Fallout-Fate experiment

Well, look, Shade, buddy. I'll make an exception for you. Five isn't much more than four. Just not six. Six is obtuse.

Besides, I haven't heard from Tex after saying he was interested. :p

Five is a reasonable size for a group of whatevers.

Which is to say, welcome aboard friend Shade.

What's with the Yakuza? There's already forces in Washington, primarily BoS, super mutants, and Talon Company.

Unless this takes place around the same time as one and two, in which case Washington should basically be overrun with super mutants.

Also, on second thought, I think I am up for this. Assuming there's still a spot...?

Washington state, silly foreigner. DC is no where near Alaska. The Yakuza occupied lower Oregon in 1 and 2, so I'm assuming splinter groups are even further up.

And sorry, seriously not kidding, not going to six. Ya told me ya couldn't man.

So guys who are here. We do need to actually get cruising on character generation. It's not hard, but everyone needs to get halfway done to finish.

Lone, Shade, if you don't have Skype could'ja get one and pm me how to add you? I'm trying to set up a big group chat so we can rapidly discuss character generation. Since no one seems to like to use the forum I figure it'd be faster.

haha, US states are silly. Noone cares about them, because there's too many.

They are all special, even insignificant little Nebraska. Land of corn.

Anyhow. I really wish you people would like, show up, maybe even concurrently. FATE is supposed to do chargen fairly quickly, as a group.

I'm always around, I just get engulfed by a large pile of work so nobody sees me.

Well whenever you get a moment, just mention some stuff her or something. Literally any progress is better than none.

Probably not going with my old character idea anymore, too much work. Back to the drawing board, then...

I'm thinking about a smooth-talker desperately trying to build up his own organization or crime syndicate or something whilst failing anti-climatically.

Option still in the works. Might go for something else depending on what kind of idea I get.

What are the other characters right now?

Fugitive on the run, still a mechanical whiz. He'll put your plasma pistol back together for a fee.

How about a pseudo-religious nut that thinks the Vault is some holy order of god or something and wants to find them and join them as a knight, so that he may assist in the world's purging of evil? Of course, he's only armed with a sledgehammer.

Guys, I'm sorry, but I can't participate this game.

I'm going to make an angry black caravan guy. He rides the wastes selling his wares.

Vaults, Patches. There are over a hundred at least.

What's wrong Tex? If you're having issues we can fix them fairly easily.

No, no. It's just that some things came up which would prevent me from taking the time to play and stuff.

S'all good then. But this is play by post. You have plenty of time for DOTA. :p

But alrighty.

Haha. x3. Maybe next game.

Next game?

My bad, didn't expect room to open up. I feel kinda bad now. I have never done an RPG like this before so I'll probably ask a bunch of stupid questions. Really, it won't be much different than usual.

I'll take a look at that PM now Ji.

EDIT:

I'm thinking someone who uses improvisational weaponry, usually involving explosives or traps, but I don't have much beyond that. Perhaps some kind of trader/scavenger who eschews lugging around a lot of ammunition and weapons to make it up as he goes. No, wait, maybe some kind of sleazy corrupt figure of some sort. I'm too indecisive. Wait, both. No, that doesn't work. Ugh.

EDIT 2:

This Fate stuff is, first off, foreboding, and second off, I feel like I need to be taking notes. I'm going to be the guy constantly asking, "Shit, what was that again?"

Uh, Shade, no one but myself and Eo has any idea what so ever, don't worry. This is pretty much how I run things.

FATE is actually really simple.

If you have a skype, or hop into the chat, it's easy for us to hash this out rapidly. It'd be even better if I could get the entire group doing such.

Basically, Fate charsheets go:

What's your job in a few words?

What's your driving conflict?

What's the cool character trait you got out of your origin story?

You had an adventure and one of the other players was in it. What was the take-away from that?

One of the other players had an adventure and you were in it. Same question as before.

What skill are you fantastic at?

What two skills are you pretty respectable at?

What skill are you okay at?

What skill are you less okay at?

You have between three and five "stunts" that enhance you in a few situations or let you mildly bend the rules. What are these?


The stunts are the only part of the sheet that remotely involves numbers. In fact, FATE is remarkably like what we do normally.

Can't do it tonight, sorry.

And thanks for clarifying, both of you, I appreciate it

Shade, friend. No one has actually made time for me, at all. So it's fine, no one else seems to bother with me either. :P

Ji, you and me. Tonight. And bring the package.

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Ji, you and me. Tonight. And bring the package.

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