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With this Perk you immediately gain one experience level.
”— Fallout 2 In-game descriptionHere and Now is a Fallout 2, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout Tactics, J.E. Sawyer's Fallout Role-Playing Game and Lionheart perk.
This perk "grants an additional experience level with all advantages that entails" - Except one advantage. The level you just gained has no perk, as Here and Now effectively disappears after giving you another level. This is rather fitting with the idea of a person living in the "Here and Now" by choosing this perk, gaining a small short-term advantage by sacrificing a larger long-term benefit.
Notes
- Taking this perk effectively robs you of a perk. Since there are only 20 levels in Fallout 3 (30 with Broken Steel) you're sacrificing a perk later for some skill points and extra health now. Unless you really need the level urgently, it would be in your best interest to choose a perk with more value.
- In unpatched Fallout 2, if you chose this perk at a high level, you would gain a level for every 3 levels you had already got. So if you got it at level 15 you would get 5 or 6 free levels. You would, however, get no perks for these levels.
- In Fallout 3, you cannot take this perk at level 20, unless you have Broken Steel, in which case you cannot take this perk at level 30.
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