I'm still undecided about this. Mainly because after playing point lookout my char had a piece of their brain cut out and now i've been shot through the head twice...After all this i can't realistically imagine having much going on upstairs anymore. You never know though i may decide against it and let my old char live on

Just do as my post before you... its a good background, explaining your loss of memory, your made up history, and how you arived in new vegas.

I am going to imagine this character as a brother to your character in Fallout 3. I recently met my brother and I'm 17 while he is 14 and its the best thing ever to happen to me so I think its a good role playing figure.

I am at odds with a large part of the Fallout community when it comes to my character. Your character in game already has a backstory, it's there, it is what it is... now everyone else seems to prefer ignoring this story and manufacturing their own. I do not, where my character goes i control, where he/she has been i cannot.
In the sense of stats, there are certain play styles i prefer so i often i attempt to improve my characters ability to utilize them.
I don't mean to imply that there is anything wrong with manufacturing your own backstory i just find it perplexing that such a wonderfully crafted backstory is rarely used and often times the character people choose to create does not align with the objectives ascribed in quests.

I plan on playing a new character, here is his bio.

Richard Armstrong

It may surprise you, but Richard was born at a very early age. He was born in the wastes (he doesn't really know where), as he grew up his father taught him how to shoot and always told him the most important thing in the Wastes was to know how to barter and to know how to shoot. At the age of 10, Richard's father was killed by Enclave soldiers. He then decided he would continue his fathers dream, to be one of the finest (and richest) business man in the world. Richard stumbled upon a unnamed settlement (maybe the writer was to lazy to make up a name eh?) that was safe for his mother and sister. But held nothing to help him further pursue his dream. As he was getting his mother and sister settled in, he saw an old man in a bar. Richard walked up to him slowly wondering if he was ok. The old man turned around and asked him if he wanted plentiful riches and a great life. Of course Richard answered yes, and he listened to the old man's adventurous tale of a place where entertainment was King, and where money practically grew on trees. The old man talked of a place to the West, known before the war as "Las Vegas". A place where dream came true. The old man also told him it was a business paradise, and that if you can play your cards right (ba bum tishh) you could become rich. But the road there was dangerous, and not just any one could make it. Richard told him he was an expert in combat, and that he could make it with his eyes closed. Dreams of becoming rich and fulfilling his fathers dream swirled through his head like toys at Christmas time. He thanked the old man, and ran to his mother to tell her the news. She was disappointed at the fact that they could not tag along, but she understood that it was safer were they were. So as quickly as you can say "nuke", Richard was off West. He ran into many interesting characters along the way, but that's a different story. So after two years of traveling a nuclear wasteland once known as "America". He had made it to the Mojave Wasteland. He saw a beautiful, futuristic looking tower hovering over the wastes. Lit by a lights that he had never seen before. For he knew that must be the oasis the old man spoke of. He kept walking toward the tower, and finally he made it to the gates of "The Strip". He asked what was needed for entrance to this Oasis and was displeased at the amount of bottle caps need to get inside. He asked the guard at the gate where he could get a job for this amount of coinage and the guard pointed him toward the Mojave Express, a company in need of Couriers to send packages. He walked over to the ME and asked for a job, they accepted him and gave him a package to deliver to Primm right away. He started on his quest to get there when he ran into some bandits. He got knocked out and woken up later to the sounds of shoveling and realized that he was tied up. Richard looked up to see three men chatting amongst themselves, one of them, a man in a checkered suit, saw Richard wake up and acknowledged the others. The man in the checkered suit pulled a gun out of his vest of some sort, Richard couldn't see or hear well due to injuries sustained in the struggle to knock him out. The man made a short speech that was barely audible before Richard felt the pain of being shot yet again, as he experienced many times on his travels. Only this time he was out for good. Or so we thought.......

If you could not tell by his bio. I plan for him to be based in Vegas, kissing up to Mr. House, gambling, being a pre war style business man, hanging in casinos, and doing well in combat when he needs to.

Stats
Strength: 8
Perception: 4
Endurance: 4
Charisma: 3 (I'm not sure about this yet. I won't be sure until I know if it's a dump stat like FO3 or not)
Intelligence: 7
Agility: 4
Luck: 10

Skills tagged
Guns
Lockpick
Speech

Traits
Wild Wasteland
Good Natured (that's all we know)

Outfit:
Grimy Pre-War Businesswear
Sunglasses
Pre-War Hat

I stopped thinking too much about that since I always play myself. Or an in world incarnation of me. So yeah I have been the Vault Dweller, The Chosen One, The Lone Wanderer and now again Ill reincarnate into The Currier. Is it one legendary immortal hero who has over the years worked to reshape the wastelands, a bunch of copycats or the deeds of multiple heroes attributed to one over the ages folkloric hero? B) I play the same game Bethesda plays with their TES cannon, plausible deniability.

So you're Link in the Fallout games? :huh:

nah, start fresh

New Vegas will bring to mind entirely too many great caracter concepts for me to get mired in trying to recreate any of my multitudinous Lone Wanderers, only to end up disappointed with how far off they will inevitably be. Brat Pack, Mobsters, Cowboys, Prospectors, Gamblers, Dandies, and those are just the males. Displaced east Coast ex Vault Dweller leaving Riches beyond belief and an Addoring public of some variety or at the very least an impressive mound of skulls to deliver packages in the Mojave???Not buying it.

I can understand a little nostalgia and character loyalty, that just won't be my approach...


Oh and Hi all, new here.

Wynd