Editing Fallout (section)

==On the Tabletop==
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===[[Fallout: The Board Game]]===
''It fucking rules.''
[[File:Fallout hero.0.jpg|thumb|right|350px|War... War changes depending on your dice rolls and choice of Quests.]]

A 1-4 player game produced by [[Fantasy Flight Games]] where you and up to three other players take the roles of different people in the wasteland. You travel and explore a randomly created wasteland, killing raiders and whatnot, scavenging ruins, gaining items and maybe supporting one of the warring factions. Each game is based on a Scenario which decides the main Quest of the game, so you can play both in the Capital Wasteland with the Brotherhood of Steel and the Enclave, or fight for synths in the Commonwealth. There's even a Scenario based on The Pitt from Fallout 3! The Scenario decides what faction that are fighting during the game. Players can support each side or just disregard their bullshit and go loot a Red Rocket Station instead or something.

The player characters are a Ghoul who gains health from Rads but has less maximum health; a Super Mutant who gains XP by gaining Rads and has different options in certain Encounters and Quests; a Brotherhood of Steel Outcast who starts the game with a slow-ass suit of Power Armor; the Wastelander who starts with a tire iron that fucks up early-game mops; and a Vault Dweller who starts with a vault suit, which you can have another clothing item over. During the game you can become Idolized or Vilified, Addicted to chems or even impromptu remember that you are a Synth!

The game feels and plays much like the vidyas, which allows loads of fun shenanigans like being caught of guard by a sudden Sentry Bot attack, finding a Quest lead during a looting section and continuously fucking with both the factions in the game for loot and XP. It's even possible to just disregard everything and go on a fun wasteland adventure just for fun. Finding items that are worth it are tough but often worthwhile, and Companions add some flavor to the game - Feel like sacrificing Preston Garvey to gain a Sniper Rifle in a trapped room, feel free! The Quest system makes the world feel alive and lets your traits and abilities like being Idolized additional weight. Of course, as a FFG game, it comes with somewhere around a few thousand small parts, so get some bags with it as well.

It's a great adaptation, and for the oldfags out there, there's a New California Expansion which allows you to fight the Master or help build the NCR.

===Fallout: Warfare===
A tabletop [[wargame]] based on the Fallout Tactics spin-off game, and released alongside it in 2001. Made by the lead designer of the original Fallout, Chris Taylor, and can be [https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/6/6d/Fow.pdf/revision/latest?cb=20070811034044 downloaded here.]

===RPGs===
There are a few systems for Nuka-Cola addicts to get their fill on the tabletop. The first is '''[[Exodus]]''', licensed under the [[d20 System]], which was originally going to be an official ''Fallout'' RPG until copyright disputes with Bethesda and Interplay prompted the publishers to file off the serial numbers and call it a "spiritual successor". It departs heavily from the canonical setting, and is mechanically weak, but a flexible GM will find it otherwise serviceable.

For purists, there is also J.E. Sawyer's Fallout Role-Playing Game, an original system that uses d100 rules, much like [[Dark Heresy]] only a thousand times more complicated. It is still in development and will probably never be finished, but all material can be found for free on its [http://falloutpnp.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page official wiki].

Originally, Fallout was going to be mechanically based on [[GURPS]] but due to Steve Jackson's signature controlling nature (the GURPS licence was pulled because SJ didn't like the vault boy icons) the GURPS licence was dropped and the series went with the SPECIAL system that is in use today. GURPS fans have created a Fallout suppliment that can be found [http://gurps.fallout.free.fr/data/GURPS_Fallout_compilation.pdf here].

In addition, some cool anons have created a scenario book for Fallout that focuses on the Louisiana wastes. Check it out [https://mega.nz/#!HBlzBDTS!DVNFXbkJBI6Aah6D-L4Vt1ssmvIfS2kcg43ZXIWfTHg here]. It's pretty good.

The current official Fallout RPG has been around since 2021 and is a creation of [[Modiphius Entertainment]], using their standard 2d20 system.

===[[Fallout: Wasteland Warfare]]===
Created by [[Modiphius Entertainment]] and released in 2018, the game was initially created as a skirmish-level wargame but with the option to let AI cards control factions to have a co-op or single player game, as well as a light RPG/settlement system. Due to reception that they had created a mediocre skirmish game but an amazing AI/campaign system, future content was bent towards that as well as a stand-alonebutactuallyitsanexpansion RPG book appropriately titled "Fallout: Wasteland Warfare Roleplaying Game". 

Find it [http://www.modiphius.com/fallout.html Fallout: Wasteland Warfare here].

===Fallout d40===
A new homebrew tabletop RPG based on Fallout, called Fallout d40, was released on the internet on Oct. 23rd, 2017, 60 years prior to the bombs dropping. It aims to give people a true Fallout tabletop RPG experience. The website for it is: https://falloutd40.wixsite.com/mainpage