{"id":804009,"date":"2025-12-06T00:35:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T00:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bzTS7WgNowHmSHQYMjmzME"},"modified":"2025-12-06T00:35:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T00:35:02","slug":"i-tried-to-figure-out-the-builds-and-perks-of-the-fallout-tv-shows-protagonists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/i-tried-to-figure-out-the-builds-and-perks-of-the-fallout-tv-shows-protagonists\/","title":{"rendered":"I tried to figure out the builds and perks of the Fallout TV show’s protagonists"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When I watched Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, I spent half the movie trying to figure out everyone's subclass and abilities. (Clearly, the DM house-ruled how many times a druid can use wildshape per day.) I can't help it, there's a part of my brain that thinks about everything in game terms. I couldn't even watch Game of Thrones without analyzing the Battle of Winterfell as if it was a game of Warhammer<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It's particularly bad with videogame adaptations, which beg for this kind of thinking\u2014and none more than Amazon's Fallout series, which feels remarkably true to the games. I half suspect the series bible includes character sheets for all the protagonists, complete with tagged skills, perks, and full SPECIAL stats. Since I don't have access to that, I've just had to base mine on what we see on-screen during the first season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lucy McClean, Vault Dweller<\/h2>\n

During Lucy's first scene she helpfully lists three of her best skills: Repair, Science, and Speech. It would be easy to put those down as her three tagged skills and move on, but she goes on to say, “I also participate in Gymnastics Club, Fencing Team C, Intermediate Phys-Ed, and I dabble in Riflery, though I'm not very good.” During the montage we see her win a wrestling competition, and she demonstrates above average hand-to-hand combat skills when fighting a bunch of Vault dwellers later in the series, so her Unarmed skill should be right up there. How did she get such a wide spread of abilities?<\/p>\n

By taking the Skilled trait, which gives bonuses to all skills across the board at the cost of slowing down perk progression later on\u2014a classic noob trap that's not worth it in the actual games. Lucy definitely took the Daddy's Girl perk from Fallout 3 as well. As she says when discussing her Science skills, “Obviously, mine are nothing compared to my dad's, but I always relish a challenge!”\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Daddy's Girl perk bumps your starting scores in Science and Medicine, and is called Daddy's Boy if you play a feller. It comes from Fallout 3, where you leave the Vault you grew up in on a quest to find your missing father who turns out to have kept some secrets from you and is revealed to not entirely be the man you thought he was. Sound familiar?<\/p>\n

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