Fallout Tabletop RPG Announced from Modiphius

Modiphius have announced not one but two roleplaying products based on the successful Fallout video game series.
The first is a narrative expansion to the Fallout: Wasteland Warfare miniature skirmish game while the second is a full stand-alone tabletop RPG using Modiphius's 2d20 System. From the press release:

Modiphius Entertainment announced today they are developing two unique tabletop roleplaying game products based on the Fallout® videogame franchise.

Modiphius will develop and publish two tabletop RPG titles: the first expanding on the narrative wargame experience of Fallout: Wasteland Warfare, their licensed tabletop miniatures game, while a second more traditional tabletop RPG will follow using the company’s 2d20 System.

Modiphius Entertainment has had great success with their recent licensed roleplaying games using the 2d20 System: Infinity: The Roleplaying Game, a roleplaying game based on Corvus Belli’s Infinity miniatures game; Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of, based in the world of Robert E. Howard’s novels; and Star Trek Adventures, under license from CBS Studios Inc. Last year, Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of won Best Roleplaying Game at the UK Games Expo awards, and Star Trek Adventures won three ENnies for Best Rules, Best Miniatures Product, and Best Production Values.

The Fallout: Wasteland Warfare miniatures game has already proved a smash hit with fans of the hobby and Fallout franchise. Released in August it features a huge range of highly detailed 32mm scale resin miniatures plus rules for narrative wargaming in the wasteland with co-op, vs and solo modes of play.

Fallout: Wasteland Warfare
game designer James Sheahan is developing a roleplaying game expansion for the miniatures game which will include new rules for character creation, creating adventures in the wasteland, and more.

Long-time fan, and head of roleplaying game development at Modiphius Entertainment, Sam Webb (Star Trek Adventures) will lead development of the 2d20 System version for a more in-depth tabletop roleplaying game experience.

The Fallout: Wasteland Warfare roleplaying game will be available Summer 2019, with the 2d20 System version following in 2020.

For more information and to sign up for more news, visit: www.modiphius.com/fallout-roleplaying

FALLOUT: WASTELAND WARFARE - TABLETOP ROLEPLAYING IN THE WASTELAND!
Designed for 1 Gamemaster and up to 6 players, aged 14 and up.

Build your crew from a wide range of factions, allies and iconic characters from the Fallout series, or even create your own, and play in apocalyptic roleplaying adventures across the wasteland.

The Roleplaying Game Expansion will let players take the popular narrative experience of the Fallout: Wasteland Warfare miniatures game even further, by expanding their collection. Alternatively, it can be played as a standalone product using free downloadable cards and a set of the Fallout: Wasteland Warfare dice available from all good gaming stores.

Players explore the desolate wasteland of the Fallout universe, fight terrifying mutated creatures and encounter the denizens who make the wasteland their home. Delve into abandoned Vaults, ruined cities, strange facilities, and antiquated military bases. Encounter Super Mutants, Raiders, Survivors, Vault Dwellers, the Brotherhood of Steel, the Institute and the Enclave, and many more! Will you roam wide and far, or build up and protect your settlement? For those who want to create their own unique characters, use the faction based Archetype cards to start your own hero and see them grow from adventure to adventure.

Includes:

  • Complete rules for tabletop roleplaying in the wasteland, based on the popular Fallout: Wasteland Warfare miniatures game.
  • Full rules for character creation, archetypes and original player ideas alongside existing characters from the Fallout universe.
  • Packed with lots of full colour photographic scenes of the Fallout: Wasteland Warfare range to inspire your adventures!
  • Interact with familiar characters and creatures drawn from the world of Fallout.
  • Background on the locations and factions that players can encounter.
  • Three free adventures in a linked campaign or for use as one-shot missions to support Gamemasters
  • Guidance for players to build their settlement as a base of operations
  • Advice and tools to help gamemasters create and run exciting new adventures in the Fallout universe.


Watch out for the blue and gold Vault Tec Collector’s Edition or the standard Sole Survivor Edition

Every copy of the Fallout: Wasteland Warfare Roleplaying Game will come with a code to get you a set of free downloadable files:

  • PDF copy of the rulebook
  • Character cards from Fallout: Wasteland Warfare
  • Weapon cards from Fallout: Wasteland Warfare
  • Character Archetype cards
  • Character Playmat.

This is designed as an expansion for the Fallout: Wasteland Warfare Two Player Starter Box however a complete stand-alone boxed set will be available for Christmas including cards, dice, and rulebook for those who prefer everything in one package!

About ZeniMax Media Inc.

ZeniMax Media is a privately owned media organization headquartered outside Washington DC with international publishing offices in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Eindhoven, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Sydney and Moscow. Through its subsidiaries, ZeniMax Media creates and publishes original interactive entertainment content for consoles, PCs, and handheld/wireless devices. ZeniMax Media divisions include Bethesda Softworks, Bethesda Game Studios, id Software, Arkane Studios, Tango Gameworks, MachineGames, ZeniMax Online Studios, ZeniMax Europe Ltd., ZeniMax Asia K.K., ZeniMax Asia Pacific Limited, and ZeniMax Australia Pty Ltd. For more information on ZeniMax Media, visit www.zenimax.com.

About Bethesda Softworks
Bethesda Softworks, part of the ZeniMax Media Inc. family of companies, is a worldwide publisher of interactive entertainment software. Titles featured under the Bethesda label include such blockbuster franchises as The Elder Scrolls®, Fallout®, DOOM®, QUAKE®, Wolfenstein®, Dishonored®, The Evil Within™, Prey® and RAGE®. For more information on Bethesda Softworks’ products, visit www.bethsoft.com.

About Bethesda Game Studios
Bethesda Game Studios is the award-winning development team known around the world for its ground-breaking work on The Elder Scrolls series and the Fallout series. Creators of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion®, the 2006 ‘Game of the Year’; Fallout® 3, the 2008 ‘Game of the Year’; The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim®, the 2011 ‘Game of the Year’; Fallout® 4, the winner of more than 200 “Best Of” awards including the 2016 BAFTA and 2016 D.I.C.E. Game of the Year; and Fallout Shelter™, the award-winning mobile game with more than 100 million users. Bethesda Game Studios has earned its reputation as one of the industry's most respected and accomplished game development studios. For more information on Bethesda Game Studios, visit www.bethesdagamestudios.com
 

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Darryl Mott

Darryl Mott

Abstruse

Legend
It should be noted that the announcement tweet from Modiphius says that this is the "1st officially licensed roleplaying game for the Fallout series" which is...mostly true? There was an officially licensed Fallout RPG developed by Glutton Creeper games in 2008, but it got caught in the middle of the legal struggles between Interplay and Bethesda over the license and they were forced to strip all the Fallout elements from the game and release it under the name Exodus.

Plus Fallout itself was originally a licensed GURPS video game before creative differences between Steve Jackson Games and Interplay (as in legitimate ones, not as a euphemism for drama...SJG didn't approve of the levels of violence in the game) caused them to part ways, canceling the tie-in sourcebook. And there was a pen-and-paper version of the unreleased Fallout 3 codenamed Van Buren by Chris Avellone, but that was used for playtesting the rules system to avoid wasting development time adjusting skills and damage and the like in-engine.

But in Modiphius's defense, "The first officially licensed roleplaying game for the Fallout series that is intended for public consumption and will actually make it to print with the Fallout branding and IP still included in the game" is a bit long for a tweet...
 

Reynard

Legend
I am so excited by this as both a fan and freelance writer that I just sent Modiphius a resume cold and begged them to hire me.
 

"Good story, but it needs bad women and dragons"

Do you know what is fun? A streamer show of people playing Fallout RPG, but miniatures, paper and pencils replaced by tabletops, using a special version of Bethesda videogame.. then it is a success and we will see the cartoon financed by Kickstarter.
 

lyle.spade

Adventurer
This interests me, even though I only played Fallout on Win98 decades ago for a total of maybe three hours. I like 2d0, especially the more streamlined version deployed for Star Trek Adventures and am curious about how crunchy this version will be...Conan, or STA? Very different implementations of the (good) system.
 


Jer

Legend
Supporter
It should be noted that the announcement tweet from Modiphius says that this is the "1st officially licensed roleplaying game for the Fallout series" which is...mostly true?
...

In addition, Fallout is acknowledged to have been heavily inspired by the CRPG Wasteland, which was developed by Michael Stackpole and Ken St. Andre and used a Mercenaries, Spies and Private Eyes/Tunnels and Trolls derived system. So in some ways this is Fallout coming back to the tabletop.
 

Do you know what makes you S.P.E.C.I.A.L?

* Did you know, or remember, Inxile studios are working in Wasteland 3?

* I could bet we will see a mod to play Fallout like the paper-and-pencil RPG version.
 

Abstruse

Legend
In addition, Fallout is acknowledged to have been heavily inspired by the CRPG Wasteland, which was developed by Michael Stackpole and Ken St. Andre and used a Mercenaries, Spies and Private Eyes/Tunnels and Trolls derived system. So in some ways this is Fallout coming back to the tabletop.

Yeah, Fallout has spent its entire lifetime dancing just beside tabletop RPGs but never quite crossing over until now.

Or until this summer, anyway. I don't want to jinx it because we've been this close before.

Fun Fact: A while back, EN World did the "RPG a Day" thing where a bunch of us answered different questions about RPGs. One was "What classic RPG would you like to see in print again?" I said West End Games Star Wars and said it would be impossible due to rights. Another was "What licensed property would you want to see made into an RPG?" My answer was Fallout. And now, BOTH have happened!
 

G

Guest 6801328

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Fallout + Modiphius - Well I know for sure it's going to look VERY pretty! :)

Production quality will be high. And it will make good reading, with good fluff.

Bummer about the 2d20, though.
 

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