User Guide

STEP #2: SELECT THREE TAG SKILLS
Skills are learned abilities. As you gain experience, your skills
will improve, unlike your basic statistics. All skills have a skill level,
expressed as a percentage. The higher the skill level, the more like-
ly you are to succeed at using that skill.
Tag Skills define what skills you are especially good at. They
are your specializations, if you will. Every new vault-dweller must
select three Tag Skills to specialize in. You cannot leave the charac-
ter editor without selecting all three.
You will get an immediate +20% in all three of your Tag Skills,
but even more importantly, they will grow faster from experience
than a normal skill. You will get twice the improvement when you
spend skill points in them (see Experience, page 5—21).
Click on the skill name to display the information card.
Click on the small button to the left of the skill name to Tag that
skill. If you wish to deselect a Tag Skill, simply click the button
again. Tag skills are highlighted in a different color to remind you of
their status.
Some skills are automatically used when you do something.
Other skills require that you actively use them. Those skills can be
used from the Skilldex (see page 4—16).
To help you choose your Tag Skills, we now present the complete
skill list.
Complete Skill List
Small Guns, Big Guns, Energy Weapons, Unarmed, Melee
Weapons, and Throwing are all combat skills. They govern the use
of weapons and attacks in combat. They are also used automatical-
ly when you attack an opponent.
Small Guns. This skill covers the use of pistols, sub-machine
guns, rifles and shotguns. The higher your Small Guns skill the eas-
ier it will be for you to hit your target, and the longer effective range
you will have in combat.
Initial Level. Starting Small Guns skill is equal to 35% +
(1% x Agility). Average characters will have a 40%.
Big Guns. This is the skill of flamers, miniguns, rocket
launchers and other large support weapons. If it’s a large weapon,
you can count on Big Guns being the skill rolled against. Like Small
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