Tag skill

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Tag skills are the skill specializations of a character. At the start of every Fallout game prior to Fallout 4, the player can choose three Tag skills to be the character's specialties throughout the game.^[1] The Tag! perk allows one to pick an additional, fourth tag skill later in the game.

In Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics, tagged skills increase at double the rate of an untagged skill (i.e. one skill point translates to a 2% increase in the skill). In Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas, however, a tagged skill only gives a 15 point boost.

In Fallout: The Roleplaying Game, a tagged skill increases the chosen skill by 2 ranks. More importantly, however, the tagged skills in question can receive critical successes by rolling under the skill ranks, e.g. rolling a 3 when the skill's rank is 6 means two successes. Only tagged skills benefit from this, while all other skills require rolling a 1 to earn a critical success. Tag skills dictate what type of character one will play. A fighter will tag combat skills whereas a diplomat may choose Speech, Barter and Science.

Bonus equipment

Tagging skills also provide an immediate benefit to one's starting equipment in Fallout, Fallout Tactics, Fallout: New Vegas, and Fallout: The Roleplaying Game.

Fallout

^{* Tagging both Lockpick and Steal results in only one bonus set of lock picks.}

Tagging Big Guns, Energy Weapons, Melee Weapons, Sneak, Traps, Speech, Barter, or Gambling skills award no additional bonus equipment.

Fallout Tactics starting equipment

• 1x MP5 H&K
• 48x 9mm ball
• 1x Happy Pie
• 1x classic Nuka-Cola
• 1x stimpaks
• 1x Midwest Brotherhood leather armor

Fallout: New Vegas starting equipment

After completing the tutorial, every character gets:

• 4 stimpaks
• 18 caps
• 6 bobby pins
• Possibly one ranged weapon (9mm pistol is the default if no weapon skills are selected) or one hand-to-hand weapon.

Fallout: The Roleplaying Game starting equipment

^{* Equivalent to 5 common scrap.}

Behind the scenes

At one point, it was planned for Fallout 3's Tag skills to give double the points, the same as the previous games.^{[Non-game 1]}

References

Non-game