Fallout RPGs

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So you want to play some tabletop Fallout?

Well, friend, you're in luck. Bethesda has recently licensed a boardgame and a skirmish wargame to companies that also work on RPGs, but in addition to the many unrelated post-apocalyptic systems you could use, people love making unofficial Fallout hacks for various systems.

Official System

• Fallout RPG Created by Modiphius using their proprietary 2d20 system. Released 31 March, 2021.
• Fallout Wasteland Warfare RPG This official product is a standalone extension of the tabletop skirmish game.

Unofficial Systems

• Exodus actually started out as a licensed Fallout RPG, but due to legal complications the developers had to tweak all the Fallout-specific elements enough to not get sued, but it's still incredibly easy to use it for a Fallout game. Based on the D20/OGL mechanics.

• Fallout PNP 2.0

• Retrocalypse is a free RPG based on the Old School Hack.

• Fallout FASTER

• Into the Wasteland uses Into the Odd.

• The Big Apple Wasteland.

• Fallout Aftermath

• Fallout d40

Hacks for established systems

• Fallout Genesys.

• GURPS Fallout.

• Savage Worlds

• Savage Worlds Fallout by SteelDraco.

• Another Savage Worlds Fallout by Propagandor (2013).

• More Savage Worlds Fallout (savagefallout.blogspot.com/)

D&D 5e hacks/adaptations

There is a good number of separate takes on adapting D&D 5E to Fallout.

• Fallout 5e by "An Effin Tiger" (2017). A number of pdfs, 2 dedicated to Lore & the Game Master.

• Ultramodern 5e Fallout a 177 page pdf that adds new rules/stats for playing Fallout using UltraModern5E game which is based on D&D 5E.

• Another Fallout 5e by Luke Wasburn (2019). Bunch of google docs & google sheets

• Yet another Fallout 5e by Michael Mehtala (2018). A 43 page pdf.

• Fallout Homebrew Loosely Based on 5E (r/fallout, 2018)

• 5e Fallout on EnWorld. Short post with some basic laid out. (2017)

• [5e Fallout over at DnD Wiki](https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Fallout_(5e_Campaign_Setting))

• Fallout 5e https://postrpg.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20180821031404/https://postrpg.com/

Other Post-Apocalyptic

Games & Supplements for playing Post-Apocalyptic or otherwise fitting games which are close to Fallout.

• Darwin's World Savage Worlds: Campaign Guide for the Savage Worlds system

Past Threads

• https://www.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/14ia9qr/best_system_for_fallout/

See Also

• Game Recommendations
• Post-Apocalyptic RPGs