Fallout: Vault Archives PnP Revised Edition

Hello,

In early 2019 I began planning a Fallout Tabletop Campaign, and wasn't satisfied with the systems I could find. Originally I began just welding a Frankenstein's monster of various PnPs together, but with time it mutated into its own thing entirely as it went through numerous revisions and major overhauls.

Eventually I ran a full campaign with four players from September 2019 to March 2020, undergoing constant playtesting of the rules and revisions. In the end, I'm extremely happy with how the final product ended up, although I still tinker with it every now and then. I'm not really trying to "get this out there" as such since this started as and remains for personal usage but I thought I would upload stuff on here anyway, because why not. The new rulebook post-playtest I named "Vault Archives"

[New Files Uploaded On May 22nd 2021]

I've uploaded the 2nd, "Revised" edition of Vault Archives. It's classic Fallout with inspiration from Fallout: Van Buren and Fallout: New Vegas.

Included is the Vault Archives Rulebook, the Overseer's Guide (Bestiary, Random Encounters Tables and a 500 "Junk Item" loot list.) and character sheets.

There is also a full Campaign module/worldbook/setting for the system on page 3.

 

Hey! Sorry for the slow reply.

>- What difficulties did you face?

Primarily? Getting the balance right between having varied and fun esoteric builds, against players who would want to minmax or abuse statistical exploits. Eventually much of that was ironed out. Getting the economy right was also an issue, but I also worked that out in the end.

>- Is the narration altered by the system?
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by this.

>- How your fights run with this system?

I have since uploaded the final version, updated to this post with a HEAVILY revised combat system that I am very happy with and proud of. Fights ran very well. Especially with the calculator.

 

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Here was the map I also used originally for my campaign, set in 2273 (Turns out I actually should have set it a lot earlier, 2253 maybe, but it worked out alright) within Idaho/Utah/Wyoming and Nevada.



The players drew on the map themselves when they found locations. I had a seperate digital version with all the locations correlated to the grid.

 

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Considering adding a system with regards to random mutation. In situations of exposure to particularly nasty types of toxic waste or DM decided irradiation you have a chance (Based on Rad Resistance? Luck? Endurance?) of recieving a Mutation which effectively acts like a Trait (Inspired by the Phobia system of The Outer Worlds). Which mutation you get is randomly rolled for on a table, and there'd also be a distinction between minor mutations (An extra toe, loss/gain of SPECIAL) and major mutations (Growing a third arm, mouth producing acid etc).

Similarly I was thinking of resigning this to a race of its own, "Mutant" that would allow the player to roll for a Major Mutation and they'd recieve a Perk every two levels instead of 3, but would be capped in their Charisma and their Hit Points would be far lower than other races by comparison to represent their malformed bodies.

May check in and post something related to it if I get around to it, but just an idea for now.

 

Revised update (Mostly to Unarmed) and consolidated all the GM resources into one PDF, so reuploaded all files.

 

It's actually 1d100 (2d10) dice you'll be needing

 

It's referred to that as a shorthand, but technically it's two d10s with one of the d10s marked with an extra decimal (So instead of 1, 2, 3 its 10, 20, 30)

 

I think that thing is more of a novelty than an actual item. When I ran this system, I always used the 2d10 method.