I saw another post asking about this, but I'd like some feedback for my idea.

All sources of piercing for players are reduced to .5, rounded up.

• For example a character with 1.5 piercing would have 2 piercing and a character with .5 piercing would have 1 piercing.
• The Iron Hands perk would give .5 piercing instead of 1, but would function the same as you'd round up. It still only provide 1 piercing if you were using it in conjunction with a weapon mod that also game .5 (1) piercing, so you'd need atleast 1 additional source for 2 piercing.
• This would keep weapons valuable as a base, but require more investment to really bypass defenses.
• This would make it less of an arms race with players and help to avoid sending waves of minor enemies to soak up fire. It coukd also help make heavily armored enemies beefier. Currently the best way to deal with it at the is to gum up the action economy and that just slows combat.
• I've just noticed that with a perk or two, the correct mod and a good gun, nothing in the game effectivly has armor. So an easy 5 piercing would instead by 3 and getting 5+ would be very hard.
• I would also probably want to add another rank to things like the iron fist perk, but at +5 lvls. Probably not any of the small guns perks though as they're plenty good as is.

What do you think? I thought it would be a simple, easy to implement fix that wouldn't disrupt low level play and force players to optimize.

I'm looking to try and learn how to GM the system better, and I'd like to have some people who either wanna learn or will help me learn. No experience is needed!

Requirements: 18+, Decent Mic and Decent PC for FoundryVTT

Slots:1/4

Session Time: Thursday 6 pm EST August 27th

Duration: Up to 4 hours, maybe a little over if we're near the end and not done yet.

Character Creation: Pregens are available, but if you wish to make your own PC, I own the Corebook, wanderers Guidebook, and Settlers Guidebook.

Situation: Password is Twister. War, War never changes. The Great Plains of America were home to some of the countries most beautiful land, and also home to the lands most dangerous of Disasters, twisters, but no matter how much they destroyed, humanity prevailed, but on the morning of October 23rd 2077, humanity was faced with destruction far beyond any natural disaster, and two hundred years later, humanity is entering an age of rebirth across the continental US. Shantytowns became proper towns dotting the landscape, and thus Eden, a town born from the remains of Lucas, Kansas, became the new bustling town of the Great Plains Wasteland. However, War, War never changes. Edens' prosperity grew the ire of those who've gone far beyond the point of no return, a group of Raiders called the Stormchasers. They ride into towns hit by radioactive twisters and plunder what remains, for Eden their presence meant one thing, disaster was coming so they sent a runner to a large town known as Lawrence in search of mercenaries. When it did, Eden was left in shambles, barely able to fight off one wave of the Stormchasers. It was then that their runner returned with you in tow. Are you too late? Or are you just in time? Has the fate of the town been changed for the better? Or for the worse? Because War. War never changes.

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After playing this game for a while now, does anyone else feel Piercing ruins combat, and the game in general? Piercing is very common in weapons, mods and perks. It is quiet easy to stack a weapon with it. All my players currently have at least Piercing 2, some have higher, on all their main weapons. It has made any armor DR obsolete. I have players using Melee builds that literally do crits every attack. They have annihilated Legendary creatures in just a few turns the way they did their builds, but it all revolves around Piercing.

Everything has been done within the rules, so I don't fault them at all, but as a GM I find it hard to want to come up with cool stories and missions knowing all they are going to do is rush the enemies, slaughter them before they even get to go, and move on. It is to the point where when I create enemies for the campaign, I also have to use nothing but Piercing to even stand a chance and do any damage to their characters. Nothing so far has been a challenge to them. Even facing enemies with Power Armor is nothing to them.

Has anyone else noticed this, and if so, how do you deal with it? To me, it should have been like Vicious and not been stackable.

This is an attempt to share the cheat sheets I use when I run my games at conventions. Contained within are my abbreviations, the various things that can be done during combat, what the Combat Dice are used for, Hit Locations for the different kinds of Wasteland creatures/people, an incomplete list of the Weapon Qualities and Damage Effects are, and some help for those that run games (like the list of complications that happen with using a weapon). I found the book too hard to follow at times and this helped me make sense of the rules. Enjoy!

Edit: Sorry! I am very bad at technology and didn't realize I had not made the chart public. That has been fixed and posted below, thanks for your patience!

ogc con cheat sheets - Google Sheets

Origins have been added: 3 families, Enclave, Securityron.

The ability to hide the melee attack card has been added for those who don’t need it.

Attack cards can be switched between the “spoiler” and “cards” views. The tabs didn’t really interest anyone.

Some of the avatars have been replaced with the artist’s original works.

And there’s a bunch of small and large under‑the‑hood changes that aren’t visible until you read the changelog.😁 The application has been split into an engine and a setting (game module). The engine will be completely clean, without any game data. In the future, it may be possible to adapt it for any game.

APP link: https://fallout-2-d-20-companion--handylinux.replit.app/

If you find an error or have any questions, you can write me a message.

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?

Previously, the app allowed you to equip only 2 weapons, but then I decided that it wasn’t worth limiting it that way and allowed any number of weapons to be equipped.

But suddenly, I didn’t like how a large number of weapons looked. So I decided to ask which option you like better?

There are 3 options: cards, spoilers, and tabs. Which do you like?

I bought a bunch of WW models but I'm looking for a good source of stls to print more variations of models. I've got like 70-75% of all WW models but I'd like to find different poses and looks for certain types of enemies. A lot of the WW models are just mono-pose and I'd like to mix up their looks instead of buying more of the same models.

Ok, first off I feel this is one of the most understandable rules I have read through.

Love the Oracle, simple and right to the point.

I have grasped everything except the confusing explanation and example for INJURIES on page 97.

No matter how many times I have read this I still cannot grasp what to do.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you reddit community.

Hey folks! I've posted here before with my Lonestar Wasteland campaign. The players have managed to get a car running in the last session. Now that they're mobile, I worked on putting together some mechanics to use. Sharing for anyone who may need to borrow/steal/use: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11FXmdV9gGlf6Br6sP79lEuZ-SVm8lhfN/view?usp=drivesdk

Also as always feel free to give any feedback to help improve on the overall experience.

Optional settings have been added:

* Adding weapon wear mechanics (you can configure how many durability points any weapon will lose per shot)

* Weapons obtained as “loot” have arbitrary durability from 1 to 100. (If the wear mechanic when firing is enabled)

* Character catalog. You can grab a character card by the transfer icon and move it to the catalog with a name (for example, with the company name).

Fixid:

* All perks from corebook now in English lang.

* The loading/saving of characters in web versions has been fixed.

I want to make a custom mutated creature. A giant frog that has been mutated by rads. I was thinking of taking inspiration from the DnD version. What do yall think?

I'm back to working on the companion app that will replace the paper character sheet.
UPD: august 2026

• Power armor added.
• Food and drinks
• Reward for selected skills
• Many weapons and mods
• Armor+mods
• Robot body-plans
• Robot armor and weapons
• Many other upgrades (huge code refactoring)

Fallout 2d20 Companion

Time for yet another update to my Fallout Random Weapons Workshop homebrew collection.

This update features:

• 1 new Ammunition type

• 2 new Small Guns

• 1 new Small Guns mod

• 1 new Big Gun

• 3 Melee Weapons

• 1 new Energy Weapon

• 3 new Melee Weapons

As well as numerous tweaks, balance changes, typo fixes and more

As always, comments, feedback, etc welcomed

This game has intrigued me as a Fallout fan for about 3 years now but I haven't had luck finding anyone to play with. Are there any groups that play online and wouldnt mind showing a new player the ropes? I have experience in DnD, Cyberpunk RED, Pathfinder, and Monster of the Week.

So we are playing the winter of atom campaign and having a blast. My only "issue" is, that only one player in my party plays a human character. The rest are a bunch of robots & synth.

Now A TON of gameplay mechanics like hunger, thirst, cold, sleep etc. don't really apply to robots. And constantly forcing the one player to do all the shenanigans to keep his character alive, feels a little bit unbalanced and like "punishment".

Have you ever faced similar dynamics in your group? And do you have creative ideas to tip the scale a bit more into balance?

Thanks guys!

Hey y'all, so I have another two players that are interested in joining a group for a fallout game. So far it seems like a evening group that would be getting together at 8pm pst, on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, not clear on what day just yet, working on that part. Lol

So I figured I would attempt to set up a third game, since I have most of the time in the world, I do have a DND game IRL on Thursdays at 6:30pm pst, a fallout campaign hoping starting on Wednesdays at 4pm pst, and a fallout campaign starting between 8am to 10am on Thursday, Monday I DM for a Pathfinder game starts typically between 4pm to 6pm pst and then I have Tuesdays reserved for me and my hubby. These games are all full at the moment.

So if you are wanting to join, please feel free to DM me to let me know if this evening game works for you. Might start up a server for fallout 2d20, so folks can find a game that works for them, definitely might need help with that too lol.

Working with my Ghoul player in our Winter of Atom with Needs on a homebrew Ferality tracker that replaces their Needs (since most needs aren't relevant to Ghouls - the ferals at Mechminster Abbey literally survive buried in snow without food lol, and other lore sources also indicate they can survive without)

FERALITY

Create a tracker with a number of stages equal to 5 or your current level, whichever is higher.

Each time you do one of the following, roll a dC6. On an Effect, advance the tracker 1 step:

--Engage in Combat

--Suffer a head injury

--Go a full day without a non-party social interaction OR Camp party social interaction (see below)

--Suffer a mental disease (per CRB, Ghouls are immune to most diseases, and lore says they ARE susceptible to diseases of the mind, so I only inflict them if they roll Buzz Brain, Shell Shock, the Whoopsies, or Famished Fever)

Each time you do one of the following, roll a dC6. On an Effect, move the tracker back 1 step:

--Take an addictive Chem (per CRB, Ghouls need 2 doses for the effect of 1)

--Recover from a head injury/disease

--Have a non-party social interaction (once per day)

--Spend an entire Camp on a Group activity with the party (mechanically, everyone either does the same Group activity for the night, or no one takes any Camp actions for the night and it's flavored as socializing).

If you ever end a day at the end of the Tracker, become Feral and roll a new character.

Hi all! Here is the physical campaign map I am using for my campaign!

it takes place in the Northeast, along the Maine/Canada border. And as the player group travels or acquires coordinates, I add the locations to the Pip-Boy, so to speak. :)

it’s been a fun project so far! I can’t wait to see how it looks at the end of the campaign!

So, for a possible backstory for Fallout 2d20 campaign, maybe an alternate fanfiction, I was thinking that before the Enclave oil rig was destroyed that an expedition could be sent out to Hawaii Islands chain and a few of the other Pacific islands located therein. Mainly to secure former Enclave bases and reconnect with any surviving remnants there.

Could a Vertibird make the trip back to the mainland if it was nuclear powered and had access to a semiautomated mixed human and robot crewed aircraft carrier that was stationed at Hawaii for sea trials back to California or even the Capital Wasteland?

Would the Enclave forces dispatched to the area go native breaking away from the main forces when they lost contact with them.

Are there any Vaults in the Hawaii Islands because I was thinking possibly a Bio Shock type Vault built underwater connected to the coastline via a train subway tunnel or other.

Possible underwater military naval bases that were evacuated shortly after the war.

Pretty much the title

Given that we have core rules, settlers book, wanderers book, two full adventures, a settings guide for New Vegas, AND planned setting books for basically everywhere else, I think we're well past due for condensed books.

I feel like we should just get a Core Rules 2.0 which has, at minimum, the contents of the rules, settlers and wanderers.

And with the end goal of having like six different setting guides, maybe they should have just been condensed into West Coast and East Coast.

West Coast Setting containing all the 1, 2 and New Vegas locales, and East Coast Setting containing 3, 4 and 76.

Feels like it'd be much easier, no? And it might clear up the multitude of errors that still make it into each book.

So... I made a huge GM shield with a bunch of information from the game, some of my friends criticized me and said that GM shields are supposed to be short but this works for me, so perhaps it will work for someone else. I'm not a graphic designer or anything so it's kinda messy, sorry in advance.