Fallout 3/Post-Apocalyptic Forum RPG Game Interest [Archive]

hellskingpin

01/05/2009, 15:44

I love Fallout 3, and I know some others do to after talking about it in the game threads. So I'm checking interest if anyone would want to escape a new vault and explore a world near the DC area (but not the same map as Fallout 3) that I create using Fallout's RPG system with S.P.E.C.I.A.L. and skills, etc. with some things altered like simplifying combat situations. You'll be able to create your own character and travel my made-up wasteland full of fun stuff like Fallout 3 and make decisions on how to go about the world, and even blow some heads up. I'd probably want 5-10 vault escapees, and it won't start for a while until I hash out all the details, I'm just checking interest for some people to play.

JackAssterson

01/05/2009, 15:58

I'd lay down some caps for something like that.

darius_dax1

01/05/2009, 16:34

Sure. Sounds like fun..I don't know the specifics but i used to RPG the Aftermath game.

Antipathy

01/05/2009, 16:35

Sure, I'd be willing to play.

hellskingpin

01/05/2009, 16:42

Sure. Sounds like fun..I don't know the specifics but i used to RPG the Aftermath game.

I've made a map and areas already, I have to work on the statistics for all the bad guys, and good guys for that matter. There will be some semblance of quests, I don't know if I will make a main storyline or leave everything optional. Of course there will be Three Dog radio-recapping the news though.

d_knight7

01/05/2009, 18:36

I've yet to play 3 :( , but as a fan of the first 2 and tactics, count me in.

I'd lay down some caps for something like that.

This ^ fool thinks he's still in Fallout 1, so you could probably use someone who knows one end of a plasma rifle from the other :cool:

JackAssterson

01/05/2009, 18:38

I've yet to play 3 :( , but as a fan of the first 2 and tactics, count me in. This ^ fool thinks he's still in Fallout 1, so you could probably use someone who knows one end of a plasma rifle from the other :cool:

This fool thinks he's in Fallout 3. Bottle caps are the coin of the realm here. :grin:

d_knight7

01/05/2009, 18:48

This fool thinks he's in Fallout 3. Bottle caps are the coin of the realm here. :grin:

They went back to bottle caps?

Can I use my Fallout 2 guy? He did the treasure quest and found the old truck in the desert!

Oh and what am I bid for this slightly soiled, punctured blow-up doll? Only 1 careless old ghoul owner.

hellskingpin

01/05/2009, 20:17

Couple more and I will consider people interested.

hellskingpin

01/06/2009, 20:52

Not one more?

hellskingpin

01/08/2009, 03:10

Don't make me cut roles! Wrong forum. Well, if not one more, I will cancel for the time being.

JackAssterson

01/08/2009, 20:52

Come on, folks! One more! Not so hard, izzit?

d_knight7

01/09/2009, 13:00

The link in your sig should help, as The Arcade is a really Ghost Town.

Be sure and make posts around the realms for maximum saturation.

JackAssterson

01/09/2009, 14:10

The link in your sig should help, as The Arcade is a really Ghost Town.

The forum created for Mafia then had Mafia taken away. And then it was as a phantom, crying out for purpose.

Book of the Realms 23:Skiddoo

Hellfire117

01/12/2009, 14:12

We have a winner! I'll bring ol'' painless. :)

hellskingpin

01/12/2009, 22:15

Ok here's what I'll need for each player.
SPECIAL with 40 points distributed, Strength, Perception, Endurance, Charisma, Intelligence, Agility, and Luck in case you don't know. Minimum value 2, max value 10. Full name or nickname, height, weight, short bio and importantly what your job was when you were in the vault. I think that's it....

Hellfire117

01/13/2009, 00:43

Oh yeah, the vault chaplain has arrived!

Name: Adam Eve

Job: Vault Chaplain
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 200
Age: 20

Tags:
People skills, small guns, repair

Skills:
Strength: 4
Perception: 6
Endurance: 6
Charisma: 4
Intelligence: 7
Agility: 6
Luck: 7
Bio: Generically enhanced to be the perfect human specimen, Adam Eve was created by his internationaly renowned scientist father Thomas Eden. Abandoned at birth, Adam Eve was raised by the parrish preist of Vault 101. After the death of his mentor, he established himself the new chaplain of Vault 101. Beloved by all, Adam Eve quickly became the ambassador of faith for the inhabitants of Vault 101. With above average intellect and luck, Adam Eve uses his divine teachings to rid the capitol wasteland of all that is evil.

JackAssterson

01/13/2009, 01:34

Name: Goodwin Allbright
Job: Vault Requisitions Officer
Age: 30
Height: 5'9
Weight: 170
Strength: 4
Perception: 4
Endurance: 5
Charisma: 7
Intelligence: 7
Agility: 6
Luck: 7

Tag Skills:
People skills
Robotics
Computers

If you need it, he'll get it for you. Though his face bears a striking resemblence to a world-warn ferret, Goodwin divvies up the vault's supplies with disarming efficiency. The fact that someone getting something usually means someone else is losing something in this world of limited resources means Goodwin is constantly walking a tightrope between hero and G.O.A.T.

d_knight7

01/13/2009, 16:30

Name: Stone
Job: Specimen #666
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 180lbs
Age: 28 (But looks in his late 40's due to growing up in the Wasteland)

Strength: 4
Perception: 9
Endurance: 5
Charisma: 2
Intelligence: 4
Agility: 10
Luck: 6

Tag Skills:
Guns
Energy Weapons
Stealth

Bio: Nothing is known of the past of the man named Stone, even his name was given to him by techs, who noted his hard face and cold eyes.

A year ago the residents of Vault 101 were shocked to hear a pounding noise on the hidden door of their compound. A vote was taken, and armed men opened the Vault wearing special containment suits.

Outside they found a half starved, irradiated man, drenched head to foot in blood from several individuals, himself included.

With a strong voting block, and keen for information from the outside, the Vault Scientists convinced the council to bring the man in for testing.

Treated like a lab rat for a year, tortured and humiliated, the man they christened Stone never said a word, never screamed, never fought back, but no nurse or doctor could hold his gaze.

On the anniversary of his arrival, Stone killed three doctors and a pair of security guards and escaped. Dislocating his shoulders, he undulated his way through hundreds of meters of air ducts, before opening the Vault door and slipping out.

Horrified Vault citizens found the armory raided, survival gear and rations taken, and a note on the door written in blood.

"Next time I won't knock"

JackAssterson

01/13/2009, 16:42

Horrified Vault citizens found the armory raided, survival gear and rations taken, and a note on the door written in blood.

"Next time I won't knock"

Never fails. You just finish alphabetizing the armory and somebody raids it.

Hellfire117

01/13/2009, 16:50

With a strength of 3 he's probably overencumbered already! Just look for the slow bloody guy with a bunch of vault suits. :)

BTW how do these things work, and who is left to get their characters up?

darius_dax1

01/13/2009, 16:55

John "the Scrubber" Logan
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 205 lbs.
Occupation: Janitor

Strength: 6
Perception: 6
Endurance: 6
Charisma: 3
Intelligence: 6
Agility: 7
Luck: 6

Age:35 (+time in cryo)

TAG Skills:
Locks -Agility
Repair/Create -Intelligence
Improvised Weapons (You will have a special trait to make a weapon out of seemingly nothing) -Luck

John Logan was just in it for the weekly paycheck. A solitary man, he did what he had to do to support his simple life-style of video games, comic books, and online gambling. He was content with his basement room at his parent's house. Even well after his parent's died he continued to live in the basement while renting out the rest of the house.

During one of his nightly rounds he had stumbled into an otherwise empty lab and right into the latest vault experiment, knocked unconscious, only to awaken later to...

d_knight7

01/13/2009, 17:05

Never fails. You just finish alphabetizing the armory and somebody raids it.

Just be glad you're not the guy who has to clean the air ducts.

With a strength of 3 he's probably overencumbered already! Just look for the slow bloody guy with a bunch of vault suits. :)

Oh so what, with the strength of 4 you can wear bigger laces, big whoop :grin:

PSST, DAX.

There's been no civilization outside of the sealed vaults for a couple of hundred years buddy.

Unless you're of the Clan McCloud, and rented your house to Muties, that bio made need some tweaking :cool:

darius_dax1

01/13/2009, 17:12

Just be glad you're not the guy who has to clean the air ducts.

Oh so what, with the strength of 4 you can wear bigger laces, big whoop :grin:

PSST, DAX.

There's been no civilization outside of the sealed vaults for a couple of hundred years buddy.

Unless you're of the Clan McCloud, and rented your house to Muties, that bio made need some tweaking :cool:

I'm saying I've been there that long...cryogenics or something...

d_knight7

01/13/2009, 17:17

I'm saying I've been there that long...cryogenics or something...

So the muties renting your rooms, did they stick the rent check to your tank or...?

If you can find a cryogenically frozen bank manager to cash 200 years worth of checks you can buy a lot of ammo!

Powergamer! :grin:

d_knight7

01/13/2009, 17:23

Gah, ok, changed. I refuse to be the ultra-feeb amongst the feeble.

I won't have you both flaunting your noodle arms at me.

Hellfire117

01/13/2009, 18:59

Oh so what, with the strength of 4 you can wear bigger laces, big whoop :grin:

Bigger laces and an awesome pope hat! :)
And BTW, Who needs strength when you have a gun.

d_knight7

01/13/2009, 19:15

Ah, I think I get your background now Dax, it's kind of a Fry from Futurama bit is it?

So, so far we have:

A failed science project turned demagogue
A spiv
An escaped murderer
A defrosted loser

If the last person is playing a psychic Dog we've got an 80's sitcom.

Hellfire117

01/14/2009, 13:46

Come on antipathy, were waiting on you! :)
BTW, I'm not a failed experiment. :(

Good call on the demagogue though. :)

darius_dax1

01/14/2009, 14:30

hellskingpin

01/14/2009, 14:53

Secondly, edit your character with their ages and tag 3 of the following 15 skills (modified slightly from Fallout 3): You can change these at any time before we actually start.

People skills (barter/speech combined) - Charisma
Guns -Perception
Specialty Guns (guns not using bullets aka missile launcher, etc.) -Perception
Energy Weapons -Perception
Explosives -Perception
Locks -Agility
Medicine -Intelligence
Melee -Strength
Repair/Create -Intelligence
Computers -Intelligence
Stealth -Agility
Hand to Hand -Strength
Trapwork (disarming/creating traps) -Agility
Improvised Weapons (You will have a special trait to make a weapon out of seemingly nothing) -Luck
Robotics (deprogramming/creating robots) -Intelligence

Having skills that play off each other may provide synergy bonuses. If you have repair and guns tagged, for example, you may get +5 synergy bonus when you go to repair that gun.

hellskingpin

01/14/2009, 14:56

By the way, I like the difference in characters. Good job. Surprised no one picked a female though.

hellskingpin

01/14/2009, 15:34

Quick breakdown of SPECIAL:

Strength - damage dealt with melee weapons/hand to hand combat, governs melee and hand to hand skills, determines load you can carry
Perception - chance that you will catch an encounter earlier rather than later - aka someone sneaking up on you or approaching you from a distance, governs most gun skills and how well you can shoot 'em
Endurance - governs your hit points, how long you can go without eating/drinking, and how long you can go without sleep
Charisma - governs People skills, and all interactions with people in the game
Intelligence - governs general knowledge, medicine, repair, computer, and robotics skills
Agility - chance to dodge attacks, governs trap/lock/stealth skills
Luck - chance at getting ambushed in the wasteland, chance at critical attacks, chance at randomly finding weapons/food, governs Improvised weapons

d_knight7

01/14/2009, 15:55

BTW, I'm not a failed experiment. :(

Well I'd expect a perfect human specimen to have all 10's for stats, so yeah, there's a reason pops left you at the Chaplain's door in a giant test tube with a letter stuck to it.

Hellfire117

01/14/2009, 16:08

Well I'd expect a perfect human specimen to have all 10's for stats, so yeah, there's a reason pops left you at the Chaplain's door in a giant test tube with a letter stuck to it.

By chaplain, you mean Maury. :)

hellskingpin

01/14/2009, 16:58

Generating possessions....

d_knight7

01/14/2009, 17:50

Tag Skills:
Repair/Create
Improvised Weapons

TAG Skills:
Repair/Create
Improvised Weapons

It's the MacGuyver Brothers!

Mullets for everyone!

JackAssterson

01/14/2009, 18:07

It's the MacGuyver Brothers!

Mullets for everyone!

Yeah, I noticed that.

Now I'm

People skills
Robotics
Computers

I'm the world's friendliest tech support man. :noid:

I hope I'm able to build a robot bodyguard.

darius_dax1

01/14/2009, 18:17

Sorry Jack...I was picking skills that fit the character.

hellskingpin

01/14/2009, 18:36

There was a typo in the last sentence of the first post of the page, it reads skills instead of traits now. When Anti is in and I am ready, I will pm you all detailed char sheets.

hellskingpin

01/14/2009, 18:44

Apologies/laughs if anyone lives in/near the city I am about to butcher in this game.

Antipathy

01/14/2009, 20:08

Name: James Dunleaven
Job: Shift Supervisor
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 150
Age: 22

Strength 4
Perception 8
Endurance 5
Charisma 2
Intelligence 8
Agility 8
Luck 5

Guns -Perception
Stealth -Agility
Repair/Create -Intelligence

James was a quiet man. Rarely seen, rarely heard. A pleasant fellow, but conversations usually didn't progress beyond small talk. He mostly kept to himself, spending time tinkering with the various guns he had in his possession. Which made it quite the surprise when he became a shift supervisor. Maybe the higher-ups saw something in him the rest of the vault dwellers didn't.

JackAssterson

01/14/2009, 20:12

Nobody taking Doctor, eh?

I shall build a Med-Bot!

/does so

Antipathy

01/14/2009, 20:13

Are we all going to be in a party, or are we having individual quests?

JackAssterson

01/14/2009, 20:14

Not sure. I shall build an Answer-Bot!

/does so

Antipathy

01/14/2009, 20:18

There was a typo in the last sentence of the first post of the page, it reads skills instead of traits now. When Anti is in and I am ready, I will pm you all detailed char sheets.

There's only a couple that work together though. Hand to Hand and Melee, and maybe computers and robotics. That's about it.

hellskingpin

01/14/2009, 20:22

Are we all going to be in a party, or are we having individual quests?

A fun RPG always leaves everything up to the players....initially you will start off together though.

Hellfire117

01/14/2009, 20:34

There's only a couple that work together though. Hand to Hand and Melee, and maybe computers and robotics. That's about it.

Repair and small/created guns and expolsives should go together. Sneak and lockpick as well.

d_knight7

01/14/2009, 20:57

A fun RPG always leaves everything up to the players....initially you will start off together though.

Together? We'll rip the Wasteland a new one!

hellskingpin

01/14/2009, 21:02

Together? We'll rip the Wasteland a new one!

That's assuming you'll stay together....and stay healthy....

hellskingpin

01/14/2009, 21:06

I am going to start sending out final versions of characters. If you see anything weird or completely wrong - tell me, because I probably made a mistake somewhere in all that jumble. Secondary skills were chosen by what you had high values in in SPECIAL, and in cases of ties were random. If there is no questions after all receive characters and post here, than we can start soon.

d_knight7

01/14/2009, 21:15

Nobody taking Doctor, eh?

I shall build a Med-Bot!

/does so

Not sure. I shall build an Answer-Bot!

/does so

In the event of starvation turning us to cannibalism I know who I'm eating first.

Antipathy

01/14/2009, 21:21

I'm ready to go.

d_knight7

01/14/2009, 21:34

Just a quick explanation of secondary skills and how equipment degrades and I'm good to go. (I'm going to have to get my wife to dl the Fallout 3 manual for me, the hamsters in my modem aren't up to the task).

hellskingpin

01/14/2009, 21:42

Secondary were just so that all your skills that weren't tagged wouldn't suck. They are skills that you are better that than average but not as good as your tags and they were based on what you had high stats in. Weapons will degrade the more you use em, same with armor/clothing if you are attacked...

hellskingpin

01/14/2009, 22:47

As far as weapons go...I'm using Fallout 3 Wiki for weapon stats. Google it if you want. Looks like 2 are ready.

d_knight7

01/14/2009, 22:52

Yup, I'm ready and raring to go!

Ok, since we could get separated at any time, I propose our first order of business be a Swap Meet, to exchange superfluous items that another player may get better use out of.

I'm offering: A Security Baton.

Very nice to have when ammo is scarce, or if you just plan to do some bludgeoning. I'm a crack shot and a bit weedy so it's of lesser use to me. Dax, maybe good for you as the muscles of the group?

Anyone else got trade goods?

JackAssterson

01/14/2009, 23:05

In the event of starvation turning us to cannibalism I know who I'm eating first.

What'd Dax do to you?

:cry:

Anyhoo, I's ready.

hellskingpin

01/14/2009, 23:08

Hold out on the "swap meet" until the opening write-up. Then proceed to swap meet away. 3 ready.

d_knight7

01/14/2009, 23:10

Hold out on the "swap meet" until the opening write-up. Then proceed to swap meet away. 3 ready.

Sorry dad! :cool:

hellskingpin

01/14/2009, 23:59

I'm good to go when darius and hellfire are.

darius_dax1

01/15/2009, 00:04

I am ready.

NurseFoxfire

01/15/2009, 01:06

It's a woman's prerogative to arrive fashionably late to any party :)

Thank you, hellskingpin, for allowing me to play!

Name: Antonia de Haviland
Age: 30
Vault Job: Doctor
Height: 5'5"
Weight: 120lbs

S: 3
P: 8
E: 5
C: 4
I: 8
A: 8
L: 4

TAG Skills:
Medicine
Locks
Trapwork

Bio: I grew up in the Vault fascinated by medicine and eventually became a pediatric doctor. Unfortunately the other [male]doctors at my hospital tended to view this with some disdain, referring to my specialization as "woman's work".

They also conspired to keep all the better medicines and equipment under lock and key, claiming it was needed for more important surgeries. In defense, I learned how to pick the locks of many of the medical rooms, stealing back much-needed supplies for my tiny patients.

The hospital administrator tacitly sided with the other surgeons, although he publicly declared that all specialties were equal, and all our supplies should be shared among us. After my hidden stash of medicines and equipment was raided YET AGAIN, I decided to set a few traps to surprise the intruders, and discovered that I actually enjoyed devising cunning snares!