We have character/roleplay idea threads for Oblivion and Skyrim, so I thought I would create one for the Fallout games. I wonder if we could use a Fallout section now?

For a while now I have been kicking around the idea of playing The Shoveler (inspired by the character with the same name from Mystery men). She would use a shovel for a main weapon, the nailgun for a ranged weapon, wear the construction helmet, and maybe the roving trader outfit (as it has lots of pockets and little do-dads hanging off of it).

Over time this idea morphed into one of playing a character like The Undertaker. But with a shovel (to bury their victims of course). Today I made a breakthrough with the Undertaker concept. The character will be a Lich, and use the Deadwalker mod I created in both FO3 and New Vegas for Persephone. But the twist with the new character is that she is a Mad Scientist who made herself undead. Probably with some sort of Prometheus Serum.

So I was thinking of wearing one of the Mad Scientist Scrubs from Old World Blues. But I am not sure about the colors. They come in red, green, and sort of teal, and an off-white. The only one that might work is the white. But I already have a character in white - Persephone. So I'd rather not go there again. So I am thinking of making a black version of the scrubs. Some quick testing has already been promising. Some other ideas on clothing are the black and red Outcast Robes, or the Outcast Recon Armor.

I have thought about covering part of some of her face. Using the breath mask from Lonesome Road plus some sort of helmet or hat is one idea. Another is to try one of the versions of the Lobotomite Masks - with or without goggles. The Valence-Oscillator (halo) is in the running too.

Since the character is a mad scientist, she will be an energy weapons user. Not sure on the weapon she will use. Not that there really are very many.

I also know this will be a rather nasty character. Playing Persephone in New Vegas I ran into difficulty with healing, as stimpacks are pretty scarce in that game, and eating and sleeping don't work for a Deadwalker (my roleplay). It occurred to me that the cannibal perk would help with healing. But that is just not what Persephone is. But the Lich is a perfect cannibal, and a vampire in FO3, and even a ghastley scavenger in NV. I'll probably use the console to give her the cannibal perk from the start of the game. Who knows, she might be so evil that she will even blow up Megaton?

I am not sure on a name yet. Here are some ideas:

Kalma - Finnish goddess of death and decay, her name meaning "The Stench of Corpses"

Kali - Hindu goddess of death.

Akka - A group of female underworld spirits in Sami and Finnish mythology.

Loviatar - Finnish goddess of death and disease. Daughter of the Underworld Queen Tuonetar.

Morta - Roman goddess of death.

Right now Loviatar is looking best. It has a nice ring to it.

I have some sample pics.

Wearing Outcast Robes

Outcast Recon Armor

Black Scientist Scrubs

Red Scrubs with Red Hair

Red Outcast Robes with Red Hair

Right now I am leaning most toward the Red Outcast Robes with the Red Hair. It also gives me the idea that she was an Outcast before Lichdom. But she probably had to kill her way out of the Outcast base after becoming undead. So she could be an Outcast from the Outcasts. I might make a mod that makes all the regular Outcasts hostile to her.

I also still want to play around with other forms of glasses/goggles and headgear. I want her to have some kind of headgear. I just don't know what yet.

I don't have any new character ideas for Fallout, but I agree it would be good if Fallout has its own forum.

Heyy, the Shoveler idea sounds neat. Yeah, all construction tools. Make sure she gets some sort of portable drill, or saw, if such things exist in your game.

The Undertaker is a really good idea too. I like the fact that she's undead. And probably a very intelligent undead too, right? Like a vampire, not a zombie. I'm not seeing the Mad Scientist in white. I know scientists typically wear white, but she's a MAD scientist. I'm voting for Black Scientist Scrubs.

Now let's look at your names.

Kalma. I like Kalma. Kalma fits

Kali. Hmm. Not Kali. But only because this name produces connotations. The idea behind Kali fits though.

Akka. No. Not evil enough.

I like Loviatar. Unusual name. I like that it has four syllables, for such a short word. And also it sounds sort of like an Ayleid ruin name.

Morta sounds cool too; the obvious root 'mort' is in there. But then (see) this creates connotations as well. A little too obvious. But Morta could work.

You also like Loviatar. It just sounds like this might work. It sounds mechanical, like "hey grab the loviatar so we can knock this wall down". Mechanical = cold, and functional. This could be a mad scientist.

She's a scientist, so she'd better be smart! She's based on the Liches from D&D. Only created by SCIENCE!!! rather than magic.

I found the Colossus Headgear, and really like the look of it.

Of course with her being a cannibal, I'll have to mod whatever weapon she uses so that it doesn't leave ash piles, since I don't think you can cannibalize those!

Personally I like the eyewear from Old World Blues better than the Colosus one, because it's more creepy and gives a dangerous look to the mad scientist while the Colossus one is too high-tech and doesn't look as eerie.

Black Scientist scrubs fit her perfectly as do the Outcast robes, I'd go with robes on this character.

When it comes to names, I'd go with Morta, it has something sinister about it. Loviatar is a good choice too though it reminds me too much of Leviathan.

No matter how you decide at the end, I'm looking forward to your evil girl.

Of all your shots, I think this is the best look - hair, headgear, outfit.

So do I infer correctly that you're not going for 'girl next door' image?

I already pitched that idea but The Powers That Be didn´t think we needed one.

Lopov's character the Hobo has gotten me thinking about an idea for a new character to try some day. I was thinking about The Hobo today when Loviatar was making a Railway Rifle, Dart Gun, and Rock-It Launcher. It got me thinking of a character who might switch between the three. Using the Dart Gun to poison people, the Rock-It Launcher to shoot toilet plungers, and the Railway Rifle for just general killing. Obviously it would have to be someone more than a little deranged. Maybe like Harley Quinn in the Wasteland.

The idea is still in the very early stages, but I'll be looking at mods that might add a Harley Quinn or generic jester outfit to FO3. That might be a start.

Regarding headgear, the Pint-Sized Slasher Mask might be appropriate. Using only self-crafted weapons sounds interesting, but including a Shiskebab might be a good idea for close combat or if taken by surprise. IIRC the Railway Rifle doesn't deal so much damage.

Pint Sized Slasher! Brilliant! I will put that on the list of things to try.

I have long since modded the craftable weapons to make them more useful, tweaking damage, spread, even the skills required to use them. So that's no problem.

I did find a Superhero Costume mod for New Vegas. It was really easy to pull out the Harley Quinn outfit and port it to FO3. Here is a pic of how it looks on Loviatar. The Merc Skank Outfit might work too. Of course it depends on how much I want to actually go with Harley Quinn, or simply a wacky character. Probably the latter. If I make her Asian, I could go with Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto for a name. Or a native American Coyote Shaman?

Whenever I get around to it of course. I am still happy playing Loviatar.

Mhm, the outfit is perfect. Cicero's hat from Skyrim might fit that outfit.

I like the Asian name more though it takes longer to read.

I like how some of you get inspired by comic book characters, that's neat.

The Harley Quinn look is fantastic!@!

My character was inspired by the brother of a friend of mine. He was in the Military and unfortunately lost his life during a tour.

Its only Matty's look, age and history in the military that I took into this game. I felt that the character creation system in this game is so dynamic I could make a character that will decently honour my friend.

So yeah, that's my inspiration haha

Oh man. That is so sad...

What a lovely way to honor the memory of your friend's brother.

Now that is a character inspiration, Rihanae! All others seem trivial in comparison. My hat is off to you.

Mine is the biggest idiot in the Commonwealth: 1 Intelligence and a liberal use of alcohol to take even that meager number into the negative. High Endurance and Charisma for Chem Resistance and Party Boy/Idiot Savant respectively. Mid-level Strength for Big Guns, and the only weapon he uses is the Junk Jet. I just want to shoot super mutants in the face with teddy bears and toy trucks.

All I need is a name... Renee, are you out there?

Well I´m no Renee, but how about Moe Rawn or something?

Ox E CoDone? Kris Talmeth?

I loved this one


Stu Phid? Cho Caine? Foo L. Mee?


Man, these are bad!

Yes they are. I love 'em!

'Moe Rawn' and 'Kris Talmeth' are my favorites.

How about John Kee?


I better stop now...

I had an idea about roleplaying an android for some time now but I lacked some roleplay elements...until today. I still have to decide on some things but my android, named SX4, is created. Why SX4? When I was buying a new car in January, I couldn't decide between two Suzuki models: Vitara and SX4. Now I bought Vitara and as a homage to the other model I named the android SX4.

Now comes the best part - I'll do a portion of the MQ with SX4 but he's not the Lone Wanderer, instead he was sent by the Overseer to hunt down James and execute him. So he'll basically follow in James' foosteps and I'll just have to imagine that the dialogue about dad-son stuff never happened. In the future I plan to do SubRosa's Anchorage Aftermath with him. Now I just have to set my mind on a few things and tweak his stats a little, then he'll be ready to go - to drive.

Here's a promotional pic - the trenchcoat is from Breeze's Males Mod, I was hoping there's a zipped version but it's okay for the ladies, I guess. The cyber-arm and the matching eye are from the Cyber-Arm mod. I might tweak his face some more as well, didn't notice the annoying overbite until now.

Excellent idea! There are some custom cyborg race mods out there too you could look for too. You might even take one of the NPCs who gets killed during the tutorial - like the security chief who was beating on Amata - and use his face. He could be a cyber-zombie, resurrected through dark science.


Edit - Here some of them are:

Terminator Cybernetic Dawn - looks really interesting, although it looks like it might add more than what you are looking for. But you could probably use FO3Edit to cut out all but the new races.

Cyber Arm Vault Suit - is another cyber arm mod. In spite of the title, it looks like you can have the arm without the vault suit.

Cybernetics Perk Tree - adds a bunch of cyber-related perks.

Thanks for the suggestions, I already checked them out earlier. Cyber Arm Vault suit is the base mod but it only allows you to use the cyber arm with a minority of armor sets, I use the upgraded version which allows you to use it with any kind of armor and surprisingly, it blends very well. The same mod comes with a bionic eye which will also be used by SX4.

Cybernetic Dawn looked great at first and I d/l-ed it just after checking the pics but when I began reading what it does, it was exactly as you say - it changes too many things.

Cybernetic Perk Tree looks interesting but I already use Cyborg Friend which improves the vanilla perk plus makes you friendly to robots. I also installed Simple Night Vision - it's probably the simplest night vision mod out there just as the name suggests, you turn the NV on and off by pressing the desired key. What's interesting about it is that the vision requires either action points or energy cells as a power source and once you run out of any, the vision returns to normal, so it's mostly useful for scouting dark areas.

I found another Cybernetic-related mod, namely Facticius Humanus, but it messes up faces in my game because I have some other face-altering mods installed which I find essential. Bodies added by that mod are the best IMO but I won't sacrifice my face mods just to get some body which won't be visible most of the time.

In the end I used vanilla Caucasian race, then boosted his SPECIAL and resistances accordingly. I also enabled slow health regeneration. A weapon of choice is Atomic Pulverizer, normally found only on Mothership Zeta but in my roleplay scientists from Commonwealth found another copy and equipped their prime hunters with it.

My long-term goal is for SX4 to slowly become aware of his human part, something similar to the Android quest from the base game. Except that in my case SX4 is not a complete android but a half-android, "designed" from a fallen pre-war soldier and as such retains a bit of humanity. Anchorage Aftermath will fit nicely in here to serve as his backstory.

After completing Anchorage Aftermath SX4 will be considered as android gone rogue by his creator because he'll regain his thinking ability and partially liberate himself from mind control. That's why his creator, a mysterious guy known only as the Doctor, will send other androids to kill traitorous SX4.

I created the first hunter in the GECK today and tested it in the game, at first there were some troubles, especially because I didn't exactly know how to make her run to SX4, but with time I figured it out. She'll be placed in some random location from where she'll run up to SX4 and attack him on sight. I made her tougher than average enemy and gave her custom powerful weapon and armor. Occasionally hunters will have holotapes on their bodies, containing mocking messages from the Doctor.

Not all hunters will run up to SX4, some will be staying in their respective cells and attack SX4 once he'll be in the vicinity while others will "activate" themselves on specific days.

What you could do is look at the Talon Company/Regulators, and copy how they spawn when you change cells after a certain number of days. That way the hunters will randomly appear to attack SX4 throughout the game.

That's what I wanted to do at first, then I decided that each encounter should be unique - each hunter will be named, they'll have unique weapons and combat tactics. Right now I'm planning to create ten hunters + the boss at the end.

With Mit Tsubishi's story approaching the end, I've been thinking a lot about future characters. I already know who will my next character in FNV be, but I have some more ideas which I'll write down.

My next character will be a casino robber. I'll use the Alternate start mod so he won't be a courier, instead he'll be an ex-prisoner from the NCR Correctional Facility. I'll use another mod that adds vaults to each of the Strip casinos. Regarding DLCs he might do Dead Money because there's a casino involved and the robber won't know it's actually a trap.

My future plans involve roleplaying a tribal. I'm biased regarding his backstory - one option is to make him a Legion frumentarius; his tribe was captured by the Legion when he was a child and he was intentionally 'sent' to the civilization to act as eyes and ears of the Legion. He might stay loyal to the Legion or not. The other option is that he doesn't have any Legion background, instead he'll be a tribal raised by civilized people and as such will retain some tribal features but will also fare well in civilized areas.

Then there's a bounty hunter with a permanently crippled left leg. Since it'd take him forever to get from point a to point b, I'd use the console to slightly boost his walking speed. He'd have just one eye, so he'd wear an eye-patch at all times and only use one-handed weapons. He'd be a shady guy who'd focus on the New Vegas Bounties quest, just like Blondie.

I am thinking of a couple ideas for New Vegas, which I'll try to get back into during sunny days in autumn. A couple names now: Ahmzo Tiktov, or Allison Chains. There's also Earl Change but that's too dumb! Even for a Renee name it's just too stupid.

Ahmzo Tiktov -- A very vague set of ideas now. He'll be some sort of Russian guy, I think. He comes to the Mojave for some unknown reason. He'll be constantly pissed off of course (hence his name) and maybe he'll fit in with a more Evil pursuit here in New Vegas. Since I'm not so comfortable with this game's evil side yet, maybe

Allison Chains will work better. Allison will be sort of punk rock. She'll have wild hair and stuff. She will probably be sort of gray...not the goodie that Linda Hand was.

That's what I got now. Thanks for any feedback.

I tried to play Fallout3 a couple of weeks ago, but it just would not launch, even after I tried reinstalling it through GOG. Couldn’t get into the vampire concept I was trying to play in Fallout4. Just never felt right. So, no new Fallout characters for me, unfortunately.

Aww, sorry to hear that, Khajiit.

As ever, I love your character names. I don't know how you can think of them.








Gah! You can try things like running it as an adminstrator, and use Compatibility mode for Windows XP.

They just show up at various times. Crystal Beth, for instance. I still remember I was waiting in a supermarket aisle to pay for groceries, and there was a magazine with crystal meth as its main topic. *Bam* The trick is memory. My memory is terrible, so I have to make sure I either write the name down immediately, type it into my phone, or so on.

Sometimes I will play little word games, especially if I'm desperate. That's how I got Sir Galarad. It was raining and I wanted to roll a character right then, because I needed my Morrowind fix right then. What goes with Galahad? I couldn't think of anything, so I kept flipping letters in my mind. I admit Galarad is not one of my better efforts, but I was under pressure!

I know for you, you had trouble thinking up names when we were in the Oblivion forums 10+ years ago, so you began picking mythical/classical names like Hecate and Persephone.

I needed a while to figure this one out but then I was like...

... !

Yeah, I'm so ticked off. I thought of that one the other day. Was driving around with my father last Saturday, listening to NPR (National Public Radio) and they interviewed some guy whose last name sounded like Tiktov. I didn't hear his first name, but I began cracking up after thinking of Ahzo. to be his first name.

Maybe Ahmzo Tiktov will be an NPC.

Isn't there some weird Windows Live thing needed for Fallout 3? Renee helped me set up 3 a few years ago - I probably wouldn't have managed without her help.

Idk. I might look at it later. Honestly lost interest after seeing it required more fiddling. I spend more times fiddling with games than actually playing games, it seems.

Yeah, I know what you mean. Fallout 3 in particular is touchy, though. New Vegas runs right out of the proverbial box at least.

I found that with New Vegas I had to get all the way to The city before the problems started. That being said, I’ve only ever played New Vegas on XB360 so it could’ve been hardware or software optimization issues.

Khajiit's game used to work though. Maybe it's a Windows 10 thing?

Yeah maybe. I could try what Subbie suggested a few posts up. If I get around to it.

There is. You have to disable Games For Windows Live. But I don't remember if that is already built into the Gog version or not.

I really don't want to be that guy, but given that Alice in Chains is my favorite band, I just wanted to note something. Punk rock wouldn't work for that name. AIC was well after the heyday of punk rock. Maybe these pictures will give you something to work with, from their days with Layne Staley and then post-Staley (William DuVall).

AIC w/ Staley

AIC w/ DuVall

Apart from that, yeah, morally gray probably works best.




It wouldn't launch through GOG? Huh, that's weird. Do you use mods that might have messed with it? Do you use GOG Galaxy or do you manually download it? I just use Galaxy so I don't have to tinker with a bunch of things, so if you normally do it manually, maybe try that. The vampire concept could have worked well with The Family in Fallout 3, too.

And hello, Desertwalker! It's been some time since I last saw you. I haven't been on the forums a whole, especially General Discussion, so maybe that is why it has been a while.


EDIT: @SubRosa, nope, Games for Windows Live isn't in the GOG version. That's the one I use. (Also, last time I checked, Steam's store page for Fallout 3 indicates that it doesn't work on Windows 10 naturally.)





Since I'm not a hardcore roleplayer, maybe that's a big reason why I have this issue, but there are some kinds of characters I just cannot bring myself to play. Guess I empathize too much with some pixels.

In Fallout 4, I've off-and-on considered playing a character that sides with the Brotherhood of Steel, but I just can't do it. I don't want to do Railroad again, and I have my grievances with them too. I really can't do the Institute either, even though meeting them shows them to be a bit more morally complex than they initially seem (though a bunch of its members are still terrible people). That would leave the Minutemen, but their part in the main questline is really gimped, which I suspect was due to time constraints on releasing the game.

On a related note, I went back to my replay of Fallout 3 about a week or so ago after a long hiatus. Running into Arthur Maxson while knowing what he becomes in Fallout 4 makes me want to drop-kick the little twerp. I wonder what Roger Maxson would have thought of him.

I have almost never done any of the factions in Fallout 4. I just ignore them all and explore the world. In fact, I have never done the Brotherhood or Institute side. And I have only done the other two once each. I really did not like how they integrated the main quest into the faction questlines. It turned me off all of them.

Hello! You are right, I have been very busy IRL so I haven’t been posting as much in the past maybe month or so. Things have calmed down though so hopefully I won’t go so long in the future!

But yeah, my GOG version of the game just refuses to run. I tried reinstalling it but that didn’t help. Can’t remember if I deleted all of the mods I had (which weren’t many). I may go back and look next week sometime.

Do you get any error / CTD message or nothing at all?

My FO3 and FNV, both GOG versions, work(ed) flawlessly.

I haven't been playing FO, except FNV, for a long time. After the disk crash in 2020 I simply don't have any real desire to deal with installing all mods again and creating the setup that I was using before the disk crash. Because I know that something definitely won't work, because I'll overlook something etc. and with my limited free time, I prefer to stick to ESO for now, where I can simply run the game without taking care of any mods. The same goes for Skyrim, my mod setup there was even more complicated than in FO. FNV is actually the only game that I installed back in full after the disk crash, simply because Blondie is my main and favorite FO character.

I know they aren't punk, they are more toward the grunge era. I was talking about my character though. She'll have a punk look. Or grunge. Or she'll be a metal chick. Doesn't really matter to me, as long as she's not sporting a Prim 'n' Proper coif.

And yeah, me too, on the subject of characters. Some types I can't get into! I can play a thief, I can play a murderer, but never a rapist, for instance. Or somebody who enjoys torture (wait.... never mind on that one. Although she was in Elder Scrolls, not Fallout).

With Vicious's tale concluded for 2021, I think I am going to return to Fallout New Vegas for awhile. I abandoned this game last January or February after Linda Hand got killed by a pack of deathclaws. Which really made me upset, because she did everything "right". Ate a Stealth Boy, tried to enter a door she found in the middle of nowhere. Well, Stealth Boys are useless in this game (didn't even slow the deathies down, or confuse them at all) and the door she found was locked with a Needs a Key lock.

Even though her game wasn't DiD, I didn't feel like I wanted to continue it. Just didn't feel right. I really love that gal, but she wasn't really the swashbuckling desert warrior type. Maybe that, in fact, is sort of an issue.

So my Fallout Character idea is to roll somebody whom I don't really love quite so much. I know that sounds weird, especially coming from me. I really love the Mojave though, and I enjoy the way Obsidian structured the game's quests (in contrast to Fallout 3) So I don't want to abandon FONV.

I am going to roll a series of adventurers, I think, all with the usual silly Renee names. First will be a guy named Justin Case. The roleplay won't be so heavy with him (yeah, I know I've said this in the past ). Justin will probably be my first to take on the quest in Goodsprings, the one with Ringo. Linda Hand and Karen Aboucha never did that quest.

I understand about characters dying and then not wanting to continue. My restartitus acts up a lot when a character dies.

I’ve been thinking about playing New Vegas, but honestly downloading mods for yet another game isn’t appealing to me at the moment.

Ah. I'm playing New Vegas on Xbox. Otherwise, making Stealth Boy more effective would be one of my first priorities to change.