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Sorain Highwind Yue ZZEva Table of Contents Intro Berserk 94 What am I looking at? 2 Berserk Types 95 Rebuild of Evangelion 2 Customization 96 Character Creation 3 Biological Upgrades 97 Overview 4 Structural Upgrades 100 Backgrounds 6 Ablative Upgrades 105 Neo-Spartan 7 Weapons 107 Prodigy 9 New Weapon Qualities 108 Manufactured 11 Specific Melee Weapons 111 Impact Survivor 14 General Melee Weapons 113 Characteristics 16 Melee Weapon Upgrades 115 Drawbacks and Assets 17 Ranged Weapons 116 Drawbacks 18 Ballistic 116 Assets 27 Maser 119 Pilot Careers 34 N2 Shell 122 Scale 35 Positron 124 Skirmisher 36 Ranged Weapon Upgrades 126 Pointman 41 New Horizons 127 Berserker 46 Synch Ratio 128 A.T. Tactician 51 Synch Ratio Effects Chart 129 Talents & Skills 56 Synch Disruption 130 Talent Summary Chart 57 Feedback 130 Talent Descriptions 59 The Fate Divide 131 Skills 77 Ego Barrier 132 Evangelions 81 Ideals & Complications 134 Piloting Your Evangelion 83 Time Management 135 Entry Plug 83 Absolute Territory 138 Plugsuits 84 The Mechanics 140 Umbilical Cable 84 Breach and the AT Field 140 Creating Your Evangelion 86 AT Powers 142 Baseline 86 Spread Patterns 143 Starting Equipment 87 Offensive Powers 144 Evangelion Scale Movement 87 Enhancement Powers 145 Evangelion Scale Falling 87 Dirac Sea Powers 149 Fluid Reality: Abstraction in AdEva 88 Utility Powers 152 A Unique Evangelion 89 Combat 155 Distinguishing Features 89 Detection 157 History 90 Felling Angels 159 Construction 91 Defense Lines 160 Mutation 92 Rounds Delayed Chart 160 Soul 93 The Fortified Front 161 Combat [cont] The Magic Supercomputers 223 Eva Combat 162 Placing the Structures 223 Battlegrounds 163 The Command Deck 224 Magi Analysis Chart 163 The Crew 224 Size Matters 166 Buried Treasure 226 Angelic Fear 166 Managing The Base 227 Angelic Shock Table 167 Research 227 Evangelion Scale Grappling 168 Scientific Advancement 227 Evangelion Scale Fire 168 Technologies 228 Defeat 168 The Rest of the Surplus 231 Entry Plug Launch Chart 169 Letter Type Equipment 232 Tactical Maps 170 Construction 235 N2 Mines 171 Support Structures 235 Collateral Damage 173 Turrets 238 Post Battle 174 Second Impact World 240 Surplus and Research Chart 174 The Second Impact 241 Evangelion Critical Damage 175 War 242 Energy 175 Reconstruction 243 Impact 178 A Closer Look 244 Explosive 180 Nerv 256 Rending 182 Operations Director 184 What is an Operations Director? 185 The Operations Director Career 186 Operations Director Talents 191 Playing with an Operations Director 206 The Bridge 207 Working with your Operations 208 Director Conventional Forces and Support 210 Hornet VTOL 211 Tank Battalion 211 Bumblebee VTOL 212 Firefly VTOL 212 Dragonfly VTOL 213 Playing Without an Operations 214 Director Adjusting Your Story 214 Operating Without Direction 214 Team Leader 215 The Base of Operations 216 Example Bases of Operation 218 Exotic Operations 219 Starting Resources 221 Evangelion Carrier Plane 221 Mobile Support Structures 222 It has been 15 years since Second Impact. An explosion in Antarctica vaporized the entire continent. The resulting tidal waves killed billions worldwide and flooded coastal regions of every continent. Worse yet, the very axis of the Earth itself was permanently shifted, causing a global climate change that devastated crops and added incredible strain to already decimated regions. In the following devastation, many countries and governments collapsed entirely as the United Nations struggled to hold humanity together. Rioting and war became common as vital resources disappeared virtually overnight. The months following Second Impact left no one unscathed, and all told only half of the human race survived the disaster and our resulting fear- induced stupidity. It was years before the situation stabilized enough for the UN to mount an expedition to ground zero to investigate the explosion. A report was published, proving that Second Impact was the result of a 4-inch meteorite traveling at 95% of the speed of light, much too small and traveling far too quickly to have been detected before its devastating collision with the Earth’s South Pole. To this day, all but the most well -informed of individuals believe this. In truth, Second Impact was caused by the awakening and subsequent defeat of a powerful being since labeled “Adam”. A being older than life on Earth, and of extraterrestrial origin. Adam was the first. He was not the last. Humanity is under threat again, and if even a single battle is lost it could mean the end of the entire human race. That fate of the world is in your hands. Don’t fuck it up. 1 What am I looking at? Adeptus Evangelion is a modification of the Dark Heresy Roleplaying Game ruleset geared for running games in the world of Neon Genesis Evangelion. Inspired by the fanfiction “Shinji and Warhammer40k” by Charles Bhepin, Adeptus Evangelion brings the grim dark brutality of the 41st millennium to Earth’s defense in its darkest hour. The players take the role of the pilots of Evangelions, colossal living chimeras of alien and human DNA, covered in armor and bent to Humanity's will. It is a dangerous position, and not just for the obvious reasons. The fact that your character can Synchronize with the creature makes you a very special person. It’s probably for the best if you don’t ask about the test pilots either. Or why Mom left. It is important to note here that Adeptus Evangelion does not require adherence to the story of Evangelion, Warhammer 40k, or even Shinji and Warhammer40k in order to play. Rules and tips for running games that diverge from these storylines will be provided later. This game requires the Dark Heresy Core Rulebook to play, and no rules from that book will be reprinted here. Rebuild of Evangelion The Rebuild of Evangelion (to be presented in a series of movies rather than a television series) represents a new, updated take on the world of Evangelion. Given the currently incomplete nature of the Rebuild, Adeptus Evangelion uses the original series as a base and will not take any special effort to represent Rebuild of Evangelion. This will also avoid spoilers of the Rebuild, something rather newer than the series that came out in the mid-1990’s. While Adeptus Evangelion will not reference the Rebuild of Evangelion, those movies may be used as inspiration and a proof-of-concept when it comes to running alternative Evangelion campaigns seeking to branch from the main series. 2 3 CHARACTER CREATION In Adeptus Evangelion, you take the role of one of the few Pilots of the monstrous Evangelion war machines. Given the nature of the battle system described later, it is important for GMs and players alike to note that this system plays best with a number of pilots between 2-4. Overview Building your character is accomplished in the following steps: Background The Background of your character represents how they came to be an Eva pilot. Do they have a genetic disposition for it that has only recently been discovered, or have they been training for this their whole life? Perhaps it is a position they were made for, literally. Each Background has its own impact on your skills and Characteristics, as well as its own unique Traits. These Traits are divided into two categories: Positive and Negative. Choose two Positive Traits and two Negative Traits from the lists provided. Characteristics Once you have chosen your background, you may roll your characteristics. To do this, roll 2d10 11 separate times, and write down the resulting numbers. Remove the lowest number from the pool, and assign the remaining 10 numbers to your characteristics as you see fit. Your Background will impose modifiers to various characteristics, so be sure to take that into account. 4 Drawbacks and Assets Unlike in previous editions of Adeptus Evangelion, taking Drawbacks does not provide experience. Instead, it provides Depth, which may be spent on Assets before the game begins. Each character is required to have 10 Depth worth of Drawbacks, and may choose to have more. Once you have selected your Drawbacks, and spent the resulting Depth on Assets, you may continue on to your career. Career Choose which career you intent to play. For pilots, the available options are Skirmisher, Berserker, AT Tactician and Pointman. At your GM’s discretion, you may instead choose to play the special non-pilot career of Operations Director. There may be, at most, one Operations Director in a given campaign. Each Career provides a short list of starting skills and talents to players.