#a series of unfortunate events roleplay

[rphunter]

-18+

-lgbtq+

- long term rp partner, multi para, double up ONLY

- oc x cc

-pst

i am looking for a series of unfortunate events (aged up to 18 but we can continue the books/eps as usual)

or the Witcher (with geralt as my love interest)

i looove

talking to like my rp partner ooc our ocs being friends coming up with little ideas here and there to do making playlists, memes, mood boards, the works

love crossovers and aus love love love crossovers especially like literally hit me the fuck up please

i will literally use a cc from another universe as an oc and i encourage you to do the same love love love it bestie we need more shit to the level of superwholock

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#daedricrituals rpblog #a series of unfortunate events roleplay #a series of unfortunate events rp #the witcher roleplay #the witcher rp

[prpfs]

does anyone want to take advantage of my trans oc? he’s 🫶 and i’m okay with your character being his age or older. we can do oc x oc or if you prefer playing ccs here’s a list of fandoms i’m into:

my hero academia

haikyuu

a series of unfortunate events

and that’s really it, at the moment, but if you want to try something else out, let me know, and i’ll see if i’m open to it. i’m also open to a wide range of tropes, including school bully, trusted friend, teacher, stalker.. basically anyone you want to molest a cute trans boy with. it can be a detrans thing or not.

you MUST be 18+ only, though that goes without saying. i rp on discord as my main platform. interact with this post in some way and i will message you on here. 💕

Leave a like, and anon will get back to you!

#my hero academia roleplay #my hero academia rp #haikyuu roleplay #haikyuu rp #a series of unfortunate events roleplay #a series of unfortunate events rp #fandom roleplay #fandom rp #oc roleplay #oc rp #oc x oc #oc x cc #nuclear

[findyourrp]

hello, friends! my name is prongs, I use she/her pronouns and I'm am currently twenty ( twenty-one in two weeks ), so please be 18+!

i'm looking for someone to write canon x canon in either the game of thrones, the walking dead or a series of unfortunate events fandoms, so like this if you're interested and i will message you! heads up that I adore developing friendships with the people I write with, and I will send you edits and playlists and pinterest boards, so be prepared! ❤️

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#rp finder #18+ rp #fandom rp #fandom roleplay #got rp #twd rp #a series of unfortunate events rp

[jubilee-road]

#Character: Beatrice Baudelaire #faceclaim #avatar #pictures #A Series of Unfortunate Event OC #rpg français #roleplay #original character #Jenna Coleman

[findroleplay]

i'm looking for writing partners on discord! my name is brandy, i'm 21+, and i've been writing/rping for about sixteen years on and off. i've written for numerous fandoms, but the characters below are the ones i'm writing currently. bolded are ones i really want to write most. i would love to join in on either 1x1 or some small group rps on discord. if anyone's interested in interactions with the below characters, slide on in to my inbox/DMs!

star trek - beverly crusher, deanna troi, kathryn janeway

doctor who - 13th doctor, missy, river song

literature - mina murray (dracula), queen titania (midsummer night's dream)

mythology - persephone (hadestown based, but open to other interpretations)

twilight - esme cullen

harry potter - nymphadora tonks, hermione granger

game of thrones - sansa stark

misc. muses - evelyn carnahan (the mummy), sarah williams (labyrinth), odette (swan princess), mia thermopolis (princess diaries), helen magnus (sanctuary), juliet burke (lost), charlotte lewis (lost), beatrice baudelaire (series of unfortunate events).

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#rp #roleplay #star trek rp #doctor who rp #literature rp #dracula rp #midsummer night's dream rp #mythology rp #hadestown rp #twilight rp #harry potter rp #game of thrones rp #the mummy rp #labyrinth rp #swan princess rp #princess diaries rp #sanctuary rp #lost rp #a series of unfortunate events rp

[stingraymilk]

LOOK AWAY, LOOK AWAY!

Hi there!

Does anyone remember the 2004 movie A Series of Unfortunate Events? Not the show on Netflix, people! The MOVIE! There has to be at least one of you out there that still live on in the fandom and would be willing to write alongside me in a beautifully crafted roleplay!

I’ll be writing for Klaus and you can write for anyone you’d like (save for Sunny because that would get boring on my end if you don’t double up). I’m even okay with ocs.If you’re still reading, please know that this is 18+ ONLY and I also do love creating original plots (not fandom related) and I like other fandoms as well.

I’m in search of some more rp partners and I’m dying for this rp so please don’t be shy to like this post or add me on discord @ pushingupdaisies !!!

Thank you!

#18+ rp #descriptive rp #discord rp #literate rp #roleplay #1x1 rp #horror rp #rp partner finder #rp partner search #rp partner ad #dark rp #rp partner needed #rp partner wanted #a series of unfortunate events #asoue #asouerp #a series of unfortunate events rp

[rpersearch]

Hello! I'm looking for a longterm roleplay partner. I am looking people who won't use text talk and will roleplay in third person. I use Canon x Canon. I'm open to any kind of rp, but I mostly to 18+ as I am 20

The fandoms I do are:

Stranger Things

Umbrella Academy

Fate: The Winx Saga

Disney Z-O-M-B-I-E-S

A series of unfortunate events

I roleplay through Discord: 𝕘𝕣𝕒𝕧𝕚𝕥𝕪𝕓𝕒𝕣𝕓𝕚𝕖#3211

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#18+ rp #stranger things #stranger things roleplay #stranger things rp #the umbrella academy rp #the umbrella academy roleplay #the unbrella academy #fate: the winx saga roleplay #fate: the winx saga rp #disney zombies roleplay #disney zombies rp #disney zombies #a series of unfortunate events #a series of unfortunate events rp

[pepperyii]

[For both!]

What are your thoughts on strawberry shortcake! To bad I'm shipping them to your exact location. 5 seconds remain

"Pepper. Its okay. We can share." -Candle

#ii pepper #inanimate insanity #pepper ii #ask blog #osc #roleplay #object shows #candle ii #ii candle #pepper's misfirtune is so fun to just draw. #like she just like me fr. #so she also gets to be like shes in a series of unfortunate events #thank you strawberry shortcake anon

[incorrectbatfam]

Batfam as made-up facts

Dick: The biggest biohazard in public swimming pools isn't the kid that peed in it, but rather the body oil from all the swimmers accumulating over time. Not only is oil not neutralized by pool chemicals such as chlorine, but it also floats to the surface and is the first thing you make contact with when you jump in the water. This is why a lot of public pools ask people to shower beforehand.

Jason: Making new memories is simply the process of our brains creating and reinforcing new neural connections. Traumatic or impactful events see denser myelination in the hippocampus (brain's memory center) and it's theorized that when we die and our "life flashes before our eyes," there's more activity in those denser regions leading to more vivid images of those moments.

Tim: Klondike's Equation is one of the lesser-known unsolved mysteries in math. It's a branch of calculus that takes Olivar's Laws of four-dimensional derivatives and creates a paradoxal equation by which the right half of it cannot be fully written if the left half is unsolved, but the left half needs values from the right in order to be computed.

Damian: The oldest interactive/roleplaying game dates back to the ancient Sumerians, according to records. It consisted of a theater of clay puppets that the audience would chime in with how they should act. It was often performed at bars or taverns during holidays with stories themed around mythical deities or fables.

Duke: In 1982, Bill Watterson brought to Archie Comics a standalone concept of a child hero and a sentient animal companion. However, he was rejected in favor of the up-and-coming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles story. After shopping around at companies and getting lots of rejections, Watterson finally found his big break with Andrews McMeel Publishing, cementing his place in comic history with the cult classic Calvin and Hobbes.

Cullen: The smallest readable book ever made is 12 nanometers long by 8 nanometers wide. It was engineered by four particle physics grad students at the University of Vienna and contains the first passage of the Bible across six microscopic pages.

Stephanie: Most aerosol cans use both oxygen and carbon dioxide as the aerosolizing agent, which is why you're told never to spray them near an open flame. However, for food (like whipped cream or spray cheese), nitrogen is used instead. This is to prevent perishable food from oxidizing and for preservation as nitrogen helps maintain a cooler inner temperature.

Cassandra: The most plausible explanation for the legendary chupacabra was proposed by a team of anthropologists in Oaxaca. Essentially, it combines the theories of mass hysteria with the existence of a similar creature that went extinct in early Mesoamerican history. As accounts of this now-extinct creature was passed down, the image of it was slowly distorted. The modern chupacabra legend likely arose in a period of mass hysteria during political and economical insecurity.

Barbara: Traditional computer programs can be broken down into a series of if-then commands by which a condition is given and the program must respond according to the parameters. However, machine learning algorithms use an expanded version of this, known colloquially as if-then-but-because-however. The "if-then" stipulates the parameters, the "but" is for modifiers, the "because" is for generating explanations (usually pulled from a database of other works unfortunately), and the "however" is for exceptions that may rise over the course of running the program.

Harper: Ambidextrous people actually struggle the most when it comes to the drums. Most drum setups and tabs (sheet music) are designed with right-handedness as a default. Left-handed people can simply flip it around it for themselves. However, ambidextrous players have been found to struggle with the asymmetry of the instrument. That's why, among professional rock drummers, only 6% are ambidextrous compared to the 18% of lefties and 76% of righties.

Carrie: Although it feels like our lungs are burning after holding our breath for a while, the sensation actually originates from our inflated diaphragm pressing against our lungs. Since there are more nerve endings around our lungs than our diaphragm, we interpret the feeling higher than where it actually occurs.

Kate: During the war of 1812, a group of nine Canadian men known as the False Damsels donned women's attire to act as spies against the Americans. Of the nine, four of them reportedly continued crossdressing after the war and one of them started going by Margaret a few months later and remained unmarried for 20 years until they moved to Portugal with an unknown courter.

Alfred: In 1757, the British government attempted to train livestock, such as cows and chickens, to spy on domestic threats (such as anti-monarchists). However, this project never took off due to a regional outbreak of avian flu combined with the takeoff of the Industrial Revolution and new inventions that rendered animal labor obsolete.

Selina: Coffees and wines contain a bitter compound called tannins, and the ability to taste them is genetically determined. Capsaicin can be seen analogously. Some people inherit a gene that allows them to detect capsaicin fully, so when they eat a pepper, all they get is the heat and little to no flavor. Conversely, others have a gene where the heat is "muted" and they can better distinguish the flavors between two spicy foods.

Bruce: There is a correlation between one's taste in food and expectation of others. According to a 2019 Harvard study, people who reported preferring more simultaneous flavors in their food were 26% harsher in an activity where they had to grade students' mock essays.

#facts i just made up #dick grayson #jason todd #tim drake #damian wayne #duke thomas #cullen row #stephanie brown #cassandra cain #barbara gordon #harper row #carrie kelley #kate kane #alfred pennyworth #selina kyle #bruce wayne #batman #batfamily #batfam #batboys #batbros #batgirls #batkids #batsiblings #batman family #dc comics #headcanon #unreality #tw death mention #long post

[medtech-mara]

Welcome to my new series of posts about Cyberpunk RED source material! This time we will be putting the CYBER into the PUNK by discussing everything Cyberware.

Today, though we must start with the basics, I wanted to just show the catalog and let you go on our own way, but I felt it was best to open the discussion. I am willing to answer your questions should you have some in the event you want to roleplaying/write accordingly when Phantom Liberty releases.

Welcome to Blue Remedies Health Clinic, My name is Mara Sterling, and I will be your Ripperdoc today? Have you ever used a Ripperdoc before? I notice you don't have any cyberware at all? Nervous? Don't be! We'll go walk through this together.

What is Cyberware?

Cybertechnology can be purchased almost anywhere. Some of the medical procedures are simple: walk-in types of surgery with minor installations taking place in whatever shopping mall clinics(Bodyshoppe, Fashion/Fusion, and Parts N' Programs are three popular chain stores) still exist, or drop-in medical centers (Docs R Us™... or my clinic Blue Remedies Health Clinic in the Wellsprings) These installations are much like getting your ears pierced. You can even have upgrades and improvements plugged into the old hardware for the cost of the new parts, allowing you to start small (called "stripped" or "economy") and add as you go. It is IMPORTANT to note that you CANNOT install cyberware to a critical injury, it has to heal first.

Where can I get my Cyberware installed?

Any Ripper doc if you are brave enough... Joking aside.. Depending on what cyberware you are wanting to install, depends on where you'd likely go. Don't worry I can guide you through this process with telling you where you'd likely get this cybernetic installed. Mall: means you can literally get the installation done in any mall or street corner bio-mod shop; the equivalent of ear-piercing in the 1900s. There are not as many of these as there were in the 2020s. Clinic: means an actual Medtech in a medical surgery clinic. Most of the installation is automated, but it takes a skilled practitioner to use that gear. Most ripperdocs are at this level. Hospital: means the work requires major surgery and a Medtech capable of doing this kind of work. This also requires a full hospital or the nearest equivalent, which is relatively rare. *Benefits from multiple installations of the same cyberware do not stack unless otherwise noted

"I was thinking about getting a a Sigma frame like Panthera, OH or have a dart eye like Optic from Night Raid! That's so cool!"

Unfortunately, there are prerequisites for some cyberware. Rome wasn't built in a night nor was David Martinez, so you will need to build yourself up to such an upgrade as an exo-skeleton like the Sigma frame, but I can't recommend one enough.

How is there such a thing as too much Cyberware?

Besides the obvious answer if you want to see God under the boot of some Maxtac lapdog? then yes. There are limits on how many cyberware slots your body can have. There will be a display how many slots can be used per cyberware type.

Cyberware types? You mean there are more than 2? I thought it was just cyberlimbs or Kiroshis?

There are 8 types of cybernetics available to the open market. However, your Ripperdoc MAY or MAY NOT have special types of cyberware they've crafted themselves, it never hurts to ask. Currently Avaliable: Fashionware, Neuralware, Cyberoptics, Cyberaudio, Internal Body Cyberware, External Body Cyberware, Cyberlimbs, & Borgware (my personal favorite, but watch out!)

Cool, I've picked out what I wanted, lets get started?

Whoa, hold on, choombatta, you picked some heavy hitters there, do you think you can handle it? If you've recently suffered from major traumas, I like to suggest meeting with a therapist first, your humanity is something to treasure and you won't get very far without it... Well unless you are Adam Smasher, were you born with 0 empathy?

Humanity? Therapy? What's all this GONKED shit?

Each cybernetic you install will cost a bit of your humanity, you are giving up some of your human self in place of machine, that doesn't come free. Fortunate for you, therapy does wonders, it can often help you discern what is the psychosis speaking or you, but without it, I'm sure you won't last 6 months on the street before C-Swat comes for you. It's always recommended that if you install heavy cyberware to see your therapist after. It's also a good idea to see your therapist after any traumatic event that has happened to or if front of you. It's not just the cyberware that eat at your humanity.

Annnnnd that's all for this post! Next post we will start going over some actual cyberware, starting with a personal favorite, Fashionware! I really hope to see some of the work you guys make with the new DLC coming out, and armed with this new knowledge about cyberware and cyberpsychosis (soon™)

#Cyberpunk Red #Cyberpunk RED source material #Cyberpunk 2077 #CPR #CP2077 #Cybernectics #Cyberware #Cyberpunk #cyberpunk lore #worldbuilding

[oddlies]

get to know me

tagged by: @schattenwerfenkeineschatten <3 ty!! tagging: YOUUUU

alias / name: RRRRAMONE

birthday: march 23rd

zodiac sign: pisces-aries cusp (usually call myself an aries tho)

height: 5'3''

hobbies: roleplaying, singing, acting

favourite colour: purple, blue, pink, seafoam green... a lot of others

favourite book: can i say a series? i'm gonna say a series. a series of unfortunate events.

last song: reelin' in the years by steely dan <3

last film / show: hello dolly, i think... i love babs

inspiration: my biggest inspiration? yo mama no but seriously, i think the past really influences me... the music, the fashion, how different things were. of course, i don't romanticize everything about the past because WHEW... so much of it is shit, but yeah.

i am inspired by things like fantasy and sci fi as well on occasion. i'm mostly inspired by music, though!!!

story behind url: i wanted something to encompass how odd and strange my selection of muses was... so i pulled a shakespeare and made a brand new word for it :)

fun fact about me: i donated stem cells anonymously twice. i got to contact the person i donated to and she's super sweet!! i helped save her life and it means the world to me.

#( ooc. )

[prpfs]

🦇

Hi there!Does anyone remember the 2004 movie A Series of Unfortunate Events? Not the show on Netflix, people! The MOVIE!

There has to be at least one of you out there that still live on in the fandom and would be willing to write alongside me in a beautifully crafted roleplay!

I’ll be writing for Klaus and you can write for anyone you’d like (save for Sunny because that would get boring on my end if you don’t double up). I’m even okay with ocs.

If you’re still reading, please know that this is 18+ ONLY and I also do love creating original plots (not fandom related) and I like other fandoms as well. I’m in search of some more rp partners and I’m dying for this rp so please don’t be shy to like this post or add me on discord @ pushingupdaisies !!!

Thank you!

like this post or add them on discord @ pushingupdaisies

#a series of unfortunate events rp #a series of unfortunate events roleplay #fandom rp #fandom roleplay #asoue rp #asoue roleplay #oc roleplay #oc rp

[hylia-hyrule]

ℍ𝕚 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕖! 🌿💌

𝕀𝕗 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕨𝕠𝕦𝕝𝕕 𝕝𝕚𝕜𝕖 𝕥𝕠 𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕟 𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕖 𝕒𝕓𝕠𝕦𝕥 𝕨𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕖𝕩𝕒𝕔𝕥𝕝𝕪 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕡𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕚𝕤 𝕒𝕝𝕝 𝕒𝕓𝕠𝕦𝕥, 𝕡𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕖 𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕡𝕠𝕤𝕥.

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As a little girl, I was obsessed with the video game Zelda, so much so that I remember fondly it being the first game I played at 5 years old, but also never gave up on it, always playing it over and over again and again and now I am 21 and I still am madly in love with the series and specify Zelda herself.

It was during the early 2000s that I played games such as Ocarina of Time, Majoras Mask, Minish Camp, The Oracles, Wind Waker, A Link to the Past, Twilight Princess, Phantom Hourglass, Spirit Tracks, etc. With increasing age, I played games that were more silly and curious, such as Tingle's Balloon Trip of Love, Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland, and Link's Crossbow Training.

But one game that stuck out the most to me was one that not many liked, Skyward Sword. This came out on November 18th, 2011, only 12 days after my birthday! It was a very special game I held dear because during this time I started to understand more in-depth parts of video games, no longer needing my brother to assist me in dungeons and finally having a Zelda game I could fully and completely finish all on my own. Also, I recall the game came with a CD of its music, which I played nonstop in my room when I played with my dolls or slept (which probably made my family crazy). 

This game was particularly helpful to me during 2013, when I lost my home and certain family members I had been around all my life. It was a very unfortunate turn of events that was difficult to deal with for an 11 or 12-year-old girl. I was fortunate to have Zelda, and I remember dressing up my hair and my clothes to mimic her. Disney princesses were not particularly relatable to me because none of them had features similar to mine, as I feel Zelda did... Apart from the fact that my eyes are brown and hers are blue, I was always curious as to whether Hylia, the goddess who was Zelda, also had brown eyes.

Essentially, this blog is about my healing and reconnecting with my childhood self. A dream of mine is to write a blog, roleplaying as Hylia reborn into the modern age, along with showing off my makeup from time to time, art, and video games and their theories, especially concerning Zelda. This is just a general creative outlet and a fun roleplay idea that I always loved to do as a child...thank you for sharing this with me and helping me help my past self as a child, being creative and feeling like a princess.

-Hylia

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#skyward sword #legend of zelda #zelda #healing #childhood #inner child #inner child healing #wicca #witch #shintoism #coping mechanism #healing journey #life story #growing up #video games #nintendo #twilight princess #ocarina of time #totk #loz totk #loz botw #botw #wind waker #early 2000s #goddess hylia #hylian #Hyrule #fierce deity #Loz #the legend of zelda

[circusclownsam]

Fandom List

OC pending: No OC posted, will still roleplay. Will just make one up on the spot.

Fandoms (alphabetical order)-

Avatar: the way of water

All of us are dead

A series of unfortunate events

Attack On Titan

Anne with an e

Ben 10 (ultimate alien + alien force) (OC pending)

Carmen Sandiego (OC pending)

Camp Cretaceous

Criminal minds (no longer roleplay)

Chicago Med (No longer roleplay)

CreepyPasta

Detroit: Become Human (OC pending)

Demon Slayer (OC pending)

Death Note (OC pending)

Epic 2013 (OC pending)

Gravity Falls (OC pending)

Harry Potter (I do not support jkr, none of my money has gone to her)

Haikyuu (OC pending)

How to train your dragon

Hogwarts legacy (will use HP OC for time being)

H2O: Just add water

Iron man: armoured adventures

Kpop (OC pending)

Little witch academia

Love and Deepspace (OC pending)

Miraculous ladybug

Mech Cadets (OC pending)

My Hero Academia

Mortal Kombat 1 (OC pending)

Pretty little liars (OC pending)

Pirates of the Caribbean (all movies, OC pending)

Peaky Blinders (OC pending)

Revenge Of Others

Resident Evil

Rise Of The Guardians

Supernatural

Stranger Things

Star vs the forces of evil (OC pending)

Twilight series

The Quarry

The Walking Dead (No longer roleplay)

True Beauty (OC pending)

TrollHunters: tales of Arcadia

The Vampire Diaries (OC Pending)

Total drama island

Titans (Netflix)

The Last Of Us (Show only. OC pending)

The Maze Runner (OC pending)

Wednesday

Winx Club (OC pending)

Weak Hero Class 1 (OC pending)

Young Justice (no longer roleplay)

(More to come, if I remember)

#CircusClownSam OCs

[findroleplay]

Hi there! Does anyone remember the 2004 movie A Series of Unfortunate Events? Not the show on Netflix, people! The MOVIE!

There has to be at least one of you out there that still live on in the fandom and would be willing to write alongside me in a beautifully crafted roleplay!

I’ll be writing for Klaus and you can write for anyone you’d like (save for Sunny because that would get boring on my end if you don’t double up). I’m even okay with ocs.

If you’re still reading, please know that this is 18+ ONLY and I also do love creating original plots (not fandom related) and I like other fandoms as well. I’m in search of some more rp partners and I’m dying for this rp so please don’t be shy to like this post or add me on discord @ pushingupdaisies !!!

Thank you!

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#rp #roleplay #A Series of Unfortunate Events rp

[howtofightwrite]

I've been replaying the Fallout series and it got me thinking. The protagonists of most of the games, 1, 3 and 4 if you go with a female Sole Survivor, are naive newcomers with zero combat experience, yet they go on to slaughter armies and change the fate of the wasteland. I know they're rpgs, but how would you translate a character like that into a believable, linear story? Can it be done?

So, there's two distinctly different cases here.

Fallout 3 and 4 (and really basically everything from Bethesda Games Studio in the last 20 years), are ARPGs. They have more potential for environmental roleplay than games you'd conventionally think of as ARPGs, like Diablo or Path of Exile, but Bethesda's Fallout games are primarily about the combat loop with subsequent looting and loot sorting as preludes to the next fight. While ARPGs can deliver an enjoyable story, they don't tend to travel particularly well outside of the game. To a large extent, the violence is the fun, and without that, you're left with wispy sinews of a story that existed to draw you from set piece to set piece.

The counterpoint to something like Fallout 3 and 4 would probably be Cyberpunk 2077, which, for all its flaws, is basically an ARPG with a strong narrative focus, and as a result, it would hold together a bit better as a linear narrative.

Ironically, one of the strengths in BGS's writing is something that really cannot translate to the page, the reactivity. While it's not frequent, Fallout 4 and Skyrim do a pretty good job of reflecting what the player has done elsewhere in the world when interacting with NPCs. It's not always consistent, but membership in the various factions, and some previously completed quests, do flag for dialog in the future. (When joining the Railroad, it's surprisingly difficult to get Deacon's line without any reactivity.) Unfortunately, there's no way to naturally convey this in a linear narrative because those prior events will always have happened.

In the case of these kinds of open world ARPGs, the actual narrative you could draw from that is more about the specific stories your character(s) experience.

Fallout and Fallout 2 are verydifferent experiences from the later Bethesda titles. (With, New Vegas sitting somewhere between these points.) Critically, these are both games where you can reasonably play a non-combat character. So, with both of the original games, between the Good Natured trait, and the skill tagging system, it's pretty reasonable that your character might not have a combat background. That's not a problem. It is a limitation of the character, but it is not an insurmountable flaw. The fundamental difference between the Black Isle Fallouts and Bethesda's is that there will almost always be alternatives to fighting.

You can play out the story of Fallout as a conventional gruff wasteland gunslinger, wandering through another post apocalypse, or you can take on the role of a charismatic con artist who isn't particularly adept at fighting, but tries to talk their way out of violence as often as possible. Somewhat obviously, this won't always work, and violence may occur anyway (also, a full pacifist run will strongly benefit from foreknowledge of what you're looking at, so that you can avoid quests with mandatory combat, and avoid a few fights that might appear forced but can be avoided through careful preparation.)

I'd argue that the latter is a more interesting story. There are a lot of cases in Fallout and Fallout 2 where the non-combat solution is a lot more interesting and amusing, than simply pulling a gun and starting a combat encounter, even if it can be seriously satisfying to just start carving your way through New Reno.

As for the character's proficiency with combat? Fallout and Fallout 2 will punish you for not speccing into combat, and then getting into fights. Again, this isn't a storytelling problem, if you have a character who starts their story with a deficiency, then it should hamper them for awhile. Eventually, this is something that a character can recover from if they live long enough. It's reasonable to have a character who can't do everything, and that includes being unable to fight. It's also reasonable for them to eventually overcome some of those limitations, through hard work, and commitment.

The original Fallout games were about a post apocalypse that was in the process of rebuilding. There's a lot of lawless territory, and places where petty despots hold sway, but there's also new civilizations getting started, and there are places for socially skilled characters within. It's something that can easily be lost in post apocalyptic narratives that focus on combatant protagonists. I don't think this is a problem, per se, but it's something that Fallout and Fallout 2 considered. You are free to pursue other roles (even if a number of those options in Fallout 2 are a bit... “shallow.”)

As for 3 and 4, the problem isn't so much that the various characters evolve into combat gods, it's how quickly they do so.

A play-through of Fallout 3 will take the player character from being a normal-ish teenager to a battle hardened slayer of men in about six in-game hours. (Which works out to about 18 minutes.) After that, your character will be ready to blast their way through entire camps of borderline feral bandits in pursuit of whatever shiny objects they may be carrying.

Fallout 4 isn't much better. The player character (whichever one you're playing) goes from domestic bliss to casually murdering the locals in less than a day (unless you choose to deliberately procrastinate, and rework Sanctuary into an armed compound, instead of trying to find your son.)

In both cases, like I said, the problem isn't that they become skilled combatants, it's how easy and fast it is to get them there. Again, this is a function of how those games are designed, and not a narrative consideration. The introduction to Fallout 4 already drags enough that most players are going to skip the pre-war and Vault 111 sequences on subsequent playthroughs, just load the exit confirmation save and reconfigure their character, if they want to go again. (Or use an alternate start mod.) And, without any external context, it doesn't make a lot of sense that within hours of touching a handgun for the first time, Nora is blasting her way through entire waves of raiders. The game is built around combat, and that's what we get.

If you want a combat focused, post-apocalyptic RPG sandbox with a more gradual power curve, I'd suggest looking at something like Kenshi. It's not going to give you a lot of dialog to work through, but it does have a real knack for dynamically creating stories as you try to avoid being eaten by bonedogs.

-Starke

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