Forum:Conversation: SPECIAL Checks

Hi people, my first post here, i've checked all the relevant pages i could think of and couldn't find an answer so i'm here to run your grey matter through a coffee filter and see what globules of useful information remain ^^

Relevant Info

I'm playing Fallout3 on Xbox360, on Normal difficulty and have all the downloadable content.

Question

I'm trying to build a character setup that will allow me to hit all the minimum requirements for SPECIAL/Skill checks during in-game conversations. Can anyone tell me what setup would allow me to meet most if not all of these checks ?

Example of a Special/Skill check

During the "Radiation" section of the "Wasteland Survival Guide" quest a Perception check occurs during coversation with Moira whereby the player character can answer "If i listen closely i can hear my genes crying" if his/her Perception is at 7 or over.

Reasoning

I understand that i could aquire the relevant information should i choose to trawl through every single quest walkthrough on the wiki but having only played at most 5% of the game so far i understandably dont wish to spoil the storyline/sidequests for myself. I'm hoping that those of you who have played the game exhaustively will be able to at least give me some rough numbers to aim for. It goes without saying that for this build i'll be taking the Ladykiller and Child at Heart Perks so don't worry about including info for incidents when those checks occur.

I have some form of OCD and i've lost count of the amount of times i've restarted due to not being happy with my build, never made it past level 8 yet ><

Help a poor retard enjoy this truly excellent "but incredibly frustrating" game please. :)

Thankyou.

Vaultperv 18:48, November 9, 2009 (UTC)

Just get Broken Steel if you don't already have it, then powerlevel until level 30, then take almost perfect. Then you can go bobblehead hunting, and after you max out all your stats, you can finally do all the quests.

Or minimize on charisma and luck, as I've never seen a special check for those. --Oboromaru 19:00, November 9, 2009 (UTC)


 * You need at least a Charisma of 4 to get the Child at Heart and Scoundrel perks. So, minimizing it isn't an option for him, since he wants the Child at Heart perk.  LVTDUDE 20:30, November 9, 2009 (UTC)

I don't have a comprehensive answer for you, but a quick skim of the Wasteland Survival Guide wiki page shows that each of the special conversation options requires a 7 in its respective SPECIAL. There appears to be no special conversation item for Luck, but there is one for each of the other six stats. Just to meet those 6 requirements would require 6 x 7 + 1 = 57 SPECIAL points, which is certainly possible, but I don't know if there is a Luck conversation tree somewhere or higher requirements for other conversation trees. (It's difficult to find in the Wiki without looking up every NPC.) If you want to be perfectly certain, simply level up to 30, take Almost Perfect and then collect the 7 Bobble heads all before talking to anyone ;) CHA1N5 1600 CST, November 10, 2009.

take the life giver perk before beggining The Oasis quest. and you will need Gun Nut for a few Perk Related Trees. there are a few others but i cant think of what they are but i think every perk and Special gets a speech tree at some point. Antily3f 16:46, November 12, 2009 (UTC)