I have been waiting for a core book armor update in the errata for a while now and unless the official site’s errata is out of date there has not been one. Since combat armor is the only armor that only goes up to a +3 physical and +3 energy resistance (the others getting +4 physical and +4 energy) it will always be weaker than metal armor as a choice when you start upgrading it. Since it doesn’t get +4 +4 it feels like it’s final form is missing. Power armor only goes to +3 +3, but it’s not really an issue do to the massive defense gap between normal armors and power armors.
There is a similar problem with shadowed amor. Shadowed leather is +3 +3 , Shadowed metal is +2 +2, and shadowed combat armor is +1 +1. Basic leather becomes +4 Phy +5 Eng; basic metal becomes +4 phy +3 Eng; and basic combat armor becomes +3 phy +3 Eng. A shadowed leather set will always be the strongest shadowed armor choice. Personally I think it would have been better to just make all shadowed armor +1 phy +1 Eng. This wouldn’t disrupt the natural armor progression, and it would add a layer of planning to how / if you upgrade armor (shadowed vs maximum armor level). In other words Stealth vs Combat ready defenses.
I have a clarification request because it crashed a game I had like a year ago and dropped the game. One player was a super mutant with pain train. They knocked an enemy over. The enemy got up from prone, I the gm thought it used a minor action as the minor action move says get up from prone. They argued that the prome condition states that move actions are now major actions. Is standing up from prone always a minor action and other movement while prone is a major, OR is standing from prone a major action since they are prone and move actions are a major action while prone?
If you use Wanderer’s Guide, Glass Bottle is a form of Junk so you can just say that if they want to sell Dirty Water they are limited to the Glass Bottles they have with them. Therefore the water is worth 3 caps and the bottle 2. Once sold they can’t go fill more bottles since the bottle they used is already sold with the water.
That said I don’t exactly agree with the price of Glass Bottles being 2 caps in the first place; they should be 4. You might say that’s too much for a Common Junk item but consider this; a Glass Bottle (on average) is broken down to two Glass Components. Together they are worth 4 caps, so why would anyone sell a bottle for 2 when it’s worth more broken. If anything it should be worth more unbroken since a bottle can hold water; a necessity for survival.
Either make Glass a true Common material (worth only 1 cap) or increase the value of an unbroken bottle to 4 caps. I would say the bottle being worth 4 is better since, as a component to gather Dirty Water, it’s now worth 4/5 of the caps; the water itself only being worth 1 cap.
Seems a fair price to pay someone for bringing water to a merchant who will then turn three of them (15 caps) into Purified Water (20 caps). Not to mention the purified water only takes up one bottle, leaving the other two (whatever their price, 4 or 8 caps) in the hand of the merchant.
In The Settler’s guidebook, a People Score is mentioned frequently, but nothing explains what a settlement’s people score is. This is especially confusing, as a settlement is described as having 10+ people, but Diamond city’s people score and how to calculate it, never mind build it, is not explained. Please help!
Has anyone clarified Guass rifle’s skill? In the energy weapon skill description it says it uses the energy weapons skill, but its listed in the equipment section as a small gun. I hadn’t caught that it was mentioned in the energy weapons skill description but this seems odd to me. I think it should be small guns as it fires a projectile, not energy (though it uses energy to propel it). I had been using it as small guns up to this point, but clarification would be great. I ahve noticed the gatiling alser, despite firing literal lasers, is under big guns, so I figured it also makes sense that guass rifle is one of those exceptions and uses small guns.
its all good, I found it in the errata,they said to remove it from energy weapons. Interestingly enough, this wasn’t actually done as of the April 2023 digital printing, despite the errata log from back in febuary saying to remove it. Whenever you do your next digital release, can you please actually remove the text?
I noticed that in the core rulebook Supermutants are apparently vulnerable to both contracting and being affected by disease despite their poison immunity and infamous immunity to disease narratively and in every other medium; was this intentional as a case of game balance/mechanics over narrative consistency or was it overlooked?
Re: Wanderer’s Guidebook: I’ve only got as far as the top of page 5 of the hard-copy and found two errors in the right-hand column, 1st para…" A classic level-action rifle" should obviously be lever-action, and the next line below “anti-material rifle” should be anti-materiel…not a good start; doesn’t bode well for the rest of the book!..I notice Dylan Ramsey is credited at the start of the book for proofreading. Giving him the benefit of the doubt, I suspect he is unfamiliar with firearm terms.
Hi, I would like a clarification on the “Gladiator” perk of the book “Wonderer’s guide book”. It says that it increases damage when using one-handed melee weapons, I wanted to know if the unarmed weapons are included in the use of this perk because in the corebook it appears under the list of melee wepons and they don’t have the two-handed quality.
My understanding is that unless you are bare-fist you are using a weapon (knuckles, power-fist,…), it is melee and not two-handed weapon so it should be applicable.
Hey! New GM (entirely) here! Just had a question about both the specifics of medicine and just generally running the campaign.
In the medicine section, it has a duration category and says medicines such as addictol have a duration of 6 seconds, but it cures all addictions. Is that 6 seconds to use it and gain the effect or 6 seconds with the effect? If it’s the latter, how does that work? Just curious!!!
Does anyone have any tips for me as a new GM, for both just being a good GM and also writing a good campaign using the fallout system?
Thanks so much for any replies!
I am curious about Robot Armor and Robot Mods. They seem to have the Carry Weight modifier but I cannot find the weight of those individual pieces. Is there some set weight that each weighs and that is why they modify carry capacity, a plus or minus to the base weight?
“PHYS. DR - 0 (All)
ENERGY DR - 0 (All)
RAD. DR - 0 (All)
POISON DR - 0 (All)”
“IMMUNE TO RADIATION: The Mutant Hound
reduces all Poison damage suffered to 0, and it
cannot suffer any damage or effects from poison.”
Super Mutants are immune to both radiation and poison. Is that case for hounds? Either way page 67 needs some attention. Ability says Radiation but the descriptions says poison. Stat block doesn’t show either immunity.
Where are you reading this 6 seconds for addictol bit? The chems section (page 164 in first release) mentions chems with the “instant” duration take effect and then end immidately. Addictol cures all addictions and has the duration of “instant” listed in the table, so it takes effect immediatly removing all addictions then ends, so it doesn’t affect future addictions.
On page 145 of the core rulebook, one of the “torso” mods listed for power armor is “Stealth Boy”. Its description is:
You may activate a stealth boy (pg.171) once per scene by spending 1 charge.
But what does this actually mean? You can always activate a stealth boy using a minor action if you have one. Does “may activate a stealth boy once/scene” mean:
A. Activate an ability equivalent to a stealth boy without having to physically use one, instead turing your fusion core charges into stealth boys (This is INCREDIBLY POWERFUL if true)
OR
B. Once per scene you can actiavte one of the stealth boys in your inventory without having to spend the minor action to do so (which is merly an OK ability saving you one minor action any time you use a stealth boy once/scene)
OR
C. BOTH (once per scene you gain the benefit of a stealth boy for 3 rounds without using a stealth boy or an action, possibly being the most broken pwoer armor mod in the game)?
OR
D. NOTHING, as reading the words literally, this allows you to do soemthing (Activate a stealth boy) once per scene which you could already do anyway without this ability (and more oftne then this too), and the ability does not mention anything about requiring less actions or consumables.
I would like to think the game designers did not intend D, so which of A, B or C did they intend?