So in this game are you required to give every playable character a crippling psychological illness? It's kinda crucial to the setting.

Okay, cool, now what OP?
Have you played it? Do you want to play it? Do you want a link? (although I assume if you have the cover you have the nous to find the game itself)

WHAT IS IT

>>8151450

Actually, after a couple of Angels you've got pretty good odds of that happening with Ego-Border damage naturally.

Although the CharGen does encourage you to take PC's who are "damaged goods" to begin with.

>>8151463
I...I just wanted to start a thread about it.

And
>>8151450
Yes, yes you are. Its kinda awesome.

>>8151463
OP here,

No Mr.Bond. I expect you to die.

Pic related.

Anyone know if Black Mesa Janitor has released the new version yet?

Having read Black Mesa's play logs, I'm curious as to whether anyone else has given it a go and can comment.

>>8151510
OP hear, I'm currently in a game.

Conventional forces are more potent than one would expect. In the initial defence phase, we managed to cipple one of Sachiel's arms and heavily fuck up the other one. When the EVAs finally emerged, the resulting battle was...rather pathetic really. I actually started to feel bad for picking on the poor thing...until the bastard stabbed me through the head and later self-destructed.

Would like to see upgrades to conventional forces (eg Leman Russes etc, maybe even Mobile Suits?)

>>8151506

There was a thread last night. He said it was more-or less complete, but but needed some finishing touches and playtesting before he would release it.

Who knows how long THAT will take...

>>8151450

You MUST start with some drawbacks, which are usually psychological flaws of some kind but arn't required to be. However, taking extra Flaws can give you some bonus XP at the start. So in return for being more fucked up in the head, you can be slightly more powerful.

But everyone wants to be more powerful, so what it really turns into is "You CAN take fewer Flaws than the rest of us, but you'll be 200 xp behind the rest of the party."

>>8151561

Probably longer now that I've volunteered to fill the thing out with fluff bits. Having done some formatting to fit fluff in a fake codex before, I can't help but think I got the easy part of the job.

>>8151561
>>8151595

Damn I was hoping to get the new release in time to print it out for the game I am running this saturday.

>>8151409

Oh jesus christ that's sexy. Are they actually arranging it so you have the option to buy hardcopies of it? Because that would be kickass

>>8151620

Oh, no. BMJ has been VERY specific about that.

Its a fan based work, you see.

On the credits page, be basically goes "I don't claim to own ANYTHING in this book. Even the stuff I wrote myself."

and

"This is not to be sold to anyone, in exchange for anything, for any reason"

I'm guessing the alternative would be having the pants sued off him by two companies in two different countries.

>>8151620
> Are they actually arranging it so you have the option to buy hardcopies of it?

Its free, also an online PDF.

But I guess you COULD download it and have it bound as a book by a professional binder. Not sure how much that sets you back, but it probably wouldn't cost any more than buying a bound copy directly from them anyway.

>>8151653

Curses. The art just looks gorgeous, and honestly it's the kind of nice looking book I'd love to use to make a collection ;_;

Not even a pay-base-cost-of-paper-and-ink arrangement, huh..?

>>8151676

Just don't distribute the copies except by hand, and accept no monies for them. This project will only work so long as GW's legal sharks don't smell blood in the water, and I refuse to let something this good be destroyed so pettily.

Can anyone sum up the basics of how this game works? I'm having difficulty picturing this as an RPG.

>>8151712
Basically Dark Heresy, only with different flavours of mindfuck, biotitans and you're probably even more fucked.

>>8151712

Lead by their Operations Director, (or something like that, can't remember the exact name) semi-psychotic teenager-to-adult aged people pilot giant robots to fight off the harbingers of mankind's destruction

It's pretty kickass. I'm guessing you've never seen Evangelion, which was what this was based off of? Kind of hard to summarize if you don't know that bit of history, but you'll get the gist of it from the above paragraph. For details, read the PDF

FIGHT GAGHIEL
adviceAsuka.jpg
RECITE WHITE WHALE HOLY GRAIL

>>8151761
I lol'd

>>8151751
No, I've seen Eva, it's one of the only animes I've enjoyed (though the original ending was a bit fucked, loved End of Evangelion though). Just didn't really see how you make an RPG out of it.

Are all the angel fights in chronological order? So is the game basically just seeing how long your pilots go before completely breaking under the strain like the kids in the show?

>>8151712
The game system is essentially Dark Heresy with some minor to major modifications. The setting is harder to sum up, basically you play a mentally unbalanced fourteen year old that fights monsters with a 50 meter tall biomechanical mecha imbued with the soul of your mother and that feeds on mental trauma. All this happens while shadowy organizations manipulate you and your friends to their own ends.

>>8151794
>Are all the angel fights in chronological order?
Sorta. You're kinda encouraged to make your own Angels - there's even an Angel generator in the book.

>So is the game basically just seeing how long your pilots go before completely breaking under the strain like the kids in the show?
Yes. You'll likely either die horribly, go insane or get turned into tang.

Or if you're very lucky, you might just win.

>>8151813
As far as the anime went the only way to win would be to kill all your superiors.

>>8151794
You've heard of those shitty fanfictions where all the pilots are replaced by bland OCs? Well its kinda like that.

...Except this has rulebook-enforced limitations and grimdark. Which makes it significantly more awesome.

>>8151831

There is an entire chapter describing, like, 10 or 12 different kinds of Third Impact that can happen based on whether Adam wakes up, Lilith wakes up, they BOTH wake up, and who is was that woke them up and how/why.

These are more-or-less the assumed ends of your campaign, if for no other reason than because trying to top it afterwards in your game would be HELLA DIFFICULT.

Human instrumentality is one of the possible scenarios, but by no means the only one.

My favorite is "Ascension", where you have someone pull a Gendo and implant Adam in his hand, but manages to do more than that and actually start using Adams AT Field.

A GOD AM I.

>>8151951
That sounds so fucking awesome. Where's the rulebook? I want to read it even though I'll never be able to play it because I know no one that would be interested.

>>8151969

This is the current version:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=J02I3KQ5

The system itself works well, but there are a couple of clear typos/errors (like a whole chart with the same effects listed with different names)

Most of these are things you can figure out what they meant to say pretty easily, but its one of the reasons they are coming out with a new version: to clean up their house as much as to add new material.

>>8151969
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=J02I3KQ5

And my favourite TI scenario is the one where an Angel takes over Adam. Except its not an Angel, its a half-Angel PC...

>>8151951
>My favorite is "Ascension", where you have someone pull a Gendo and implant Adam in his hand, but manages to do more than that and actually start using Adams AT Field.

My favourite is when someone figures out how to do the same to Lillith and ACTUALLY becomes god.

>>8151951
>There is an entire chapter describing, like, 10 or 12 different kinds of Third Impact that can happen based on whether Adam wakes up, Lilith wakes up, they BOTH wake up, and who is was that woke them up and how/why.
This reminds me. Someone needs to stick in the Aeon Natum Engel ending into the Third Impact Scenario section.

ALMA FALLS, EVERYBODY DIES

>>8152034

My favourite is when humanity defeats the Angels without falling to Ascenscion, only to annihilate itself thanks to the loss of a foe uniting desperate and starving nations together in a common cause and leaving them with superweapons hundreds of years more advanced than any of the hulking wrecks that survived Second Impact, leaving only the EVA pilots responsible for the extinction alive.

The only good thing about Evangelion were the plugsuits.
Anyone who says otherwise is a dumbshit weeaboo/angstfag.

>>8152034

Ah yes, the God Machine that turns you into an Omnipotent "Big Brother".

Not QUITE as classy as raising a hand and chopping New York in half with your AT Field, but I guess having complete control over the bodies, minds and souls of all Earth-Based life is pretty cool too.

>>8152059
>but I guess having complete control over the bodies, minds and souls of all Earth-Based life is pretty cool too.
>God Machine
>GOD EMPRAH OF MANKIND

>>8152057

Thank you for you opinion, I will treasure it always.

>>8152052
> Aeon Natum Engel

I am 12 and what is this?

>>8152057
Eva-01 going batshit insane on Sachiel.

>>8152079
>I am 12 and what is this?
Awesome fanfic, basically a crossover between Eva, Cthulhutech and FEAR.

Much better than it sounds. My favourite part is Asuka's spear.

>>8152080
That was about as memorable as a bowel movement, really.

>>8152087
>Asuka's spear
>futa
Link or gtfo

>>8152057

Asuka was pretty awesome.

"9 enemy Eva's in three and a half minutes? That's twenty seconds each with TIME TO SPARE."

>>8152104
She still got fucking pwned though, didn't she?
fappan to that pic tho'

>>8152103
Not that sort of spear.

A spear made out of the Fifth Angel's fractal corpse. The end result goes hilariously wrong.

>>8152114

Its was End of Evangelion. The entire HUMAN RACE died in that film.

She went out better than most.

I'm currently playing this with some people from here including BMJ who made it.

It's pretty fun. We've even been having fun with just straight roleplaying sessions rather than angel battles. In fact I think we've only had two battles so far as it is and we've played around 5 or 6 times, I don't remember. I'm not sure where I've got the logs saved.

>>8152167
Was it on that suptg thread?

>>8152225

I dunno, maybe. The game takes place in Russia.

Okay, yeah, it's the one on the sup/tg/ thread.

We've got a couple more sessions done though and a new PC.

Heavy AdEva follower, minor contributor here, though I only know the details of two of the more high profile campaigns since the other two aren't played by post, of which one is a literal reenactment of Evangelion to my understanding, and the other is DM'd by a guy who kind of stopped showing up to talk to people.

A note that v2's release date is 'soon'. In that it's currently close enough to being finished that the WIP is supposedly intelligible at this point (Not that I know for sure, having never seen it). There are of course still a bit more than a handful of things to be doing yet.

I've been offered the chance to update the Angel generation tables for v2, on this note, does anyone who has read the tables/runs AdEva games using it/has made a vague glance at the tables but overanalyses Evangelion have any suggestions for me?

Currently encroachers (Angels that attack infectiously in a mental or physical sense) are up for a complete revamp to differentiate them from the other two types, and theres maybe 1 or two extra traits and abilities to be tossed in there, but any further suggestions, particularly with regards to angels that fight at a distance and angels that have physical structures that defy accepted physics, would be appreciated.

>>8152342
and some terrible, ironically written fetish slash fiction. Just to round it all out. If you're going to imitate an anime you might as well go all the way.

>>8152375
Wait, people have posted campaign logs of this?

LINK LINK LINK I MUST LIVE VICARIOUSLY THROUGH THEM

I have been running a game since the first release, and it is hella fun. We've just finished Israfel (the angel that splits into two smaller angels), so we're about halfway through. A few things I'd like to point out that I've found through playtesting and talking with the guys that are writing this:

Neutralization is being updated to single people out less: you don't take ego damage until the Angel's turn, and it's sustain half, so the Angel only spreads up to its ATS-however much it's being Neutralized by each turn. I'm trying to explain it quickly, so I'm sure they'll word it better, but this means that whoever Neutralizes first isn't taking tons of Ego barrier damage for the rest of the encounter anymore.

Don't play an AT Tactician unless you've got 2 other people that can Neutralize. Being an ATT and having to spend all of your ATP on Neutralizing makes you into a shitty Skirmisher.

The difference between 3 Evas and 4 Evas is HUGE. I don't know if BMJ's crew ever tested with 3 Evas, but when we had our 4th pilot join the game, things definitely changed.

The Angels' weapon stats already include strength bonus. I didn't see this specifically stated, but I might just be blind.

Ask Archivist for the Angel Crit Tables if you are running this. They make everything easier (most of the DH table entries end up not doing anything to Angels)

>>8152114
To be fair, if the MP EVA's hadn't had the odds stacked so heavily their way that it wasn't even funny, she would of won quite easily. Seriously, she had like 3 and a half minutes of power and a progressive knife against 9 enemies who can regenerate any wound, wield copies of the most powerful weapon ever made, don't feel pain or fear, and have UNLIMITED POWER.

Sorry, I don't have a link.

Here’s a preview of some of the PCs though:
Andrei – Operations Director, kind of laid back and is tasked with being in charge of the kids. Not really sure at times if he’s actually concerned for them or he’s just doing his job.
Vlad – Pilot, pointman, very militaristic. Not so good in social situations.
Klara – Pilot, AT Tech, somewhat egotistical. She’s attempting to get the entire school to praise her.
Albert – Pilot, Skirmisher, very odd. He’s known for saying random things and not taking everything that seriously.
John – Pilot, Skirmisher, angel hybrid. That being said, he’s pretty offsetting but somehow comes off as a determined pilot.
Toru – Pilot, Berserker, prone to mood swings. Think of a mix between Shinji and MC from Persona 3, he’s new and is sort of trying to get used to the situation and the group.

>>8152582
Ah, Boston, I've been looking around for you, wanted to get your opinion on how well AdEva works in a physically present group as opposed to the games that I can read the logs for. Since I'm considering running my own campaign somewhere in the next month or so, and I feel like there would be some differences between the two.

Are you playing the out of eva sections as well?

>>8152631
>a mix between Shinji and MC from Persona 3

The most depressed boy in the world, then?

DOWNLOAD HERE: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=J02I3KQ5

I've just flicked through the rules set and its fucking brilliant. Somebody who really knows their stuff has put this together, the level of detail and understanding of the plot is spot on. It's about the best homebrew I've ever read.

Doesn't get away from the fact that nobody in their right mind should play it, that it is ridiculous, and that in the time taken to craft this piece of genius, the guy could have been doing something actually worthwhile.

Seriously what is it with geeks? With all the skills we have, all the autistic intellect these folk can apply to tasks, we waste our time with this crap?

FAIL!

Why then do I really want to play it? :p

I have been running a campaign for 3 weeks now, Its been a ton of fun. I am using a variant on the standard "protect the city" model, I'm using the "hunt the angels" idea that someone posted in a previous thread. I have a huge group of 5 pilots, half of whom decided to roll up fanatical Germans, so I have had to adjust some of the angels a bit, but other then that it's going pretty well. Sachiel was taken down by the group in the Saharan Desert after a fight lasting two and a half hours, the last half hour of which was the berzerker and one of the two skirmishers beating the shit out of him while he was on the ground. I started the Shamshel encounter last session, the players needed to search a sector of the Amazon rain forest for him with the support of some light military units. Pointman and the AT Tact. run into him, and after getting thrown about a bit stage a fighting withdrawal until the other three pilots are able to reach them.

>>8152613
This. Even against the kind of competent, well organised, well staffed, (mentally unhinged) and well armed teams you'll find cropping up in an Adeptus Evangelion endgame, playing Asukas encounter with the MP Evas is pretty goddamn challenging. I mean if theres an equal number of Evas to your team its trivial, even with the incredible toughness they just can't keep up with a well outfitted Eva, but as it is they are likely to outnumber even the larger teams 2 to 1, and suddenly they can properly box you all in for the kill.

>>8152670

He's my character. Yeah, basically. He does have the depressive drawback.

#adeptusevangelion at irc.rizon.net if you're interesting in following the two games there or just talking about the game as we often do.

>>8152639

I can't really compare too well because I've never been in a game online, but from what I've seen of the logs of Archivist/BMJ's group, it looks like it goes a lot quicker in person. They'll do one fight session, then one-of-eva session the next week. In person, we've been able to do both in one sitting.

My advice for a DM is to concentrate planning on the out-of-eva stuff (think of fun events to happen, develop your Gendo and your Ritsuko, come up with some other important kids in class, etc.), because the fights are really up to the dice and the players. Do at least roll ahead of time for how long it's going to be until the next Angel and where the Angel is going to be detected, so you can think of the basic gist of how the battle will start.

This sounds kind of crazy, but has anyone attempted a 40k/Evangelion crossover using the ruleset?

OH! Another important thing that's being added to the rulebook are Synch Tests! Every week, in addition to whatever training you do, all the pilots test Willpower. If they pass, their Synch Ratio goes up by one and they get a training success towards Willpower. If they fail, their Synch Ratio goes down by one. If half or more of the pilots pass, the OpDir gets a training success towards Willpower.

>>8152670
For reference, one time he rolled depression. One hour of emo later the other players characters were beating the shit out of him for mumbling, WITHIN EARSHOT OF THE BASE COMMANDER, that "perhaps it would be better if the angels won" or something down those lines.

>>8152779
>Implying thats crazy compared to some of the shit we've looked at
Noone has actually run a campaign on the concept, but something thats very much agreed on these days is that it WOULD be extremely possible. Hell, theres already a research path for Eva scale bolter weaponry. And supposedly the mechanical changes needed for Titans are only minor.

Oh, and if you want to know our group:
Raashid: Survivor OpDir, trying so hard to run this like a military operation, but is stuck with little kids and robot monsters and WHAT IS GOING ON?
Evan: Prodigy Berserker, completely shy until he's in the Eva, who he has such an attachment to that it talks to him. Ego Barrier? What Ego Barrier?
Sunny: Neo Spartan AT Tact, loose cannon, skater punk chick who doesn't afraid of anything... except the Angels
Thorbjorn: Neo Spartan Skirmisher, jolly German sniper kid with a compulsive eating disorder. His entry plug tastes like blood and pastry. Currently dating "Gendo"s daughter
David: Manufactured Pointman, the new kid on the team, since his Eva finally arrived. He's rather well adjusted and just excited to finally be of use. Too bad his Eva is crazy and tells him to kill things

as for NPCs,
Ramsey: the "Gendo," tries so hard to be friendly, but that constant smile and speech impediment are just creepy, and sometimes he just understand the gravity of the situation... like when he set Boston on Angel Alert for April Fools
Solomon: the "Ritsuko," is an aging MIT professor who thinks he can be hip with the kids these days. Has become Raashid's drinking buddy, and has installed MP3 players in the Entry Plugs
Tabitha: Ramsey's spoiled daughter who was a test pilot but failed. HATES Evan, who pilots what would've been her Eva, but has fallen for Thorbjorn due to some miraculous rolls and some alcohol courtesy of Sunny

>>8153000
>like when he set Boston on Angel Alert for April Fools

OH WOW.

End game will be fun with this group of lunatics.

>>8152779

It has been heavily hinted several times that there will be rules provided for a TRUE "Neon Ultima Exterminatus" after v2 is release, including stats for the Titans and everything.

>>8153000
My reaction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf670orHKcA

>>8153105
Yeah, there's supposedly going to be a supplement TO THE SUPPLEMENT that will be dedicated to suggesting how to modify AdEva to run games in settings lie somewhere outside its current focus, from a world where the Evangelions were prepared and the Angels never turned up, leading to a world war with Evas, to 40k/AdEva, to Super Robot Wars.

I recall two or three fanfics that did the Eva/40k crossover.

If I run this, I will announce the end of every session by smiling and refusing to say anything except "CONGRATULATIONS, SHINJI!"

>>8153249
>Nightmare fuel
FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUU-

>>8153264

Oh yeah, speaking of nightmares, Evan has taken enough Ego Barrier damage to get an Instability. He now has nightmares where Adam screams at him about the end of all things.

>>8153324

It has been brought to my attention that none of the old links work. Here are some new links for you Eva hungry people:

Adeptus Evangelion
http://www.zshare.net/download/727267558a16eb50/
AdEva SRD
http://www.zshare.net/download/727268278aeb907d/

You can find all the latest AdEva news at #AdeptusEvangelion irc chatroom on Rizon.

>>8153324

How high is Evan's SR?

Toru's is 80 which I'm already realizing is dangerously high for a prodigy who has 3d10 disruptions.

>>8153445

He's at 75, and he's gotten to 125 before. Hence, nightmares.

>>8151539
Ash was here
Nat is a loser

75 SR is babies. I'm thinking about boosting WP to 50 and getting 85 SR but that surely mean tang...

Perhaps later on.

>>8153522
... with humour out of the way, I should say that I'm playing a Neo-Spartan sniper-skirmisher in the same game as OP (who is playing an NS Berserker).
Tanks not as good as he thinks, because the DM forgot to apply the double-toughness part of the Angel trait during the defense phase.

We've actually picked up a Prodigy ATT and a Manufactured Pointman as well, so if all goes well I'll probably reroll my character into Ops Director so that the DM isn't doing it.

Thus far? Fun game is fun.
Also:
>>8151761
TOTALLY DOING THIS

>>8153442

The megaupload link posted in this thread works, and that was taken from the old AE threads.

Its only the one link that had the DH notes that doesn't work, and that's from the very first thread.

>>8153614
Ah well. Congratulations, me.

I rolled up a character with shitty will, shitty fellowship and hilariously high SR. Proceed to go on to roll up my eva.

I got unrestrained jaw and then I knew my dice were trolling me.

Primary color bright purple, secondary color bright green.

>>8153652
MUSTN'T RUN AWAY

>>8153652
God dammit.

>>8153652
I don't get it. Barney?

>>8153712
He basically made Shinji.

>>8153652

Shitty WP = not as good SR

My character is basically Shinji, just not the colors or unhinged jaw.

>>8153652
I would like to know how you got your SR to 'hilariously high' even with Prodigy, since the maximum calculation is (2d10+20)+2d10+15 (maximum 75).
Since anything below 71 is not 'hilariously high' and you rolled 'shitty will' - where Will is added to your 2d10+15 for SR - I am now curious.

>>8153712
>>8153747
Ah, shit. Never watched that show.

>>8153747
The willpower roll was low and the SR was high. In the end it's "average" as far as the total goes. Doesn't help I was taking prodigy. Though I strayed away from the berserker route going AT user but the char gen wanted me to make Shinji.

>>8153769

Right. Toru ended up with that 75 starting SR.

>>8153778
You should, its not that bad.

>>8153769
The roll for it was high, actual result was sorta average.

>>8153792
That's open to opinion - I admit that EVA was good, but it's nothing something that I'd actually watch again.

.. know what I mean?

Something I was saving for such a thread. I noticed how there was 10 entries, perfect to work with a d10 system.

https://health.google.com/health/ref/Personality+disorders

>>8153811
Yeah.

Its still good if you wanna get into the setting though.

>>8153792
Here's what you do: watch up through episode 24, ignore episodes 25 and 26, and watch the movie End of Evangelion. Trust me.

There is a reason why people so often try to shoehorn NGE into this or that system. It has a certain "feel" of its own that's different from both other scifi and other animu.

>>8153823
>>8153832
Try; I have Death & Rebirth on my shelf, so I gave it a watching.
Helped immensely.

Also I'd forgotten how fucking BRUTAL the combat is.
That needs to happen in more mecha shows.

>>8153000
Send more Angels, you last ones broke.

>>8153875
>It has a certain "feel" of its own
You mean shit very flawed characters with little value in them, nihilist bullshit, psychology 101 paint job, and a finish of giant robots and Christianity? Cause that is certainly a "feel" of it's own.

>>8153918
So you've never actually watched it.
Good to know.

>>8153922
Actually, I take that back; rather, you've never watched any of the material that created Evangelion.
See, the series started as a deconstruction of the Super Robot genre; if you've not watched any SR shows before, then you're missing half the point of the series.

>>8153918
>You mean shit very flawed characters with little value in them, nihilist bullshit,

Where the fuck are you getting all of this? Eva's underlying message is that despite being horribly fucked up creatures, humans are inherently valuable.

Evangelion is existentialist, not nihilist.

>>8153942
Of course half the problem with the series is that the author went on his anti-depressants.
Yes, on.
Not off.
ON.
The problem with anti-depressants is that they fix your motivational issues before they 'fix' the actual depression, which is why people new to anti-depressants often suicide (they no longer have a lack of motivation to kill themselves). Anyway, the writer began taking it out on his characters.

Also, he's gone on record saying all the religious stuff was just to fuck with people.

Writer: trollfaic.jpeg

>>8153966
Get out, TVTropes.

>>8153911
The next batch of VTOL pilots called: they want a raise and they said they're pulling back next time the monsters stop moving.

>>8153811
Let me guess, because you don't want to invoke the trauma the first watching caused?

I think I was something of an emotional vegetable for a week after I first got and marathoned the show. It's really regretful that there hasn't been an anime, movie, book or anything in general with a similar effect in ages.

>>8154022
No, I just... eh, it wasn't hugely enjoyable MUST WATCH AGAIN for me.

On a related note, did anyone else laugh uncontrollably in EoE when people began turning into tang with a champagne-cork noise?

>>8153942
And he says flawed characters like its a bad thing. FLAWED CHARACTERS ARE INTERESTING. If they were perfect there'd be no conflict or drama.

Don't get me wrong, Eva is a very overrated show, but I liked how almost all the character development in it was negative, with every character's neuroses getting worse and worse until they finally broke completely under the strain.

>>8154022
I watched the series twice. Once to go through it when I heard about it then later when I found out there was a movie. I may go through it sometime again when the second rebuild movie comes out.

>>8154022
The first time I actually watched all of Evangelion, I watched Grave of the Fireflies right afterwards. I was like "eh, that sucks."

>>8154059
>second rebuild movie comes out on dvd and is ripped.
Fixed, fuck shaky cameras.

>>8154014
COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE.

>>8154073
>shaky cameras

ONORE BATTLESTAR GALACTICA

>>8154050
>t I liked how almost all the character development in it was negative, with every character's neuroses getting worse and worse until they finally broke completely under the strain.
This. I actually enjoyed seeing everyone get worse and worse and knowing there was no hope for them.

In my head I even rationalized the ending as Shinji just completely cracking under the strain. In reality he's probably just on the floor of a padded cell dribbling on himself.

>>8153249

>>8154093
>in reality

That reminds me, but I've heard the theory that everything in SEED Destiny after Shinn blows Jesus up is the lucid dreams of his unconscious, concussion-addled mind.

>>8154093
I think it'd be funnier if it was all true but no one else managed to will themselves out of the gestalt tang Overmind and he and Asuka starved to death.

>>8154115
Poor bastard was at the ground zero of Freedom's fission reactor going critical. Even with the Impulse and its phase shift armor shielding him, that must've fucked him up real bad.

>>8154186
Assuming that is Asuka.
Since she has Misato's eyes.
IN FACT THAT ENTIRE LAST SCENE IS JUST TRIPPY.

>>8154198
Does Phase Shift even WORK against nuclear asplosions?

Also, going back to >>8154200 - I always thought of her as some amalgamation of Asuka and Misato.

>>8154200
I think the eye thing was just a result of the very red lighting being used at the time.

On an unrelated note, am I the only one that imagined that the entirety of Japan must have a godawful smell with the giant rotting corpse of Lilith just sitting there decomposing?

>>8154219
I don't think tang has a sense of smell, though.

>>8154200
If that is true, then what happened? Shinji dragged her and Misato out of the Instrumentality Tang by his own force of will and amalgamated them into some sort of bizarre perfect mother/lover figure?

because that's pretty fucked up, which would keep with the general theme of that movie.

>>8154233
Smells like blood.

>>8154241
That's what I was thinking of.

>>8154247
No, I mean, I don't think the people who are tang can smell the rotting corpse.

>>8154093
"Ending" being EoE or the weird happy horseshit of 25/26? Seems like it'd work either way, though.

And it's even better when you imagine NERV failing to defend humanity since they've lost one of their only three superweapons, and the world's last days consist of frantically trying to snap Shinji out of it.

>>8154299
It's going to get worse as rebuild is pretty much going to have a new ending type.

>>8154299
I was thinking the weird happy stuff with the 'Congratulations, Shinji!' and the 'live-happily-ever-after with Rei and Asuka' thing.

EoE could be that, too, but it seems more like he'd hallucinate something pleasurable.

>>8154241
Hmm. Now I'm just wondering why he wouldn't have given her something of Rei's, as well.

>>8154362
Because he actively, consciously rejected Rei when he pulled himself out of the tang.

Also, I hope none of our DMs read this thread.

Someone needs to do a deconstruction of Harry Potter.

"You're a wizard, Shinji!"
"FATHERRRR!!!"

>Open OP's cover shop
>Misaligned text
HIT V
HIT CTRL+A
HIT HORIZONTAL CENTER ALIGN OPTION IN THE TOP BAR
GODDAMN YOU USELESS FUCKS

A funny thing that I realized in our game is that whenever an NPC character is introduced, the players automatically assume that character is Tabbris.

>>8154437
You need to do the whole.

NO PLAYER
YOU ARE THE ANGELS

Thing.

>>8154471
One of the PCs is an Angel hybrid so I assume they will be expecting a form of this at some point. I am more underhanded than that.

>>8154527
... I hope your players dont read /tg/.

>>8154437

LOOK AT THIS NPC

HOW HE IS NOT AN ANGEL

>>8154593
See, there.
>>8154537
Refer to above.

>>8154593
He looks more like a Macross character to me.

>>8154626
Perhaps no more plotting on /tg/ then?

>>8154649
Oh, I don't plot on /tg/. It is fun to troll my players with bombs everywhere and characters that could be out to kill them though. Delicious.

>>8154061
If "oh god no why is this happening"-kind of stories are your thing, I'd recommend watching The Savior.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvEut13aWm0 for trailer.

I do have to admit that I find people more or less untouched by EVA or GotF to be woefully callous.

>>8154733
Traps and reverse traps.

>>8154741
It's hard to click into a show when you don't connect with any of the characters.

>>8154733

You blew up our backup supplies and made it so we had no way to leave so it was either kill the angel or hide behind our support structures from it's massive sniper beam.

>>8154741
The people who I've spoken to that are completely unmoved aren't so much callous as they are completely unable to empathise with it. Which makes sense, because none of them have probably ever experienced anything even resembling clinical depression.

>>8154766

Oh also I forgot the UN's threat of an N2 mine being dropped on us if we failed or ran out of power.

>>8154733
>bombs everywhere and characters that could be out to kill them
You're playing Umineko?

>>8154779
The UN does not mess around. Everything is serious business to them.

>>8154766
>massive sniper beam
Ramiel, or something else with Angel Cross?

>>8154804

We won and they also dropped a bomb on us.

>>8154797
I don't think those bombs were small. Not small at all.

>>8154817
It was an Angel that had extremely long range distance abilities. It was otherwise weak which the players did not pick up on until later in the battle.
Their fist intention was to run away into the woods.

>>8154942
>>200+foot tall biotitans
>>hide in woods

>>8154942

Not all of us!

>>8154471
NOW I HAVE TO POST IT!
http://www.mediafire.com/?ym0zukuuj2i
http://www.mediafire.com/?g4lkml0ozwz
UPLOADING THE REST

>>8151951
So this is being made by someone who actually understands the story? Fucking awesome.

Also I'm pleased to see an Eva thread that hasn't degenerated into 'lolnotdeep' or 'annosux'. I love /tg/ so much.

>>8155051
http://www.mediafire.com/?oywhuwyodmn
http://www.mediafire.com/?hm4imzqumwd
For the uninitiated, it's canon-raping porn.
But it's AWESOME!

>>8155051
>>8155433
Wait. What the fuck is this?
Before I spend more bandwidth downloading it.

>>8155481
It's a hentai Eva fanfiction that's been pretty popular in the Eva fandom.

>>8155481
If I literally told you anything else it would ruin it.
The first one is only 25mb, so try it out.
60% done uploading #4. I'm skipping After because it was shit. #4 is the last one, goddamn.

>>8155481
Awesome hentai manga that ended up being better than the whole end of the series. Worth a read, you can skip the sex scenes if you choose.

>>8155658
Eh, I didn't really like it when I read it. It's gets derper toward the end too.

>>8155433
is it in english, i cant read english

>>8155696
E... excuse me?

>>8155658
Fuck you, I liked the series ending. It wrapped up Shinji's character nicely, and ultimately that was the point of Evangelion: its psychologically damaged characters. Everything else was just a mecha framework for them.

And EoE was just flat-out amazing. Dat Asuka fight, oh yeah.

>>8155681
Still, it felt like a more complete end than the actual one, which is part of the reason I liked it. Not a huge ShinjixAsuka fan, but it was alright because it drove the plot.

And the last one:
http://www.mediafire.com/?vgxwmyyox2d
This is actually my least favourite of all his translated Doujins, but for an Eva fan it's an entertaining read. I get most people to read on "It's a sequel to The End Of!" alone.

>>8155705
>derpkimeemaru.jpg
There is a difference.

>>8155723
The end of T.V. show was pretty lackluster but I think EoE was better in terms of concluding things. Re-Take is a pretty cool hentai doujin work but that's about it, in my opinion.

>>8155723
>>Not a huge ShinjixAsuka fan

Too bad, because that's basically the only option. Rei is a clone of his mother, he can't hook up with her. Besides, I think Shinji and Asuka complement each other quite well.

Am I the only one who actually likes Shinji and doesn't think he's a coward? He's usually scared shitless, but still goes to out to fight time and time again. His fear is completely realistic, given he's only 14. His character is a complete deconstruction of the teenage boy mecha pilot archtype.

>>8155825

A lot of people agree with that. Anyone would be scared shitless having to do that.

>>8154211
> Does Phase Shift even WORK against nuclear asplosions?

Why wouldn't it? If you are Phase Shifted and a bomb goes off, being able to say "I'm not even ON that plane of existence" is a better excuse then most for not taking damage.

>>8155825
I think the Retake movies get him even better and I can put myself in his shoes, but I pretty much agree with you. Eva is an amazing character study, far better than most Mecha shows.

>>8155051
>>8155433
>>8155746
I think I remember that one. It's the one about time-traveling Shinji dating Asuka, right?

>>8156535

Uh I don't think he means THAT kind of Phase Shift Jan...

... you really should watch Gundam sometime.

>>8156945

Whoops, mah bad.

few ideas for BMJ and questions for anyone who knows the answer-
is there a link to the game logs for the stuff run by BMJ?
for the area 51 zone, I don't know if it was suggested as a plot point but since the area has always been thought of as a shadowy place that has something to do with aliens, and in this setting Lilith and Adam are aliens, maybe the reason why they are a target, and have made the tech advances they have made, is because they have a dormant Lilith/child of Lilith/Adam/angel and are experimenting on them.
when was the last official update made for this?
er, have a few other ideas/ questions but I would need to see the newest version first.

IGNORE ME

>>8154593
Players should just play out Song of the Sorcelator.

"Tell me everything you know about Tabris. "
"I don't know anything about any Tabris! "
"Funny. That's just what Tabris would say. "

>>8157081

Logs are in the IRC channel, and there is another campaign there that has expanded a bit on the potential with using Area 51.

>>8157116
The issue is that every NPC must be either a spy, an angel or both. I don't know how he makes us be so paranoid. It's some sort of witchery.

>>8157150
ty anon

i looked on rizon but it says there is no channel named #adeptusevangelion ?
I'm a noob to irc so thats probably the problem but is it not working for anyone else?

>>8157211
Well, could be worse. Your version of MAGI could go insane, rename itself Friend Computer and send you around to hunt perceived "Commie Spy Angels. "

Since Evangelion is clearly not fatal enough on its own.

>>8157081

While some ideas for new material are floating around, the Christmas release is still the "current" version, for now.

I ran a bunch of playtests before, but they were all done in person. As such, no logs exists. I have, however, been participating in an online game from a players point of view, in order to make sure that someone who isn't the game designer can run it without any major complications and simply to have fun. Perhaps those are the logs you speak up? I have only partial logs of those game, but I am given to understand that the GM of that game has the full collection. I would have to get them from him.

As for the area 51 thing, that would certainly be a valid basis for a campaign.

>>8157260
We haven't been introduced to the MAGI yet. It's entirely possible.

>>8157236
If it's case sensitive, the channel is #AdeptusEvangelion, though I'm fairly sure it's not.

>>8157236
http://qchat.rizon.net/
Put in a nickname. Click connect.

Type into the chatbox:

/join #AdeptusEvangelion

>>8157211

You think too much.

So far none of the NPCs have raised any alarm flags in me so far.

They're suspicious, sure, but that's about it.

>>8156835
-Ish. That was actually the plot of the earlier Kimigabuchi story "Truth?".
Shinji arrives in time to save Asuka from the Mass Produced Evas, and everything looks like it'll turn out alright. Then a UN soldier splats Asuka's mind all over Shinji's face. Shinji pulls a MAXIMUM FUCK, kills Lilith and resets the universe to his own design. GOOD END ensues.

>>8157293
>>8157321
got it to work, thanks
>>8157290
thank you BMJ and I really do appreciate what you are doing. Can't wait till a completed version comes out.

>>8157334
Ha ha ha! You funny man! I kill you last.

>>8157290
The log link is in chanserv's message when you join the campaign channel.

I derped with that too last night. :<

>>8157334
Okay then it is me. I can see everyone having some sort of big secret like that, including myself (though it does seem a suspiciously obvious route) and half of the other players.

>>8157358

Only if you can get through the SECRET TRAPS surrounding either the school or house.

Fact: the number of mines I placed is equal to (the number of mines you have found) + 1.

Setting off a mine counts as finding it.

>>8157358

I am immune to your trickery, Aruchibisuto!

>>8157260
I interpreted that as
>Since Evangelion is clearly not F.A.T.A.L. enough on its own.
I'm scared.

>>8157358
...
Urist McNeckbeard cancels task: browse teegee.
Interrupted by: teetees.

>>8157432
Roll for anal circumference.

You have to fir an N2 mine in there, you know.

>>8157432

GODDAMNIT /TG/

>>8157345

Got a link to a english translation of 'Truth?', all I can find is japanese.

>>8157992
Learn2secondlanguage

bumpin'

Do you have to play an Eva pilot? Because I want to play one the of the JSSDF guys. I probably wouldn't last long, but it would be awesome.

>>8159333

You have the option of playing as Operations Director (Misato's role in the show), but that is currently the only non-pilot class supported.

You COULD play as a random JSSDF grunt, and you could even say that one of the normally deployed Tank Squadrons or VTOL Wings was under your command. But your ability to contribute to combat would be VERY limited, and you wouldn't survive a direct hit from a dropped expended ammo magazine.

You would, however, have an interestingly undefined role in the out-of-combat roleplaying sessions. You could certainly do it, with an open minded GM.

In addition, once the supplemental material has been released you could play as a pilot for a mecha that WASN'T an Evangelion, and fluff it as a JSSDF robot in the line of Jet Alone or the Trident series.

>>8159333

You know what I'd like to play? A Section 2 agent. Trying to keep these mentally damaged kids and their bordline competant CO alive whilst religious fundies, rival black-ops groups and rival SEELE factions try to kidnap/kill/replace with their own agents (delete as applicable.)

Without said kids ever realising that this is going on.

>>8157526

Fit an N2 mine in there? This is Adeptus Evangelion.

Bitches don't know about my Dirac Cache backdoor minedropper.

>>8159518

So... Full Metal Panic?

Both you and
>>8159333
would probably have to make your career paths as Skirmishers, but lacking all of the Eva-related talents and with an SR of 0. Alternatives would be a career from scratch or an imported DH career with all the 40k stripped out.

>>8159569
>So... Full Metal Panic?

I'M OKAY WITH THIS.

UNLESS I'M A SNIPER... MAN 2009 WAS SUCH A BAD YEAR FOR SNIPERS.

>>8159471

You know once there's enough material, someone's going to pull the Shinji vs 40K scenario out and we'll be seeing Sv40K Dreadnought vs. Angel if not 40K Titan vs. Angel happening.

>>8159613

That is a risk I am willing to take.

>>8159569
Its been a while, but IIRC guardman wouldn't take that much effort to retool to be a "Modern" military class, just change a few weapon skill talents around and you should be more or less set.

>>8160216
I'd say Skirmisher with everything Personal and no AT powers.

PERSONAL SCALE POSITRON WEAPONS, HERE WE COME

`is this thread dead or what?

>>8161006

From the looks of it, yes. But I maintain my silent vigil as always. Do you have a question or suggestion?

>>8161209
I dont have any questions, I'm just popping in to say you're unstoppably awesome. This is getting shit done at its finest.

I assume the different Eva Units have different stats? Can you design your own Eva?

>>8161285

Thanks for the support.

>>8161382

You are assumed to design your own Eva. While all of the tools required to make a carbon copy of one of the characters from the show are provided, it is by no means required.

There are several additional rules encouraging both GMs and Players to create their own characters and universes to play in, so long as they fit in with the general Evangelion setting.

The only possible downside to creating your Evangelion is that your Evangelion is built for you, rather than something your adolescent Pilot gets a say in. As such, its distinguishing features and color scheme are randomly determined via rollan on charts. While a kind GM might let you choose your own colors, distinguishing features MUST be kept random, as not all of them are positive.

Much in the same way as Unit-00 (Rei's Evangelion) sometimes went mad and tried to kill Rei, certain possible Evangelion features are less helpful than a player is likely to willing choose.

This is why I like the damage control phase. It's the perfect opportunity to throw the consequences of the players' antics at them. Pissing around, instead of getting into the fight? You're now a 2 Div soldier, one of ten thousand deployed to slow the Angel's advance, and your commanders anticipate 90% casualties.
Letting the fighting spill into the city? You're now a civilian, trying to get your family through the chaos into a shelter. Ignoring collateral damage? You're an emergency crew clearing out a shelter turned into a charnel house by a wayward EVA foot.

Did you ever intend to expand on the military's efforts in the fights, or is it going to remain an abstracted 'this many arbitrarily generated forces appear to slow them down'?

>>8161561
> Did you ever intend to expand on the military's efforts in the fights, or is it going to remain an abstracted 'this many arbitrarily generated forces appear to slow them down'?

An individual GM might be willing to go down that road, but from the perspective of most campaigns it would seem extraneous. So no.
As it stands, feedback reports that Phase 3 is the part of the game that most groups seem to skip over, so the next version will make it slightly more optional, but considerably more rewarding to your surplus pool if you decide to do it, even if you do poorly at it.