Modiphius Fallout Opinions?

I've seen advertisements for the Fallout Game produced by Modiphius.

I have no experience with the system.

Do you?

If yes, what do you like about it?

....dislike about it?

What's your overall opinion of the game?

I personally very much like the 2d20 system in general. The Fallout implementation is okay, but not as strong as Star Trek Adventures. Be aware that at least in the starter set and core book, it is very much Fallout 4 the TTRPG. Supplements have since broadened it a little.

Combat can be something of an odd duck. When you shoot at and hit a radroach with your 10mm pistol and it's still alive it just seems wonky. I ran a campaign last year and we had a good time. We weren't sure about the rules at first, but after a few sessions things started to click and the good times rolled. They even have rules for Protectron PCs now.

I just finished a cursed* campaign and have mixed feelings.

The game flowed reasonably well, but the setting information was a bit limiting since it's very obviously focused on Fallout 4/The Commonwealth, and since that's not where I wanted my campaign to be, that created extra work for me. There isn't any official Foundry VTT support, so I had to input a LOT of data myself to get a functional game out of the community-built modules that are available (i.e. every adversary I wanted to use, all the perks, all the equipment). Of course, that wouldn't have been an issue if my group had resumed face-to-face play, but we haven't so, I gotta work with what I have.

I didn't dislike the game, but I didn't love it, either. We didn't engage with the crafting, scavenging, or the weapon mod system at all, and frankly, I'm not sure it's really needed for tabletop play. Sure, it gives you something to do in the video game, and with the Wasteland Workshop, all the scavenging helps you build up stuff with which to build your settlements, but if you're not trying to emulate Fallout 4's gameplay, it's a lot of wasted space in the book. I'll probably run it again, and just ignore all the scavenging and crafting stuff unless my players want to get into settlement building. I really felt like the system was fighting me at points since my game was closer in feel to FO3 or even New Vegas (or heck FO1 or FO2).

I wanted to love it. I think the book looks great and has great explanations on how the base system works. In fact, I had difficulty understanding the 2d20 system until I read Fallout. However, I'm not convinced the 2d20 system is the best fit for the type of game play I want a Fallout RPG to be. I've run Fallout games using Fate Accelerated (with some homebrew add-ons to accommodate weapons, chems, etc.) and FFG's Narrative Dice System (Genesys) and frankly, I had the most fun with Fate Accelerated. I am curious, however, how it would run with Savage Worlds, though. Cypher System has a post-apoc setting book now, too, and as long as you can ignore the fact that the system in no way resembles anything from ANY of the games, it might work all right, too.

* cursed because I had the most problems getting a full group to regularly show up due to real life intrusions as I have ever experienced.

JediSoth said:

I am curious, however, how it would run with Savage Worlds, though.

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I'm also curious about that, easy enough to create a character, I made one just for fun with slightly modded attributes to see what it would look like. Perks should be easy enough to adapt to the system, many from savage worlds would already be usable. I'm not that experienced with the system though so I don't know for sure how much work it would take to adapt things.

They really need to do something about the random loot tables. Scavanging just takes way too much time.

Tries to copy FO4s crafting and drags it down. Should have kept it simple. Other games do it better.

Fallout TTRPG games are usually fun, but I don't know much about this one. I might check it later.

MGibster said:

They really need to do something about the random loot tables. Scavanging just takes way too much time.

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One thing that really turned me off was they could have included premade scavenging tables in the core book but instead put them with the DM screen screen stuff thus extra money for IMO needed charts.

The art is great. I’m not a fan of the Modiphius house system. It’s way too clunky. Using the actual SPECIAL system from the games would be easier. If I were to play a Fallout game, I’d use a different system. Mutant Year Zero is the first that comes to mind if you want a bespoke system. Something light and generic like Fate Condensed or a PbtA hack would work, too. But really, any light generic system would work like a charm.