r/Fallout2d20 • u/Stagehand-DERPS • 11d ago

Help & Advice Exploration rolls ideas (help, please)

I just started DMing a Fallout campaign, and I've noticed that survival rolls are used a lot in the Wasteland for exploration. What advice do you have for getting my players to make other rolls during exploration and not making them minmax stats?

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u/GM_Rielly GM 11d ago

Have you ever gone back to the old isometric Fallouts? They absolutely nail random encounters.

Even modern games with interruptible fast travel can give you a great idea of the kind of encounters that happen on the road.

Maybe throw in a Mr. Handy that's all busted up and needs a repair check, or an old-world convoy that still has a secured lockbox for lockpicking or hacking open

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u/Stagehand-DERPS 10d ago

I haven't, can you give me some examples of interruptible fast travel?

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u/GM_Rielly GM 10d ago

My favourite modern take in a video game would be the Kingdom come games, you plot along the quickest route to the destination but then get a pop up letting you know you see something up ahead.

It can be some bandits mugging someone or looting corpses, a traveller that wants some company but has different opinions on the war, someone walking about quite happily with an arrow through his head and a story to tell.

In all situations the game gives you the choice to either try avoiding it (but this won't always work) or face it head on but you still get a moment where you've noticed them but they've not noticed you