u/UndeadPriest94

One thing I'm liking about how the Fallout show is handling ghouls is making them have varying degrees of decay, with some looking more corpse-like than others,. without it having to do with age. At your worse, you got Set, looking like an emaciated corpse. Then you got ghouls like Charon, who's nasty but not set-levels of nasty. Then you got Hancock, who looks not that bad for a ghoul. And then you got Cooper Howard, who's rather good-looking for a ghoul but still undeniable that he's a ghoul.

But it does make me wonder, what if there's ghouls who look so un-decayed that they're actually undistinguishable from a smooth-skin (a "smooth-ghoul" if you will)? Could be that any decay they got is easily hidden away, that the only sign is how extra worn their skin is, or perhaps there's not a single visible hint that they're a ghoul. Would certainly allow for some interesting story telling, as well as furthering the understanding we don't know everything about ghouls.

For those who don't have access to both books, here's the run-down for each of these weapons:

• Tranquilizer Pistol (Hollywood Heroes): Small Guns, 5[D] Poison Damage w/ Tranquilize 3 and Persistent damage effects, Fire Rate 0, Range C, Close Quarters and Reliable properties
• Tranquilizer SMG (Hollywood Heroes): Small Guns, 4[D] Poison Damage w/ Tranquilize 3, Burst and Persistent damage effects, Fire Rate 3, Range M, Two Handed and Inaccurate properties
  • Tranquilize X: If an attack with a Tranquilize weapon deals enough damage to trigger a Critical Hit or otherwise induce an Injury, the target does not sustain an injury but instead must make an END + Survival or BODY + Other test at difficulty of X. On a success, the attack has no effect but on a fail, target is rendered unconscious for 1 hour. If a target is reduced to 0 HP and endure an Injury (as per being reduced to 0 HP), they automatically fail the test and are rendered unconscious for 1 hour. Characters immune to poison damage or in a full suit of Power Armor are immune to this effect.
• Tranquilizer Ammunition (Royal Flush): Loaded into Syringer, weapon gains +1[D] (for 4[D] total) and Stun damage effect and target reduced to 0 HP is rendered unconscious instead of killed
  • Do consider that rulings on Syringer ammo working on poison and drug immune/resistant targets will vary between GMs and possible targets

Note, this post is which of these people would pick if only they could use/allow either only the Hollywood Heroes Tranq guns or Royal Flush Tranq Ammo for the Syringer

EDIT: Accidently posted this as "Help & Advice" when I meant "Misc." Fixed