I would be if I wasn't crushed my the weight of my own disproportionately angsty psychological problems. Also I have to get up early tomorrow to save the world from divine monsters.

Oooh, me!

I can talk about it. Currently trying out the World War Evangelion and ReWrite beta stuff before I move on to run was will essentially be pic related. The players haven't even tried to be subtle about ripping off the Getter team. Might be my fault, since the NPC from the first campaign (This one is a direct sequel) that the OD decided to take over and play in this campaign was based on Professor Saotome. The head of the research division for their first base, every S2 technology was done out of his labs over the course of the last campaign as the OD poured Surplus into it.

Take 1d100 san damage

I'd love too, but I'm far too much aroused by the idea of playing a teenager with issues who will be abused, scarred, maimed and most certainly killed off in a gruesome manner to play it without being THAT GUY.

>>12995505
>All three pilots are Champions with Mad Skill.

>>12995358
DOING IT RIGHT.

>>12995337
I would, but I have to go to bed now.
I have a character concept and everything...

>>12995337

We talking about a IRC game or talking about fluff/gameplay discussion. Because I don't really have time for the former.

I am up for some AdEva playan', never tried this system.

Where do I download this fine piece of RPG that I've heard so much about?

>>12995636
>Champions
What?

>>12995710
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=u59ggyxz
You'll need Dark Heresy, too.

>>12995721
Career path in beta. I think they're planning on including it in ReWrite. Or the Christmas thing.

>>12995766
Excellent, Monsiuer Doubles. I have played Dark Heresy.

I'd be interested but I've never played before. Quick lerner and know the DH system well though.

>>12995766
Christmas thing will be GM-only, I'm afraid.

Fans of random Angel generation won't be disappointed, though.

After Christmas, our first priority will be getting the new edition out, then we can seriously sit down and work on the alternate settings.

>>12995600
There are rules in the works to allow adults in-setting.

I'd be up for it, though I'm not convinced I can RP being so mentally fucked up successfully...

I love AdEva. So much. Enough to be playing in two games with a third lined up.

Also, delicious ZA BEASTO

>>12995860
True, but not true. Really you can with v2 as presented, but it will simply never be a recommended option, and while there'll be MORE options, they won't particularly be any more or less something that's universally okay. It's always a safe bet to ask if you REALLY want to, but I'd say it sort of misses the point.

>>12995880
Wish I could help you with that, but my head's fucked up enough that I really don't have a basis for how to help people with that. No real idea where the starting point is.

I've never played, but would LOVE too. it'd have to be on IRC though, and I'm not sure how to break in, besides lurking #adeptusevangelion The main problems right now is I'm still trying to figure out the system...

>>12995904
Well, I'd be willing to give it a try at any rate. Count me in, mystery OP.

Here's something completly random: the real life location where Tokyo-3 is in the series. It's...actually a damn good location for that kind of thing

>>12995812
Hey, guess what happened yesterday.
Rocket Launcher. -> Special Attack
Improved Special Attack: Beam.

One shot, three dead Chinese Evas.

>>12995895
Overall yes, absolutely, but sometimes added age can increase the characterization of Robojocks just through sheer experience.

These are player-to-GM things to decide anyhow.

>>12996027
they state where it is in the series in no uncertain terms

>>12995920
Here.

So, OP, got any instructions for what you want ptospective players to do? Or were you thinking "let's discuss!" not "Let's play!"?

Man, I'd love to join. I'm not a very good RPer, but I want to play and improve.

Get off my lawn!

Goddamn kids.

I'm thinking about DMing a game, though I've never played before. If you're gonna start one over IRC or something, count me in.

>>12996314
But...but...you asked me to mow it. You said you were going to give me three dollars.

I think OP is gone guys. Pity....

>>12996332
>>12996297
I'd love to join in on a game if someone actually sets it up. Tried to join a group before, ended up flaking out without a word and my computer died out for a month so that was out of the picture.

The V2 rules are the current ones, correct?

>>12996297
>>12996332
>>12996355
>Three guys want to play
I wish I had the time to help you guys out. Maybe after the 17th we could work something out, though I'm pretty much completely new to anything and every IRC.

>>12996406
Yep.

>>12996058
I know, that's how I found it. Fuck crawling all over japan on google maps. Just saying they chose a DAMN good spot for it. Even looks like a crater, kinda

Playtest on Saturday? That's what the channel's news says.

Alright, fuck it. Since OP's disappeared and I really want to play, I'll give a shot at GMing a group. Everyone else in the thread who's interested, come to #AdEva_Game on irc.rizon.net

Let's see if we can't get a game going, or at least figure out a day that would work and get started on making characters.

AdEva thread!

So I'm considering starting a second game, but my first game has only recently started. Still, running a "normal" Eva game would be much different to the P-Scale one I'm running right now.

Hm, I should try playing a game of this sometime.

>>12996618
Or come to #adeptusevangelion. You can probably pick up some players there.

>>12997972
Ditto.

And, I'm compelled to ask this, do you have enough swords, King of Heroes?

Anyone in the Seattle area interested in joining a weekly AdEva game? I would really like another pilot for the group (though it's been running well so far).

>>12998120
Yes. Yes, I do.

>>12998244
Unlimited Eva Works

For some reason, unit 04 was always my favorite. Bit odd, given the COMPLETE FUCKING LACK OF SCREEN TIME.

>>12997950
P scale, huh?

Have an Operations Director that shoots the Angel with a pistol while the Evas pound on the thing?

>>12998354
You know it.

Not stop being silly and be an actual OpDir.

So any games still open?

I just got kicked out of two games because they "were full".

>>12998452
If you're willing to wait until January, I've got a campaign starting then that still has spaces open.

Right now there is still city mapping to do, third impact plots to come up with, and one of the players needs to get back to Amurika.

Is it just me, or are the infected absolute balls? Er, manufactured. Neo-spartan outpaces *everything*

>>12998642
>January

I doubt if I'll even be alive by then. But eh, enough time to finish reading the DH rulebook.

>>12998657
Sorry, can't hear you over the sound of being Tabbris.

>>12998657
Send in the clones!

>>12998409
The sad part is that our OD did more damage to the Angel than two of the Evas.

>>12998688
Manufactured can be replaced. Also, Neo-spartans have reduced Fellowship, which is bad for personal-scale social events.

>>12998657
Neo-Spartans are spec'd for hitting *hard*.
Manufactured are spec'd to synergize with the Disposable talent and therefore last for a while.

But the ones that really got the short end of the stick are the Impact Survivors, what with "U CANNOT PILOT EVAS HURR" and whatnot.

>>12998706
I am the best OpDir ever.

Even IF I did kinda accidentally drink a bit of my own leg.

:3

>>12998715
They can if the GM chooses to allow it. Just don't expect them to do especially well with only 30 SR before roll bonuses. Impact Survivors are better designed to be Operations Directors.

>>12998706
Heh that happened to me in my first game. The OD's tanks were far more effective than hour evas in the first two fights.

>>12998735
Is there any good way to justify non-"in utero during Second Impact" as being able to pilot? I thought the point was their development was changed by Adam being exploded and could therefore sync with Evas.

>>12998735
I honestly never really saw the problem with them. Drop your highest roll into SR and pump it up as necessary.

Then again I got great stats the only time I played an survivor so what do i know

>>12998657
not really. Depends on what you want to do. Neo Spartans have some nice perks, but manufactured are better at not dying, and such. I was actually on the fence between the two backgrounds and went neo spartan because the downsides fit the character better.

I also hold that while prodigies may have some potentially very nasty negative qualities, their positive ones really make up for it. Especially synch flux.

I'm in a game that's just starting out, but probably doesn't need any players (sorry, folks). Currently it's in that awkward phase of not quite knowing the rules well enough to run smoothly that new systems can involve.

>>12998657
>Neo Spartan
Big roleplay penalties. Good in combat, though.

>>12998750
I don't mean the tanks. I mean the OD herself. Shooting the Angel with her pistol.

It's a P-scale game so the Angel doesn't get their wounds and soak multiplied by 10 when shot by conventional weapons.

I run a campaign where I basically fluffed Impact Survivor as being like Prodigy except with fucking terrible childhoods where they grew up in circumstances pretty similar to the world at second impact, for the purpose of taking it as a pilot.

IS have the Synch penalty, but they have the primary upside of having a good chance of 3 fate points and traits that make fate points do more, which is equally as useful for pilots as it is for ODs.

That said, allowing IS pilots is not a mainstream thing.

>>12998804
Pretty much. I had to drop a damn good roll into Fellowship to have it around average and justify being more of a cool, big sis type who is actually likable.

Also ,some Neo spartan positive qualities aren't that great. The extra weapon training probably depends heavily on which career path one intends to go into (it's...really not worth it on a skirmisher, for instance). Their other stuff isn't bad, as more BS/WS is always good, and a little resistance to the opening fear tests can be very handy.

>>12998161

Are you serious about the Seattle area bit? If you're serious, message me on msn. grfu12345@hotmail.com
I'll be on for about an hour or so before I need to get to sleep for work.

>>12998709
Not by a whole lot. -10 to charm. Roll well and you might be awesome anyway. That's.. pretty much their one disadvantage.

>>12998841
Pinning resistance is great in WWE, too.

>>12998864
You forget that base fellowship is also 5 lower than anyone else.
And the other options are: GM Trollbait, Sir Yes Sir Can't Say No Sir, and I Couldn't Do It I'M SAD

How long does DH generally take to figure out? I'm sort of interested in running or taking part in any sort of RPG soon, and AE looks like it might be fun (scorned Eva for a long time for being overhyped. Then I started seeing scenes and taking in the context and atmosphere, and it's really grown on me).

>>12998902
Not too tough. Percentile die, modifiers are in multiples of ten. You'll pick up the little nuances quicker than you figured out all the conditions for Attacks of Opportunity.

My only character in AdEva so far has been a prodigy, and honestly I managed to do more with that character than either the Manufactured or the Neo-Spartan we had.

But then again, I had seriously lucky rolls in combat most of the time, and was for some reason the only one concerned about saving with the world, with the Manufactured pilot worrying about things like impressing high command and the neo-spartan just wanting to try out their Shiny New Gear.

So it all came down to the scandinavian kid with a big axe and no combat training who managed to, in many occasions, scare his Eva into going berserk.

>>12998897
Like I said: Neo-spartan or nothing.

At-specialist and berserker top the list for strength, though. Both are pretty neat, although Berserker eventually tops out.

>>12998913
80 Strength and Toughness can really fuck up an Angel's day.

>>12998932

Oh, it did. And it helped in pulling my 'partners' out of the fire on more than one occasion. Like the time I threw the Neo-Spartan out of the beam o' mindrape he was trapped in.

Into a hospital. That had the OpDir's pregnant wife in it. Which had failed to retract because of a malfunction caused by the last Angel attack, which had been literally the day before so there hadn't been time for a full evac of it.

I've told this story a number of times before, though.

>>12998925
Berserker's very unreliable. Against the earlier Angels, sure, Berserker will fuck them raw almost every time. Against the later ones, you're better off with a Skirmisher where that Berserker used to be.

>>12998913
Nice.

So far, we've only ha one angel fight in the game I'm in, and most of it as buried in OOC chatter as we tried to figure out little bits of the system we'd missed. It got so bad that one o the guys forgot he'd made a called shot to the angel's core just a short time ago.

We've made an OOC channel to at least prevent such chatter from interrupting the IC game flow such that die rolls are missed, and it shouldn't last forever anyway.

Anyhow, first angel fight starts with everyone deploying, failing their fear tests, and bad things happening. We then retreated to rest a bit and were redeployed. The time we actually fight it, my character ends up shooting full-auto into melee until the gun runs out of ammo, as the angel has some really scary-looking melee attacks which it happily demonstrated on the other two pilots. When ti was almost dead already, i charged it and hit the core with righteous fury to the tune of "it goes up like a nuke." this then triggered the big ego and dependent flaws on the other two pilots. I fear for my future. And do intend to point out that it was a bit of a fluke and the other pilots did far more of the work than I did.

now, hopefully, by next angel attack ,the AT technician will actually know how to use her AT field powers, instead of being the out of her element civvie.

>>12998958
Nah, I just ended up playing silly buggers with the angel. Stay the FUCK back, blast away with positron weaponry and an S2 engine.

I cannot believe we are actually discussing this.

Neospartans are really not that good.

OOOO I GET TWO +5'S TO SOME OKAY STATS AND +10 TO HIT MOST ENEMIES

Prodigy: Gets +10 to the best stat in the game, and can increase it during combat quicker than anyone else.

Manufactured:
Maintain fate points till late game on account of not having to burn to survive
Resistance to fear in a game where pretty much everything has Fear (1)

Impact Survivor:
START THE GAME with the ability take 4 or so off of insanity taken in a game where insanity is handed out like bullets from a MG42
Add 2 degrees of success to rolls with fate

>>12999053
What background/class would Mari be?

>>12998997
>silly buggers
You limeys and your slang, I love it.

>>12999088
Australian, scum.

>>12999079
Neo Spartan Champion?
We really don't have enough on her to tell, but that's my best guess based on paradrop training and her fitting some very un-Evangelion super robot tropes.

>>12999120
I've heard Champion mentioned a few times but what do they DO?

>>12999106
Forgive a yank for not being able to tell the difference over the internet when you're not talking about your fucked-up wildlife.

>>12999126
http://tinyurl.com/2bgzy9q
Imagine you're in any super robot show that isn't Evangelion. That's what they do. They get better the more insane they are.

>>12999079
shitty dmpc

>>12999139

Hooooly shit that class would have been so much better for my character, before for various reasons he was retired from piloting duty and turned into the OpDir for our next campaign. Ah well.

>>12999139
Wow that class seems (no pun intended) crazy.

>>12999139
>Catch Phrase: Choose a single sentence or phrase indicative of your character. Once per session, you may yell this phrase. At the end of their next turn, all Fate Points that the character had spent (but not burnt) since uttering the phrase are replenished. If the GM rules that the catch phrase lacked setup or was otherwise inappropriate for the situation, this talent is not triggered.
This is the best ability I have ever seen. In any game. Ever.

Also, what's up with that class? It's not in the corebook that I see.

>>12999190
>>12999184
Keep in mind that it's barely been playtested at this stage, and is probably subject to sweeping changes. But it's still pretty awesome, as out-of-place as it is.

In terms of the game Mari is a viable, albeit bizzare build of Berserker RB'd to Customiser.

Not possible in core, but then core is explicitly not based on Rebuild at all.

>>12999205
It's in playtesting.

I personally think it goes completely counter to the setting, but I haven't seen one run yet. Don't they just completely negate any essence of grimdark the game has? I mean, there's nothing wrong with that if that's what you're looking for, but it IS an Eva game.

>>12999139
I suddenly understand what happened >>12996040.
Holy shit. Hats off to the Getter Evas.

>>12999222
You still have to deal with being a miserable pile of insanity when you're not in your mommybot. It's not all hard work and guts, there's plenty of derangements and padded rooms, too.

I've been wanting to get into AdEva for a while now. No idea how...

>>12999253
Yeah. By the time you actually need Legends Never Falter, they'll be wheeling you to your Eva chained to a dolly like Hannibal Lecter and knocking you out inside your entry plug as soon as the Angel's dead to minimize collateral damage in case you decide to start pulling limbs off of hapless firefighters during the damage control phases.

>>12999253
>>12999139
SANITY IS FOR THE WEAK!

>>12999294
DON'T BELIEVE IN YOURSELF! BELIEVE IN THE INSANITY THAT BELIEVES IN YOUUUU~~~

Theres really two extremes of Champ right now, the ones that are fully based around going insane, and the ones that aren't so focused on that.

The latter do become Mary sues to a lesser or greater extent but generally the players are dicks enough that it stays a very Eva tone, and furthermore they are less mechanically competitive, so they don't break angel battles.

The former though, well they CAN be pretty goddamn powerful, but still don't really break the *themes* per se as their characters are fairly rapidly becoming more powerful and more insane until they can barely relate to humanity anymore, and only understand the concept of people in rather abstract terms. Think Don Quixote piloting a 45m tall giant robot. From an outsiders perspective you just handed the fate of the world over to someone arguably more terrifying in their deluded state than the angels themselves. Which is very Eva.

>>12999315

JUST WHO THE HELL DO I THINK I AM?!

Berserker/Apostle was here. Everything else is smalltime.
http://tinyurl.com/39g4sym

>>12999356
That is now the best image in my eva folder.

>>12999352

That's it, my next pilot is going to have The IMpossible Dream as their themesong.

>>12999356
Well I know that I'm you and you're me, but the question is, who's that guy in the Entry Plug?

>Think Don Quixote piloting a 45m tall giant robot.
And to think that until now I was not exceptionally interested in the class.

>>12999373
...but this is still my prime interest. Partly because you can turn into an inhuman monster on the P scale as well, and partly because you can get punches that tear through AT fields like a positron cannon.

>>12999373
Berserker/eventual Apostle was here.

I'm more Angel than you are~
To be honest, I just love the idea of slowly becoming a completely inhuman monster, bound only by the fact that you are owned, mind, body, and soul, by your creators. Fuck yeah Angel Hybrids

>My character is eligible for Apostle
>My Eva has Predatory mutation
>My face

>>12999445
For some reason now I'm imagining post-fight banter between pilots like Top Gun.
>You can be my wingman any time.
>EAT YOUR GUTS

>>12999445
Well, by a (very liberal) reading of the rules, you could pick up the angelsense mutation when you hit Greater Contamination and start running around in a darkened building, using AT ping like sonar and shanking dudes in the neck with your bear hands while their swinging their flashlights around wildly trying to find you and yelling "Where is it? WHERE IS IT? OH SHIT IT GOT JOHNSON ABORT ABORT ABORT!"

Yay bodyhorror!

>>12999486

>"Hah, that was an easy one. I only used up half my ammo!"
>"Tell me about it, man, I didn't even need to use my AT techniques that much. I don't even feel a bit unhinged like normal."
>"Hey, what's wrong with the Scandinavian?"
>"killthembothkillthembothuselessuselessuselesskillthembothgonnadietheyllbethedeathofmekillt
hemboth ARGH YOU ARE BOTH RETARDS"
>"Sure we are, kid, and you're the one that dropped out of middle school to fight giant aliens for religious reasons."

True story.

I'm starting my operations director now.

I have 0 Insanity. This is going to not last long.

Anyone made one before that could give me some pointers? I'd like a way to do SOMETHING to the angels if possible. I know I can't fight them but besides 'You has an N2 Mine' what is good for making me combat useful. I rather like the upgrade for interceptors and fighters to blind the angel.

>>12996040
>>12995636
>>12995418
>>12999139
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkbZ4Ebz7Ho
This shit is ridiculous.

>I'd like a way to do SOMETHING to the angels if possible.
Have the pilots neutralize the angel's AT field. That's what the evas are really needed for. Once that it done, unload all of your missiles right into its core. I've head stories about early angels getting wiped out by tanks and VTOLs once that AT field goes down. You just have to play things tactically and not empty all of your guns into the brick wall before the opportune time.

>>12999554

Got it. Use the blinding countermeasures to distract the angel until the Eva's turn up and tear down it's field, then spam missiles?

>>12999499
>their swinging theit
THEY'RE SWINGING THEIR. THEY ARE, HENCE THEY>'RE. NOT THEIR. IS IT SO DIFFICULT TO WRITE ENGLISH INSTEAD OF IDIOTISH?

>>12999523
You're supporting the pilots, mostly. Until they get the AT Field down. Battlefield + Barrier Plates and Positron Turrets is your best friend forever. Precision Targeting is your staple. Cut Synch is fucking essential to get some pilots under control before they tang, and Feedback Tampering is pretty much required once an Encroacher shows up, Remote Care is pretty handy. Just As Planned, When Suddenly, Pilot Surveillance are all great, and to a lesser degree Double Agent. Surefire Ejection is great for just in case, a lot like N2 Strike.

>>12999128
Sorry, mate, I was wrestling a womback. (The wildlife's started breeding. Redbacks and wombats. Venemous, wall crawling, pissed off and hungry. Oh, and about the consistency of a brick, so you can't run them over. A very large brick.)

>>12999499
They should allow high level apostles to take talents that let them use some AT abilities outside the Eva. Ones like Ping, Float, Push/Pull, and Deflective Field. Maybe some of the other fields (though obviously not Anti AT or probably Dirac either)

>>12999591
>Battlefield
Battlefield Control. Fuck, I need sleep.

>>12999554
Correct. OpDir's ability to deal damage doesn't scale up anywhere near as quick as the pilots, but it starts higher. And the Angel's AT field is the only obstacle between that damage and its vulnerable core.

>>12999612

It's wonderful tasty core.

Missile Turrets seem like a good starting turret. Better than the mech machine gun on a box that is the other early turret option. Accurate, ok damage and very good range. Nothing insane but useful enough.

I simply love the "Part angel" asset. Sure, if anyone finds out I'm fucked, but it's a hilarious thing to have mechanically.

>>12999612
>Read vulnerable
>Think delicious

Okay I think I need to go to sleep if I'm not even thinking about it and doing that

>>12999646

It's ok. I'm the OD and I thought tasty. That would end...badly.

>>12999513
1."Its fine, If I survive, they wont need to replace me."
*Runs in with tactical nuke*
2."Well, that is the advantage of manufactured."
3."Do you even listen to yourself?"
2."Hay, we tore her Eva apart two days after we got here, she survived then."
4."And she survived the stray positron shot."
3. "That was not my fault!"
2. "Sure, just like the bolt to the back of my head when Raziel attacked wasn't your fault."
1."She also has a worse collateral damage record."
4. "Right! There is that. Oh hay, your alive!"

PC Banter: The real reason NERV operations are classifed.

I take back what I earlier said about neo-spartans. I just realised we are using the 09 christmas rules for our games.

>>12999643
My entire character is based on being as Angelic as you can possibly get.

Angel Hybrid Berserker, with a Made For Me Eva with an Angelic soul, that will eventually go Apostle.

Oh, and I'm probably the only one of the group that knows, OoC, where my Eva's soul came from. Because it's my own.

>>12999581
Hey. It's fucking 3 in morning here. As long as I'm reasonably intelligible I'm happy. Just be glad I've got spell check working.

>>12999601
Float and push/pull would be a wonderful license for some psychokenisis action. Get your hands on repulsion and you can start reenacting the end of Akira. Kinetic Manipulation would be pretty fun too.

>go on /m/
>nothing but Gundams and WAIFUS
>Go on /tg/
>HOLY FUCK ADEVA I FUCKING LOVE ADEVA
>HOLY FUCK, GETTER FUCKING ROBO, MY FAVORITE ANIME SERIES EVER
I don't even need any other board.

>>12999668
Also, Going to Dump my Eva portraits because you guys are awesome.

>>12999676

Cool. I still need to get someone to draw out my AdEva character's portrait, but I played him IRL and none of my artist friends IRL do portraits. Could just start requesting him in /tg/ art threads, I suppose.

>>12999668
Where's the post about giantess threads and never needing a board other than /tg/?

>>12999602
>>12999591
>Battlefield Control + Barrier Plates
Seriously. Keep 5 Barrier Plates in reserve at all times and it will pay HUGE dividends in Surplus once some heavy hitters come around.

>>12999668
Oho wow Its nice to see those photoshops I made for my players have been doing the rounds.

>>12999663
Are you inside my head? Because that's pretty much the first character idea I thought up after reading up on the apostle. Is your character also probably going to cause her own 3rd impact by absorbing an angel core because "the procreative drive is a trait inherent to all living creatures"?

>>12999706
Nope. If she starts Third Impact, it'll be the traditional way. Seek out Adam, merge with it, take him over and rule over the world as she sees fit. To be honest, that outcome'll be somewhat unlikely (depends entirely on the rest of the group, and so far they haven't made her hate humanity enough to want to wipe it out entirely).

Instead, what's more likely is being used for Human Instrumentality. And if that happens, she'd put the fate of the world in the hands of a stupid sexy Irish terrorist.

Because that would be HILARIOUS.

Really, Karada ending up with the POWER OF A GOD would result in the creation of an entity that's more or less Xom.

>>12999736
What are you doing with that cross on your head, Lancelot?

>>12999776

NERV: Vatican?

Not a Eva, but I fucking love it anyway.

>>12999784
GurrenGaiGar?
You sir, deserve tits. But we are no longer allowed to have them. Presumably because kids were pic related.

>>12999601
Awakened Hybrid: Your Angelic DNA and blue cells are active. While you have a ATS of 1 on the personal scale, and can use powers you know on it as if you had the ATP your SR provides, you are an abomination closer to the angels then human, and manifest a blue signature while doing so. Hiding it will prove difficult over time, since you no longer age, or scar, or bleed red. There is also the consideration that many groups would love to cut you open and see how you have accomplished this feat.

Wrote this up for essentially that reason. Nothing like concentrating for 1 minute and then moving a powerless elevator with your guest in it to the abandoned levels of the base, after using a combination of AT Stealth, Ping and an assault rifle to sneak into their room and steal them. (hold hands and they are invisable too, of course they are blind while doing so.)

And uh, thats it.

>>12999780
>>12999758
>>12999736
NERV: Vatican
NERV: Germany

Each nation is assigned an EVA Unit for the upcoming EVA World Tournament. EVA Fight International Regulations: A unit whose core section has been destroyed is disqualified.

I'd totally DM this kind of AdEva game if I could actually DM.

This is no Zaku, boy, no Zaku.

So, I think I would like to run a game of AdEva for my some of my bros, but I have a couple questions.

How do I handle the Angels when dealing with players who have seen the series? Won't they meta and run through Angels like Ramiel in the exact same way as the series?

Also, are they any plans to include rules for quadrupedal Eva's like Mari's?

>>12999868
Use the random stuff I guess

>>12999823
heh. well when you think about it, the Eva's do make everything else obsolete. (ok, ok, you still need boots on the ground to occupy the place, but you see what I mean)

been using/abusing some of the material from WWE/Rebuild beta's in the game I am running IRL. Prototype Heat Sword became VERY popular after breaking all of Germany's ace pilot's weapons let the PC's carve out a very close run victory. Captian Langly was furious. (considering it was 3 PC's to the Captian and 1 support unit...)

>>12999808
Tabris: Fuck you, that's why. Do whatever the fuck you like while forcing your GM to fellate you. It's an A.T field, I don't gotta explain shit.

>>12999868
Q1: Make your own. For extra lulz, make the first few ones look identical to the canon angels but act completely different. Most people just plain make up their own though, generally using the random angel generator to start off with and then moving onto statting them from scratch once they are more familiar with how their party deals with things and how the game works.

Q2: Currently, v2 core explicitly has no influence at all from Rebuild. That said if you feel like digging around you'll find some beta (read: not officially part of the game yet and hence not necessarily balanced) stuff that allows you to make an Eva that functions like Mari's did, with integrated boosters, four legs etc.

>>12999922
This here? This is exactly why there are no P-scale AT field abilities by core rules. They are GM fiat only at the moment, and may even stay that way during ReWrite.

>>12999823
If I ever did AdEVA, I'd want to play it up, G-Gundam style

National G fighters competing in the -angel fight-

>>12999929
Oh, cool. Where do I find the beta stuff?

>>12999963
Oh ya, tons of fun to be had there. Imagine the pressure on those poor kids. They might enjoy fighting, but if they lose...

Still, you can have a lot of over the top fun.

>>12999989
the channel on IRC...
IIRC: irc.rizon.net #adeptusevangelion

>>12999950
ya, thats part of why the way I wrote it left Tabbris out of it. Tabbris is a living, taunting plot device, lets just accept that. (also, consider the sheer firepower of something with that much ATP to throw around. Even if a cross blast is scaled down, at +30 wounds it wont matter. Best burn that fate point now boy.

Personal AT abilities WOULD be hilarious, though. What's that, ops director? You're dressing me down? Here, let me introduce you to my anti at-field. Tang, anyone?

>>13000106

At which point he uses 'just as planned' to have the positron cannon aimed at your position be triggered.

>>13000106
oh sure, until you find out that your commander is a full scale angel, and he neuts you to nothing with a stern look while calmly explaining how he did not arrange for you to be able to do that for your own petty reasons and getting out his white gloves.

Also, want to Tang yourself nearly instantly? Anti-AT Field on personal scale is a quick way to do it. Inside the shielding angel flesh of an Eva you take 1d10 or so a round, Eva:Personal is 1:10, take your guess how much barrier you just lost. (admitidly so did everyone else in the raduis.)

now tripping someone, or stealthing into the bathroom to mess with their toothpaste, no one can really prove...

I'd seriously love to see variants with personal AT fields -- the human types can only use AT FIELDU by synchronizing with, at the very least, an angel hybrid.

Sync ratio? What's that?

CHAAAAAAAAANGE GETTTTTAAAAAAA!

CAST IN THE NAME OF GOD
YE NOT GUILTY

The fist three angels I threw at my players were very weak on top of being done with the introductory rules. I just rolled poorly in the character creation.
And now, the first easy angel, has huge toughness, maximum armor (15) for head/body/core, AT penetration, as well as a positron beam with a normal range of 140dm, however it also has the marksman ability, so it can shoot up to 420dm without penalty. On top of THAT, it has dirac breach, so it basically can shoot anything anywhere, if it just spends 8 of it's 16 ATP.

So what we have here is an angel that has a 82% chance of hitting an Eva, autopenetrates their AT fields and has a decent chance of crippling/killing any Eva with one shot, all that over 4200 meters, or even more if it bothers to against a team of mostly melee fighters ( ATT, berserk, pointman )

I guess this is going to be interesting?

>>13000584
>>13000611
>>13000632

Silly robots, you don't even have AT fields.

>>13000584
bah, bring out the big guns, your gunna need to turn to the weapon of the lord of the seas and the lord of the skys. The TRIDENT/Raiden.

I felt that an advanced Aerospace model getting jacked would be fun. And besides, having a Tabris style running around to fuck with their heads ought to be helarius. Turns out a Trident with a decent AT Field could be trouble....

>>13000653

The Big O has...Some kind of force field. (Final Stage.) Also, it might possibly be God.

>>13000611

Yeah, you know that one? With this one, the pilot beat up Satan. And God. At the same time.

So I'm just browsing though the character and EVA creation rules and really liking this, so much so that I actually sat down and marathoned the entire anime (which I also enjoyed). But I'm curious /tg/, what does an average session of AdEVA look like? How much time do characters spend in P-scale, how do the players use that time to do interesting things as a group, etc. Also, I have 4 players and am going to assume one of them would at least be interested to play as the OD. Assuming the other players were cool with having one of the PCs be the boss (and in this group, they would), how does this work in practice? Do they tend to have an equally engaging and fun time as the Pilot players, and are their characters mor eor less relevent in P-scale events?

Trying to get a better understanding of how the game runs. Thanks /tg/.

>>13000675
well clearly someone forgot to spread their damn AT Field. Freaking rookies. Lose more of them in the first round that way...
Also, Big O might take down some of the weaker (AT Strength anyhow) angels, because that Final Stage shure looked like a GPC to me. But then the rest will just 100% deflect.

>>13000584
Its this thing that lets us neutralize the phase space allowing the angels to walk through your entire arsnel. Kinda important. Now, if you want to get a better powerplant and make a Limited Production Eva out of that chassis's we can talk business.

pic related. (this is why the local Jet Alone model has an AT Field. Not that its poor pilot knows its not her own sheer hotbloodedness)

>>13000714
In my group the life on the ground usually lasts about one session, though we all are unsatisfied with that, and will put more focus onto it.
The OD is actually incredibly useful and a really good position, which is why it's a bit sad that it's filled by a NPC in my group. I am always reluctant using her, because I don't want to steal my player's spotlight. I'm bad at handling GMPCs.

>>13000732
So you're suggesting it might actually be beneficial to have a player run the OD instead? I admit I'm curious about the OD's position of (reletive) safety compared to the rest of the group, and how that impacts gameplay more than anything else.

I use the OD as a DMNPC, and while I am sad that the group missed out on some chances to some more interesting role play in that route, there are some benefits.

The biggest benefit is that I don't have 2 pilots. Sadly my group is very small (we're playing in person).

Another benefit is that after I throw an angel at them I can adjust the fight's difficulty by changing how much the OD is able to help them.

The only other real problem I've run into is that it's hard to to get the players to interact with the command crew more since it seems like most of the time they prefer to talk to the OD. I'm still trying to come up with ways around this, but it is annoying at the very least.

So random question.

It seems like all the early "known" angels have Regen but I can't find any way to get it in the random generator. Is that intentional?

A.T. Field powers, how do they work?
Lets say that I have a fully spread A. T. Field with ATS of 6 and I spend 3 ATP to Neutralize an Angel's A. T. Field. Both my and the Angel's ATS are lowered by 3. On the next turn, I stop maintaining Neutralize. Does my ATS return back to 6 or does it remain at 3?

The power of God, wielded by man. Giant robots run amok. Everything is a lie.

So, can Bigs AT field or not? Because I have this idea for an AdEva campaign where New York is defended by a vigilante mecha.

On the note of several comments in this thread do PCs fight non Angels or what? It's a non-issue in the anime, but I'm wondering if making every combat a "boss fight" wouldn't start to suck pretty quickly if you're running a cmapign.

>>13001140
>non-issue

I rather thought End of Evangelion is awesome and Asuka's last stand is by far my favorite battle from, well, anything.

>>13001151
It's completely in the realm of possibility to have a terrorist attack or some kind of attempt on the pilot's lives earlier in the campaign as well.

All Angels have that by default. They regenerate 1 wound on every bodypart per round.

>>13001151
Sorry, I meant based on the original 26 episodes (which are all I've seen).

>>13001243
What are you waiting for? Its the perfect inspiration for eva vs non-angel targets

Depends on the style.
Mindfucks and Sanloss where the enemy is the players' own mental diseases? Yup.
Grindy Math-and-numbers combat involving giant robots? Yup.
Shota erotic roleplaying? Nope.

>>13001151
>>13001269
So I quick youtube while I wait for my torrent and... whatthefuckamiwatching. It's more... uhh, action-y.

>>13001368
How exactly did you imagine eva on eva violence, or eva on tank violence, to be anything other than actiony? Evas out of power lazily falling onto uninhabited tanks and each other?

>>13001140
Really depends on how things are going. Generally most campaigns leave humanity as an enemy until right at the end, as in the series, but the players I GM for are... different. Highly creative and highly violent, a good analogy would be that they treat the world with a DnD PC outlook.

TL;DR they attacked the UN Pacific Fleet killing 17515 people in order to get their base an extra eva unit.

So yes, in that case the encounter was rather one enemy eva and a flotilla of about 45 military vessels, than a single massively powerful angel.

Also I think its kind of sad to see so many people relegating ODs to NPC status. I can sort of understand it from the perspective of an IRL game, but on IRC there seems to be this weird discrepancy that games with a heavy overlap of players with #adeptusevangelion always have PC ODs and yet there is this massive rate of NPC ODs the second its people that we only hear about through /tg/ threads.

>>13001379
I think my initial reaction comes from having JUST FINISHED watching the series, and Asuka's last stand being the only EVA fight I'd seen in 3 hours of I am myself but what if my self isn't who I think it, and instead my self is what other people think I am, making me and my self actually two different entities that interact on a similar plane of existance, causing my self, while not being who I am, to influence who I am and therefore becoming myself and SUDDENLY ROBOT FIGHT AND OH GOD HAPPY REI SOUNDS LIKE A MAN OR A HILBILLY OR MAYBE A HILBILLY MAN.

That, and the show didn't actually feature very many truly humanoid/ EVA-esque opponents during fights.

>>13001426
Ahh I see.

Yeah, I sincerely think EoE is very pertinent to AdEva campaigns, because it genuinely feels like an RPG session. It ends, as all AdEva characters do, in tang and 0 sanity. It also ends with the feeling the DM didn't know how the fuck to end it, or how to kill off the OP combat monster PC, other than "a buncha evas attack... uh, you killed them? they get back up and are armed with LoLs"

>>13001452
And Zeruel was a grudge monster.

Hey I've been playing around with some home brew using DH system and looking at what you guys did and I have a question.

Why don't the progressive knives have the fast quality?

I know it only appeared in one book and is sort of useless against angles being poor mans flexibility, but after learning about it it seems a perfect fit for those small dangerous things.

Also the second I see the storm quality on an angle attack I'm going to cry.

>>13001452
>>13001426

There's not altogether that much you can actually do about EVA-scale combat with conventional forces. It's either offensively abstract or unplayably overcomplex, and the only point at which you can balance the two is in the realm of abstraction by feel and mood, which is something that has always been the sole realm of the GM and utterly beyond the powers of any rulebook.

>>13001422

Like I've said, the reason people NPC the ODs is because they're not the same as the PCs. It's a legacy of this sort of gaming that's been so constant for so long that it'll be damned difficult to break.

The difference in usage comes down to perception. The way the game should work is all well and good, but of trivial importance compared to the way people think the game should work. The reason so many in the IRC use them 'right' is because when you're involved in a project it's much easier to see what any given element was meant to work like.

>>12995360

Shinji's cameltoe disturbs me more than Rei's rapeface.

>>13001452
>they get back up and are armed with LoLs
They did it for the LoLs.

>>13001735
I know someone, at one point, made a MP EVA trollface edit.

>>13001841
Problem emo teenagers?

>>12995337
Is it just me, or are her thumbs disturbingly long?

>>13002253
It's less exaggerated than the normal one.

Hurray for Encroachers!

>>13002312
It was a quick edit maybe something more later.

>>13002354
Not criticizing your work, just noting how the evas had a cooler face than cool face even before cool face was invented; so turning them into cool face actually reduces the toothy smile.

>>12999205

There have been a lot of good talents I've seen in the various AD EVA editions, but this one has to take the cake.

>>13002383
Now I just can't leave it at that.

Better?

>>13002502
Shit missed some floating white bits.

>>13002509

Forgot zipper teeth.

>>13002509
I smirked.
Make it more elongated and space the teeth and I'm sold.

Has anyone made a quick character/EVA/Angel generator yet like there's been for Dark Hersey. I haven't played a game of AdEva yet, but with the implied high mortality rate something like that would be a godsend. I always take forever and a day creating for some reason.

Also, I know Magrock swords is in, but is the F-Type Equipment?

Current World War Eva/Adeva campaign thing. 4 PCs and one fucking crazy GM.
The GM setup a military heavy campaign; emphasizing artillery support when we took down the angels’ shields, that nukes can penetrate AT fields and absolutely wreck an angel or eva if they are high enough yield, using the evas as shield generators for armies, ect. He adapted the Death Watch horde system to allow use to fight armies.
We started in media res, it’s 2019 in a setting where the angels came more sporadically. They didn’t have the evas for the first angels including the Zeuriel equivalent so they just nuked them, with actual strategic nuclear weapons instead of sissy N2s. Zeuriel took an 80Mt blast from a nuclear mine and his carcass got hurled into orbit by it. We killed the last five tricksty angels with the evas: a virus type(Nanomachines in my NORAD trying to launch ICBMs? It’s more likely than you think.), two infector types, one that burrowed under NERV Japan, and giant space gun that was shooting down the ICBMs before then could hit it. That last one was a lot of fun since we had to draw its fire and shoot back while the Chinks, Ruskkies, and Yanks spammed missiles at it.

>>13003393
So short campaign right? Well then Russians found out about Seele’s instrumentality bullshit and rallied the militaries of the USA and China behind them to stop it. So we were sent in and fought six mass production Evas whose parts had been shipped to Germany and assembled there. You know the drill, pull out the dummy plugs ect. But since we had lost our escorts and support to N2 mines, and there were six of them supported by most of the European NATO that Seele had co-opted we could only kill three before the Russians just said “fuck it” and launched a fractional bombardment weapon they had in orbit and dropped twelve 400Mt bombs in the middle of Europe. Most of the British and French ICBMs in control Seele were shot down by Russian and American ABMs. Russia lost Moscow when there missile defense was compromised and the US lost Boston when one of the MIRVs split before it could be shot down. Pretty interesting outrace the nuclear fireball session though.
So the current situation as of the last two sessions
USA/Japan have absorbed most of the remnants of NERV since they had the most NERV Facilities to begin with. Consequently they are ahead on Eva related stuff but lost absolute naval superiority when half the aircraft carriers got blasted by Seele in the Apocalypse Europe campaign. Both the countries have become military dictatorships, along with pretty much the rest of the world. We are currently stomping African nationals for them, and I expect that a certain missing Eva will show up soon.

>>13003422
Europe has been gutted by nukes. The British Eva has disappeared; the incomplete French Eva is confirmed destroyed. Germany is crater. Most of the remaining European military is bivouacked in Australia.
Russia only has 2 provisional Evas of its own but has chosen to just spam ICBMS like in the Cold War. It has all but annexed eastern Europe
China has 1 true Eva that it is actively using to take over most of South East with the acceptance if not support of Russia and the US/Japan.
There are also hints that the top brass of the four remaining great powers are angel hybrids. The Gendo equivalent in the Japanese branch seems to be and the General Ripperesque US Commander is openly flaunting it. I quote “The old fools never understood the spirit of Man. Loneliness, misery, hatred, war: these things are what make us strong. They denied this fact. They would have run and cowered in the dark like children rather than standing as men. But we will stand. It is the will of God that mankind shall become gods ourselves. We will tear at the firmament and drag down all those weaklings that had the audacity to think themselves gods before us. That which we can conquer does not deserve our reverence. Man’s very nature is to surpass the limitations of humanity.” So we will probably get to fight human/angel hybrids latter.
Also the GM talked to me about a possible betrayal, since I am playing the American pilot and it would be commanded by General Ripper. Basically it involves me being launched win a hug space battleship driven by nuclear pulse propulsion and using the battleship and my AT field to divert and asteroid toward the planet. Supposedly so they can part it at a lagrangian point and drop it on Earth whenever they please.

>>13002959
Theres no quick character generator currently, but theres also a lot more inherent choice to chargen than in DH so I don't know whether that would effect anything.

Also, don't worry about the mortality rate. Horrible things happen to people frequently, but the actual character retirement/death rate is VASTLY lower than core DH. Whereas you might expect a DH Char to last 3 to 6 sessions, you'll find that thats around about the interval between ANYONE in the party burning fate in AdEva.

Also, F-type has a... storied and hate filled relationship with dev. Suffice to say that there will very likely never be a way to in rules obtain a full suit of F-type for a PC. There may be stats for it in WWE, as well as ways of obtaining individual components of it.

>>13003458
>Also, F-type has a... storied and hate filled relationship with dev

You have my attention. Do tell.

>>13003648
From what I've heard, it's massively overpowered. ...Unless you are fighting something that's in the same class as it, in which case it works and feels just like regular b-type gear.

>>12999601
Sounds like Tetsuo. P-scale AT powers? Check
Uncontrolled and with disastrous consequences? Check

>>13004111
>bending / deflecting military laser rifles?
Deflective field or wrap beam ability

>getting his deflective abilities overcome by an orbiting laser cannon?
Great positron cannon

>spherically radiating crushing force?
AT Repulsion, although Tetuso's ability in the movie seems to be a lot more powerful

>Absorbing NeoTokyo into a huge glowing sphere with a weird floaty interdimensional space inside?
Totally a dirac sea power

>rebuilding a severed limb out of local material?
Kinda like the 'mind made flesh' ability, but would need a bit of tweaking to make a perfect match

>but the actual character retirement/death rate is VASTLY lower than core DH.

Uhh, how do you figure? the GM sets the death rate in DH, 100%. Its no more or less survivable than D&D or WW or any other RPG. There's nothing resembling a specified danger level in DH.

>Whereas you might expect a DH Char to last 3 to 6 sessions, you'll find that thats around about the interval between ANYONE in the party burning fate in AdEva.

In AdEva, your character goes further along the downward spiral literally every round of combat, you're burning about 300 xp worth of your player character every round in the form of permanent ego barrier loss. Tang is inevitable in AdEva, far moreso than corruption and insanity in DH.

>>13005167
>Every Angel ever is encroachment type
No, no they aren't.

>>13005167
in V1 yes. we have moved on to V2.

V1's neutralization rule was a terrible idea in pratice. I even refrenced it as a backround note, mentioning to my players that 'the old barrierless plugs causes mental instability constantly while neutralitzing, its amazing how far the technology has come in such a short time.'

Seriusly, get with the times!

Pictured is the weapon development head for the PC's base. More fun then a barrel of hand grenades! (Assorted)

>you're burning about 300 xp worth of your player character every round in the form of permanent ego barrier loss.
I would suggest that either your total control GM tone down the brainrape a bit, or you stop throwing yourself headfirst into madness. Just because you CAN burn fate points like they're going out of style doesn't mean that you have to. And I'm fairly sure that your figure of 'burning 300 xp per round' is verifiably false.

>And I'm fairly sure that your figure of 'burning 300 xp per round' is verifiably false.

Nope, just outdated, apparently.

Hmmm, AdEva's starting to sound significantly less like an exercise in stabbing yourself in the genitals.

>>13005299
Why dont you look at the updated rules, then decide?

Also keep in mind a third update that fixes more then just typograpical errors is in the works. Of the things /tg/ has done, this has been the one with the most progress during the time I have been here. (That intrested me)

Pic related to some proposed OD combat tactics...

I kind of want to make a renegade pilot. Not an anti-hero but literally they tested them, pilot realized they couldn't be stopped by their handlers and escaped with the S2 organ enhanced Eva. How long can a pilot last in an entry plug without having to leave? Would they be able to track it because of the AT field always being at least ATS 3?

>>13007874
>>13007874
wouldn't they leave to eat, defecate/urinate, and sleep?
keeping a building-sized robot concealed isn't exactly easy when the people looking for you have airships aside from any groung forces
also, wouldn't the pilot eventually run out of fresh LCL?

>>13007874
i guess that could be a good sub-plot to break up the ALL ANGELS ALL THE TIME.

not only keeping the angels away, but also bring back the rogue EVA.

...in more or less one piece.

you could also throw in some jet-alone-like scenario.

>>13007874
Pilot duration in entry plug is an unknown. Example from the series, Unit 01 without a S2 engine, showed endurence of aprox 12 hours continus nonactive life support minimum mode. This was stated as due to both power and LCL filtration limitations.

Having considered a similar event for the game I am currently running I posited that a S2 Organ equipped eva could provide its own LCL and filtration. So long as the AT Field is spread in most spread patterns, tracking is easy. Without it, the massive thermal signature and huge size come into account. With AT Stealth, it becomes a nightmare to track. Please note that an offical AT Stealth is likely to superscede the one I brewed up.

AT Stealth: Spread pattern, 5% Deflection per ATS, opponents must test Perception(or use awareness) to detect a radius equal to their Per bonus * 10 in Dm, with each degree of success adding 1 to their Per Bonus. AT Ping negates this effect until your next turn, but does not negate the Deflection. While Stealthed, all electromagnetic spectra are virtually useless in detecting the unit, the unit does not leave physical traces such as footprints, but it must leave a tiny peephole to see out of, so detection with conventional means is possible. Additionally, conditions like smoke or fog will reveal the unit displacing the material.

Evas aren't the only thing that can be mass-produced.

>>13009145
You jelly?

>>13009323
YE JELLY

>misato.jpg

Did someone say mass produced?

>>13009145
But they are the only thing with an AT Field. Mecha make a great supplament to an Eva, but wont replace them in the field.

YE JELLY

>>13009539
>But they are the only thing with an AT Field.

Funny you should mention that...

...because it sure looks like Big O has its own field.

It's a suck field.

What I read:

>BAWWWW MY GRUESOME MOMMYBOT IS SO MUCH COOLER THAN YOUR GOD-MACHINE

Did somebody say god-machine?

Well I was gonna start my own thread but I see this one so I figure I may as well post here. Considering starting an AdEva group, as my friends are mostly all fans of the series, and while they aren't incredibly keen on starting up another hack n slash dungeon exploran game I figure this would pique their interest sufficiently. I'm just wondering as to what aspects of the Dark Heresy rules book I will need (I have never played the game), i.e. page numbers etc. I'd rather not buy the Dark Heresy booklet if possible, though I'm prepared to go the distance.

Any general tips/advice would also be welcome.

>>13009780

Oh man, I cannot wait until tomorrow.

>willopet Totten

>>13009813
...what happens tomorrow?

>>13009854

A Warlord Titan.

My players find one.

I can't wait to see what happens.

>Bilmante field.

CAST IN THE NAME OF THE EMPEROR
YE GUILTY

>>13009889

So...TPK?

>>13009795
Get it from /rs/. I you do like it, consider buying one after you're finished with AdEva.

>>13009975

I'll discuss it more on Saturday...

>earned Ittens

Ignoring the settings and fluff altogether, how does this handle compared to Cthulhu Tech?

>>13010013
Much, much better.

>>13010013
I want to know that too! We've all heard bawwwwing at CT's gameplay system. Is this better/worse?

>>13010013
>>13010046
Vastly better. Cthulhutech's crunch is a disaster. AdEva takes liberally from Dark Heresy, and thus is pretty good.

>>13009889
They're going to summon a giant dinosaur from a far off planet using arkayne majicks. And then that God-Machine is going to need to roll for anal circumference.

Or you know jump onto its feet and engage in a dungeon crawl.

>>13010073

Don't forget the Rape Machine.

>voices Grogning
>A new game system...
>A thousand grognards cried out in terror...
>And were suddenly silenced.

Great. Someone just HAD to bring up Cthulhutech, and now this thread is going to dissolve into a massive pile of nazi rapegoat machine rage.

How would I stat a getter 1 eva?

>>13009795
just torrent the main book. Honest to god it recycles a lot (because it works damn it.)

>>13010073
hell it works so good some group are puting together a Gundam piloting RPG set during the one year war by modding Adeptus Evangelion. (Called Mobile Suit Machanus IIRC) Its pratically at printable form, I have the documents. Those Beam Sabers are insanely damaging compared to even high end AE and even WWE melee weapons. (balenced in its own setting though I assume, also standard issue!)

Is Tactical N2 Strike useless? I mean, punching an Angel with a N2 Mine is awesome, but it doesn't seem practical.

>>13010215
Well it will hurt them. And strategic bomb 10Mt+ will flat out kill anything.

see>>13003393

Aright so I did look at CTech. Having not actually tried it I'm not going to pass judgement on their system; however, my group is already pretty used to the DH system and that's the deciding factor. I'm just getting stuck on how to avoid Power Ranger Boss Battle of the Week syndrome

>>13009889

Will they use it or fight it?

Becuase the Emperor does not approve of monsters from beyond earth or emo teens.

>>13010215
Tactial N2 Strike: Because without their AT Field up thats 1d10+10 energy damage on every location.

>>13010339
Simple, Life on the Ground (LG) Make the poor players stretch their pilots social muscles. Also, Simulated battles vs other pilots/whatever you feel like. Have one of the programers be a Gundam enthusiast and throw the Wing Gundam at them. Have them train in 'small target tactics' against a Touhou complete with Danmaku level firepower. (that might help when Tabris comes knocking), Training simulations give you the excuse to be whacky without screwing with the overall mood, especially given that several critical table results cause IP. Inter Service lunchon lets you show them the other pilots in NERV branches, or meet the tank/VTOL crews (who clearly have BALLS OF STEEL to be out there vs an angel) Have a club day at their school (assuming they attend one). Everyone disappears for a day except for the pilots and 1 totaly normal random technition who was working on the LCL filters at the time everyone vanished. No evidence remains after the event other then the pilots and that poor guy's memory. (was it an angel attack? A side effect of LCL exposure? Lilith turning over in bed? Who knows?!)

pilots need driving lessons in case they have to get to HQ on their own. (this includes hotwiring a car) Pic related.

>>13010394

You'll have to wait for Saturday...

>Olebted Barth

>>13010215
If you're in an unpopulated area and you've taken down the field, it can be brutally effective. But more than anything, its an in-character threat: "Do it in 5 minutes, or you'll be caught in the N2 effect"

>>13010339
Add human enemies.

>>13003393
kind like that

>>13010413

In that vein. I'm thinking of running the game and interspacing it with flashbacks and cut aways to other parts of the war. In this case a turn of the century group of investigators and a modern spec ops team.

Sort of a compromise since I want to run CoC and they want me to run AdEva.

Will probably link the two. So success in the past nets knowledge on the next angel. And success in the present keeps the modern human threats off their backs.

>>13010339
You can vary up the "monster-of-the-week" quite a bit too without actually changing the actual monster - you can just change the tactical situation. Perhaps the Angel attacks during a military parade, or during a power outage. Maybe a natural disaster precedes the Angel.

Other plot hooks that don't involve Angels:
-new prototype mecha goes berserk, pilots are called in
-protesters blockade the NERV HQ claiming that it's "wasteful military spending". At the most extreme you could even include P-scale combat, but plenty of hooks here as to who's actually responsible.
-As mentioned before, clubs days or other "everyday" life activities. Maybe they want to throw a dinner party or celebration... only to realize that NERV bureacracy requires authorization in triplicate.
-A crisis at school/work/wherever your pilots go during the day, like a fire in a building.

The most important thing i find with AdEVA campaigns is to have some of it planned in advance - at least the general direction of the campaign if nothing else. I find sandboxing in the ruleset is very tough - it works better if you pick some sort of coherent theme and stick with it - check the 1d4chan wiki articles on AdEVA for some campaign ideas (Round Table, for example, replaces all the Christian motifs with Arthurian motifs. NERV Vatican takes all the Christian motifs and cranks them up to 11). It'll keep the side plot hooks you think up relevant without feeling like a waste of time.

I really, really want to play an AdEva game. The only trouble is, there's a member of my gaming group who is dead set against anime - the mere mention of it has him breaking out in hives, and his level of scorn is such that if I try to run it I he'll treat participating as a real hassle that he's condescending to, and just be an awkward ass for the duration. He's a good friend and I don't want to cut him out of play, but anime is just something that we've never seen eye to eye on, and likely never will.

Do any other players have advice about getting him onside?

Another idea would be to really play up the NERV Response Team's role post-battle, although I'm not sure exactly how to impliment them successfully. I'd like to see them as recurring characters that the PCs interact with outside of combat, with the players actions both as the PCs and the ERTs impacting their opinions of eachother... sort of hard to swing that AND leave room for whiney teenaged antics.

>>13010699
>The most important thing i find with AdEVA campaigns is to have some of it planned in advance - at least the general direction of the campaign if nothing else. I find sandboxing in the ruleset is very tough
I'm starting to get that vibe, too.

>>13010821
If you're dead-set on getting him in the campaign, downplay the anime aspects. Use the ideas, but don't play it as Evangelion. Find out what objections he has, assuming it isn't solely because it's from Japan.

Possibly related to your question, here's how I'd run an AdEva game (if I ever did. Unlikely, unfortunately).
-Strip out the Adam/Lilith, Angels, teenagers as pilots.
-Set it in a universe where the Roswell crash did happen, albeit on a Tunguska Event-level explosion initiating a Third Impact-type event.
-Evas are largely the same, being cybernetically lobotomized alien/human clones. Made from the wreckage of the Alien Ship, they're the only thing capable of tackling the ETs coming around for whatever alien purpose. Pilots are the best of the best, picked from military forces around the world. Not kids.
-Some influences from Argentosoma. Yes it's another anime. Oh well, its very, very minor.

On an unrelated note, if I didn't have a gnat's attention span I'd convert AdEva to Eclipse Phase or something.

>>13010821
As the other questioning Anonymous in this thread, I'm in a similar position with a friend - although specifically due to the link to Evangelion (usually, I'm the one doing the anime cringing). In my opinion the combat's clearly secondary to making use of awesome characterization, so you really need everyone onboard with it to make it work. So what I did was ask which aspects of the game, both mechanically and fluffwise, he was taking issue with. If your friend can't give you a reason past HURF DURF ANIME then I'm not sure you'll make a lot of progress. But if they can highlight the parts that bother them, you can work from there. In my friend's case, he's going to be the group OpDir: it lets him participate outside of using a giant cyborg (complaint 1) and without forcing him to be a teenager (complaint 2), with a strong emphasis on interacting with NPCs (complaint 3 - that there would be nothing to do outside of EVA combat, and hence my interest in this thread). But if your friend isn't willing to get into why he doesn't want to play, then there's very little you can do.

>>13010832

It varies but I've found a lot of groups prefer just to ditch the whole post-battle cleanup team, at least not as a regular thing. Might make a fun one-off though. I find it'd probably be more effective to have a given session where the PCs are exposed to the "horrors of war".

As for planning, well, that's sort of a given for a setting that involves a fixed location especially, and if the players are part of a big and stratified organization.

Generally under the default set-up players don't hunt down adventures so much as the adventure comes to them... although actually, that's not quite an accurate characterization.

Most of the player initiative is more focused around discovering whatever AWFUL TRUTH is behind the Angel-analogues and the dirty secrets that the NERV-analogue is hiding - that's where player choice really stands out... well, and there's also the amount of collateral damage they're willing to inflict. (I recall an anecdote about NERV: Vatican where one pilot decided to use tanks as grenades... can't even imagine the sort of letters the Ops D. had to send to the families of the drivers).

>>13010821
well, if he knows nothing of Eva, just avoid mentioning what the source material is. That might be enough.

>>13010832
AE is built at its base around something very defensive oriented, very reactionary (on E scale anyhow) the being worked on "Hunt for Adam" splatbook would cover a more proactive campagin type. That said, overall when your talking about 40 meter tall bio titans, its kinda hard to justify independent licence.

Having an outline always helps when running a game. even if its just (Angels are a problem, NERV trying to prepare for the world war after the angels are dead is a bigger problem, SELEE trying to Tang everybody is a looming threat of Morgoth preportions) or say (cribbing of my own here.

"NERV is fracturing into three factions, the PC's are with the North American Union, SELEE controls the European union, and that bastard Ikari owns Japan. Also, giant space fleas from nowhere with the potental to end mankind, but you know, thats kinda secondary."

I'm the anon who proposed the "Cradle To The Grave" setting in Mesopotamia, having the Geofront underneath Baghdad-2, some months back. Unfortunately our campaign petered out midway through due to commitments pulling in a lot of different directions, but when it came to having a greater involvement on the human scale, I included a political struggle. Iraq was being administered as a UN Trust Territory and being used as a model for post-Impact government - however, opposing the Globalists in charge were various Nationalist factions seeking to reassert suppressed cultures and rail against the UN's crushing bureaucracy. Occasionally there'd be abductions, mutinies in the army, terrorist bombings, and so on.

>>13010904
ah the OD PC. one of the most intresting aspects to look at really. manage the other PC's to try and get good press for more funding. Face the paperwork (and/or shuffle it off on the pilots, perhaps as punishment for collateral) try to keep morale up, deal with the press as the voice of reason, try to get the conventional military to not pull out and leave you high and dry, try and convence your superiors not to kick out the conventional military and leave you waste deep in shit, try to manage the typical drama of prima donna pilots/teenage drama. All kinds of crazy fun stuff to do.

Engage in a war of pranks with the pilots to try and keep their minds off the fact they are piloting nightmares that shouldent exist and causing the kind of damage you expect out of a war just by walking them around the block.

>Use the ideas, but don't play it as Evangelion
This is actually encouraged by the dev team in my experience. Have been considering bashing this and Mobile Suit Mechanius together to try and make an Armored Core game...

>>12999963
Sorry for being a little late to the party.

>>13010832

Also, depending on how you work it, having a coherent plan can be a boon - you have slightly more structure and if you have a good grasp on how long you want the campaign to run people can commit to it easier, because there is an ending point.

I find the best method is to plan out the number of Angels you want to throw at your players. I find laying out a rough timeline on a spreadsheet helps - and then slot in any plot hooks and intrigue wherever you want in-between the Angel battles.

A sample campaign might be structured around 12 Angels, with a side session in-between, and then a few extra sessions just in case - maybe around 27 - 30 sessions total. If you run a game once a week you'll be done in 8 to 9 months; a fairly reasonable and predictable time commitment.

Finally, like mentioned above it helps to have a gimmick. Refluff the Eva's a certain way, or change the mythology. (pic sort of related?)

Quick Q - someone has archived this thread, yes?

>>13011151
Far as I know, no. You could just save a copy of the page if you want to store the info here; doubt there'll be many more posts if you're worried about missing things while you sleep/do whatever.

Or you can archive it yourself.

>>13011284

Anyone remember the topic this thing was made in?
Fun topic.

>>13011035
Other alternate mythologies:

NERV: Egypt (use Egyptian motifs, mythology)
NERV: Sumeria (Sumerian motifs, maybe stuff about the first language, first men? Plenty of angles here)
NIRVANA: Ramayana (Indian motifs have a lot to go with. The Third Angel: Arjuna)
NERV: Greece (Greco-Roman, set in the defence city of NEO BYZANTIUM)
NERV: Persia (Zoroastrianism. Instead of Angels, manifestations of Angra Mainyu)
NERV: Japan (set it in Kyoto-5, use Shinto motifs. Angels are minions of Izanami sent up from the underworld or maybe the ocean)
NERV: Grimm (somewhere in Germany, use fairytale monsters. Fits well with the angsty teenage psychology themes. Red Riding Hood as a metaphor for rape, etc... although starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel here)

Other options include changing the time period and tech base. Maybe it's the 1930s, with steampunk style technology in the style of Sakura Taisen. Or maybe it's really far in the future. Or maybe the landscape is post-apocalyptic ala Mad Max or Fallout. Maybe you could do a game with more cyberpunk elements.

Or if you want to go farther afield... i'll just leave this here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLbpsxTLeGg
Actually considered doing this for an AdEva campaign, eventually morphed off into doing a Persona homebrew, but still got the notes lying around...

>>13011466
Suddenly, G-Gundam meets Evangelion everywhere.

>>13011466
There's also AdEva: Voodoo. Or any New Age philosophy that isn't Kabbalah since that goes close to the original stuff.

Hard Mode: AdEva: Middle Ages.

>>13011299
I WAS THERE

>>13011489
EASY! Protect the Queen of England in your faith powered angelic beasts. The forces of Satan seek ot usurp the rightful ruler of England, and you must stop the ensuing apocalypse!

>>13011299
That's... going into my game as the Science Dept.'s pet project. The Department Head is going to be a huge Gundam fan, which is how he got into the giant (almost) robot business in the first place. Has a soft spot for A-Type equipment and impractically destructive weapons and is overly proud that he once lived and worked in Tokyo-3.

Awesome /tg/.

>>13011511
You got it!

Now give me Xcom: Middle Ages.

>>13011540
Er. No idea what Xcom is.
ALSO YOU'RE JUST MAKING ME DO YOUR WORK I'M ON TO YOU

>>13011540
No no, stay on topic. Should be NERV:X-COM.

...MP Rookie Evas, anyone?

>>13011555

Here is your flightless T-RIDEN-Ts and your Jet Alone to keep you safe.

>>13011299
Aye I was there. Spent the better part of an hour making up bullshit reverse tacheyon beam weaponry and traps then some smuck makes an N@ hammer and no ones remembers my genius.

I fukkin mad

>>13011549
>No idea what Xcom is.
FIX THIS
downloads of the game are easy to find. or it's like $2.50 on steam and runs better

NERVE: X-COM
easy. It's like x-com only the UFOs are angles with Angle-spawn. EVAs can travel great distances, anglespawn have to be tracked down and killed by waves and waves of rookies

Wish there was a way to reproduce the Jet Alone Primes Radhammer, it is a very nice weapon.

Then again, it would probebly end badly for the eva holding it. Maybe a T-RIDEN-T version...

>>13011549
Oh fuck just get off of /tg/ and don't come back until you know what Xcom is. It's like you're asking why we have all these funny-looking dice. Newfag.

I have the V2 release but is there anything else out there?

Primarilly looking for shiny things as the Operations Director. As it is there is NOTHING I can do to make tanks have a better gun. And a pallet gun that can't rapid fire isn't that impressive. A pallet gun that CAN rapid fire isn't either but still...

>>13011530
>Dr. **** ********,
>This letter is to inform you that as of 1055 GMT, Central Commitee has voted in favour of aproving preliminary research and development of the prototype N2-DOS (Directional Ordnance System) weapon platform...
>mfw we build a bigger MAD deterrent weapon out of a MAD deterrent weapon.

>>13011637
http://tinyurl.com/adevame

MASTER EDITION
Now with new versions of OpDir (with 6 ranks and three paths, Military (Misato), Intrigue (Kaji), and SCIENCE! (Ritsuko)), Berserker, and Skirmisher, along with other things

>>13011609
Just because I don't know what XCom is, doesn't mean I am a goddamn newfag.
Also;
>implying I haven't been using PnP rules since early teen years.

>>13011769
>implying early teen years weren't last summer

>>13011717
Wow I really like most of these background changes. Some of the Distinguishing Features seem super crazy but maybe that's me.

>>13012083
Arguing over the internet is pointless, as there is little way to provide evidence to support claims.

In which case, I agree we disagree. Good day to you sir.

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