I'd love to RP on Fallout but I haven't seen any opportunities. Do any of you role play, any suggestions on what to do? Anything from badass to civilian.

This is from another RP thread I posted in:

Kiva and Kain are coming over from the wasteland.

Kain, after getting into an argument with Wadsworth again, decided that he was bored. Same old same old. He was swimming in caps, and living the good life.
So he hosted the biggest part the wasteland had ever seen, and blew all his caps on it. Then, he used his only remaining caps to gather enough supplies to travel to the Mojave wastes.

Kiva on the other hand, got a lift with a regiment of Brotherhood of Steel soldiers, who were heading over to the Mojave wasteland to check on some...disturbing reports they'd been having about some people known as 'Caesar's Legion'.
A poor woman had ended up unconcious outside the citadel. She said that she was from the Mojave wasteland, and her whole family had been crucified by the Legion. She died shortly after, and no one knew how she made it all the way to the Citadel. With a heavy heart she left Dogmeat in the care of paladin Cross, and joined the soldiers. The wasteland didn't need her anymore.

There's tons of RP opportunity in NV, way more than Fallout 3. You can make the Maryest of Mary Sues like the ones above, or you can be a alcoholic cowboy, naive NCR soldier, suave gambler, the possibilities are endless.

Well....


Ostracised Feind: low Intelligence, speciallize only in melee/hand to hand with a weaker Energy Weapons backup for distance. Even better, be a true tribal and seek out spears and hatchets to throw. If you are crafty and can clear out the tribal Village of Cazzies early then you have a fine selection of Raider Armors, melee weapons and a camp at your disposal. A stealth boy might help with this. Once set up, raid raid murder kill. Join the Great Khans eventually?


White Glove Ponce: High Intelligence, charisma, speech. Alwasy impeccibly dressed, avoids the wasteland, when travelling always stays to roads and never ventures too far off alone. Hardly any combat experience or aptitude. Relies on Followers? Could be a science-buff. Fun for an evil character. Tryto rush to Vegas Strip early game.

Time Traveller: Wear an Old Cowboy hat and a BrightBrotherhood robe and pretend you are DoctorWho or something. Use only the highest of high tech and pecialize in all "Scientist" related perks and skills. Have an agenda, because there HAS to be a reason for your time travelling. ^^

Sheriff: be the sheriff. All pistol perks. Time to finally pick Fast Draw and that reloading perk lol

I felt like I was being forced to roleplay in this game. First time I have ever done even though I have owned Fallout 3 and Oblivion both with multiple characters and 100+ hours sunk into them.

The Sniper.

My character was just a smooth operator who tended to avoid combat using his wit and his ability to move unnoticed., bar ranged.

Now he has met Boone he has enlisted him to be part of a Sniper prospecting unit who also act as wasteland justice. The unit consists of ED-E the spotter and we the snipers. We try to aid NCR forces as best we can in order to gain access to key hilltop positions and vital supplies to keep us on the move. We take down Caesar's troops for lucrative prizes and to keep them suppressed on the border. We go by the motto 'The last thing you never saw' taken from the NCR sniper unit as we act on their behalf however we are more free and pay our own wages.

Still I hadn't intended on this being my kinda thing but it just kinda happened and I'm having so much fun exploring and destroying legion camps that I have wandered off from doing the main quest or any. Fallout 3 didn't have this aspect for me, I think this is down to lack of challenge and of characterisation of factions/characters.

Roleplaying in NV is far easier and more rewarding than in FO3. In FO3, it's basically impossible to roleplay a bad guy. Anyone that does is ignoring the entire back story that is FORCED on you. You had a mother who gave her life for you. You have a loving father. You have a best female friend with a crush on you. After all that, you're going to claim your character likes blowing up Towns, killing innocent people, and siding with the Enclave after they murder his loving father?

In New Vegas you're a courier. That's it. You're just a dude/dudette in the wasteland trying to make some caps and feed yourself. You can join up with a bloated, fairly corrupt, democratic government, a slave nation ruled by a man who renamed himself after a Roman Emperor, an idealistic democratic group full of scientists, a suave capitalist who runs Vegas, a gang... etc. The choices are nigh limitless, and the backstory that got you there is all your choice. As the above poster said, the game almost forces you to roleplay.

It's just too bad that until some clever storywriting content modders come up with some goodies, the game's idea of playing a sympathetic Legionnaire or smooth-talking kingpin is running around gunning down every single settlement you come across.

There are also plenty of in-game characters that you can RP as, when I am done with my current suave gambler I am planning on making a RP based on Doc Mitchell :tops:

Roleplaying, to me, is a lot like drinking.

It's something done socially. With other people, it is perfectly acceptable.

When done alone, in the middle of the afternoon, it means you have a problem.