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PIGs (Powered Industrial Gauntlets)

Here’s something I’m working on for my current campaign set in the PNW. Feel free to use it in your campaign if it’s helpful. Not a lot of stats yet, it’s still very much a work in progress.

Also, I had to manually format this on my phone and it’s horrible, so it’s I’m a hit fully formatted yet. Going to have to wait until I get to a PC.

In this, there is a post-war scavenger group who operate as “Breachers”, “Breachmen” or “Vault-Breakers” who have managed to obtain pre-war construction and demolition technology that they use to get into the local vaults. Because of this, only the best hidden vaults remain untouched, with the others completely empty and picked over.

What I wanted was a whole line of pre-war tools, similar to the power fist that were developed to assist with construction, logistics and demolition, prior to most jobs getting outsourced to robots.

Powered Industrial Gauntlets (or “PIGs”) were built around a common pneumatic/hydraulic forearm chassis.

Some are stand-alone, single-purpose tools while later models allowed for a worker to swap the end effector depending on the task, much like changing attachments on a skid steer.

I’m thinking for them to be able to lift heavy objects for construction, they would need some form of stabilization construction harness that could be the civilian precursor to power armor.

Industrial Assistance Harness
A lightweight exoskeletal frame worn over work clothes. Unlike Power Armor, it has no armor plating and is only intended to assist worker mobility/movement.

Designed for:
- Construction crews
- Shipyard workers
- Steel mills
- Mining
- Heavy manufacturing
- Disaster response

Features:
- Pneumatic shoulder actuators
- Hydraulic hip supports
- Powered knee joints
- Stabilizing back frame
- Battery or microfusion-powered compressor
- Counterbalance gyros

Stats:
+3 Strength
-2 Agility

- Carry Weight +100 lbs
- Cannot Sprint

Industrial Gauntlet Chassis

Every tool shares:
- Reinforced forearm
- Hydraulic wrist
- Pneumatic hose routing
- Stabilizer fins
- Emergency pressure release

Later models also had:
- Quick-lock attachment mount for tool switching

Demolition Breaker
Think jackhammer meets Power Fist but instead of punching people, it delivers repeated piston impacts. It looks like an oversized steel fist with a hardened carbide impact puck.

Uses:
- Concrete
- Asphalt
- Brick
- Foundation removal
- Tunnel excavation

Rotary Saw Module
A huge pneumatic circular saw.

Features:
- 12–16” tungsten blade
- Retractable guard
- Water cooling
- Variable RPM

Uses:
- Cutting Steel beams
- Cutting Pipe
- Cutting Timber
- Cutting Rebar
- Cutting Vehicle panels

Industrial Shears
Basically gigantic hydraulic snips. Imagine powered bolt cutters attached to your arm.

Uses:
- Cutting Rebar
- Cutting Cables
- Cutting Angle iron
- Cutting Locks
- Cutting Fencing
- Cutting Pipe

Pipe Wrench Module
Huge self-adjusting rotating jaws.

Uses:
- Gripping/lifting cylinders (gas bottles, missiles, etc)
Gripping/lifting structural members
Unscrewing seized pipe
Turning valves
Rotating machinery

Grapple Clamp
Essentially an actuated vice attachment that rotates and can be used like a hydraulic press. It has two massive rotating jaws whose pressure are measured in tons and rotates 360°.

Uses:
Grab/lift/carry engine blocks
Grab/lift/carry concrete
Grab/lift/carry I-beams
Pull wreckage

Hydraulic Spreader
Think rescue “Jaws of Life.” Opens instead of closes.

Uses:
Vehicle rescue
Opening vault doors
Lifting debris
Separating beams

Ram Plate
A blunt steel impact head.

Designed for:
Seating steel beams
Driving piles
Knocking forms apart
Compacting fill

Riveting Hammer
Shipyard classic. Automatic pneumatic hammer.

Drives:
Rivets
Pins
Heavy anchors

Auger
Heavy industrial rotating drill. Interchangeable bits.

Uses:
Rock
Concrete
Ice
Timber

Core Drill
Diamond core bit.

Uses:
Utility penetrations
Sampling concrete
Geological exploration

Plasma Cutter
Late pre-war luxury attachment. Produces a focused cutting arc. Consumes enormous power.

Uses:
Cuts thick steel
Cuts armor plate
Cuts bulkheads and pressure vessels

Magnetic Lift
Electromagnetic pad that requires powered ferrous metals.

Allows workers to:
Hold sheet steel
Carry beams
Position panels

Impact Driver
A gigantic powered wrench that produces immense torque.

Uses:
- Bridge bolts
Turbine housings
Pressure vessels

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u/dvs_sicarius — 3 days ago

▲ 78 r/Fallout2d20

Scavenging and Crafting App

EDIT: The attached image is ai-generated, I posted it because I myself prefer posts with artwork attached.

TL;DR VERSION
I’m looking for a mobile app that’s aesthetic, simple and customizeable, that would allow me to have a more complex scavenging and crafting system based on the 2d20 system, but also incorporating more complexity, such as the system in Fallout 4.

I’m neurodiverse so some options may not work as well as others for me, for reasons that are tough to explain.

FULL TEXT
I’m neurodiverse (ADHD/Autism), and one of the things I struggle with is spending a long time trying to carefully explain exactly what I’m looking for, only to get responses that clearly skimmed the first sentence and answered a completely different question.

So, please if you have a moment, I’d genuinely appreciate reading the whole post before replying though even the tl;dr above should hopefully be enough to be clear.

Please don’t reply with “just make it yourself” or “use AI to build it.” I know those are possibilities. They’re just not what I’m asking. I have tried and have had very limited success, despite sinking a lot of time into the effort.

Please don’t recommend a completely different RPG system because it handles scavenging or crafting better. I’m specifically looking for something that fits the Fallout style of scavenging and crafting.

Likewise, if you’re going to recommend something, I’d really appreciate it if it’s actually close to what I’m describing rather than simply “sort of related.”

I realize this is a very niche request and may not be something many people have ever wanted.

I’m running Fallout 2d20, and what I’d love is a mobile app dedicated to scavenging and crafting. Not a character manager. Not a VTT. Not a campaign manager.

I’ve already tried using Excel and Google Sheets also. I actually have some really great spreadsheets from the community for worldbuilding, session prep, encounter generation, inventories, etc., and they’re great for that.
But this is something different.

I’m imagining something I’d actually use at the table to answer questions like:

“Can I build a long-range recon scope for my hunting rifle?”

Or…

“What do I need to craft a Glowing Bloodpack?”

Or…

“Can we make shotgun shells?”

And with a search function, I find optics under gun mods, and with a few tweaks the app tells me what recipe/blueprint is required, necessary skills, tools, workbench, components, estimated crafting time, required ingredients, skill requirements, and other components.

The scavenging side is equally important. I’d love to define custom settings that the app remembers, so that when the party searches an abandoned pharmacy, office building, garage, or military checkpoint, the app generates Fallout-style junk that is appropriate to that location. I think it can be done by using the existing system but assigning tags to the items/components so that the app generates them in areas where that tag is expressed.

The important part is that the junk isn’t abstract.
Instead, it’s Fallout 4-style salvage.

For example:
- Hot Plate
- Desk Fan
- Typewriter
- Telephone
- Vacuum Tube
- Wonderglue
- Coffee Pot

Each item can then be scrapped into actual crafting components:

- Screws
- Springs
- Copper
- Plastic
- Steel
- Rubber
- Adhesive
- Glass
- Aluminum
- Ceramic
- etc.

Those components then become the currency for crafting weapons, armor, ammunition, chems, settlement equipment, survival gear, and weapon mods through recipes, blueprints, construction manuals, or diagrams.

What I’m not looking for is a spreadsheet replacement.

What I’m hoping exists (or maybe someone is quietly developing) is a clean, aesthetically pleasing mobile app where I can pull out my phone, tap once or twice, and immediately get detailed scavenging or crafting results that would be cumbersome to navigate in a spreadsheet.

Something with a Pip-Boy-inspired feel would obviously be amazing, but even a modern minimalist interface would be perfectly fine.

Does anything remotely like this exist, even outside the Fallout community? I’d be interested in apps that are configurable enough that I could adapt them for Fallout 2d20 with some effort.

u/dvs_sicarius — 10 days ago

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Cascadian Super Mutant Strains

I’m developing a couple of new Super Mutant strains for my Fallout 2d20 campaign set in the Pacific Northwest, and I’d love some feedback from fellow Fallout lore nerds and GMs.

My thinking is that the PNW had deep ties to West-Tek and the Enclave, along with major advances in oceanic, cybernetic, genetic, robotic, and cryogenic research before the war. Add in the region’s stockpiles of nuclear weapons, and it felt like a good opportunity to create something a little different from the standard FEV mutant.

Some of the traits I’m considering:
- Greater resistance to small arms fire
- Rapid regeneration of certain injuries
- Ability to regrow lost limbs over time
- No spoken language
- More predatory and animalistic in behavior (think the Troglodytes from Bone Tomahawk)

My goal isn’t to make them stronger for the sake of it, but to make them feel distinct from traditional Super Mutants while still fitting Fallout’s weird science aesthetic.

What kinds of mutations, weaknesses, behaviors, social structures, or lore hooks would you add to make these feel like their own unique strain rather than just “Super Mutants, but tougher”?

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u/dvs_sicarius — 1 month ago