Fallout: The Roleplaying Game perks

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General information

Just like in Fallout 3 and Fallout 4, the Perk Rate in Fallout: The Roleplaying Game is one perk every single level. There are 94 perks total perks available.

Many perks benefit the individual, but many perks are designed to be used in conjunction with a group, such as Armorer, Blacksmith, Gun Nut, and Science! which can have the ranks from multiple group members combined to craft higher ranked mods, or perks like Inspirational that benefit the group as whole by expanding the AP pool capacity. p

Perks

Image	Name	Level req.	Other reqs.	Ranks	Benefit
	Action Girl/Action Boy	None	None	1	Spending AP to take additional major action, do not suffer the increased skill test difficulty during the second action
	Adamantium Skeleton	Level 1 (rank 1) Level 4 (rank 2) Level 7 (rank 3)	Endurance 7	3	Increases damage required for a critical hit to all limbs
	Adrenaline Rush	None	Strength 7	1	When below max HP, count your strength as 10 for skills and weapon hits.
	Animal Friend	Level 1 (rank 1) Level 6 (rank 2)	Charisma 6	2	Rank 1: Hostile animals may roll to not attack you. Rank 2: Gain the pacify animals major action. Creatures affected:Bloodbug, Bloatfly, Brahmin, Deathclaw, Dog, Mole rat, Mutant hound, Radroach, Radstag, Stingwing, Yao Guai
	Aquagirl/Aquaboy	Level 1 (rank 1) Level 4 (rank 2)	Endurance 5	2	Immune to radiation from water and can hold breath twice as long.
	Armorer	Level 1 (rank 1) Level 5 (rank 2) Level 9 (rank 3) Level 13 (rank 4)	Strength 5 Intelligence 6	4	Can modify armor with additional mods.
	Awareness	None	Perception 7	1	Using the Aim minor action, gain +1 pierce or add 1 to a piercing effect of the used weapon
	Barbarian	Level 4	Strength 7 No robot origin	1	Physical DR on all hit locations is increased based on your Strength
	Basher	None	Strength 6	1	Increased gun bashing damage
	Better Criticals	None	Luck 9	1	Spending a Luck point to cause an automatic critical and injury on an enemy you have damaged
	Big Leagues	None	Strength 8	1	Gain the Vicious damage effect on all two-handed melee weapons
	Black Widow/Lady Killer	None	Charisma 6	1	Re-roll 1d20 on Charisma checks to influence NPCs Additionally inflict 1d6 of damage to the opposite of chosen gender
	Blacksmith	Level 2 (rank 1) Level 6 (rank 2) Level 10 (rank 3) Level 14 (rank 4)	Strength 6	4	Re-roll 1d20 on Charisma checks to influence NPCs Additionally inflict 1d6 of damage to the opposite of chosen gender
	Bloody Mess	Level 1 (rank 1)	Luck 6	1	Roll 1d6 on critical hit with rolling an effect inflicting an additional injury
	Blitz	Level 1 (rank 1) Level 4 (rank 2)	Agility 9	2	Re-roll 1d20 when moving in reach of an enemy
	Can Do!	None	Luck 5	1	Roll 1 additional random food item without spending AP
	Cap Collector	None	Charisma 5	1	Decreased buying and increased selling prices by 10%
	Cautious Nature	None	Perception 7 Daring Nature not taken	1	Re-roll 1d20 on tests if action points were spent
	Center of Mass	None	Agility 7	1	Choose to aim at the torso of an enemy without an increase in difficulty when making a ranged attack.
	Chem Resistant	Level 1 (rank 1) Level 5 (rank 2)	Endurance 7	2	Become immune to chem addiction
	Chemist	None	Intelligence 7	1	Chems created by you last twice as long and unlock new chem recipes
	Commando	Level 2 (rank 1) Level 5 (rank 2)	Agility 8	1	+1d6 of damage per rank with weapons fire rate 3 and higher
	Comprehension	None	Intelligence 6	1	Roll 1d6 after using the effect of a magazine to retain it for an additional use.
	Concentrated Fire	None	Perception 8 Agility 6	1	Allowed to re-roll 3d6 after spending additional ammunition to increase damage
	Daring Nature	None	Luck 7 Cautious Nature not taken	1	Re-roll 1d20 on tests if action points were bought from GM
	Demolition Expert	None	Perception 6 Luck 6	1	Gain the Viscous quality with weapons that have the Blast quality and unlock additional explosive recipes
	Dodger	Level 4 (rank 1) Level 10 (rank 2)	Agility 6	2	Reduce difficulty of Defend major action by 1
	Dogmeat	None	Charisma 5	1	The faithful canine companion Dogmeat
	E.M.T		Charisma	1	Provides health regeneration to revived players.
	Entomologist	None	Intelligence 7	1	Gain the 1 Piercing damage effect against all creatures with insect keyword
	Fast Metabolism	Level 1 (rank 1) Level 4 (rank 2) Level 7 (rank 3)	Endurance 6	3	+1 Hit Points per rank from any source other than resting
	Faster Healing	None	Endurance 6 No robot origin	1	1d20 can be bought for free when treating one's injuries
	Finesse	None	Agility 9	1	Once an encounter, re-roll damage dice with no Luck point spending
	Fortune Finder	Level 2 (rank 1) Level 6 (rank 2) Level 10 (rank 3)	Luck 5	3	Find additional caps when scavenging
	Ghost	None	Perception 5 Agility 6	1	Sneak tests in darkness allow for one free additional d20
	Grim Reaper's Sprint	None	Luck 8	1	Rolling 1d6 and landing an Effect, add 2 AP to the group pool
	Gun Fu	Level 1 (rank 1) Level 6 (rank 2) Level 11 (rank 3)	Agility 10	3	When succeeding at a ranged attack, may spend one AP and ammo to hit one additional target for the same damage. AP, ammo and number of targets hit increase by one for each rank. Applied damage only affects additional targets, but not Effects.
	Gun Nut	Level 2+	Intelligence 6	4	Able to create higher-level weapon mods
	Gunslinger	Level 2 (rank 1) Level 6 (rank 2)	Agility 10	2	+1d6 of damage per rank and additionally re-roll hit location d20
	Hacker	None	Intelligence 8	1	Decrease difficulty to hack computers by 1
	Healer	Level 1 (rank 1) Level 6 (rank 2) Level 11 (rank 3)	Intelligence 7	3	Heal an additional hit point per rank with first aid action
	Heave Ho!	None	Strength 8	1	Increase range of throwing weapons by one zone by spending 1 AP
	Hunter	None	Endurance 6	1	Gain the Vicious damage effect against mutated mammals, lizards, and insects
	Infiltrator	None	Perception 8	1	Re-roll 1d20 on Lockpick skill tests
	Inspirational	None	Charisma 8	1	Increase maximum group AP pool by 1
	Intense Training	Level 2 + 2 every rank	None	10	Put a single point into any of your S.P.E.C.I.A.L. attributes
	Iron Fist	Level 1 (rank 1) Level 6 (rank 2)	Strength 6	2	+1d6 to unarmed damage
	Junktown Vendor		Charisma 8	1	Charisma + Barter test attempts to buy or sell goods is reduced by 1
	Jury Rigging	None	None	1	Repair any item without using components, but suffer a greater complication range and chance for it to break.
	Laser Commander	Level 2	Perception 8	2	Increase damage with ranged energy weapons by 1d6 per rank
	Lead Belly	Level 1	Endurance 6	2	Reduced or immunity to radiation damage from food
	Lifegiver	Level 5	None	5	Increased Hit Points
	Light Step	None	None	1	Spend 1 AP to ignore one complication on Agility tests Additionally may re-roll Agility + Athletics tests involving traps
	Master Thief	None	Perception 8 Agility 9	1	+1 to opponent detection tests to notice picking a lock or pickpocket
	Medic	None	Intelligence 8	1	Re-roll 1d20 on First Aid actions
	Meltdown	None	Perception 10	1	Enemies explode and cause damage to one additional enemy in close range
	Moving Target	None	Agility 6	1	When sprinting, Defense increase +1 until next turn
	Mysterious Stranger	None	Luck 7	1	After spending a Luck point, Mysterious Strange appears to assist in combat
	Nerd Rage!	Level 2+	Intelligence 8	3	When quarter Health, gain more Physical and Energy DR to all limbs and more damage
	Night Person	None	Perception 7	1	Difficulty increases due to darkness are reduced by 1
	Ninja	None	Agility 8	1	Increased damage from unarmed and melee sneak attacks
	Nuclear Physicist	None	Intelligence 9	1	Increased damage of radiation weapons and fusion cores have 3 additional charges
	Pain Train	Level 1+	Strength 9 Endurance 7	2	Rank 1: Gain Charge major action to damage and knock prone enemies with a Str + Athletics test Rank 2: Add 1d6 and Stun damage effect
	Paralyzing Palm	None	Strength 8	1	Aimed unarmed strikes gain the stun effect
	Party Girl/Party Boy	None	Endurance 6 Charisma 7	1	Immune to alcohol addiction; gain +2 health from drinking alcohol
	Pathfinder	Level 6	Endurance 6	1	Reduce travel time by half with a successful Perception + Survival roll
	Pharma Farma	None	Luck 6	1	Find an additional medicine or chems when scavenging
	Pickpocket	None	Perception 8 Agility 8	3	Rank 1: Ignore first complication of Agility + Sneak tests Rank 2: May re-roll 1d20 on attempts to pickpocket Rank 3: Reduce difficulty by 1 when attempting a pickpocket
	Piercing Strike	None	Strength 7	1	+1 Piercing to Unarmed and bladed melee weapon attacks
	Pyromaniac	Level 2	Endurance 6	3	Increase damaged with fire-based weapons by 1d6 per rank
	Quick Draw	None	Agility 6	1	Draw an item or weapon for free
	Quick Hands	None	Agility 8	1	Spend 2 AP to double fire rate of current weapon
	Rad Resistance	None	Endurance 8	3	+1 Radiation Resistance to all limbs per rank
	Refractor	None	Perception 6 Luck 7	2	+1 Energy Resistance for all limbs per rank
	Ricochet	5	Luck 10	1	Spend 1 Luck point to ricochet ranged attacks back at attacker
	Rifleman	None	Agility 7	3	Increased damage for non-heavy twohanded weapons
	Robotics Expert	2+	Intelligence 8	3	Rank 1: Modify armor with rank 1 robot mods Rank 2: Reduce difficulty to repair robots Rank 3: Hack and reprogram robots
	Science!	2+	Intelligence 6	3	Able to create higher-level weapon and armor mods involving rare materials
	Scoundrel	None	Charisma 7	1	Ignore the first complication rolled in Charisma + Speech checks
	Scrapper	Level 5+	None	2	Rank 1: Scavenge more common and uncommon material Rank 2: Scavenge rare material
	Scrounger	Level 1+	Luck 6	3	Find larger amounts of ammunition in containers
	Shotgun Surgeon	None	Strength 5 Agility 7	1	Gain +1 Piercing when using shotguns
	Size Matters	None	Endurance 7 Agility 6	3	Add 1d6 to all attacks with Heavy guns
	Skilled	Level 3+	None	10	Add +1 to two skills or +2 to any skill as long as it does not go above 6
	Slayer	None	Strength 8	1	Damage with a melee or unarmed attack can be turned into a critical hit with the spending of 1 luck point
	Smooth Talker	None	Charisma 6	1	Re-roll 1d20 on opposed tests involving Barter or Speech
	Snakeater	None	Endurance 7	1	+2 to poison damage resistance
	Sniper	None	Perception 8 Agility 6	1	Taking the Aim minor action and making a ranged attack with a two-handed weapon with the Accurate quality, specify a hit location to target without increasing the difficulty
	Solar Powered	None	Endurance 7	1	Heal radiation damage in direct sunlight
	Steady Aim	None	Strength 8 Agility 7	3	When taking the aim minor action, re-roll 1 or 2d20s depending
	Strong Back	Level 1+	Strength 5	3	Increased Carry capacity
	Tag!	Level 5+	None	1	Select a fourth skill to be a Tag skill (instantly raises it by 2 ranks but not past 6)
	Terrifying Presence	Level 3+	Strength 6 Charisma 8	2	Rank 1: Re-roll a single d20 when threatening or scaring another person Rank 2: Gain the Threaten major action in combat
	Toughness	None	Endurance 6 Luck 6	2	Increased Damage Resistance