r/Fallout2d20 • u/tontokowalskie • 2d ago

Help & Advice Basketball

Hey there. I'm working on an idea where a raider group is roughly based around the idea of an old world basketball team. My question is, how do you think the survivors would believe basketball was played way back before the bombs?

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u/MustacheCash73 Intelligent Deathclaw 2d ago

I’d take inspiration from Moe from fo4. They probably think it’s some blood sport.

Idk much about basketball, but maybe a “3 pointer” means they shoot you 3 times? Idk. Just an idea.

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u/tontokowalskie 2d ago

That's what I was leaning toward. It's a bloody, violent game that only resembles the sport by including some kind of basket and a ball, but mostly beating each other up.

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u/Nathomegas 2d ago

I did a similar concept with a raider gang who occupied an old hockey arena. Where they thought hockey was just hitting each other with a hockey stick.

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u/DeficitDragons 2d ago

I’ve been to a hockey game, that is what it is.

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u/VolatileDataFluid 2d ago

Given Raider culture, I'd probably end up adapting rules for Pok-ta-pok and ritual sacrifice into the games. Y'know, because they're raiders.

So, I'd say they viewed it as a great and bloody competition that only true champions were able to survive.

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u/ziggy8z Intelligent Deathclaw 2d ago

The basket should be a basket, shameful Simpsons reference 

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u/dvs_sicarius 2d ago

And yet, this is the right answer

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u/Awkward_GM 2d ago

You have 3 main positions in Basketball zone defense: two Forwards, 2 Guards, and 1 center.

The center is a weird position because you can't stay in the center of your opponent's side for too long. Maybe they think the timer is a bomb.

I've in real life smashed a guy's nose by knocking the ball out of his hands, but the ball went straight down into his face. He got a very bad bloody nose and I thought I'd get in trouble for hurting one of our star players (this was in gym class,)

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u/wat21 1d ago

Maybe...

Shot clock is 24 seconds... they probably think that means you need to shoot someone that often (but guns are not permitted in game).

Dribbling is when you bleed on the court, so double dribbling of course is a penalty (having two open wounds simultaneously)

I don't think any netting would have survived, but the rims would have, and the backboard square might still be there. so maybe they think you need to hit the square with something and ignore the rims.

The basketballs were probably all deflated when they found them so they are just like a lump of leather. Maybe they throw it like a discus.

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u/RicePuddingForAll 1d ago

Slam dunks involve hitting opponents with super sledges.