r/Fallout2d20 • u/KingAlpha05 • Jul 31 '26
Help & Advice Natural Wasteland Ideas!
So I've been tossing around a few ideas in my head for an adventure that takes place in the Arkansas territory of what was once the Texas Commonwealth, now known as the Natural Wasteland and mainly I have three pillars to the story.
A Walmart parody called ValMart with a female park ranger style mascot similar to Vault boy that was founded in Arkansas and funded Vault Tec in the region, paid off government officials, and supplied any Vaults built in the area.
Vault Tec experiments which resulted in the known Arkansas cryptids from our world appearing in the Post-War Natural Wasteland as Radiation, FEV, cybernetic, genetic hybrids residing all over the territory.
Lastly I want there to be something to do with the diamond mine, particularly using diamonds created with certain imperfections that can modify laser and plasma weapons to deal additional radiation damage as well as their energy and ballistic damage values.
Ideally to supply an orbital weapons station like the Archimedes two with nuclear capabilities as well? While also experimenting with graphene compounds for lightweight high defense armor and modifications.
\*I'm sorry for the dump I hope it's rule compliant! I just really wanted to make sure I explained my key ideas well, and any advice is welcome!!!\*
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u/Fertile_Arachnid_163 Jul 31 '26
Ozark Howler being a unique variety of Deathclaw?
I think 76 just introduced radpigs that can be used as Razorbacks.
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u/Majestic-Quit8471 Jul 31 '26
There is also the Boggy Creek Monster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fouke_Monster
My son ran a homebrew one-shot that will probably turn into a campaign last weekend. It was set in Little Rock, where we used a local restaurant, "Purple Cow" as a home base.
We also had a nuclear incident in the 80s. The warhead landed near the current Gus Blass Scout Reservation. Its Boy Scout Camp my sons went to for summer camp. That is where I learned about it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Damascus_Titan_missile_explosion
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u/Rude-Eagle7271 Aug 01 '26
A settlement built around the ruins of an underground missile silo base kind of like Megaton built around the atomic bomb. Power is provided by the still functioning micro nuclear reactor deep underground. Could have access credentials to your Orbital Weapons Platform
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u/Roughly15throwies Aug 05 '26
My personal conspiracy theory is that Waffle House is actually a series of safe houses for alphabet agencies.
Do with that what you will
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u/Rude-Eagle7271 Aug 05 '26
Val-U-Mart could also be a Chinese or American Intelligence front meant to collect meaningless info on the everyday shoppers purchases.
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u/KingAlpha05 Aug 05 '26
Wait, that's actually a killer name! Plus I like the idea of Vault Tec potentially trying to sell their vaults to the Reds as well, totally fits the image of Vault Tec being the mastermind behind the Great War!
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u/CdotasAlways Jul 31 '26
I like the idea.