Hey, Veeky Forums

kill everyone

So you only have two pilots? No OpsDir?

>>One of them is a Neo Spartan who loves shooting things.
Well, there has to be more to the character than that, so work with that angle. If anything, a neospartan trying to be a "normal" kid is always awkwardly hilarious.

>>The other is a challenged who got picked up off the street and is, for the most part, a child.
You mean a Survivor? Prodigy? And how much of a child? Like feral or 'not smarter than a fifth grader?"

>>We had one session, a session 0 if anything, during which we were drunk. We ended it on a training exercise in which they managed to piss on the floor, incapacitate a guard by booting him in the face, and sneak around in the facilities air ducts.
Are you trying to do non-eva sessions with combat? 'Cause that's a whole other kettle of fish.

Yeah. We were planning on running a game with another one, but he's kind of a prick, and this was like the fifth time he flaked, so we dropped him.
As for the combat, the Neo-Spartan is pretty much the only one who can reasonably handle himself in a fight. Against a surprised guard, at least.
Challenged as in he's born after the second impact, and was on the streets for a while. He's not dumb, but he's 12, so immature as hell.

>>As for the combat, the Neo-Spartan is pretty much the only one who can reasonably handle himself in a fight. Against a surprised guard, at least.
Well, if only one character is good at non-Eva combat, I'd take that into account. You've got to GM to the strengths of both players.

>>Challenged as in he's born after the second impact
But all the children are...oh. Oh. OH. You're playing v3. I don't know if I can help you.

Is there a problem with v3?
And I imagine as soon as he runs into people who arent bored security officers, he'll have a much harder time with the whole self defense thing. He's also got know your place as a trait, which means the guy has to roll willpower to disobey an order, and the kid has a missing eye, and thus, shitty depth perception.

>>Is there a problem with v3?
It's total dogshit compared to v2.5 or Borderline, but that's just like, my opinion, man.

But I digress... So are they fighting NERV? Why are guards getting kicked and air ducts being snuck around in? Also do you have an OpsDir GMPC or something similar?

Well, I'd designed a kind of training for them to go through. A bunch of candidates, with only a few that hadn't washed out. After that, they were moved up to specialized shit. One of which was the challenge. They snuck through an air duct, beat the shit out of a guard, cause they thought that the air duct was the way to go, and snuck around in more air ducts.

>Hey, Veeky Forums.
Hello!
>I'm starting a game of Adeptus Evangelion
we all make mistakes.
> I'm wondering about things I can do with the characters when they're not in their EVAs.
well you should have some kind of school encounter to establish likeable/hateable NPCs so that there is some emotional buy-in when you/they brutally murder them.

So should the class rep be a prick, or vaguely likeable?
Should notGendo be a complete asshole, or the friendliest guy ever...right up until he reveals he's perfectly willing to sacrifice a pilot for the greater good?

I like likeable Gendos. You could switch personalities around with someone like Not Fuitski or Not Misato.

Do you have the kids guardians set up? And don't let the 12 year old play like a special needs 7 year old. Kids are smarter than people remember.