Black Angel
Grand Inquisitor of the Ordo Hereticus
It is. Don't worry, I assume we need to get the podcasts and the interview with MCA done first, before we can move on to this.
A community effort
- Thread starter Hassknecht
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Dr Fallout
Centurion
Oh okay sure.
Krynnymuffin
First time out of the vault
Kinda just made this account with my just to reply to this thread and offer my services, so ignore the pony. I know it sores the eyes of some, so I'll change it whenever I get to drawing something proper Fallout.
I didn't read the whole thread 'cos I'm kinda in the middle of something as I post this, just got really excited. If someone could give me a Teal Deer(TL;DR), that'd be great. I am under the impression we're waiting for something, is that right?
I didn't read the whole thread 'cos I'm kinda in the middle of something as I post this, just got really excited. If someone could give me a Teal Deer(TL;DR), that'd be great. I am under the impression we're waiting for something, is that right?
Dr Fallout
Centurion
Krynnymuffin
First time out of the vault
Not sure if commenting on the pony or my occupation, but either way, that's true.
Thanks for the quick reply. Though, I suppose I should stop being lazy and impatient and just go through the thread when I can, like a reasonable degenerate.
Dr Fallout
Centurion
Nah it's fine.
I can't wait to start this, so I'm just writing my own setting based off the Oregon Trail... The Fallout Trail!
Izak
I Shot The ALBATROSS
I think you're in the wrong thread there, buddy.
Hassknecht proposed a P&P Fallout game made by us, it was more or less agreed upon that we'd make it, then nothing happened.
I guess? I dunno, nothing's really happened with this for a while.
Dr Fallout
Centurion
That's what Black Angel told me. Doing a different project then moving to this one.
Izak
I Shot The ALBATROSS
Why would the interview with Chris delay this? It's not as though we're incapable of multitasking and I'm sure a fair amount of people won't be involved with the podcast.
Dr Fallout
Centurion
That's what I thought...
I really want to continue this, so I'm just writing a Fallout setting and a fallout quest based on a vault for my PnP group.
Yeah, sorry for the delay on this. It's been kind of a busy time for me, but hopefully I'll be able to fully kick this thing off next week.
I guess right now the focus is on rules and mechanics right?
If memory serves me right, we are waiting to decide which P&P ruleset to use.
If you're an Overseer (Gamemaster) you can start to write your adventures, story, settings, etc (which is what I think @Dr Fallout is doing at the moment) and then after the ruleset is decided you can just adapt and insert the rules and stats into what you already wrote.
TheHouseAlwaysWins
Look, Ma! Two Heads!
add random events into it.
Dr Fallout
Centurion
I've got a pdf on tons of Random events... but they're more or less the tongue-in-cheek ones you find in Fallout 1 or 2 rather then being serious encounters.
Hello people, I just happened on this thread while looking at some stuff. I recently started F2 again and when googling some info on it I found this site->forum->thread.
I am posting because I've already done a lot of work on this, but stopped seriously working on it a while back. It is my best attempt at a balanced Fallout pen and paper game that includes somewhat realistic weapons, all F:Tactics races, and spells (which are called POWs, er I think it was for Personal Or Weapon enchantments. I had some friends that like spells so I wanted to put balanced spells in), upgrade and attachment system, some special weapons (that involved multiple skills to use properly) (in progress) and some basic concept of a crafting system.
I was watching this thread for a few days to see what people are up to. You see it's about 32,000 words with pictures and diagrams and 78 pages, so I do want to keep good care of it, but I also don't work on it as much as I used to, so I'm interesting in helping out to form a complete product that could be enjoyed by all, especially since my friends can't play DnD or what I've called the VES (Vault-Tec Experience Simulator). With the post above about having a story (when I was going to test it I was just going to use KOTOR's story and modify it, so I didn't have a good one of my own), I have the rules a good chunk done anyway, just no story.
Some big problems I've seen with it, since I tried to make it harder to max skills like in Fallout 1, get 200 easy then 95% on everything, and in the interest of having melee be an unrealistic but totally viable option, as well as being realistic with play mats only being a certain size... and trying to make action points a bit less valuable, weapons lose accuracy based on their maximum accuracy, so while a Laser Rifle has a range of 25 hexes (whatever I put it at the time), firing at 25 hexes away, it would only fire at 1/25 of effectiveness, unless it's an easy target, you're much more likely to miss...
Anyway, with that, and the complexities of armor DR and DT, as well as distance, and cover (including prone and crouch from F:T), combat is very complex. I was working on a graphing calculator program to help make it easier, but even so. If you wanted to use it you'd have to really be dedicated to working it though and patient or a good programmer.
Love your opinions.
Also I haven't read the whole thread, but I did want to say, there was a post on how Luck would be hard to make useful. In VES, I used a d100 instead of d20. With your luck being what value indicated a critical success, so if you had luck 7, you could roll a 93-100 for a crit instead. With Ghouls able to get to... 14 luck I think, that would make them a very interesting sniper class.
I am posting because I've already done a lot of work on this, but stopped seriously working on it a while back. It is my best attempt at a balanced Fallout pen and paper game that includes somewhat realistic weapons, all F:Tactics races, and spells (which are called POWs, er I think it was for Personal Or Weapon enchantments. I had some friends that like spells so I wanted to put balanced spells in), upgrade and attachment system, some special weapons (that involved multiple skills to use properly) (in progress) and some basic concept of a crafting system.
I was watching this thread for a few days to see what people are up to. You see it's about 32,000 words with pictures and diagrams and 78 pages, so I do want to keep good care of it, but I also don't work on it as much as I used to, so I'm interesting in helping out to form a complete product that could be enjoyed by all, especially since my friends can't play DnD or what I've called the VES (Vault-Tec Experience Simulator). With the post above about having a story (when I was going to test it I was just going to use KOTOR's story and modify it, so I didn't have a good one of my own), I have the rules a good chunk done anyway, just no story.
Some big problems I've seen with it, since I tried to make it harder to max skills like in Fallout 1, get 200 easy then 95% on everything, and in the interest of having melee be an unrealistic but totally viable option, as well as being realistic with play mats only being a certain size... and trying to make action points a bit less valuable, weapons lose accuracy based on their maximum accuracy, so while a Laser Rifle has a range of 25 hexes (whatever I put it at the time), firing at 25 hexes away, it would only fire at 1/25 of effectiveness, unless it's an easy target, you're much more likely to miss...
Anyway, with that, and the complexities of armor DR and DT, as well as distance, and cover (including prone and crouch from F:T), combat is very complex. I was working on a graphing calculator program to help make it easier, but even so. If you wanted to use it you'd have to really be dedicated to working it though and patient or a good programmer.
Love your opinions.
Also I haven't read the whole thread, but I did want to say, there was a post on how Luck would be hard to make useful. In VES, I used a d100 instead of d20. With your luck being what value indicated a critical success, so if you had luck 7, you could roll a 93-100 for a crit instead. With Ghouls able to get to... 14 luck I think, that would make them a very interesting sniper class.
Dr Fallout
Centurion
Guys? Is this still happening? Anyone?
My calender is pretty full this week (conference), but I'll get to it on the weekend, I promise.
Dr Fallout
Centurion
You are my god.
Horrid
First time out of the vault
I'd also be in if I can help with anything and if this is actually going somewhere sometime 
But I'm not entirely sure what the exact goal and plan are... ^_^
But I'm not entirely sure what the exact goal and plan are... ^_^