True Police Stories is a skill magazine in Fallout: New Vegas.
Background[]
True Police Stories was a pulp magazine boasting "20 pages - a single issue" that was dedicated to editorialized stories on famous criminal investigations and busts of the time.[Non-game 1] The October issue would feature "Shoot to Kill" by Alan Kastin, "Shootout with A Chem-Crazy Dame" and "Eight Bullets, Ten Crooks."
Characteristics[]
Reading this magazine raises the player character's Critical Chance by 5% (10% with the Comprehension perk) for 60 seconds (180 seconds with Retention).
Crafting[]
This item can be crafted by the Courier.
Creation requirements
| Materials: | Requirements: | Produces: | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Wonderglue (1) Blank magazine (2) |  | Repair: 25 Picking up a copy of True Police Stories after the Voracious Reader perk is chosen. |  | True Police Stories (1) |
¹ Craftable without a workbench via a dialogue option with Veronica, or with ED-E once the add-on Lonesome Road is installed.
Locations[]
Below is a list of all fixed locations of True Police Stories skill magazines in Fallout: New Vegas and its add-ons. For an overview of magazines per location, see the main overview page.
| Closest map marker | Location description |
|---|---|
| Allied Technologies offices | On the small corner table inside the entrance foyer |
| The Basincreek Building | On the lefthand corner table inside the reception area |
| Boulder City | Boulder City ruins, on the upper floor bookcase of the blown-out store building, across (east) from the Great Khan hideout |
| California Sunset Drive-in | Located on the picnic table at the scenic overlook |
| Crimson Caravan Company | Crimson Caravan main office, on the floor inside the first restroom stall |
| Followers safehouse | On the bed to the right, next to a hunting rifle |
| Gomorrah | Gomorrah suites, on the small table by one of the round beds on the southern side of the upper floor of Clanden's suite |
| Lucky 38 | On one of the small tables in the cocktail lounge, in the middle tiered section |
| Mole rat ranch | Ruined building to the east with locked cache, inside the locked storage room, together with Patriot's Cookbook |
| Poseidon gas station | In the patrol car in the middle of the radiation barrels, may fall through if not taken first |
Sierra Madre Casino  | Executive suites, on top of the closet's dresser, lefthand room at the end of the hallway |
Sunstone Tower roof  | Indoor stairway passage between Ashton missile silo and the Divide, second level in the hallway, on a bookshelf, below two small scorched books |
| Sunstone Tower roof | Office room one level below the roof, in a Hard locked filing cabinet in the corner, together with a Lad's Life |
| The Tops | Presidential suite, on the small bedside table in the bedroom |
| Vault 34 | Reactor level, inside the ruins of the security room north, on the rubble near the doctor's bag |
| Villa police station | Next to the cosmic knife in the kitchen |
Behind the scenes[]
- True Police Stories is a parody of True Police Cases, a magazine published from the late 1930s until the end of 2000.
- The cover image is a copy of the DVD jacket for the 1945 film Dick Tracy, Detective.
Gallery[]
References[]
Non-game
- ↑ Fallout: The Roleplaying Game Rulebook p.178: "True Police Stories was a pre-War pulp magazine boasting “20 pages—a single issue” that was dedicated to editorialized stories on famous criminal investigations and busts of the time."
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