Fallout 1 Perks

There are 53 perks in Interplay's cRPG Definition of 1997, Fallout 1. As a rule, one perk is acquired per three character levels. Since the level cap of Fallout 1 is 21, builds can therefore acquire a total of seven perks.

Perk acquisition is gated by the likes of character level, stat score or rank in skill. That is, many perks have prerequisites that must be met before they can be chosen. Some perks can be taken more than once, and their effects stack.

Perks do NOT accrue in Fallout 1. That means, for example, that you must spend your level 3 perk before reaching level 6 or you will lose the level 3 perk choice.

The utility of Fallout 1 perks ranges from highly useful to utterly useless. To avoid falling into the traps inherent in Fallout 1 character building, please refer to Fallout 1 Best Builds.

Action Boy Fallout 1

Action Boy grants +1 Action Point per rank attained. And while APs are important, you should already be swimming in APs from your AG stat, Fast Shot trait and Bonus Rate of Fire perk.

• Level required: 12
• Prerequisite: AG 5
• No. of Ranks: 3
• cf. Attacks Per Turn Fallout 1.

Animal Friend Fallout 1

With Animal Friend, non-mutated, normal animals don't attack unless provoked.

• Level required: 9
• Prerequisite: IN 5, Outdoorsman 25%
• No. of Ranks: 1

Awareness Fallout 1

Awareness allows you to see an enemy's hit points, thereby allowing you to make more informed decisions on which enemy to attack during combat. Newbies should take the Awareness perk whereas veterans should take Toughness or Quick Pockets.

• Level required: 1
• Prerequisite: PE 5
• No. of Ranks: 1

Better Criticals Fallout 1

Better Criticals confers +20% on the critical hit table, thereby inflicting more damage when scoring critical hits. Thus, BC is in high demand.

• Level required: 9
• Prerequisite: PE 6, AG 4, LK 6
• No. of Ranks: 1

Bonus HtH Attacks Fallout 1

Bonus HtH Attacks decreases HtH action point expenditure by 1 per HtH attack.

• Level required: 6
• Prerequisite: AG 6
• No. of Ranks: 1
• cf. Attacks Per Turn Fallout 1.

Bonus HtH Damage Fallout 1

Bonus HtH Damage confers +2 damage to each Unarmed and Melee Weapon attack.

 

• Level required: 3
• Prerequisite: ST 6, AG 6
• No. of Ranks: 1

Bonus Move Fallout 1

Bonus Move confers +2 movement action points per rank attained. Bonus Move is an excellent perk.

• Level required: 6
• Prerequisite: AG 5
• No. of Ranks: 3

Bonus Ranged Damage Fallout 1

Bonus Ranged Damage confers +2 damage to each ranged weapon attack.

• Level required: 6
• Prerequisite: AG 6, LK 6
• No. of Ranks: 1

Bonus Rate of Fire Fallout 1

Bonus Rate of Fire decreases Ranged Weapon action point expenditure by 1 per ranged attack.

• Level required: 9
• Prerequisite: PE 6, IN 6, AG 7
• No. of Ranks: 1

Cult of Personality Fallout 1

Cult of Personality confers a positive reputation, independent of karma.

• Level required: 12
• Prerequisite: CH 10
• No. of Ranks: 1

Dodge Fallout 1

Dodge grants +5% to armor class per rank attained.

• Level required: 9
• Prerequisite: AG 4
• No. of Ranks: 2

Earlier Sequence Fallout 1

Earlier Sequence grants +2 sequence aka "initiative" per rank attained.

• Level required: 3
• Prerequisite: PE 6
• No. of Ranks: 3

Educated Fallout 1

Educated confers +2 skillpoints per level per rank attained.

• Level required: 6
• Prerequisite: IN 6
• No. of Ranks: 3

Empathy Fallout 1

Empathy grants color-coded reaction dialogue options.

• Level required: 6
• Prerequisite: PE 7, IN 5
• No. of Ranks: 1

Explorer Fallout 1

Explorer increases the chance of finding interesting NPCs and locations in random encounters.

• Level required: 9
• Prerequisite: n/a
• No. of Ranks: 1

Faster Healing Fallout 1

Faster Healing grants +1 bonus to healing rate per rank attained.

• Level required: 3
• Prerequisite: EN 6
• No. of Ranks: 3

Flower Child Fallout 1

Flower Child reduces the chances of chem addiction by 50%, and halves chem-withdrawal time.

• Level required: 9
• Prerequisite: EN 5
• No. of Ranks: 1

Fortune Finder Fallout 1

Fortune Finder increases the amount of money found in wasteland random encounters.

• Level required: 6
• Prerequisite: LK 8
• No. of Ranks: 1

Friendly Foe Fallout 1

Friendly Foe identifies non-hostiles on the battlescape with green highlights.

• Level required: 6
• Prerequisite: PE 4
• No. of Ranks: 1

Ghost Fallout 1

Ghost confers +20% to the Sneak skill when in darkness.

• Level required: 6
• Prerequisite: Sneak 60%
• No. of Ranks: 1

Healer Fallout 1

Healer grants +2-5 hitpoints when healing via First Aid or Doctor skills.

• Level required: 3
• Prerequisite: PE 7, IN 5, AG 6, First Aid 40%
• No. of Ranks: 3

Heave Ho Fallout 1

Per rank attained, Heave Ho grants +2 Strength for the purposes of determining range with thrown weapons.

• Level required: 6
• Prerequisite: n/a
• No. of Ranks: 3

Lifegiver Fallout 1

Lifegiver bestows 4 additional Hit points per rank attained.

• Level required: 12
• Prerequisite: EN 4
• No. of Ranks: 3

Master Thief Fallout 1

Master Thief bestows +10% to Sneak, Lockpick, Steal and Traps skills.

• Level required: 12
• Prerequisite: n/a
• No. of Ranks: 1

Master Trader Fallout 1

Master Trader grants 25% discount at traders.

 

• Level required: 9
• Prerequisite: CH 7. Barter 60%
• No. of Ranks: 1

Medic Fallout 1

Medic bestows a one-time 20% bonus to First Aid and Doctor skills.

• Level required: 12
• Prerequisite: n/a
• No. of Ranks: 1

Mental Block Fallout 1

Mental Block grants immunity to psychic attacks inflicted by The Master.

• Level required: 15
• Prerequisite: n/a
• No. of Ranks: 1

More Criticals Fallout 1

More Criticals confers +5% to critical hit chance per rank attained.

• Level required: 6
• Prerequisite: LK 6
• No. of Ranks: 3

Mr Fixit Fallout 1

Mr. Fixit grants +20% to Repair and Science skills.

• Level required: 12
• Prerequisite: n/a
• No. of Ranks: 1

Mutate Fallout 1

Mutate allows you to swap one trait for another. For example, Finesse mutated into Fast Shot.

• Level required: 9
• Prerequisite: n/a
• No. of Ranks: 1

Mysterious Stranger Fallout 1

Mysterious Stranger grants a chance that the MS ally will be summoned.

• Level required: 6
• Prerequisite: LK 7
• No. of Ranks: 1

Night Vision Fallout 1

Night Vision reduces darkness level by 10% per rank attained.

• Level required: 3
• Prerequisite: PE 3
• No. of Ranks: 3

Pathfinder Fallout 1

Pathfinder reduces Fallout 1 world map travel time by 25% per rank attained.

• Level required: 6
• Prerequisite: EN 6
• No. of Ranks: 1

Pickpocket Fallout 1

Pickpocket ignores size and facing modifiers when stealing.

• Level required: 9
• Prerequisite: AG 8, Sneak 80%
• No. of Ranks: 1

Presence Fallout 1

Presence increases the initial reaction of NPCs by 10% per rank attained.

• Level required: 3
• Prerequisite: CH 6
• No. of Ranks: 3

Quick Pockets Fallout 1

Quick Pockets reduces the action point expenditure of accessing the inventory by 1 AP per rank attained.

• Level required: 3
• Prerequisite: AG 5
• No. of Ranks: 3

Rad Resistance Fallout 1

Rad Resistance grants +10% radiation resistance per rank attained.

• Level required: 6
• Prerequisite: EN 6, IN 4
• No. of Ranks: 3

Ranger Fallout 1

Ranger lowers the chances of being waylaid by hostiles on the overworld.

• Level required: 6
• Prerequisite: PE 6
• No. of Ranks: 3

Scout Fallout 1

Scout increases world map exploration by visibilizing one extra square in each direction.

• Level required: 3
• Prerequisite: PE 8
• No. of Ranks: 1

Scrounger Fallout 1

Scrounger doubles the amount of ammo found in random encounters on the overworld.

• Level required: 9
• Prerequisite: LK 8
• No. of Ranks: 1

Sharpshooter Fallout 1

Sharpshooter grants +2 Perception for the purposes of range determination for each rank attained.

 

• Level required: 6
• Prerequisite: PE 7, IN 6
• No. of Ranks: 2

Silent Death Fallout 1

Silent Death inflicts double damage HtH attacks.

 

• Level required: 18
• Prerequisite: AG 10, Sneak 80%
• No. of Ranks: 1

Silent Running Fallout 1

Silent Running allows the assassin to run while in Sneak mode.

• Level required: 6
• Prerequisite: AG 6, Sneak 50%
• No. of Ranks: 1 

Slayer Fallout 1

Slayer upgrades all HtH attacks to critical hits.

• Level required: 18
• Prerequisite: ST 8, AG 8
• No. of Ranks: 1

Smooth Talker Fallout 1

Smooth Talker increases Intelligence for the purposes of dialogue by 1 for each rank attained. 

• Level required: 3
• Prerequisite: IN 4
• No. of Ranks: 3

Snakeater Fallout 1

Snakeater confers +25% poison resistance.

• Level required: 6
• Prerequisite: EN 3
• No. of Ranks: 1

Sniper Fallout 1

Sniper upgrades all ranged attacks to critical hits if a LK roll is also made.

• Level required: 18
• Prerequisite: PE 8, AG 8, Small Guns 80%
• No. of Ranks: 1

Speaker Fallout 1

Speaker grants a one-time +20% to Speech and Barter skills.

• Level required: 12
• Prerequisite: n/a
• No. of Ranks: 1

Strong Back Fallout 1

Strong Back increases carry weight by 50 lbs per rank attained.

• Level required: 3
• Prerequisite: ST 6, EN 6
• No. of Ranks: 3

Survivalist Fallout 1

Survivalist confers +20% to Outdoorsman for the purposes of survival checks per rank attained.

• Level required: 3
• Prerequisite: EN 6, IN 6
• No. of Ranks: 3

Swift Learner Fallout 1

Swift Learner grants +5 experience points per level per rank attained.

• Level required: 3
• Prerequisite: IN 4
• No. of Ranks: 3

Tag Fallout 1

Tag allows the tagging of a fourth skill.

• Level required: 12
• Prerequisite: n/a
• No. of Ranks: 1

Toughness Fallout 1

Toughness grants +10% damage resistance for each rank attained.

• Level required: 3
• Prerequisite: EN 6, LK 6
• No. of Ranks: 3

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