[Let’s Study] Fallout the Roleplaying Game, Part 5: Survival

Everything you need to worry about outside of getting shot, stabbed, blown up or vaporized is in this chapter. Fallout has always lent itself well to survival mechanics. It opens up with options for several survival considerations that a GM can use in their game. These mostly revolve around the core penalty of Fatigue. Hunger, […]

[Let’s Study] Fallout the Roleplaying Game, Part 4: Equipment

You know how some games seem to fetishize gear? Massive shopping lists of everything from Flint and Steel to Camping Tents? Fallout is one of those games. And honestly, rightly so. The catch, of course, is that there aren’t any well stocked stores. All that stuff is yours for the taking. But you gotta find […]

[Let’s Study] Fallout the Roleplaying Game, Part 3: Character Creation

Today we’ll be building a character for the Fallout RPG. Fans of the Fallout videogames will find a lot of these concepts to be familiar, but with a 2d20 twist. Choose your Origin We start with picking an Origin from 6 different choices: Brotherhood of Steel, Ghoul, Super Mutant, Mister Handy, Survivor and Vault Dweller. […]

[Let’s Study] Fallout the Roleplaying Game, Part 2: Combat

Not everyday that you see an RPG where the Combat chapter takes place right after the introduction and even before Character Creation, but it’s not hard to believe that combat is a core component of the Fallout universe. Fallout combat seems to be structured in a fashion that should be familiar to most rpg players […]

[Let’s Study] Fallout the Roleplaying Game, Part 1: Introduction and Core Rules

War. War never changes. Let me preface this series by saying that I’m a big fan of the Fallout series of videogames and their 1950’s Atomic Culture Black Comedy. It’s dystopian, absurd and gruesome, but it is always funny. And so it was little surprise that when Modiphius announced that they were making an RPG […]