Love your Fallout maps man! So amazing. Are you planning on doing more vaults or maps? Would love to see more that I can use in my Fallout over Vermont campaign.
Thanks a ton for your lovely comment my friend. Could you please give me a bit inspiration what kind of Vault map you'd think would be nice? Something unique or from Fallout canon?
How about a vault that is made with the technology of an old Ben and Jerry's ice cream factory? In the fallout of Vermont, the famous ice cream creators Ben and Jerry's constructed their own smaller vault away from the influence of Vault Tec. A smaller vault for the workers of Ben and Jerry's (as well as the owners) and their families, this vault is a more wholesome tale of a small group of Vermonters who went away in their vault so they can make ice cream in the new world. This vault has the best refrigeration and ice cream creating units. Ac blows through to create an outdoor Vermont atmosphere, and a large room has been terraformed to look like the winter snow covered forest of Vermont. Allowing vault dwellers to still be somewhat connected to nature on their breaks away from ice cream making. Very fall and winter Vermont themed vault.
Or how about a vault run by robots for robots? So maybe the vault would be redone to be very shiny and chrome. Pristine vault condition. But maybe in the back of the vault could be a room or two just heaped with bodies of the original vault dwellers (a bit of a secret horror themed vault).
Both are amazing ideas, however the Vermont theme is a problem because I simply couldn't find any winter assets. If I had winter asssets I have so many maps waiting in the queue.
But the Robot vault... That's incredible. How about a super-computer (AI maybe) that was a trusty companion to Seer at first but when the Seer died, the AI didn't like the way new Seer behaved and all of a sudden lost control and took over the Vault; with a bloody revolution?
One small thing about the timings. We are expecting a baby in a few weeks and I'm a bit occupied at the moment :P I'll try my best tho.
Just got your Atomic vault bundle. mostly just wanted to us vault 74. going to have players start in that vault. do you happen to have a KEY for what certain rooms could be used for? like the bottom 4 rectangular rooms. the far left one no idea what to make that room.
Hey friend! First of all thanks a bunch for your support, I hope you and your players will have a blast
Normally I'm not making keys for my maps because I'm letting GMs free to use their imagination without limitations. However, since you asked I can describe from my own games:
1. At the south east corner, there's an elevator which raiders couldn't hack and open. Therefore, the whole underlevel is untouched and still functioning. However, after the upper floors were raided the Seer got a breakdown and after initiating the lockdown he killed himself, locking everything out. Unfortunately the people at the underlevel also couldn't exit and they died due to thirst.
2. Vault 74 was experimenting with immortality through chemicals and blood transfusion. So the 4 rooms at the south - south west are the laboratories where the R&D team was researching the chemicals and doing actual experiments. This is also the reason the elevator had super high security. Each lab from right to left has a different security level. The one at the most right has the lowest while the most left one has the highest clearance level. As you can see from the door lights, the only one open is also the most right one. All others require some good hacking or other skills to enter.
3. In my game, the players must enter each one of them and reach research notes in order to figure out how they can brew this experimental chemical. However when they enter the last room, they're gonna realize one of the workers locked down their computer (red light) and the only way to get into it is a super high hacking skill. If no one could, then they're gonna make only 1 dose of experimental drug because that locked computer was actually needed to learn how to duplicate the serum.
4. In my game experimental serum will grant 1 permanent Endurance SPECIAL if used on self. If they manage to hack the last computer, they're going to be able to make up to 4 doses (or how many players are in the game). Each serum can be used only once and if you use the 2nd dose, it will make you lose 1 permanent charisma because it will turn your skin greenish color; without giving anything extra.
5. If they can manage to enter the Seer's office, they can try to lockpick the safe behind the desk where all 4 scientists' access cards were kept. With these access cards they don't have to hack computers or doors. They open everything.
6. The room with glowing mushrooms has the containers that are required to brew the experimental brew. However the room is extremely radioactive. If they think there's an unlimited amount, nope. 99.9% of the ingredients are expired hence the high radiation because some of the nuclear materials even melted down. So they will find ingredients here enough for 1 dose only (which they can duplicate with a special technique)
7. The last room at the west is the Fusion Reactor. It's still functioning but due to lack of maintenance for 100s years it protected itself to work in backup mode, providing minimal energy enough for only life support units and computers.
I hope this will give you some inspiration. Sorry for a very short story but I don't want to spoil your imagination.
Thank you so much for this write up. It has been super informative and helped me plan how to implement this into my campaign. Your artwork is incredible and the attention to detail is second to none. I would love it if you would consider doing similar write ups for the other vault maps you've made. It's clear you have a story you're intending to tell with each map and room but it's not always obvious what everything is intended to be as an outsider looking in. I understand that you want GMs to be free to create their own story but having a baseline to work from would be extremely helpful.
Anyway, just wanted to send along that feedback and request. I hope you create more Fallout/Vault maps in the future. I know I will buy all of them. Thanks again!
Hey buddy, first of all thanks so much sparing time to write this beautiful comment. I'm trying my best and I make my maps in a way I love to play with my players. Therefore I guess my efforts bear fruits :)
And since you find it useful, I'll definitely write "my own" story what I'm using them for so it can inspire GMs even more.
Thanks again, I'm so happy to read your comment. Take care!
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Love your Fallout maps man! So amazing. Are you planning on doing more vaults or maps? Would love to see more that I can use in my Fallout over Vermont campaign.
Thanks a ton for your lovely comment my friend. Could you please give me a bit inspiration what kind of Vault map you'd think would be nice? Something unique or from Fallout canon?
How about a vault that is made with the technology of an old Ben and Jerry's ice cream factory? In the fallout of Vermont, the famous ice cream creators Ben and Jerry's constructed their own smaller vault away from the influence of Vault Tec. A smaller vault for the workers of Ben and Jerry's (as well as the owners) and their families, this vault is a more wholesome tale of a small group of Vermonters who went away in their vault so they can make ice cream in the new world. This vault has the best refrigeration and ice cream creating units. Ac blows through to create an outdoor Vermont atmosphere, and a large room has been terraformed to look like the winter snow covered forest of Vermont. Allowing vault dwellers to still be somewhat connected to nature on their breaks away from ice cream making. Very fall and winter Vermont themed vault.
Or how about a vault run by robots for robots? So maybe the vault would be redone to be very shiny and chrome. Pristine vault condition. But maybe in the back of the vault could be a room or two just heaped with bodies of the original vault dwellers (a bit of a secret horror themed vault).
Thanks!
Both are amazing ideas, however the Vermont theme is a problem because I simply couldn't find any winter assets. If I had winter asssets I have so many maps waiting in the queue.
But the Robot vault... That's incredible. How about a super-computer (AI maybe) that was a trusty companion to Seer at first but when the Seer died, the AI didn't like the way new Seer behaved and all of a sudden lost control and took over the Vault; with a bloody revolution?
One small thing about the timings. We are expecting a baby in a few weeks and I'm a bit occupied at the moment :P I'll try my best tho.
Cheers!
Congrats brother! And yes, that's a super cool idea.
Just got your Atomic vault bundle. mostly just wanted to us vault 74. going to have players start in that vault. do you happen to have a KEY for what certain rooms could be used for? like the bottom 4 rectangular rooms. the far left one no idea what to make that room.
Hey friend! First of all thanks a bunch for your support, I hope you and your players will have a blast
Normally I'm not making keys for my maps because I'm letting GMs free to use their imagination without limitations. However, since you asked I can describe from my own games:
1. At the south east corner, there's an elevator which raiders couldn't hack and open. Therefore, the whole underlevel is untouched and still functioning. However, after the upper floors were raided the Seer got a breakdown and after initiating the lockdown he killed himself, locking everything out. Unfortunately the people at the underlevel also couldn't exit and they died due to thirst.
2. Vault 74 was experimenting with immortality through chemicals and blood transfusion. So the 4 rooms at the south - south west are the laboratories where the R&D team was researching the chemicals and doing actual experiments. This is also the reason the elevator had super high security. Each lab from right to left has a different security level. The one at the most right has the lowest while the most left one has the highest clearance level. As you can see from the door lights, the only one open is also the most right one. All others require some good hacking or other skills to enter.
3. In my game, the players must enter each one of them and reach research notes in order to figure out how they can brew this experimental chemical. However when they enter the last room, they're gonna realize one of the workers locked down their computer (red light) and the only way to get into it is a super high hacking skill. If no one could, then they're gonna make only 1 dose of experimental drug because that locked computer was actually needed to learn how to duplicate the serum.
4. In my game experimental serum will grant 1 permanent Endurance SPECIAL if used on self. If they manage to hack the last computer, they're going to be able to make up to 4 doses (or how many players are in the game). Each serum can be used only once and if you use the 2nd dose, it will make you lose 1 permanent charisma because it will turn your skin greenish color; without giving anything extra.
5. If they can manage to enter the Seer's office, they can try to lockpick the safe behind the desk where all 4 scientists' access cards were kept. With these access cards they don't have to hack computers or doors. They open everything.
6. The room with glowing mushrooms has the containers that are required to brew the experimental brew. However the room is extremely radioactive. If they think there's an unlimited amount, nope. 99.9% of the ingredients are expired hence the high radiation because some of the nuclear materials even melted down. So they will find ingredients here enough for 1 dose only (which they can duplicate with a special technique)
7. The last room at the west is the Fusion Reactor. It's still functioning but due to lack of maintenance for 100s years it protected itself to work in backup mode, providing minimal energy enough for only life support units and computers.
I hope this will give you some inspiration. Sorry for a very short story but I don't want to spoil your imagination.
Take care!
I feel from your response you've been waiting on somebody to ask. Im definitely using part of your suggestions with my own imagination. Thank you.
Thank you so much for this write up. It has been super informative and helped me plan how to implement this into my campaign. Your artwork is incredible and the attention to detail is second to none. I would love it if you would consider doing similar write ups for the other vault maps you've made. It's clear you have a story you're intending to tell with each map and room but it's not always obvious what everything is intended to be as an outsider looking in. I understand that you want GMs to be free to create their own story but having a baseline to work from would be extremely helpful.
Anyway, just wanted to send along that feedback and request. I hope you create more Fallout/Vault maps in the future. I know I will buy all of them. Thanks again!
Hey buddy, first of all thanks so much sparing time to write this beautiful comment. I'm trying my best and I make my maps in a way I love to play with my players. Therefore I guess my efforts bear fruits :)
And since you find it useful, I'll definitely write "my own" story what I'm using them for so it can inspire GMs even more.
Thanks again, I'm so happy to read your comment. Take care!