Hi all, I just got my Fallout series, 1,2 and Tactics in the mail today, hurray for me hehe. So I installed Fallout and I want play the game, but don't want to keep restarting all the time because I should have done this or that. Did that with all TES games except Redguard since I don't have it, and Batlespire, never played it much since I was playing Daggerfall all the time.

For once I want to make my first character and play with it, and not restarting and knowing what is going to happen. So if you guys can, can you tell me a good character build for Fallout? In Fallout 3, I had intelligence at 9, and then went for the booblehead to increase it. Should I be doing the same for Fallout? Should I just make an average character or should I have some stats higher than others? I read strength should be a minimum of 6, while some other stats like Charisma or perception at 8 or 9.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Keep in mind that Fallout 1 and 2 are very different games than Fallout 3.

Fallout is sort of set up so that you can't have an "average" character. You're forced to specialize to a degree.

First time playthrough, I recommend high Agility and high Intelligence (10 Ag is great Int should be around 7-10). This means that you'll have a high amount of action points (crucial for combat), a high chance to dodge attacks, and a high amount of skill points per level. Distribute the rest of the stats depending on how you want to play-- High strength for melee or big guns, Perception for sniper, charisma for diplomacy/lots of followers. No SPECIAL stat should be below 4.

Select the Gifted trait. This will add +1 to each SPECIAL stat, but lower the amount of skill points you get per level. This is probably the best deal of all deals in history. This isn't like Fallout 3 where you're going to be constantly finding bobbleheads and magical armor that will increase your SPECIAL, what you start with is for the most part set in stone with a few exceptions.

One thing- I wouldn't put Strength above 7, since once you get the power armor it adds +3 to it and the stat cannot go above 10.

Thank you very much, that was very helpfull. I wasn't expecting this game so fast to come in the mail. Now the problem is what game do I play now LOL. I think I need a small break from F3, so onto Fallout right now.