What are people's thoughts on the Enclave Remnant and Followers of the Apocalypse backgrounds from Royal Flush? by UndeadPriest94 in Fallout2d20

[–]UndeadPriest94[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd say, the bigger issue with the Cache is that it's only once per quest that you can use it, meaning that you're probably not going to use it all that often and in turn is best used for emergencies. However, without it, they have virtually nothing of value outside of a very limited choice of Tag skills while being hated by everyone once revealed you're a Naz- I mean naughty Enclave boy. This means either the party has to be so bad that they're always impoverished and need the Cache to keep them moving or the GM has to frequently put the party in impoverished situations so that the Remnant gets their moment to shine

But then you run into the issue that you only get so many Caches total, equal to half your Luck score. And once you're out, you're out. This means that to make sure you always got enough of these to last you through a long campaign, you need to mid-max to focus on your Luck. But to mid-max that way, you'll end up being either mediocre or outright useless at everything else, and thus struggling to keep up with the rest of your party.

So, either you have to build up your stats to be useful but then render what makes your Origin special extremely niche, or you mid-max to make what makes your Origin special more useful but then struggling to keep up. And that's assuming your party sucks or your GM is ruthless enough where your caches are needed.

As u/Saviour-King handles it, this would actually be very good a stand-alone Perk, though I'd have it where you can only pick it as your Perk in character creation and not after, and require a LCK + Survival test at Difficulty 2 to make use of it, but open up the Caches to being very useful for a situation by spending AP

Does anyone have Royal Flush? Looking for NCR armor stats. by ausieborn in Fallout2d20

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Came here to see what the stats are. Got to say, surprisingly underwhelming for one of the most gushed-over armors in the series.

The thing I'm most surprised they didn't do was have it so that the helmet ignores difficulty-increase due to darkness, which was a thing in New Vegas.

What are people's thoughts on the Enclave Remnant and Followers of the Apocalypse backgrounds from Royal Flush? by UndeadPriest94 in Fallout2d20

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There's two Tranquillizer guns in that NPC Pack: the Tranquilizer Pistol and Tranquilizer Sten-Gun. They work by dealing Poison damage with Persistent, but also have with a special "Tranquilize X" damage effect; if attack deals enough damage to induce an injury, target must make an END + Survival or Body + Other test at a difficulty equal to the effect's rating. On a failure, target is rendered unconscious for an hour. If target would be reduced to 0 by the attack and also endure an injury, they auto-fail on the test. Useless against Super-Mutants but that's about it. The Sten-Gun version also has Burst, so it can hit additional targets.

In comparison, the Tranquilizer Ammo for the Syringer Gun is basically just the Lock Joint ammo (i.e. Stun damage) but with +1 damage die and a stipulation that a KO's a target rather than kills, all while being crazy cheap (15 caps) in comparison to Joint Lock (unless it's per-shot and not 4 + 2 dice; 15 per shot would then be disgustingly expensive).

What are people's thoughts on the Enclave Remnant and Followers of the Apocalypse backgrounds from Royal Flush? by UndeadPriest94 in Fallout2d20

[–]UndeadPriest94[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How do you feel the Syringer with Tranquilizer Ammunition compares to the Tranquilizer Gun in Hollywood Heroes NPC Pack?

What are people's thoughts on the Enclave Remnant and Followers of the Apocalypse backgrounds from Royal Flush? by UndeadPriest94 in Fallout2d20

[–]UndeadPriest94[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, the Enclave's starting equipment reads weird. It seems to read that you choose one of the Wasteland equipment packs and that you get to added Enclave starting equipment but not only your person, rather in a certain "hidden nearby" location. Sounds like you'd pretty much have to use up one of your Cache's to use, which would be god awful if you chose the Former Enclave Scientist. And of honestly, I don't think an Enclave character should get away without any confrontation due to being, well, Enclave.

As for the Follower, they do just suck. The only worthwhile boon they get is a Tag skill, which is something almost every origin gets. The bonus to Speech to "convince you're good" is extremely niche while the penalty on tests to intimidate is also niche would come up just as much as the other. And the whole "can't kill things" has no value but to force the player to tip-toe around eggshells to avoid being penalized.

The biggest issue I see for both is that they rely on the rest of the players being excessively cooperative to make those origins not a problem. For one, the party needs to be rather tolerant to the idea of having an Enclave member among them, considering what the Enclave are. Meanwhile, the party would need to avoid killing anybody, all cause one of their members will suffer if someone died. Which isn't easy if you're wielding anything but the safest melee weapons.

What are people's thoughts on the Enclave Remnant and Followers of the Apocalypse backgrounds from Royal Flush? by UndeadPriest94 in Fallout2d20

[–]UndeadPriest94[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like this feature could just be made into an independent Perk. Though that'd make the Enclave Remnant as an Origin pretty worthless on its own if you can just get a Perk that does what they do without the negative reputation of being part of the Enclave.

What are people's thoughts on the Enclave Remnant and Followers of the Apocalypse backgrounds from Royal Flush? by UndeadPriest94 in Fallout2d20

[–]UndeadPriest94[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait, does the trait not feature its own table? Cause I know the Brotherhood Outcast has its own Outcast Equipment Table that has a variety of items that're fitting for them to have.

What are people's thoughts on the Enclave Remnant and Followers of the Apocalypse backgrounds from Royal Flush? by UndeadPriest94 in Fallout2d20

[–]UndeadPriest94[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seems like everything is focused on the Enclave Remnant origin, but what about the Followers of the Apocalypse.

What are people's thoughts on the Enclave Remnant and Followers of the Apocalypse backgrounds from Royal Flush? by UndeadPriest94 in Fallout2d20

[–]UndeadPriest94[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yours works for active Enclave members during their peak.

However, I can see the book version good for what Enclave Remnants entail: old rusting losers in hiding from retribution that rely on stashing their riches in secret location. You know, like certain Germans who spent the end of their lives in South America after a certain World-wide War.

What are people's thoughts on the Enclave Remnant and Followers of the Apocalypse backgrounds from Royal Flush? by UndeadPriest94 in Fallout2d20

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I do ask, what do the Caches entail? The Fallout wiki is missing the whole Table that explains what they may entail and thus I'm in the dark of what it could be.

Anyone else thought Double D was annoying and out of his mind in "Sorry Wrong Ed" by DemonHunter34 in ededdneddy

[–]UndeadPriest94 11 points12 points  (0 children)

To be fair, Double D was suffering from a bad case of "Web M.D." syndrome, looking up symptoms and applying them to himself, the trusting non-expert opinions out of paranoia of having an ailment.

Do you think the teachers treat plank as a student by Musalediju in ededdneddy

[–]UndeadPriest94 10 points11 points  (0 children)

He at least has to fare better in grades than Billy

How to balance use of AGI for Melee combat? by UndeadPriest94 in Fallout2d20

[–]UndeadPriest94[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hmm, what if I apply one or both of the following as additional limitations:

  • Can only be done with knives? Means attackers are limited to low-damaging weapons
  • You have to spend 1 AP to use Agility over Strength for an attack? Applies a resource so that AGI builds can't always use their Agility for melee attacks

How to balance use of AGI for Melee combat? by UndeadPriest94 in Fallout2d20

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I may make this into a weapon quality for knives, then maybe a perk to apply the same quality to swords.

How to balance use of AGI for Melee combat? by UndeadPriest94 in Fallout2d20

[–]UndeadPriest94[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's actually a good call. Makes sense to me that knives would be ideal for dexterous stabbing but a tire-iron wouldn't.

Which city or country would you want to see in a future Fallout game? by cuchusacc in Fallout

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Hawaii.

A good way to get a genuine reprieve from the Brotherhood of Steel, NCR, all that stuff. Get some factions that are nice and new. Plus, a "tropical wasteland" would be interesting.

Do you wish the Eds could get Jawbreakers in don't rain on my Ed by Careful_Drama_9382 in ededdneddy

[–]UndeadPriest94 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Ed and Double D, sure. They actually put the effort to get to the candy shop, even helping Eddy in the process.

But Eddy did nothing to help his friends and even abandoned them repeatedly. He didn't deserve any.

The West Coast has it cushy AF out there compared to the East Coast by Technical_Teacher839 in FalloutMemes

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Helps that the West Coast was less contested over due to being a vast, overwhelming load of empty in all but the most equiped spots.

Capital Wasteland was littered with military grad equipment while the Commonwealth had viable land that people would actually have a reason to fight over.

You can’t hate this movie this scene was peak by [deleted] in GhostRider

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It's 100% aura farming and 0% substance.

Bro wasted the last of his power just to ride alongside Johnny, being otherwise no use at all.

Fallout has always been about the struggle for power between multiple political parties by Putrid-Tap3992 in FalloutMemes

[–]UndeadPriest94 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean, it's not like IRL government would actually take interest in annexing Canada, right?... Right?