Discuss the uses of Mentats, And who made it..

Mentats. They seem like those Pez candy things to me.

They're useful for me. Although they are the only drug I get an unwanted addiction to. (Med-X FTW)

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Mentats appear to be a stimulant. That's about all I can come up with.

They remind me of candy... yet I never use them.

I'd say they are one of the most important items in a role playing game...

i pop mentants constantly before speaking to people-

i mean, who wants to talk to someone with bad breath?

:)

seriously though, there are no toothbrushes left in the world after the atomic destruction, so breath mints would be worth gold~

gold i tells ya!

and just imagine ghoul breath....200 years of gingivitis and butt breath!!

and those poor wasteland souls who have never brushed their teeth and can't afford mentats who smell my minty fresh breath- i bet it drives them crazy jealous, and just a little sad inside..


yep, my job is driving poor wasteland denizens to alcohol abuse with my minty fresh breath...

I always want to know something..... mentants, and others, are drugs, or only chems?

Mentats are freaking awesome.

But they have the scariest most bat[censored] insane side effect..

In fallout 2, It changed the bones of a Human into an alien-esqe skeleton.

Mentats is a drug, But I don't think it was an Illegal Drug.

turn them into party time mentats, pop them for +10 sppech or barter. seems useful to me.

I did'nt mean the game stats but what they are in the game universe..

Compressed and dried human flesh in the shape of round tablets.

:blink: Cannibals.. All of them.

Yup.
Every single person in Fallout is a cannibal.
Brahmins are made of human flesh.
Plants grow out small fetuses which they crop.
And hell, even Nuka-Cola has human blood in it.
It's great to be a cannibal in Fallout.

No doubt they are quite useful in-universe. Joe Average Dustfarmer probably has very low skills, and Mentats can give him a proportionately huge bonus when he needs it, for example when trying to figure out some new machinery or hunting elusive game or solving an engineering problem. It's easy to forget that the player, as in most RPGs, is supernaturally gifted and most people aren't so lucky.

What was the everyday purpose of mentats..

Mentats (or Party Mentats) are essential to my style of playing because they provide +4 lockpick and +4science (by way of +2 INT and +2 PER).

Combined with Tumblers Today or Programmer's Digest (and Comprehension perk), they enable you to open any very hard lock or hack any very hard computer terminal with 76 science or 76 lockpick

Mentats...The Fresh Maker :wink_smile:

Party Mentats=Win

Maybe it was developed for politicians.
And then got leaked to the main-stream market.

Med-X FTW indeed. My favorite chem both for it's in-game effects, and it's implied IRL derivative, morphine :hubbahubba:
I cracked up when I talked to a prosttute in Gomorrah and she says "Hey baby, you want a go?", and I replied "How about we just split this Med-X and...relax..." :goodjob:

Win, here a cookie for you :cookie:

Chems is a category that covers all the things you ingest that are not food or water. Drugs are just a subset of Chems.

Like soylent green! Haha! I like them, I use them occasionally for that extra boost, now imagine how much those graqe/orange/whatever flavored ones from back east would be worth!

This pre-war chem was created by Med-Tek. They were designed to increase memory related functions and speed up other mental processes. These red pills were a popular party drug, widely appreciated for their effect on creativity.[1]

Mentats were sold in both cardboard and tin packagings, the latter a bit more likely to survive the nuclear holocaust.

They are, of course, highly addictive.

Wiki

FO1, FO2, Tactics and New Vegas we get a charisma bonus from them.

The difference between legal drugs and illegal drugs is a political thing, so let's avoid that. However in the Fallout universe it appears that drugs are in fact legal, just frowned upon perhaps.

Edit: I'm speaking about Pre-War America. Post-War America, everything is legal essentially... The side-effect of total anarchy.

I think pre-war med-x would require prescription.....but after the war no one cares.