A little background on it. This has been a long running part time project I've had. My daughter is 6 and loves to sit with me when I play Fallout, she just loves the game and has gotten her younger brother to start sitting on me as well. So when she asked to play I had to come up with something, as there are parts that are too mature for her and I can't avoid those if she is the one playing. In the end we decided to do a pen and paper game set in Fallout 4 and Rotted Capes was the best fit I could think of.
I decided she would be the star of the show with me playing her companion. I tweaked zombies to be the ghouls,
made up some simple rules for radiation, added a weaker form or power armor for non-tech heroes, made powers available through technology and mutations,
modified bystanders to be the basic settler and raiders of the lands, and made some higher level enemies using regular creation rules. I plan on using some of the animal entries as analogs for some of the wildlife in fallout, cats are rad roaches, bears are ya guai, great cats for deathclaws. I plan on adding more to bestiary as we go.
As for characters she will be the sole survivor and wanted a bow like Merida from Disney's Brave. She and I talked about it and her character was a Vet before the bombs fell. I picked out some skill sets and adavantages to help her with animals. She also has a mask that lets her talk with many animals, power as a removable item, and some great skills to help her, powers as all skill.
My character is simply a former member of the Enclave running around in some prototype power armor from before the bombs fell. It is from a mod for 4 and it is Liberty Prime based power armor and a suitably cool looking gun from another mod. So I'll be tanking for her and using a high tech energy assault rifle.
My daughter's god father will likely be joining us, but hasn't made a character yet.
Character builds:
Sole Survivor,
Liberator.
I just wanted to share what I've done and see what you guys think. Hopefully some of the things I've come up with will be useful for you in your games. I'm also a huge fan of using spreadsheets to build and plan characters so I make sure I have everything counted up right. I'll try and remember to do an AAR once we get started.