Adeptus Evangelion General

So there are quite a few different versions of this game (borderline, 2nd, 3rd, probably a few more). If I were interested in running for people who were familiar with Eva but unfamiliar with tabletop games, which version would be best?

Did someone get chocked ingame?
And outgame?
youtube.com/watch?v=px7FFMOTtyM

Whichever one looks most interesting to you personally.

3rd. It's wholly divorced from Dark Heresy, so all the rules are self-contained in the one book.

I played with BMJ waaaaaayyyyy back in the Ad3va alpha stages and it was one of the best tabletop experiences I've ever had. So yeah, I had fun.

>I played with BMJ waaaaaayyyyy back in the Ad3va alpha stages and it was one of the best tabletop experiences I've ever had. So yeah, I had fun.

Storytime?

I played in a game that was basically Neon Genesis Centauri.
Except the GM had never played Alpha Centauri, nor knew anything about it.
I still scored a Transcendence victory for myself. Not the rest of humanity though.

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A proper crossover would be pretty fucking baller.

Just replace Gendo and NERV with SMAC leaders with different agendas, most of them just as morally bankrupt. Angels are now the defense mechanism of Planet along with mindworms, while Instrumentality and Transcendance are basically the same thing.

It would be interesting.
But here's a question - would everything just be starting only after showing up, or would they have left Earth because of Angels there? With Planet's equivalent being Some Other Thing that's its version of Angels, of course.

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"Oh, please let this be just a normal angel fight..."

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I've occasionally posted a few fragments over the years. Sadly it's a bit too much to type out on a phone. The basic gist was my Eva had tank treads instead of legs, grappling harpoons and booster rockets. Melee specialist. Ruins were ramped, extradimensional horrors were grappled and chopped. (Our) human race was extinguished so that a parallel one could survive.

Also I had gay sexual tension with a kind Canadian boy, who TANG!'d and reintegrated as a girl.

I've actually had a similar idea rolling around in my head for a prospective game, angels are the planet's antibodies against a human incursion via a portal.

I'm currently in a godless heathen freeform game where angels are a defense mechanism meant to protect humanity from itself (over pollution, self destruction) as well as aliens, created by 'god' who is a multidimensional tree being who granted knowledge to early humans and uplifted us.

Unfortunately this was a big no no for gods race so they sent a soldier, Mikaya (Michael) to subdue the abandoner/traitor (shaitan) who uplifted us, Gyzvara (Gabriel).

Gabriel subdued Michael but at great cost (most of the races of man we're all but destroyed, including the Martians) and the seventh 'world' (pocket dimensions) he made to shelter us Midgard, was destroyed completely and Alfheim burned to the ground

Mikaya was imprisoned in Gabriel's system and since then has corrupted it and the angels from within, and is now waging a war on humanity to wipe.out 2/3rds of.its population and return is to pre industrial technology for our own good.

Well, thats one way to reroll a character...

Replying late, but I figure they'd have left Earth to escape an apparent global catastrophe, which in reality was caused by Lilith being found and stirring in its sleep.

SEELE is behind everything, of course, and is guiding the remnants of humanity toward Chiron (or probably some appropriate kabbalistic name), which is mentioned in the Dead Sea Scrolls as the place where the "future of mankind" awaits, because it contains its own entity, Adam/Planet, while the Unity is secretly ferrying Lilith's body for the sake of uniting the two.

The SMAC faction leaders are members or at least close partners of SEELE, and its main agents of influence. But when everything goes to hell on the Unity, they turn against each others as in SMAC. If they know anything about Instrumentality, each one probably has some radically specific vision of what could be accomplished with it.

NERV can still exist as some sort of cooperative project for mankind to have a chance when the first Angels show up, the main difference being that the backers (the Factions) treat each others as rivals and NERV as an additional battleground for influence.

I see. Sounds like it would be interesting.

Running an Adeva game, I need suggestions about how to bring the pilots together.
Also, I need help formulating an end game. Ive been drawing nothing but blanks.

They're all shit for various reasons. If you can somehow stomach dark heresy, go vBorderline. If you can stomach ignoring all of the rules, go v3.

Jelly about literally everything in this post.

Bring them together how? As a team? In encounters outside of combat? Emotionally?

Good rule of thumb to remember from the show-the adults are not on their side. They play favorites, set horrible training schedules, and force all the children to do things together like school, company picnics, PR events, etc. If your pilots won't bond naturally you can always see if a mutual enemy will help the process along.

In the show the end game is somewhat forced; it's all prophesized before hand and is rather fatalistic-so your choice is deciding if it is going to happen either way or not. And if it can be stopped, how and what would that look like?

>Did someone get chocked ingame?
>chocked
I don't think that means what you think it means. Oddly it's still entirely applicable to Eva.

>Also, I need help formulating an end game.
Everyone of the higher ups has a different plan for how to 3rd Impact and make it go off in their favor.

Just the higher ups?
What about the secret societies not directly in on things, and the various nations?
Have them have their own endgames. Which are based on misinformation. Some of the higher ups' plans aren't going to actually work either but still GAME OVER.
But let the PCs have a chance of influencing everything. Just because the characters in the series proper ignored everything doesn't mean you have to repeat that.

V3 has interesting ideas, and it did succeed in being modular for easier customization. So, funnily enough, its greatest strength is that it made it easy to parts of the system you dont like out.

Easily the best game I've ever played in. Not even mad we got BAD END due to one of the players not reading a particular line

Wait. You sacrificed the human race ON ACCIDENT?

If you're going play with the incredibly breakable fine china, you might as well fumble it at the last moment and ruin everyone's everything.

Having interesting ideas doesn't guarantee that the game executes them with any competence. v3 isn't modular so much as a mechanics soup that's best when the GM throws everything out and just freeforms it, because the parts of the system people don't like are combat, and combat is the only mechanically relevant part of the system.

"Mr. GM, why can't I fight the angel?"
"Because you didn't run away the moment your cable broke, and because you used the ability your weapon has (which makes it break, because that's what happens when you stab things)."

Was that shit still around in 3.5? I left at 3.3 when BMJ completely fucked up implementing fate-esque aspects and jamming in sectors and basically ignoring everything people were saying about how the game needed balancing and the math needing checked.

Somewhat. The device pulling eldritch monsters into our reality was destroyed by one of my fellow pilots. They didn't see the 50/50 chance it would work/cast us into an inescapable void as our batteries ran dry.
I had some upgrades that doubled my battery life, but alas, it was no use. We died alone, cold, not knowing if we'd damned our reality, saved it, or merely postponed it.

>first game is supposed to be tomorrow night
>no prior GM experience, still no plot planned, just hoping to make due with asspull after asspull
I mean I'm sure that's how the show was at least written

But that's ok because evangelion doesn't mean anything

Its not a sin if its an anime wafer

Was an Ops Director book ever released? I'd planned on having one for my group but I can't find any rules for it anywhere.

>Heard it in their voices

Would fucking watch.

I hate you with all my heart.

No. BMJ fell into despair before the OD book was completed.

What are some other games with the same amount of weight put on character and narrative story? I've never felt as invested in a character as I have an Eva character.

Weirdly, the only game I've run that had similar pacing and character attachment was the Halo RPG.

From a more legitimate standpoint, consider Bliss Stage.

Borderline has an OD at least, so there's that.

How am I supposed to put a base of operations together? There's nothing on static defenses or even how many sectors an umbilical cord is supposed to be. Am I supposed to just figure something out myself?

It's really up to your discretion. In the game I played with BMJ there was always assumed to be another umbilical connection nearby, except when we were in a less fortified, more distant area, that was the only time I can think of where they mattered.

>Am I supposed to just figure something out myself?
Welcome to v3.

Where everything's made up and the points don't matter?

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I had a ranged skirmisher in a game that was blatantly just a titan princeps. Including the horrible withdrawal freak outs between missions.

Almost done with our game.

Will have to storytime it when we're done.

I didn't know that ded games have their own generals.

Games don't die, they just take breaks from the table.

Humanity lies on the brink of destruction, and an Angel lashes out at an Angel while god lays dreaming.
But can the one wakeful human keep the two from murdering each other?
Hell if I know, seems the GM overslept.

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Is it in poor form to provide a few paragraphs of fiction to establish the setting, especially if it's a custom one?

This would explain why shinji doesn't live with him

Why would it be? My GM wrote almost 60 pages for his pilot briefing book, including many dedicated to the world, setting and school the pilots are in. The more the bettter!

Evangelion is Eedar shit

be a /M/AN and create a proper Mobile Suit Mechanicus codex

seeing how /m/ came into a conclusion that both eldar and Eva is shit and eva ripped off IDEON

im with you bruva

No. If anything, id say its basically required for custom settings.

Just write out the basics of the setting, the overworld stuff that anyone living in that world should know, and give it to the players BEFORE they make their characters.

Secret stuff they can learn as the game goes on, but if your setup is 'Second Impact was a massive portal opening up int he sky, where light-eating monsters swarmed through and decimated the surface of the planet' players should know that in advance.

> eva ripped off IDEON

Ideonfags trying to trump up the importance of a show fucking no one remembers anymore again.

Eva didn't steal from Ideon, Eva stole from Childhood's End. Ideon ALSO stole from Childhood's End. But Eva just steals directly from the source, like how Eva also steals a bunch of stuff from The Andromeda Strain for little details around Nerv.

How did things start TUMBLING DOWN in everyone's games?

Start? I guess during the third session when we found out that the surface of the Earth was uninhabitable and everyone outside of specially designed archologies has suffocated to death as Earth's atmosphere bled away, leaving behind an airless world that had well preserved the ruined cities and corpses of those that had lived in them.

I think thats about when we realized that things were fucked.

Go ahead, nobody's stopping you - it'd be interesting to see how it goes. But we have no interest in doing so, ourselves. We'd rather finish Borderline.
Nor do we care who ripped off who. Everyone rips off everything, after all. The fact that Anno copied more stuff than just Shinji's appearance (after making him a guy and giving the result a haircut) does not surprise me. Doesn't make the end result not interesting regardless.
Also I am pretty sure that Evangelion is not a bunch of crystals.

Halloween in our game's and real life's calenders coincided.

Naturally they got encroached by an angel and wandered through a weird series of creepy areas which may or may not have included alternate post third impact universes. Along the way they picked up a dog and a little girl, the former of which turned out to be the angel and the latter of which was just a daughterfu.

Ultimately they escaped back into real life, though the daughterfu got left behind in the abandoned school surrounded by a hellscape that was the last area. Shortly afterward the tics from SAN loss started to get weird; randomly becoming aware that every eye was pointed directly at you, tasting babies on a failed WP check whenever they ate meat, etc.

Unfortunately the campaign finally gave up the ghost shortly before they were supposed to fight that angel which was the point where things would really begin going down the slippery slope.

And they never got the chance to save their daughterfu from that school, which was an actual location stuck in a Dirac sea/anti-AT field as a result of an S2 experiment. I also never nailed down whether or not the angel was supposed to exist in our world or used the pilots to escape into ours.

That sounds like great fun.
And here I just had an Angel invade the pilots' dreams because it was lazy as shit and was trying to find the quickest path to Adam by trying to force them to lead it to him, while masquerading as the OD. And played by the OD.

By popular request and my own wishes, this is happening.
Expect a Mobile Suit Mechanicus general soon.