fact, have had a variation of this happen without any foreplanning on my or the gm's part.

The few characters that have died have been under the same GM,who goes with the style of "non uh, that 20 doesn't pass/that fate point doesn't count, you're dead anyway," so the emotional impact is considerably lessened.

>>12976936
Think of it as the equivalent of giving a gun to a kid.

Sure, at first he will be all like " FUCKING AWESOME! HOW DO I SHOOT THIS THING?"

But then his unloving father, dead serious, tells him he has to go fight for his life with it or die with the rest of humanity. That kid´s smile wont last long.

>>12976885
Isn't that the point of NGE, to never have characters or events happen in the usual mecha-anime manner?

>>12976972
>That kid´s smile wont last long.
Irrelevant, since...
>" FUCKING AWESOME! HOW DO I SHOOT THIS THING?"
...never happened. It was...
>BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW
...from the very start.

>>12976972

He then, armed with this gun, gets the everloving shit stomped out of him, feeling every moment.

The gun then, BY ITSELF, obliterates the thing killing him.

Ya messed up isn't even beginning to describe whats going on here

http://www.animevice.com/news/one-fans-opinion-is-the-rebuild-of-evangelion-really-a-remake/4524/

Another good site for a summarised take on the Sequel Theory.

>>12976871

I never have bothered to save that comparison image. But suffice to say the blood on the moon convinced me Anno is trolling us

Thank you for awakening repressed memories assholes.

I'll be going to sleep hearing Hallelujah and children screaming tonight.

Eva is a story of repetition.
It is a story where our protagonist faces the same situation many times over and determinedly picks himself back up again.
It is a story of the will to move forward, even if only a little.
It is a story of the resolve to want to be together, even though it is frightening to have contact with others and to endure ambiguous loneliness.
I would be most gratified if you find enjoyment in these 4 parts as it takes the same story and metamorphoses into something different.

From the Master Troll himself.

>>12977077

I decided Anno is the greatest troll on earth when I found out that the death threats he got from the series ending were included as flashes in the EoE crazy scene.

Then I finished EoE and I said to myself "The fucker did that on purpose"

>>12977042
Slap a nicotine patch on your arm and leave it there as you drift off, it'll make all those bad dreams go away.

>>12977077
I'm still waiting for the ending where shinji wakes up in psych hospital in the year 1980 or something.
Just wait it will happen.

I'm waiting for the reboot where Shinji becomes Kamina. True story.

It's gonna be legen--wait for it--dary.

Legendary.

>>12977106
Oh god this. Arael is high-octane nightmare fuel, and nicotine while you sleep is nightmare nitro. You'll have the most vivid dream you've ever had, and you won't know you're dreaming. Did it after reading tons of Lovecraft and had Bach playing. It was glorious.
Also, pic related for Rebuild = Sequel.

>>12977124

Honestly not seeing anything good coming of Shinji becoming AWESOME and BADASS and ALWAYS RIGHT and GOOD and all the other cliches we've associated with hero stories.

I LIKED having a story where shit went down the drain in a big way. Turned my 13 year old brain inside out when I first saw it.

>>12977161
Well, he did just [SPOILERS DON'T WORK]nearly annihilate the entire world by doing a third impact on his own, only to be stopped by an angel, of all people.[/SPOILERS DON'T WORK] I'm really waiting for an explanation of why he stopped it, when it seems he just wants to do it on his own. Then again, he was being pretty cryptic, and...you know what, this shit borders on undecipherable after it's all out on the table, I'm going to stop trying to guess.

>>12977161

Even Kamina's badass is generally exaggerated. In the episode before he dies, everybody basically calls him and his "plans" retarded.

>>12977259
Nah. He admits that it was often a bluff because he believed in Simon; even when he was afraid, and even when he doubted, he knew that Simon would pull through.

>>12977150
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ0doO3VFjc

>>12977259

That's true. His plans were bloody retarded, but he put so much effort into them that they worked. Like the whole 'Let's hijack the Ganmen!' thing. That shouldn't have worked, but it did.

>>12977212

fellow adeva player here.

but then again, tabbris is the only angel that somewhat tried to understand humans by being one, and trying to understand trough feelings like one, rather than trough telepathic contact

the reason arael brainbusts you is that the way an angel "brain" works is completely and utterly different from how our brain works.( just the fact that angels have natural external atfields goes to show that) as such when an utterly different, but way more potent at exerting itself againts what is "reality" around it, angel telepathically communicate with you, your "pathetic" sanity gets eroded pretty fast, and if you resist, it will try to probe then, furthering the damage, but as it is an angel, and doing this out of curiosity, it would not understand that.

also, arael must have been pretty surprised to get lanced

Zeruel fight, NGE vs. Rebuild

NGE: (at 3:00) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikRMPeDhoyo

Rebuild: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnW08kuTOKg&feature=related

>>12977325

Ya that ain't Shinji dog. Thats Unit 01, which just means Shinji's mother is a badass in both series.

It'll be interesting to see what's in the next two movies given that Kaworu is the only angel left and MP Eva battle aside they don't have very much canon action scenes left.

Could be very dark and almost entirely character focused, or it could go off the rails again into FUCKING AWESOME mode. Or both.

>>12977379
It's Shinji in Rebuild, that's perfectly clear. It's definitely Yui in the original, though.

>>12977379
in fact in NGE it is eva01 going Zerk,

in rebuild, its shinji that's going TTGL on thier asses

as such, youre only right about the series.

>>12977379

pffft. Unit 01 isn't berserking, it'd just run over and start eating the S2 organ if it were. We've already had proof that Berserk Unit 01 is exactly the same as it is in the NGE continuity by the first battle in the first movie.

>>12977379
Its all Shinji before the berserk attack, dude. The guy's always been characterized as a brilliant but inconsistent pilot.

>>12977383
>pic
I though it was more Mari outright broke Shinji's SDAT. The whole 26->27 thing is symbolism that shit's gonna change (26 episodes in original series, also LOL BIBLE REFERENCE)

Also Evangelion newbie howto.

>>12977457
Without knowing what I was getting into (See #1) I watched episodes 1-26. then EoE and last D&RB all as a marathon. Result? See #4

>>12977519
You think NGE gives people a week-long stupor, try Texhnolyze.

That shit is mind-blowing. It's Cthulu level creepy without the Cthulu.

>>12977539
I have never heard of it. I'll have to look it up since I just finished Key the Metal Idol (first time). I am due for a rewatch of Lain, though...

>>12977539
id say franken fran, for an unprepared mind, is prestty blasting too

>>12977457

That reminds me of my weeklong anime binge where I did Lain, followed by NGE, followed by Utena, with Baccano in the middle to keep me sane, then topped off with Kaiba.

The Baccano didn't help.

>>12976711
Dat file name.

>Watch 2.22's final scene
>Shinji finally grows a spine
>It's not Unit 01 going berserk, its him driving it towards god-hood
>Start renaming every single file that's based on the scene after G Gundam lines

>>12977569
I never personally liked G-Gundam from the start, but tried to give it a chance. My patience ran dry at about pic related.

>>12977594

As a kid I liked it because I was a DBZ fag and Wing was too talky/I started in late. Now I go back, remember how hilariously bad it was, and quote it for shits and giggles.

>>12977594
>>12977606
Bah, a pox on both you niggers. G Gundam is fucking awesome. Ridiculous? Yes. Retarded? Yes! But still fucking awesome.

I liked Eureka 7 more than Evangelion.

Nobody seems to agree with me ever though.

>>12977606
Anybody can be a DBZ fag nowadays with zero embarrassment.
http://teamfourstar.com/page-episodes

>>12977606
Though Wing did have incredibly derp messages about war and peace in it, most of the characters are generally reserved making them more tolerable than a lot of the cookie-cut Tomino lead characters. But I digress, thread is about NGE, not Gundam.

Fuck, if I wasn't such lazy bastard and I wasn't a mediocre DH player, I'd totally play some AdEva.

Ha, you guys had it easy. I worked for ADV back in the day. Literally weeks where my job was "watch Eva, fix subtitles" (or "watch Eva, look for DVD glitches... in each of four languages").

But it means I can't play AdEva, though I thoroughly appreciate its existence. It'd be like playing Call of Cthulhu with Lovecraft's editor...

>>12977648
I liked what I saw of Eureka 7, but had to go out to sea in the middle of it being subbed, and never got back to it. I guess I'll look it up again, all I remember of it is airboarding mechs and a milquetoast kid having a crush on a gearhead girl, and that I liked it for some reason. I was drinking a fuckload those days, my memory of the time is fuzzy.

>>12977674
>Literally weeks where my job was "watch Eva, fix subtitles"
So the fact that they're fucked up half the time is your fault, is it?

>>12977627

Meant hilariously bad as in "retardedly over the top". Where you imagine that in their shoes, your battlecry would be "THIS IS REALLY FUCKING STUPID!"

(Actually used that for my AdEva pilot, who was absolutely crazy even before the insanity points kicked in. Him losing his mind consisted of his behavior becoming more subdued and "normal")

>>12977712
After reading so many posts of "lol, AdEva character is brain dead", do most AdEva characters start/end up like that? Sorry to be blunt, everywhere I read about AdEva, every single character story is about how shell-shocked they are, how they can't pick up a pencil because MY PARENTS ARE DEAAAAAAAAAD, or any other reason you'd have to roll another character. Seems generally like a exaggeration of how the characters in NGE were. Is there any modified rulebook that's more combat-orientated and less heavy on your character being spoon-fed?

>do most AdEva characters start/end up like that?

Yep. The game is fairly well rigged and a greatly exaggerated version of the animu -- PCs are on a one way ticket to being tanged, and that's not counting the reasons people got tanged in the series (for 400% synchronicity and because of Third Impact, respectively -- those tang you too in AdEva, but they're separate)

>>12977776

For my guy, it was less "comatose lol", and more after a certain point he just stopped caring, and that spark that let him sync with the EVA just vanished. He was still able to interact and shit, but he just seemed tired. He ended up leaving NERV and is somewhere in Canada.

>>12977776
Depends on the GM. Canonical Angels won't get pilots too terribly fucked up until Arael, or if you get really sneaky with Bardiel. I personally just had Bardiel take over a bunch of failed Evas in the Boneyard so it was just fear checks and not I KEELED MY FWIEEEEEEEEEND! Then they cleverly kept Arael from doing much damage. Encroachers in general have never had much luck against my group.
I'm hoping to change that in this next campaign. Pic related, it was the inspiration for their characters, and will be the inspiration for the plot after I'm done running them through some WWE scenarios.

>>12977820
So do AdEva DMs run the games to vent their frustration on people or something? I know PCs aren't supposed to be fuck all invincible, especially a universe like NGE and the DH system. But it's just such a turn off if you have to roll a new PC because looking at your Eva shocked you harder than a US Marine fighting in Iwo Jima. inb4 a DM uses that as a way to do in a character...

>>12976824
Supoported by Kawaru, of course. Who actually says "This time, imma get it right."

>>12977932
>But it's just such a turn off if you have to roll a new PC because looking at your Eva shocked you harder than a US Marine fighting in Iwo Jima.
More of direct mind-to-mind contact with alien beings with a sense of self so strong they bend physics with their individuality. Your mind just kind of gets buried or crushed if you can't cut the WP rolls.
But, there's tons of ways to keep it from happening because of your Eva, and ways to minimize the damage from Angels. The Angels can still be a huge threat, but if you're throwing tons of encroachers out without remembering that every single one that showed up in the series essentially took a pilot out of the game (Bardiel>Togi, Arael>Asuka, Arismael>Rei), it's really your own fault.

Evangelion is about deconstruction of the genre and rebuild is about deconstructing and rebuilding NGE itself. That would make Mari a deconstruction of the Mary-Sue or fanfiction insert character.

Consider it. Anno pays a lot of attention to the fans and he likes to fuck with them when they do something that annoys him- see EoE.

>>12978044
Yes, yes. Run along now.

>>12978044

No-one said anything about Mari. Fuck off.

>So do AdEva DMs run the games to vent their frustration on people or something?

No, AdEva DMs run the games because they liek Evangelion. Everyone involved expects you to turn to tang at the end, but whoever's attacking the angels loses Ego barrier every fucking round forever, so you wind up having to dump all your XP into recovering Ego barrier to avoid dying before your dramatic death in the last session.

I know PCs aren't supposed to be fuck all invincible, especially a universe like NGE and the DH system. But it's just such a turn off if you have to roll a new PC because looking at your Eva shocked you harder than a US Marine fighting in Iwo Jima. inb4 a DM uses that as a way to do in a character...

>>12978536
minus last paragraph

>>12978536
>XP into recovering Ego barrier
Can you not read the rules or are you just making shit up? You recover Ego through Hobbies, which is not tied to XP at all.

so I've got a question: how do you handle mindrape in your adeva? Any examples of gm/rping done right?

>>12975793

Meh, It's ok really. 14 year olds aren't people. I might feel a little bad if she was twenty but really even that's a fifty/fifty. If you ask me, abortion should still be an option up until the kid's eighteen years old.

What's that? Timmy was held back in the fifth grade? Oh well, I guess we should just have him euthanized
and start over.

>>12978944

Wow. Sorry to derail from the topic at hand, but I haven't seen that picture of that story since I was a kid. Sure as hell traumatized me into not sucking my thumbs that's for sure.

Really not making me think of AdEva as not a pile of shit here, guys.

>>12979972

I liked the days when the objective of children's stories was to horrify, not coddle.

Indeed, what kids these days need to be taught is that if they aren't pleasant and polite, they can DIE. And if they die, they deserve it. Children have no human rights. Children are not human. Abortion isn't murder, its pest control.

>>12978536
> but whoever's attacking the angels loses Ego barrier every fucking round forever

Yeah, sorry about that.

Version 1 Neutralization rules... they made sense to me at the time. But like many things about Version 1 of AdEva, they just were not good in practice.

You have to remember that, before I released it online last Christmas, AdEva has been playtested in 8 battles only, several of them disconnected as they were testing entirely different rules.

In short, before V1 was released it just didn't have the playtesting necessary to point out any but the most basic of flaws (like "there are all these huge gaps in what we need to be able to do, make Pointman to fill them").

But in any event, Adeptus Evangelion V2 removed that particular aspect of Neutralization. Just so you know.

AdEva the F.A.T.A.L. version for weeaboos.

>>12978004
With a giant robot? I can only see that ending badly, especially for the women.

>>12977016

And we havent even gone into the whole "Watching your mom get tanged in front of you at age 4, and the subsequent years of paternal abandonment" issue yet.

>>12980418
One post likely made in jest=FATAL?

GOOD TO KNOW BRO

>>12980457
That and the part about the uncle who is essentially no help and does nothing beyond providing him with food and shelter.

>>12980474
You don't know how most games are played.

Your first character is supposed to die?

So, uh... I'm thinking I kind of want to gm a game of Ad-EVA. My motivation would be that I hate teenagers, and my primary objective would be to punish my players for having poor enough judgement to participate in it.

What say you, am I made for this game

>>12980529

I'm kinda thinking I'd like to kick you in the dick. My motivation is I hate GM's like you, and I'd like to punish you for having poor enough judgement to GM a game like that.

What say you? Am I made for Dick Kicking?

>>12980580
as if violence can hold a candle to what can be achieved through the art of passive aggressive fuckery.

>>12980625
Well... violence can kill you, so there's that.

>>12980655
Hmm, so I die, and you're raped in prison for several decades.

Seems like a win win for me. Like dropping off my dry cleaning on the way to the drugstore. Maybe violence is good after all.

>>12980700
You lost me.

>first permanent character death in 15 years of RPGaming

ffs, stop playing D&D and try some CoC.

>>12980700
>implying he's dumb enough to get caught

>>12980700

50 gallon drum, some fast dry cement, a boat, and the open ocean. They will NEVER find your body.

>>12980700
I'm a cannibal.

>>12980716
>Implying anything that may happen after I die isn't just icing on the cake. I still get what I want. And you do all the work

Thanks for reminding me of just what a pathetic ending that series had.

>>12980762

>implying you aren't a gigantic faggot

>>12980762

Sounds like you're a pathetic idiot who should just an hero.

>>12980819
Sounds like you forgot a verb

>>12978027

To be fair, if Gendo wasn't a total dick, and hadn't been fapping to the idea of rasing Yui from the dead, at least Toji could of been saved. Have the three pilots work as a wolf pack, blow the legs off, pin the arms, and have the third guy pry the entry plug out of the Eva.

>>12978044
You haven't see what anno looks like. Gendo is his mary sue insert. Mari is giving fans a twisted happy character as people who weren't traumatized in some fashion saw no appeal about the other two.

>>12981102

>Gendo is Anno's self insert character

OHH FUCK CANNOT UNSEE

Well the way the books fluff it is that they aren't "Dead" they're just insane and not player characters anymore

you're off to the nearest padded white room or you went berserk and someone had to shoot you.

So she's probably still alive, but not in any condition you can play her in

>>12981102
>from the other two
I have the derp today.

Also it's funny Gendo gets his head bit off in End of Evagalion considering the fans bitched him out to no end and sent death threats before it.

>>12981053
Possibly, unless you decide to play it like Rebuild Bardiel. In that case, you just may open up the entry plug and find nothing but tang. Asuka held together, but there was obviously some Ego Barrier damage and insanity point gain going on, there.
Also...
>Face seen through the synchronization fuckery looks really familiar
>FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

>>12981207

>Icanseeforeverasuka.jpg

>>12981248
ah, it's so like Gendo not to mention that that Shinji's getting into his mom. FREUDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!

>>12981207
what face?

>>12981260

I think I have that image as well.

>>12981207
From what I remember is that you need a high-sync ratio in order to dissolve into LCL. Asuka's sync-ratio plummets once Bardiel takes over. Don't think Bardiel would want Asuka as tang and turning into the Eva like in ANIMA. She's there in flesh and blood when Unit 01 bites her entry plug in half.

>>12981260
I wish he lived to see that show

it'd be the perfect gift for him

>>12981273
Rei face.

Hey OP,

Why not suggest the IP damage is partially or wholly temporary?

Say, 5-10% of the damage is permanent, the rest being temporary or 'healable.' Would make for interesting role playing opportunities as someone slowly comes back down to earth.

>>12981276
>that image
Depends how much alien DNA is shoved in her, could be considered a cousin. Which is totally legal in japan.

>>12981307

>Depends how much alien DNA is shoved in her, could be considered a cousin. Which is totally legal in japan.

I love you /tg/, never change.

I still think they should have made NGE with grown-up military hardasses.

Seeing a 30-year old mech pilot reduced to a crying wreck is so much more powerful than watching a whiny 14-year old.

>>12981283
You take Ego Barrier damage when your SR goes too high, yes. You also take it when an Angel goes poking around in your brainmeats, or in the presence of an Anti-AT Field. When you are reduced to 0 Ego Barrier, you are tang. Think of it as the Angel is synchronizing with you (essentially, it is), and it's really fucking good at it.

>>12981321

The whole point of the series was to be a deconstruction of the Super Robot Genre. And when was the last time you saw a main character over the age of 17 piloting a mecha in one of those?

>>12981328
Except I'm talking about the Rebuild movie and what actually happens, not AdEVA's game mechanics.

>>12981336
You're telling me that Delta Green with mechs isn't a deconstruction of the supermech genre?

But yes, I do see your point, mate.

I'm kinda disturbed... and aroused... how like half the work safe pictures of Mari I've found on the internet have her handling someones boobs.

>>12981321
Would have preferred that, honestly

though it would never happen..

>>12981380

It's fanartist shorthand for "aggressive" I think.

>>12981357
>Jumps into AdEva conversation after how Rebuild Bardiel would work in AdEva is posted.
>TANG DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY
>Yes it does.
>Totally wasn't talking about AdEva, guys.
Well, we were.

>>12981380
Mari was practically written to get people to use her as fodder for that. Something about having no personal boundary issues and her shown personality leads to that.

>>12981357
Dude, he just gave you a reasonable explanation outside the game mechanics for why sufficient contact with an Angel mind would tang you. It's synching with you and it FORCES the synch ratio past the safe limits.

>>12981380
>Play AdEva game
>Base girl off of mari
>Girl plainly doesn't get personal space or belongings, uses other peoples things freely and walks into their rooms without knocking.
>Molest other pilots in and out of the eva
>The eva molestations bother them more
I'm a horrible person but it's hilarious to me.

>>12981493
"Alright! Angel down, good job people!"
"Take to pack it up and go hoooooOOOOH SHIT WHAT ARE YOU DOING WOMAN"
"hmmmmmm"
"WHAT THE HELL, STOP!"
"hee"
"I WILL BODILY THROW YOU ACROSS TOWN. FUCK THE COLLATERAL DAMAGE."

Rebuild split Prebuild Asuka into two characters - Bitchy Tsudere Asuka became Rebuild Asuka and Crazed Berserker Pilot Asuka became Mari.

In the end, it really doesn't matter because they will both have their minds raped and souls crushed, because that's how Evangelion rolls.

>>12981541
About the size of it. Stockholm syndrome sets in quick enough though.

>>12981577
n-no.. everyone will get a happy ending.. I'm sure of it..

>>12981629
Anno's on his meds but may stay true to the mind fuck horror show he originally did.

>>12981629
Asuka already got literally chewed apart by Gendo forcing Shinji with a dummy plug when she was starting to be possessed by that one angel that does the whole EVA possession thing.

They shown that at least half of her body remained and she's catatonic. Though I saw pictures of a one-eyed smiling Asuka so I guess its only a matter of time till she comes back.

>Five guys who hate anime with a passion.
>Invite them to a game, telling them nothing, but asking lots of questions about what kind of characters they want to play, assign their assets and drawbacks and spend their starting experience accordingly.
>At start, the OD is relieving the previous OD (NPC) of Nerv Houston.
>"Why do I have four kids under my command."
>"Only people who were still in the womb the day of Second Impact can pilot these."
>Lights come on in the cage.
>"Oh come on. That's not a practical weapon. Humanoid structures of that size can't hold up in Earth's gravity."
>"I assure you they can. You can watch the test videos on your PDA if you like."
>"I'll be damned. How does that work?"
>"Classified."
>"Why can only these kids pilot them?"
>"Classified."
>"What are we fighting?"
>"Large, powerful creatures called 'Angels'."
>"Why are they called 'Angels?' Where do they come from?"
>"Classified. Look, if you want to hear more about them, turn on the AM radio sometime. There's plenty of conspiracy theorists who got hold of just enough leaked documents to think they have it all figured out. I haven't been told shit about shit, either. Need-to-know, and I'm leaving in a few hours."
>Angel attack.
>Teach them how the combat system works mid-fight.
>Seems like session's over, everyone had a great time, they like how brutal the combat is and the little quirk of keeping track of umbilicals.
>The word "Evangelion" first makes its appearance during the debriefing.
>Two of them recognize that they just played an anime game, and realize they had a great time doing it.
>Rage ensues, followed by acceptance.
HAHAHAHA YOU GUYS ARE FUCKED, NOW!
>my face

>>12981686
I believe an old meme has to return for this.

>>12981686
At least you know they won't watch the show to get metagame knowledge of the whole conspiracy.

>>12976875
I'd like to learn more about the source material of this image...

>>12981703
They just might.

Trying to work through Eva to gain an edge in the game all while disliking anime?

Shit would be funny to watch.

I can't think of a way to tie this in but it's hilarious.

>>12981794
hahaha

it was only a matter of time until something like this showed up

>>12978536
>Noone GMs AdEva to vent their frustrations

Speak for yourself, but I vent my sexual, social, and psychological frustrations directly into my game big time. I maintain that this allows a more authentic feel to the game. Also, I've not had complaints yet.

Is it just me, or were the MP Evas totally into Asuka in EoE?

>>12982182
If by "into her" you mean "wanted to eat her alive and then fuck the corpse".

>>12982182
Okay, those look cute. Then again, I suppose lots of things look cute if they're one twentieth of your size.

>>12982182
anyone saved the "We get to lick her core right?" image?

>>12982240
Yep they look adorable small.

>>12982294
>Panty and Stocking in plugsuits

Also, how in the hell did this thread go from a character death to an Eva dump?

>>12982311
AdEva game.

>>12982332
Forgot my image.

>>12982294
>>12982182
still creepy

it's the smiles that do it

OP, where did you get your character portrait from? Did a drawfag do it for you or did you do it yourself?

>>12982558
What smiling is creepy?

>>12982618

Actually I'm pretty sure thats just Rei.

>>12982618
Drawfag did it. She looks like Rei because she's an angel hybrid.

Bump for AD EVA

If we're talking about Ad EVA...

I just pulled an awesome mindfuck moment on the other players in my party last session with the help of the GM. As far as everyone was concerned, Sharon McDougal was a 14 year old Irish American girl, orphaned in 2nd Impact, and the ward of the Ops Director. She was a nice girl, and had been hanging around NERV HQ since the age of six, so she'd picked up a good deal of knowledge about its going ons, maybe not as much as the OD, but more then the 'other' prodigy in the group, and on par with the two neo-spartans. A year before the start of the setting, she'd been 'tested' by the head of Project E for viability, and it was 'discovered' that she had an amazing natural affinity for synching with an EVA. Naturally enough Commander Harrison ordered me inducted into the Pilot program, I got a nice bright green EVA with glowing neon blue blood, the Angelsense power, and built in stablizers, plus a plugsuit to match. I find out that I'm a pretty damn good defender, and start wielding a shield as part of my standard combat loadout.

>>12984299

Cue Sachiel marching out of Boston Harbor. The Team, consisting of myself, a prodigy berserker who my character thinks is cute, a neospartan skirmisher, and a neospartan AT Tac, intercept him and kick his ass. Time passes, and we're at rank 3-4. We get the call, get in our plugs, and are fired up to the surface. Seems a giant alien panther creature has been tearing up the harbor district with laser beam eyes and retardedly sharp claws. I charge into combat as usual, and promptly start getting my ass kicked by this thing. Half a dozen rounds later, my eva is really badly torn up, when the Angel hits the Evas body with a blast from the Laser Eyes. The entry plug is torn apart and I take 58 personal scale damage, killing Sharon quite handily. As she was screaming for support on that video screen thingy the plugs have, the entire party watches me die. The Berserker does not take this kindly. He snaps, and starts ranting about how "That alien bastard killed Sharon!" and so on. He spends a fate point to roll his chance to Berserk (House rule of the GM), and his eva starts tearing Pantheriel a new asshole, eventually resulting in the Skirmisher firing a point blank blast from a Positron rifle into the core.

After the combat is over and the Berserker has snapped out of it, they haul the remains of my entry plug out of my eva, and everyone says a few words. The GM hands out XP and everyone else starts to pack up, when he says "I'm not finished. Ok Sharon, you wake up in a glass tube filled with LCL, you can't see anything beyond the faint glow given out by some medical equipment. Furthermore, you can't seem to remember anything that happened in the last day or so. As you float there in the tube, a number of burning lights spear into the room. You can see some kind of observation room up near the ceiling. Sub-Commander Douglas and Doctor Randall are standing there, watching."

Turns out I was a Manufactured all along.

BTW, does anyone know any online AdEva games which are open for joining?

Eva would be miles better if Shinji wasn't such a pussy.

>>12984395

The whole point of EVA is that its a deconstruction of the Super Robot genre. Its supposed to be like it is.

So random AdEva question. I generate a Insect type angel. I roll for Toughness and get 10. That means the wounds in it's head is it's TB -2. So it has -1 wounds in it's head.

Should I just add the head to it's body hit location or have the angel fall over as soon as they find it?

>>12984395
Hoho~
Someone didn't watch Rebuild!

>>12984434

>Toughness 10

Um wat? That thing could be taken down by the pilots on foot with a little persistence and a big enough gun.

>>12984440

This, when you nearly WIPE OUT ALL HUMANS ON EARTH just to get that girl who's kinda nice to you back after she was eaten by a lovecraftian horror, you're a badass.

>>12984434
The second option, obviously. Make him a comic relief.

>>12984494
It's an encroachment angel. They have a 35% chance of having 1 toughness.

Doublechecking things I realize the head only has 0 wounds since Angel means it's TB is still 2 rather than -1. My problem remains.

>>12984518
>>12984434
Wounds will always default to 0.

v2 angelgen is, I admit, kinda wonky. We're trying our best to fix things, though.

Also questions open, etc.

>>12984536
But does it have a head? Do I just let them destroy it the first time they get damage through to it?

>>12984332
No John. You are the Angels.

>>12984547
It has a head, just at no wounds. I mean, they might deal less than the critical amount needed to take the head off or something.

Can someone link me to the latest AdEVA release?

This thread amused me sufficiently into taking a look.

>>12984616
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6JAJPHIL

Next big release should be around Christmas.

Well, it's an angel, right? the head doesn't strictly have to be important, does it?

>>12984628

Thanks much.

>>12984628

>thispicturemakesasmuchsenseasendofevangelion.jpg

>>12984636
I could of course change it, but if I were to go strictly by the random generation rules, it would have a had that start's getting crit'd immediately and once the head goes down the angel becomes disabled and becomes much less effective, only getting a half action each turn and not being able to regenerate.

>>12984552

The ironic thing is, I'm not actually a half angel hybrid. Plus the looks on the other players faces were totally worth it.

My first character death happened a few months ago. I didn't take it well. It was my first character ever, I'd made it myself without any help and she died when she was beaten to death by a huge gang of orcs and an ogre.

I don't think I've ever got a insect angel that satisfied me out of the current generation system. The other types usually make at least workable results (barring the occasional probability lemon) but insect-types never seem to come out like the "Hey! It's a giant protoplasmic wolf that also a bee hive!" or the "It's a huge eight-legged cow made of overlapping tesseracts that shoots lasers!" that the other types sometimes do. It just can't seem to get past "And here's an angel that's also a bug! ...What more do you want?" whenever I do it.

>>12978027

This is the interpretation of AT-Fields and Ego barriers that i tend to incline to. The Angels are totally singleminded to the extent that their entire existence consists of the one directive of achieving Third Impact, and they bend the universe to achieving that end.

>>12985092
So they can warp reality because of their singleminded determination?

Angels confirmed for Orks.

>>12975793
Thank you, I now know how Tabris will attempt to enter my campaign. Hey /tg/ can you guys give me a hand statting a clothes hanger? I sense this may come up...

>>12984494
Takato was never a badass. Never.


>>12984434
Give him negative wounds. They accumulate as the pilots attack. Force them to find a way around it.

>>12985720
>They accumulate as they attack
What? I don't even

>>12981669
>"Three steps forward,"
>"Two steps back."
>?

Question related to natural weapons. I remember finding something that said you could upgrade them with any melee status except progressive. So you could have Pneumatic natural weapons?

>>12985909

Says the girl who advances Shinji's SDAT past tracks 25 and 26, causing it to break, and then manipulates him into triggering Third Impact, which she thinks of as "saving us all in the nick of time".

Mari's evil, fuck her.

>>12986995
Power Fists do roll out of Unarmed in Fallout...

>>12986995
No, the only 3 melee weapon upgrades are, increased damage, increased penetration, and balanced. It's under page 92 of the pdf.

>>12985909
Problem?

>>12986995
Often a Bite or Claw attack, this natural weapon deals 1d5 Rending or Impact Damage, and may be upgraded as if it were any other sort of melee weapon. Natural weapons, even if Rending, may not be made Progressive.

>>12984628
Did you fix the spelling errors in the fluff bits?

Each time I see them, I can feel them taunting me, from a electronic immaterial realm.

Encroachment angels seems insane.

>>12984350
Heh, it seems nobody needs a random /tg/ guy in their cosy little game.

Is OP Still around?
If so, are you going to talk to your GM or not?

Thanks to this thread, I finally decided to watch Eva for the first time, in one day.

Fuck me.

>>12990418
Well shit man, didnt anyone warn you?!

>>12990418
It'll be okay. Just marathon through Berserk. It'll make everything better.

>>12990607

Yes, this entire thread. I didn't think the mind fuckery would be so bad. Only had got 3 hours of sleep, weird fucking dreams too.