Homebrew Fallout Ghoul Species Details
Funny thing about ghouls, before mutation they could be the nicest guy or gal you may know, but something about losing all of your skin... He laughs Turns you into a racist hard ass.
Seen as either a blessing or a curse, Ghouls are the result of constant and high doses of radiation exposure to normal humans. This sees them lose their skin, nose, and perhaps other qualities but also renders them completely immune to radiation. However, continued exposure and/or time can result in the destruction of the brain, and leave a ghoul to become feral, a zombie who is extremely aggressive to everything besides other ghouls and sometimes humans they may recognize from their old lives.
A loss of everything besides your facial features
Whether your skin was colored like bronze or white as snow ghoulifacation results in a person's skin becoming a dark pink fleshy color all over, and looking ripped or torn everywhere on the body. It seems it also affects your vocal cords, making Ghouls sound extremely raspy when they speak, almost like they are constantly dying of dehydration. However, height, body weight, and bone structure are completely unaffected, it seems to only affect one's exterior.
Adversity and fear are everywhere
As a result of your mutation, you are left looking extremely different from who you may have once been and this is commonly shunned and hated by a majority of the wasteland. This may result in Ghouls being banned from stores, service in militaries, or exiled entirely from communities.
Everyone is racist.
No matter how charasmatic you may be, people simply dispise ghouls and mutants as a whole. This is a stance seen all over the wasteland, exept for by some, but the stances of the many may out do the few and see to it that racism to ghouls stays around like a sore thumb.
Vincent Fredrickson, Enclave Soldier: “Ghouls? They are just like Super Mutants in my book, mutated abominations that should be purged. Simple enough.”
Logan Ofedia, Brotherhood Knight: “Dangerous mutants, thats how I see them. If we enlisted ghouls, what if they turned feral while sleeping next to you or on top of your bunk? The Brotherhood can't take chances like that.”
Maria Cook, Child Of Atom: “Personally, and my other brothers and sisters see it like this too, I think ghouls are some of the most blessed by Atom. They are challanged by Atom everyday with the risk of becoming feral, but are also granted his gifts in the form of pratical immortality and complete resistance to the damages his glow may cause to the uninducted.”
Community and Solitude
Ghouls are known for forming large conclaves and communities made up entirely of just ghouls, or simply hiding away from the world in solitude. These are the result of constant racism within the wasteland and from the stance or exile of multiple wasteland communities.
Ghoul Names
Ghouls keep the same names they had as a human, and rarely change them.
Fallout Ghoul Traits
Ghouls are built for the wasteland, and have these traits.Ability Score Increase
Your ability scores each increase by 1, and constitution by another 2.
Age
It seems that you are stuck at the age you mutate at when you turn into a ghoul but live for around 500 more years than normal humans.
Size
Ghouls vary widely in height and build, from barely 5 feet to well over 6 feet tall. Regardless of your position in that range, your size is Medium.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Languages
You can speak, read, and write Common.
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