Changing skill-dependent starting items

[Sduibek]

I humbly suggest that if a player starts with First Aid, Traps, and Throwing tagged, they should start off with a bonus cyanide pill.

lol.

That is actually a good idea for a diplomat build. It would add a sense of urgency to your words.

The cyanide could be in a bomb that the player has to disarm with Traps skill.

 

[SnapSlav]

I humbly suggest that if a player starts with First Aid, Traps, and Throwing tagged, they should start off with a bonus cyanide pill.

lol.

That is actually a good idea for a diplomat build. It would add a sense of urgency to your words.

The cyanide could be in a bomb that the player has to disarm with Traps skill.

In a locked First Aid Kit, which they'd have to throw against a wall after disarming. XD

 

[Ardent]

Coming back to the original subject, we had a discussion about this at MR, because we too have one place where you get equipment dependent on your tagged skills.

The difference is that the script chooses randomly between your tagged skills and gives you items based on one skill only. Some skills don't get anything (Sneak, Steal, Energy Weapons, Big Guns), so they are of course ignored. If all your tagged skills don't get any items, you just get some extra healing powders.

We gave Gambling a pair of dice and a deck of cards. If you want to give players cash, but don't give them caps, give them the zippo lighter instead - it's worth a hundred bucks and it could belong to one of the original dwellers, and somebody chipped it in, so you can barter it for something else. Or maybe you won the lighter in a card game in the Vault?

I also like the idea that you get a rope when you have Outdoorsman tagged. As for melee, you should give a next-tier weapon - like somebody pointed out, the club deals the same damage as the knife, so maybe give a crowbar instead.