Fallout: The Roleplaying Game origins

There are six playable origins in Fallout: The Roleplaying Game, three introduced in the Winter of Atom sourcebook, and four introduced in the Settler's Guide Book supplement, and four introduced in the Wanderer's Guide Book. 
Each origin defines the background of a character and can also determine the race of the character. Origins defines limits SPECIAL attributes, skills, and a mandatory trait, with only the Survivor, New California Republic, and Tribal origins having a list of possible traits that they can use interchangeably.Settler's Guide Book, pg.12: "The traits for New Californians provide rules that are tailored to the New California Republic origin, but they can be used by those with the Survivor background too. Survivor origin traits can also be used by characters with the New California Republic trait."
==Brotherhood Initiate==
===Trait: The Chain That Binds===
* Gain one additional Tag skill from either Energy Weapons, Science, or Repair. 
As a member of the Brotherhood of Steel, they are bound by the chain of command: The Chain That Binds. They must carry out the orders of their immediate superiors, and are responsible for their subordinate siblings. If they do not carry out their duty, they are expelled from the Brotherhood and their technology will be reclaimed—by any means necessary.Fallout: The Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook, pg.51
===Equipment packs===
;Brotherhood of Steel Initiate
* Brotherhood fatigues and Brotherhood hood
* Combat knife
* Laser pistol and a fusion cell containing 10 +5 CD shots, or a 10mm pistol with 10+5 DC rounds of 10mm pistol ammunition
* Brotherhood holotags containing identifying information
;Brotherhood of Steel Scribe
* Brotherhood Field Scribe’s armor and Brotherhood Scribe’s hat
* Combat knife
* Laser pistol and a fusion cell containing 6 +3 CD shots or a 10mm pistol with 6+3 CD rounds of 10mm pistol ammunition.
* Brotherhood holotags containing identifying information
==Ghoul==
===Trait: Necrotic Post-Human===
* Immune to radiation damage. In fact, ghouls are healed by it and regain 1 HP for every 3 points of radiation damage inflicted upon them.
* Resting in an irradiated location, ghouls may re-roll your dice pool when checking if your injuries heal. 
* Survival becomes a Tag skill, increasing it by 2 ranks. 
* Ghouls age at a much-decreased rate, and are probably older than unmutated companions—ghouls may even have survived the Great War of 2077—but are sterile: “the first generation of ghouls is the last” as the saying goes. 
* Ghouls may face discrimination from “smoothskins” (humans who aren’t ghouls), increasing the difficulty or complication range of Charisma tests depending on your opponent’s beliefs.Fallout: The Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook, pg.52
===Ghouls and chems===
Due to the regenerative properties of their bodies, Ghouls are not affected by most chems like other origins.
* Ghouls receive the benefits of Stimpaks and other healing items normally.
* Rad-X and RadAway have no obvious effect on Ghouls, due to their immunity to radiation.
* Addictol and Antibiotics work normally, but Ghouls are less likely to get addicted, and are not affected by many diseases.
* Any Ghoul attempting to use any other kind of chem must use two doses to get the effect.Fallout: The Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook, pg.167
===Equipment packs===
Same as survivor origin.
==Super mutant==
===Trait: Forced Evolution===
 	ST	PE	EN	CH	IN	AG	LU
Max	12	10	12	6 	6 	10	10
* Initial Strength and Endurance attributes are increased by +2 each, and the maximum for Strength and Endurance are increased to 12.
* Maximum Intelligence and Charisma are both reduced to 6. Super mutants may not have more than 4 ranks in any skill.
* Super mutants are completely immune to radiation and poison damage. 
* Super mutants stand over seven feet tall, and their body is bulky and muscular. Their skin is green, yellow, or grey, regardless of what color it was when you were human. You do not seem to age, but you are sterile. 
* Super mutants can only wear armor which has been made to fit a super mutant.Fallout: The Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook, pg.53
===Equipment packs===
;Brute
* Raider armor torso, plus raider armor for one leg, or one arm
* A pipe rifle, and 6 +3 CD rounds of .38 ammunition
* A baseball bat or machete
* A personal trinket
* 5 caps
;Skirmisher
* Raider armor torso, plus raider armor for one leg, or one arm
* Heavy bolt-action pipe rifle, and 8 +4 CD rounds of .308 ammunition
* A board
* A personal trinket
* 5 caps
==Mister Handy==
===Trait: Mister Handy Robot===
* 360° vision and improved sensory systems that can detect smells, chemicals, and radiation, reducing the difficulty of Perception tests that rely on sight and smell by 1. 
* Immune to radiation and poison damage
** Mister Handies cannot use chems, nor can they benefit from food, drink, or rest. They move by jet propulsion, hovering above the ground, unaffected by difficult terrain or obstacles. 
* Carry weight is 150 lbs.
** Cannot be increased by Strength or perks, but it can be increased by modified armor. 
* Mister Handies cannot recover from injuries or heal health points without receiving repairs or using repair kits.
* Mister Handies cannot manipulate the physical world like every other origin, instead they have three of the arm attachments in the Arm Attachments table, determined by your choice of equipment pack.Fallout: The Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook, pg.54-55
===Hit Locations===
Roll range	Hit location
1-2 	Optics (Head injury)
3-8 	Main body (Torso injury)
9-11 	Arm 1
12-14 	Arm 2
15-17 	Arm 3
18-20 	Thruster (Leg injury)
===Arm attachments===
Arm 	Function
10mm Auto Pistol	You can make ranged attacks using a 10mm auto pistol
Buzz-Saw 	You can cut objects and make melee attacks with a circular saw. The buzz-saw inflicts 3[cd], Piercing 1, physical damage.
Flamer 	You can set objects alight, cook food, or make ranged attacks with a short-range flamethrower
Laser Emitter 	You can cut objects or make ranged attacks using a laser
Pincer 	You can pick up objects with an individual pincer that weighs no more than 40 lbs. and manipulate objects in your environment. You may also make unarmed attacks (2[cd] physical damage) with the pincer.
===No Pincer?===
A Mister Handy can choose not to have a pincer attachment, but in doing so, will be unable to make unarmed attacks, manipulate objects, and cannot make attempt tests that use the Lockpick, Repair, or Throwing skills.
===Equipment packs===
As a manufactured and programmed machine, your origin was determined as much by others as by yourself, and you were initially built for a specific purpose. While you’ve probably expanded and altered your programming since, it’s not always easy to break free of what you were built to do. Each of the equipment packages here reflect a typical example of that kind of Mister Handy robot, but countless variations exist where programming, voice, synthetic personality, and so forth have all been altered or replaced.Fallout: The Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook, pg.76
;Miss Nanny
* One pincer arm attachment, one flamer arm attachment, and one arm attachment of your choice
* Standard plating
* Behavioral analysis mod
* Hazard detection mod
* 10 caps
;Mister Farmhand
* One pincer arm attachment, one buzz-saw arm attachment, and one laser emitter arm attachment
* Standard plating
* One bag of fertilizer (1 uncommon material)
* 2 mutfruits
* 25 caps
;Mister Gutsy
* One 10mm auto pistol arm, one buzz-saw arm attachment, and one laser emitter arm attachment
* Mister Gutsy plating
* Recon sensors mod
* 10 caps
;Mister Handy
* One pincer arm attachment, one flamer arm attachment, and one buzz-saw arm attachment
* Standard plating
* Robot repair kit
* Integral boiler mod
* 10 caps
;Nurse Handy
* One pincer arm or buzz-saw arm attachment, one buzz saw arm attachment, and one attachment of your choice
* Standard plating
* Stimpak
* Diagnosis mod
* 10 caps
==Survivor/Wastelander==
 
===Traits===
Survivors may choose two traits, or one trait and one additional perk.
Trait 	Benefit 	Penalty
Educated 	You have one additional tag skill. 	When you fail a skill test using a skill other than a tag skill, the GM gains 1 AP.
Fast Shot 	If you take a second major action in combat, and use it to make a ranged attack, the additional major action only costs 1 AP, rather than 2.	Cannot benefit from the Aim minor action—you’re too impatient.
Gifted 	Choose two S.P.E.C.I.A.L. attributes and increase them by +1 each. 	Your maximum number of Luck points is one fewer than your Luck attribute.
Heavy Handed	Your Melee Damage bonus increases by +1 CD. 	Your melee and unarmed attacks suffer a complication on a 19 or 20, rather than only a 20.
Small Frame 	You may re-roll 1d20 on all AGI tests which rely on balance or contortion. 	Your carry weight is 150 + (5 x STR) lbs., rather than 150 + (10 x STR) lbs.
===Equipment packs===
;Mercenary
* Tough clothing
* A leather armor chest piece, or a leather armor arm and a leather armor leg (your choice as to which arm and leg)
* One melee weapon from the following: machete, baseball bat, tire iron
* One ranged weapon from the following: 10mm automatic pistol, .44 pistol, hunting rifle, bolt-action pipe gun
* 10 +5 CD rounds of ammunition for the chosen ranged weapon
* A note advertising a job in a nearby settlement that offers to pay 50 caps
* 15 caps
;Raider
* Harness
* Raider armor chest piece and raider armor for one of your arms (your choice)
* One melee weapon from the following list: lead pipe, pool cue, tire iron
* A pipe gun, with 10 +5 CD rounds of .38 caliber ammunition
* 1 dose of Jet or RadAway
* One Molotov cocktail or one stimpak
* 15 caps
;Settler
* Tough clothing
* One melee weapon from the following: switchblade, pipe wrench, rolling pin, knuckles
* A pipe gun, with 6 +3 CD rounds of .38 caliber ammunition
* 2 rolls on the random food table (see p.202)
* One personal trinket
* 45 caps
;Trader
* Tough clothing
* A leather armor chest piece, or a leather armor arm and a leather armor leg (your choice as to which arm and leg)
* A pipe gun, with 8 +4 CD rounds of .38 caliber ammunition
* One personal trinket.
* Wares: 3 rolls each on the ammunition, aid, and junk loot tables
* A pack brahmin (see Brahmin, p.341)
* 50 caps
;Wanderer
* Drifter outfit
* One melee weapon from the following: switchblade, pipe wrench, rolling pin, knuckles
* A pipe gun, with 8 +4 CD rounds of .38 caliber ammunition
* 1 dose of Jet or RadAway
* One personal trinket
* 30 caps
==Vault Dweller==
===Trait: Vault Kid===
* With a healthier start to life at the hands of trained doctors and sophisticated auto-docs reduces the difficulty of all END tests to resist the effects of disease. In addition, a carefully-planned upbringing means one additional tag skill of choice. 
* Optionally work with the Gamemaster to determine what sort of experiment took place within their Vault. 
** Once per quest, the GM may introduce a complication which reflects the nature of the experiment the Vault Dweller unwittingly took part in, or introduce a complication related to the Vault Dweller's early life of isolation and confinement within the Vault.
** If the GM does this, immediately regain one Luck Point.Fallout: The Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook, pg.57
===Ghoul Vault Dwellers===
With GM permission, one may choose to have a vault dweller be a ghoul. Gain the Necrotic Post-Human trait instead of the Vault Kid trait. May choose one of the Vault Dweller equipment packs instead of one of the Wastelander ones.
===Equipment packs===
;Vault-Tec Resident
* Vault jumpsuit
* Vault-Tec branded canteen containing 1 purified water
* Pip-Boy
* Switchblade
* 10mm pistol with 6 +3 CD rounds of 10mm pistol ammunition
* 2 stimpaks
* 10 caps
;Vault-Tec Security
* Vault jumpsuit
* Vault-Tec security armor, and Vault-Tec security helmet
* Vault-Tec branded canteen containing 1 Purified Water
* Pip-Boy
* Baton
* 10mm pistol with 8 +4 CD rounds of 10mm pistol ammunition
* 1 stimpak
=Additional Origins=
Additional origins have been printed in source and supplemental books for Fallout: The Roleplaying Game. This section lists these origins and includes all the books the origins have been included in.
==Assaultron (Wanderer's Guide Book)==
===Trait: Designed for the Frontline===
You are a robot, immune to disease, Radiation damage and Poison damage, but are unable to use chems or benefit from
food, drink, or rest. You cannot recover from your injuries or regain health points without receiving repairs (Healing Robots, p.34). Your carry weight is 150 lbs., and cannot be increased by your Strength or perks, but it can be increased by modified armor. You move by bipedal motion and can manipulate your environment using your actuated three-fingered claw-like hands.
You have chain-powered limbs, built for speed and deadly efficiency in close-quarters fighting, giving you +1 DC to unarmed
attacks in addition to any bonus DC on melee attacks you receive from your Strength attribute. A powerful laser is integrated
into your armored head, allowing you to target foes at range with a powerful energy weapon and you have the ability to critically
overload your fusion core, initiating a devastating self-destructive explosion (see Assaultron Weapons).
Weapons 	Effect
Claws 	You make unarmed attacks with a pair of apposable chain-powered claws. The claws inflict 4 DC Physical damage and can benefit from your melee damage-derived statistic and perks for unarmed attacks (the damage bonus from your trait has already been calculated).
Head Laser 	You charge up the high-yield laser emitter in your head, dealing 5 DC Piercing 1 Energy damage, consuming 2 shots of fusion cell ammunition. You may reduce the number of shots consumed, reducing the damage by -1 DC for each shot consumed fewer than normal (for a minimum of 4 DC and 1 shot consumed). Capacitor mods can increase the damage and shots consumed (see Settler's Guide Book, p.92).
Self-Destruct	You explode and are destroyed in the process. You cannot be repaired. When you make this attack, you make a ranged attack using END + Explosives, dealing 6 DC Energy damage, with the Blast effect, at Close range.
===Equipment packs===
;U.S. Military Model
Once equipped for the front lines, you were built for nothing less than rapid close-range engagement. While time has degraded your gear somewhat, your military-grade outfitting has pulled you out of more than one bad fight.
You receive the following equipment:
* One Laser Gun attachment integrated into one of your claws
* An Actuated Frame Body, or an Actuated Frame Arm and an Actuated Frame Leg (your choice as to which arm and leg)
* Standard Plating in all hit locations not equipped with an Actuated Frame
* 8 + 7 CD Fusion Cells
* Recon Sensors
* 15 Caps
;Assaultron Devil
Rebuilt and repurposed by the Rust Devils, a mechanically minded and bloodthirsty gang of raiders, every part of your form is designed with one purpose in mind: violence. All sharp edges and oozing malice, you’re as terrifying to look at as you are to fight. Thankfully, you’re no longer bound to the Rust Devils and may just be trying to find your place in the Wasteland.
You receive the following equipment:
* Skull Mask
* A Serrated Plate Body, or a Serrated Plate Arm and a Serrated Plate Leg (your choice as to which arm and leg)
* Two Construction Claws
* Hazard Detection Mod
* 6 + 6 CD Fusion Cells
* Robot Repair Kit
;Robotic Caravan Guard
Many caravanners would give their right arm to have an Assaultron bodyguard, whether they had to pay that price or not, and here you are. You are reinforced with heavier armor and more cargo space, to not only protect your employer better, but to tuck away those items too valuable for sale.
You receive the following equipment:
* One Laser Gun attachment integrated into one of your claws
* Factory Storage Armor and Factory Armor Legs
* 14 + 7 CD Fusion Cells
* Wares: 3 rolls each from the Random Ammunition, Aid and Junk tables (Core Rulebook, p. 200)
* Behavioral Analysis Module
* 10 + 5 CD Caps
==Brotherhood Outcast (Wanderer's Guide Book)==
===Trait: The Chain that Breaks===
You believe your superiors in the Brotherhood lack a vision beyond acquiring pre-War technology and that your strength as a member of this fraternity of military descendants gives you a duty to help others and pursue different goals than the dogma of the Brotherhood leadership dictates.
You gain one additional Tag skill, which must be one of Energy Weapons, Science, or Repair. You gain an additional 1d20 junk (see Fallout: The Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook, p.200) and can spend 1 AP up to 3 times for 1 Uncommon material per AP spent. You can make one additional roll on the loot table without having to spend AP.
===Equipment packs===
;Ex-Knight
More military minded than some Outcasts, you took to the wasteland with as much firepower and protection as you could muster, ready to stand between those who need your help, and those who are looking for blood.
You receive the following equipment:
* A Laser Rifle and 8 + 6 CD Fusion Cells
* A tattered set of Brotherhood of Steel Fatigues
* A military canteen filled with water
* 2 rolls on the Outcast Equipment Table
* 10 Caps
;Ex-Scribe
You have a penchant for the mechanical over the military. When you left the Brotherhood, you did so with the most important possession you could bring, your knowledge, and combined with the few bits and pieces you managed to smuggle away, you’ve managed to equip yourself well enough to travel the roads up to now. 
You receive the following equipment:
* A Laser Pistol and 8 + 4 CD Fusion Cells
* A tattered set of Brotherhood Scribe’s Armor
* A Multitool
* 3 rolls on the Outcast Equipment Table
* 15 Caps
===Outcast Equipment table===
1d20	Equipment
1 	Deluxe Toolkit
2 	Flashlight
3 	A copy of Fixin' Things
4 	x1 Antibiotics
5 	Bottlecap Mine
6 	Radio
7 	Combat Chest Piece
8 	A map to an old world survivalist cache
9 	x1 Stimpak
10 	Combat Arm
11 	Combat Leg
12 	Sensor Array
13 	Backpack, Small
14 	Sword
15 	Laser Musket
16 	x1 RadAway
17 	Combat Shotgun
18 	Power Fist
19 	Sturdy Combat Helmet
20 	Pip-Boy
==Child of Atom (Winter of Atom, Wanderer's Guide Book)==
===Trait: Rad Sponge===
Your unusual life experience grants you an extra perk at level one. Additionally, you were given a gift by Atom, unique even amongst other members of the Church. You can resist, store, and even channel radiation through your body. Though Atom has blessed you with his glow, you must be careful. Non-believers may not understand your gift and might be frightened when they witness it.
Your base radiation damage resistance is 1 and can be increased further by armor and perks. Once per scene, when someone in Close range to you would take Radiation damage, you can choose to take it instead. Whenever you take Radiation damage (minimum of 0), gain one Radiation Point up to a maximum of 5. When you hit with a melee attack, you may spend stored Radiation Points - for every point you spend, deal an additional 2d6 Radioactive Energy damage applied separately after inflicting the attack's other damage. When you sleep, you lose 1 Radiation Point.Winter of Atom sourcebook, pg. 25
==Commonwealth Minuteman (Settler's Guide Book)==
===Trait: United We Stand===
Trade caravan posts in your settlements attract traders every 5 days rather than 7. Settlements you establish, by any means, have a base Defense resource of 4. You gain either Energy Weapons or Small Guns as a bonus tag skill (your choice). Your Damage Resistance is increased by +1 while in cover, and you deal +1 DC damage while you and your companions are outnumbered.
==Generation 3 Synth (Winter of Atom, Settler's Guide Book)==
===Generation 2 Synth (Winter of Atom, Settler's Guide Book)===
If you want to play a prototype second generation synth, with a personality, you can do so easily by using the More Than Human trait, but noting that you are not bioengineered— you are constructed of complex machinery, and your appearance is much more android-like. It is immediately obvious you are not human, and so everyone you come across knows of your nature, and may be prejudiced against you if they distrust or hate synths. 
All the other aspects of the trait remain true, except you should choose equipment from the Wastelander options for starting equipment (Fallout: The Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook, p.79).
===Trait: More Than Human===
Though you appear mentally and physically human, your bioengineering makes you something entirely new and, in many ways, improved. You gain one additional Tag skill. You cannot suffer from Starvation or Dehydration and do not need to sleep; you also do not gain any benefit from consuming food or beverage items. When you rest, instead of sleeping, you can engage in minor activities such as crafting, reading, or light scouting. Additionally, you are immune to Poison and Radiation damage and disease. You do not age, nor do you gain or lose weight.
When interacting with NPCs who know your are a synth - unless they are sympathetic towards synths - the difficulty of CHA test made by you or your allies increases by 2. When a complication is rolled, they either become hostile, or your faction reputation or settlement reputation decreases by 1 per complication generated due to their fear of The Institute.
The Institute has give you a unique Recall code - an unalterable verbal command that resets your personality and memories. When you hear the code spoken, you become incapacitated until you are retrieved and restored by the Institute.Winter of Atom sourcebook, pg. 19
===Equipment packs===
;Synth Infiltrator
* Tough clothing
* Baseball bat or switchblade
* Pipe gun with 10 + 5 CD rounds of .38 caliber ammunition or 10mm pistol with 8 + 4 CD rounds of 10mm ammunition
* One personal trinket
* Cover possessions: 2 rolls on the Random Chems, Random Food or Random Beverages tables
;Synth Seeker
* Tough clothing
* A leather armor chest piece or a leather armor arm and a leather armor leg (your choice as to which arm and leg)
* Knuckles or lead pipe
* One ranged weapon from the following: 10mm pistol, flare gun, or hunting rifle
* 3 + 3 CD ammunition for the chosen ranged weapon above
* 2 rolls on the Random Ammunition, Random Chems, or Random Food tables
==New California Republic (Settler's Guide Book)==
===Traits===
New Californians may choose two of the following traits, two traits from the Survivor origin, or one trait from either list and one additional perk. Each trait has a benefit and may have an accompanying penalty.
Trait 	Benefit 	Penalty
Good Natured 	Tag two of either Speech, Medicine, Repair, Science, and Barter skills. 	The maximum rating for the other skills listed is reduced from 6 to 4.
Grunt 	+1 CD damage with submachine guns, combat rifles, assault rifles, frag grenades, and combat knives. 	The complication range of tests while making an attack with big guns or energy weapons is increased by 2.
Home on the Range 	Whenever you sleep by a campfire for at least 6 hours, the difficulty to recover from injuries through rest is decreased by 1. 	You cannot gain a well rested bonus, as described in Fallout: The Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook p.35.
Trigger Discipline	When you make ranged attacks using small guns or energy weapons you may re-roll 1d20. 	While you wield small guns and energy weapons, reduce their fire rate by 1.
Brahmin baron 	Each Brahmin Feed Trough provides upkeep for 3 Brahmin in each of your settlements. When you perform the Tend Crops settlement action, you gain an additional +1 CD Brahmin milk per feed trough.	Roll +1d20 for determining the risk of attack to your settlement if its Food resource exceeds the settlement's People. (see p.39).
===Survivor Traits===
The traits for New Californians provide rules that are tailored to the New California Republic origin, but they can be used by those with the Survivor background too. Survivor origin traits can also be used by characters with the New California Republic trait.
===Equipment packs===
;Trooper
* Military fatigues
* Army helmet
* Combat rifle with 8 + 4 CD rounds of .45 ammunition, or a combat shotgun with 6 + 3 CD shotgun shells
* 10mm pistol with 8 + 4 CD rounds of 10mm pistol ammunition, or a combat knife
* 1 roll on the Random Food table
* 1 purified water
* 5 + 5 CD NCR dollars
;Marksman
* Military fatigues
* Army helmet
* Hardened Hunting rifle with a long scope and 6 + 3 CD shots of .308 ammunition.
* 1 Calmex
* 1 random U.S. Covert Operations Manual issue (Fallout: The Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook, p.179)
* 1 roll on the Random Food table
;Crimson Caravaneer
Tough clothing
* A leather armor chest piece, or a leather armor arm and a leather armor leg (your choice of which arm and leg)
* Double-barreled shotgun with 6 + 3 CD shotgun shells, or .44 pistol with 4 + 2 CD shots of .44 ammunition
* A combat knife or a pair of knuckles
* A pack brahmin
* One personal trinket
* 5 rolls on the Foraging table (3 of each result, see Fallout: The Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook, p.202)
* 2 rolls on the Random Beverages table
* A deck of cards
* 2d20 NCR Dollars
===NCR Dollar exchange rate===
The NCR Dollar has always had a relationship to the more abundant bottle cap. Generally, a common exchange rate is around 2 dollars to a cap; and so where caps or dollars are listed in the starting equipment packs, if it makes more sense for your character to have the other currency, double the number of NCR dollars, or half the number of caps (rounding up or down at your discretion).
NCR dollars 	Bottlecaps
$2 in $1 coins or bills	1 cap
$5 bill 	2 caps
$20 bill 	10 caps
$100 bill 	50 caps
If you would ever roll randomly for receiving or looting NCR dollars, and the entry is in caps, just double the static number and the number of combat dice (CD) you would roll.
==Protectron (Winter of Atom, Settler's Guide Book)==
===Trait: Protect or Destroy===
You were built to survive in harsh environments. Once per scene, you may reroll a test to overcome an environmental hazard and use the new result. You are also immune to disease and Radiation and poison damage, but you cannot use chems, nor can you benefit from food, drink, or rest. You cannot recover from injuries or heal heath points without receiving repairs.
Protectrons are designed for a specific purpose and contain additional mechanisms to support their programmed task. You cannot have more than two robot mods installed simultaneously. You may be a Fire Brigadier, Law Enforcer, Construction Worker, Medical Responder, or a model of your own invention. When making a test directly related to your model's purpose, the first d20 you buy using Action Points cost 0. Additionally, your carry weight is 225 lbs. and cannot be increased by your Strength or perks, but it can be increased by modified armor.Winter of Atom sourcebook, pg. 21
===Protectron weapons===
Weapon 	Effect
Claws 	You make unarmed attacks with a pair of opposable claws. The claws inflict 3 CD Physical damage and can benefit from your melee damage derived statistic and perks for unarmed attacks.
Cryojet 	You can fire a jet of cryogenic spray, rapidly cooling targets. The cryojet uses cryo cells for ammunition, PER + Energy Weapons for attacks, causes 3 CD Energy damage with the Burst and Freeze damage effects. More information on the cryojet can be found on p 93.
Self-Destruct	You explode and are destroyed in the process, and cannot be repaired. When you make this attack, you make a ranged attack using END + Explosives, dealing 6 CD Energy damage, with the Blast effect at Close range.
Shock Hand 	You make unarmed attacks with a pair of staticly-charged defibrillators. These hands inflict 4 CD Energy damage and can benefit from your melee damage derived statistic and perks for unarmed attacks. You cannot manipulate objects that require fine dexterity due to the lack of claws.
===Equipment packs===
;Protectron
* Standard plating
* Claws
* Two laser guns integrated into your hands
* A fusion cell containing 14 + 7 CD shots
* Recon sensors
* Hazard detection mod
* Robot repair kit
* 20 caps
;Fire Brigadier
* Standard plating
* A cryojet integrated into the left hand
* A cryo cell containing 14 + 7 CD shots
* An axe as a right hand
* Hazard detection mod or sensor array
* 1 stimpak
* 10 caps
;Medic
* Standard plating
* Shock Hands
* Diagnosis mod
* 2 stimpaks
* 1 RadAway
;Utility
* Factory armor (main body and arms)
* Claw
* One of the following weapons: sledgehammer, baton, or railway rifle with 6 + 3 CD railway spikes (ignoring the two-handed quality)
* Hazard detection mod or sensor array
* Robot repair kit
;Nukatron
* Standard plating
* Claw
* Behavioral analysis mod or integral boiler mod
* 1 Perfectly Preserved Pie
* 4 Nuka-Colas or 2 Nuka-Cherrys
;Protectron X
* Standard plating
* Claws
* One of the following: factory armor (main body and arms), behavioral analysis mod, diagnosis mod, hacking module, or hazard detection mod.
* One of the following: radiation coils, recon sensors, or sensor array
* One of the following weapons: machete, aluminum baseball bat, or a syringer with 10 shots of Bleed-Out
* One roll on the Oddities and Valuables loot table (Fallout: The Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook, Chapter 5: Survival, p.207–208) or 1 robot repair kit
==Robobrain (Settler's Guide Book)==
===Trait: Robobrain Robot===
You are a robot with a human brain as a central processor. You have visual sensors that can detect the visual spectrum and infrared, ignoring any difficulty increase to Perception tests in darkness. You are also immune to radiation and poison damage, but you cannot use chems, nor can you benefit from food, drink, or rest. You cannot recover your own injuries or heal health points without receiving repairs (see Fallout: The Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook, p.34).
You move on two continuous tracks, and have two tube-like manipulators as arms with opposable claws you can use to control tools and objects designed for humans with precision and make unarmed melee attacks. Your head has a built-in mesmetron, which you can use to make ranged attacks. Your carry weight is 150 lbs., and it cannot be increased by your Strength or perks, but it can be increased by modified armor.
===Equipment packs===
;Servomech
* Mesmetron (integrated into the head)
* Tesla rifle
* Smoke claw
* A fusion cell containing 14 + 7 CD shots
* 2 robot repair kits
* Casual hat or formal hat
* One personal trinket
;U.S. Army Model
* Mesmetron (integrated into the head)
* 2 smoke claws
* A fusion cell containing 14 + 7 CD shots
* Combat rifle with 8 + 4 CD rounds of .45 ammunition
* Factory armor on torso, left arm, and right arm
;Errant Personality
* Mesmetron (integrated into the head)
* Any 2 of the following weapons as arm attachments: smoke claw, Tesla rifle, flamer, laser gun, sledgehammer
* A fusion cell containing 14 + 7 CD shots or flamer fuel for 12 + 6 CD shots
* Two personal trinkets
* 1 roll on the Random Oddities and Valuables table
* 10 caps
==Nightkin (Wanderer's Guide Book)==
===Trait: Stealth Boy Addict===
 	ST	PE	EN	CH	IN	AG	LU
Max	12	10	12	8 	8 	10	10
Your initial Strength and Endurance attributes are increased by +2 each, and your maximum Strength and Endurance are increased to 12, but your maximum Intelligence and Charisma are both reduced to 8. You may not have more than 4 ranks in any skill. You are completely immune to
Radiation and Poison damage.
You stand over seven feet tall; your body is bulky and muscular, and your skin is blue. You do not seem to age, but you are sterile. You can only wear armor that has been made to fit a super mutant.
You can become easily addicted to Stealth Boys, and its prolonged use has taken a huge toll on your psychology and mental health. Whenever you use a Stealth Boys, you roll 1 DC for each dose you’ve taken this session. If you roll any Effects, you gain the following symptoms:
* Stealth Boy Addiction: A failed addiction roll renders you addicted to Stealth Boys. You increase the difficulty of Perception and Intelligence tests by +2, and Charisma tests by +1 until cured.
===Equipment packs===
;Nightkin
By habit, choice or something more malicious, few things in the world bring you the sense of security that a Stealth Boy does. The security of silence is reassuring—guns don’t offer that—something quiet and sharp for when people might hurt you. Stealth, silence, safety.
You receive the following equipment:
* A Laser Rifle and 8 + 6 CD Fusion Cells
* A Bumper Sword
* A Raider Chest Piece and Raider Armor for one arm and one leg
* A Stealth Boy
* 2 rolls on the Random Food Table (Core Rulebook, p.202)
* 1 roll on the Random Beverages Table (Core Rulebook, p.203)
==Tribal (Wanderer's Guide Book)==
===Traits===
You may choose two of the following traits, two traits from the Survivor origin, or one trait from either this list, the Survivor list, or the New California Republic list, and one additional perk. Each trait has a benefit and may have an accompanying penalty.
Trait 	Benefit 	Penalty
Mother Wasteland 	Spend 1 Luck point to gain insight into the quest, situation, or scene as if you’d spent 3 AP to use Obtain Information 3 times. This information is often cryptic and mystical in nature.	Complications make scenes involving pre-War artifacts harder to understand, limiting your use of them.
Nomad 	Re-roll 1d20 on Survival tests to travel, set up camp, and forage for food and water. In addition, ignore the first complication rolled when making these tests. 	Barter and Speech tests increase their difficulty and complication range by 1 when dealing with inhabitants of a static settlement. Science cannot be a Tag skill.
Rite of Passage 	The first time you spend Luck in a scene, roll 1 DC . If you roll an effect you have not spent that Luck point. 	You view everyone who hasn’t gone through your rite of passage as lesser. You cannot assist another PC without spending 1 AP first.
Tools of the Old World	You may use Survival instead of Repair or Science to repair or make use of pre-War tech. 	The complication range of tests involving pre-War technology (not weapons) is increased by 2.
The Chosen One 	The first d20 you purchase is free on tests relating to your tribe’s quest, and you can always succeed at a cost. 	The GM adds 2 AP to their pool when your quest comes up.
===Rites, Rituals, and Mysticism===
Many of the traits outlined in the Tribal origin mention different rites and a way of viewing the post-nuclear world in a more mythical way. While the Church of the Children of Atom could well be described as a tribe, their behavior and zealousness strays more into cult—the tribes of survivors found across the Wasteland root their understanding of the world and their place in it in myth and spirituality.
When you choose this origin, and particularly one of its traits, you may want to flesh out with your gamemaster how the tribe views the world and what beliefs they hold as a community. What did your rite of passage entail and what triggered it? Did it include an initiation, coming of age, or some kind of sign? What quest have you been chosen to complete for your tribe and why do they need you to complete it? What happens to your tribe if you don’t accomplish your task?
Examples of tribes seen in the wastes include:
* Boomers: Descendants of the inhabitants of Vault 34 that believe in the personal liberty to bear arms. Their doctrine leads to them gearing up with the most explosive and high-yield munitions they can find. When they left Vault 34, they established themselves in Nellis Airforce Base in the Mojave Wasteland. Boomers represent a tribal group that has embraced technology. Their disposition to protecting themselves with heavy weaponry has allowed them to prosper in isolation to the rest of the Wasteland.
* Cult of the Mothman: The tribal followers of the cryptid “Mothman” in Appalachia have technically existed in various forms even before the Great War as cultists that worship the mythical Mothman that is said to inhabit the forest of Appalachia, West Virginia. Its followers tend to use weapons constructed of bone, wood, or metal scraps, and augment their scrappy clothing with skeletal ornaments. The followers more closely resemble cult-like devotees than a functional society.
* Treeminders: The Treeminders occupy a small fertile area of the Capital Wasteland they call Oasis. At its center resides an FEV mutant named Harold, who they worship as a deity. Harold has had a long and varied life, but now has the misfortune of becoming the reluctant deity of the Treeminders following the emergence of a tree that has grown out from his head and now envelopes him, which he calls “Bob” and seems to have a relationship with. The Treeminders have seen how the area around Harold has flourished and become verdant once more, taking it as a sign of Harold’s divinity. The Treeminders have come to call Harold “The Great One”. They are an isolationist tribe, worried about outsiders exploiting Oasis’ rich flora.
* Vipers: The Vipers trace their origins from Vault 15, which they left to explore the wastes. After a formative, quasi-religious encounter with a huge pit of viper snakes, their founder, Jonathan Faust, organized them into a tribe of merciless raiders. The tribe has a close mythological bond to the viper snake, preferring poisons and stealth to traditional strength. They employ rites and rituals utilizing venom to summon visions and perform initiations into their warrior caste. They are an aggressive tribe, with a deep religious undertone.
===Equipment===
;Modernist
Unlike some tribes, you have readily embraced the modern aspects of life, taking up the ‘relics’ of the old world and bringing them into the new day. Repurposing of old equipment, and the practical application of it, is a formative aspect of your people.
You receive the following equipment:
* Either a 9mm Pistol with 8 + 6 CD 9mm Rounds and a Combat knife, or a Pump-Action Shotgun with 12 + 6 DC Shotgun Shells
* An Underarmor Suit
* Either a Combat Chest Piece or a Combat Arm and Combat Leg
* A Multitool
* 1 roll on the Random Food Table (Core Rulebook, p.202)
* 1 roll on the Random Beverages Table (Core Rulebook, p.203)
* 3 CD Junk
;Ritualist
There is a way to the world. That’s what you have been taught. Everything that happens is linked to an action, a ritual or something equally esoteric. You know the ways of your people, their customs and needs; what you carry is as much a part of those customs as you are.
You receive the following equipment:
* Either a Hunting Rifle with 6 + 4 CD .308 Rounds, a Black Powder Blunderbuss with 6 + 4 DC .50 Balls, or a Pipe Gun and Pipe Revolver with 4 + 6 DC .38 and 4 + 6 DC .45 Rounds.
* Sturdy Clothing
* A Leather Chest Piece
* A Personal Trinket
* 2 rolls on the Oddities and Valuables Table (Core Rulebook, p.207)
;Naturalist
The Wasteland provides the core tenant of your tribe that has yet to fail you: by living at one with the world around you, taking only what you need and giving back where you can, you know that a long life awaits you. 
You receive the following equipment:
* A Bow with 10 + 6 CD Arrows, a Machete and a Combat Knife
* A Hunter's Pelt Outfit and Hunter's Hood
* A Wood Armor Chest Piece and either a Wooden Arm or a Wooden Leg
* 3 rolls on the Random Food Table (Core Rulebook, p.202)
* 3 Rolls on the Random Beverages Table (Core Rulebook, p.203)
==Securitron (Settler's Guide Book)==
===Hit Locations===
Roll range	Hit location
1-2 	Head
3-11 	Torso
12-14 	Left arm
15-17 	Right arm
18-20 	Wheel (Leg injury)
===Trait: Mark I Securitron===
You are a robot, with the Mk I operating system designed by RobCo Industries. You have forward-facing visual sensors that can detect the visual spectrum. You are also immune to radiation and poison damage, but you cannot use chems, nor can you benefit from food, drink, or rest. You cannot recover your own injuries or heal health points without receiving repairs (see Fallout: The Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook, p.34).
You move on a single tire, increasing the difficulty of skill tests to balance or remain upright by 1. Your arms are fitted with opposable claws, with which you can manipulate your environment rudimentarily and make unarmed melee attacks. The palms of your claws are outfitted with integrated weapons, as outlined in Choose Equipment, p.95. Your shoulders house missile launchers and a grenade launcher is integrated into the left arm, but they are both inoperable unless you are fitted with the Mk II operating system mod. Your carry weight is 150 lbs. It cannot be increased by your Strength or perks, but by modified armor.
===Equipment pack===
* An automatic laser gun (a laser gun with an automatic barrel, integrated into the left arm) with a fusion cell containing 14 + 7 CD shots
* A submachine gun (integrated into the right arm) with 8 + 4 CD rounds of .45 ammunition.
* A missile launcher (inoperable, mounted into the shoulders)
* A grenade launcher (inoperable, integrated into the left arm)
* Factory armor for the torso, head, and arms
* A printer (housed inside the torso) that can receive broadcasts and print leaflets in black ink
==Trinkets==
For origins that give a trinket, these trinkets hold particular sentimental value for that character, and once per quest, outside of combat, they can spend a few moments looking at the trinket, thinking about what it means to them. If done, they regain 1 Luck Point.
The trinkets can be personalized items or they can be randomized from the table. At the game master's discretion, all characters can start with a trinket.Fallout: The Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook, pg.80
Trinket
A golden pocket watch
A garbled holodisk
A brightly colored bandana
A silver locket
Medal
Tickets to a pre-war event
Wedding ring
Pre-war party invitation
An engraved flip lighter
Loaded casino dice
ID card
Cosmetics case
Musical instrument
Broken eyeglasses
Necklace made of junk
Pages of an unfinished story
Overdue library book
A postcard with an address
A pre-war neck tie
==References==
Category:Fallout: The Roleplaying Game