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The value that determines how many events can take place in a character's turn in pure turn based combat as well as in the modern Fallout franchise.
In the Fallout series a bunch of Brahman made their way to the United States before the bombs fell. Afterwards they mutated and gained an extra head and four more stomachs.
A military organization who see themselves as the technological saviors of The Wasteland. They are the descendants of the scientists and soldiers who managed to take refuge during the Great War, the conflict that caused the world to descend into an apocalyptic wasteland.
A creature in the Fallout universe that is made up of a random mix of certain species mutated with the Forced Evolutionary Virus.
Whether it's a hero's turn to the dark side or a villain becoming a hero, it's usually unexpected and will bring a whole new moral dimension to the story. Sometimes, they change they sides more than once.
Not really a "Chosen One" to begin with (nobody with the irresistable, inevitable destiny or some special powers), just a not-so-average-human with extraordinary skills, who somehow overthrew an evil government in post-apocalyptic America.
Some games let players customize their character (or characters). Degree of customization may vary, with some games simply allowing to choose between different types of clothes, while others provide more detailed tinkering of features such as the distance between a character's eyes or hair color.
Deathclaws were intended to be a replacement for humans in close-combat situations by the US government and created using a variety of animal DNA. They are powerful, agile monsters that now run wild in the Fallout franchise.
It's all in the family.
Dialogue trees are a feature through which the player selects responses from a list of choices, eliciting reactions from NPCs and determining the path of the conversation and story.
The Enclave is a shadowy military organization in the Fallout universe.
A situation where the player must quickly escape from a building currently in the process of blowing up. Could either be a cinematic or actually gameplay.
Everything you need isn't always spelled out for you on the map. Sometimes even the map is not there till you go explore it.
This concept is for games where at least one of the main characters is female.
When the main character starts out as a weak, hopeless, tiny lad and the player makes him the most powerful person in the game.
Picking the gender of your character can help immerse you in the game world. Sometimes this leads to different abilities in-game, sometimes it means nothing at all.
A person who builds, modifiies, repairs, or maintains guns.
A parallel projection technique used in 2D sprite-based games to fake the appearance of 3D depth.
Limb Targeting is the ability to target specific limbs on the body with the object being either to disable the limb or kill the target faster. It may also be referred to as the "Limb System" or "Localized Damage".
This concept is for games in which at least one of the main characters is male.
Games that are in genres where the ability to jump is expected, but do not allow the player character to jump on command.
Radioactive particles in the air released by a nuclear explosion.
Any character you can control in a game is a Player Character (PC), as opposed to a non-player character (NPC), which is a character that can only be controlled by the game.
Radiation is energy in the form of waves or moving subatomic particles emitted by an atom or other body. Radiation in videogames is typically represented as a field, inside of which units will take damage.
A physics system used to procedurally generate body movement similar to rag dolls.
How non-playable characters or factions perceive the player character based on their actions or choices in the game world.
The SPECIAL System was created by Black Isle Studios, for their 1997 role-playing game: Fallout. It is heavily based on the GURPS System (Generic Universal Role-playing System), which they weren't allowed to use in Fallout.
The Great War is the name given to the nuclear war that devastated the planet in the Fallout universe.
Primitive community based around common ancestry or interests.
A powerful weapon often found near the end of the game that is significantly more powerful than other weapons. It can also be the last weapon in an RPG game that does drastically increased damage compared to previous weapons.
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