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Fallout: The Roleplaying Game Starter Set Reviewed

Jeff McAleer

Apr 13, 2024

Title: Fallout – The Roleplaying Game Starter Set

Publisher: Modiphius Entertainment and Bethesda Softworks

Authors: Donathin Frye, Nathan Dowdell, and Sam Webb

Artist: Michal E. Cross

Year: 2022

Genre: Post-apocalyptic roleplaying game starter set based on the hit video game series

Pages: 122 pages total

MSRP: $34.00 for the boxed set or $12.00 in PDF at DriveThruRPG

I share my review of the starter set for Fallout: The Roleplaying Game from Modiphius Entertainment and Bethesda Softworks. The boxed set includes the rules, an introductory adventure, custom dice, pre-generated characters, and tokens to introduce you to the game.

The box set normally carries an MSRP of $34.00 but is currently on sale – to mark the premiere of the Fallout series on Amazon Prime – for about $23.00. Right now you can also score the PDF for a sale price of $8.04 (normally $12.00) at DriveThruRPG.

SUMMARY

The Fallout: The Roleplaying Game Starter Set is packed with value. Granted, as with most starter sets, there aren't any character creation rules but you do get a solid amount of the core rules in order to run the game. There's also a lengthy adventure which is quite well done and the custom dice are almost worth the purchase alone. I do have minor quibbles but, as we see with just about all the outside IPs Modiphius Entertainment tackles for RPGs, this really shines and captures the feel of the video game series world.

Jeff McAleer

Founder/Editor-in-chief of The Gaming Gang website and host of The Gaming Gang Dispatch and other TGG media, Jeff tackles any and all sorts of games but has a special fondness for strategy, conflict sims, and roleplaying games. Plus, he's certainly never at a loss for an opinion...