Fallout: The Traveler/Traveler

The Traveler is the main player character of Fallout: The Traveler. This article covers the main statistics of the player character.

Character Creation
"Who are you?"

- Doc Mitchell

Characters are created at the Villa, when Doc Mitchell reads about your Crimson Caravan Identification sheet for everything except Flaws, where they may either select an Traveler Origin character, or create a custom Traveler. The SPECIAL system returns and directly influences speech options and quests. Traits can be chosen and perks are gained every two levels.

Traveler Origins
Main Article: Fallout: The Traveler/Traveler Origins

Traveler Origins are premade characters. Chosen during character creation, each of the eight origins comes with a predefined backstory, as well as its own interactions. Each Traveler Origin character is a unique experience with a unique quest and dialogue.

All eight Traveler origins will be available in-game as as potential companions who can join the chosen Traveler's party.

Appearance
Main Article: Fallout: The Traveler/Traveler Appearance Customization

As Doc Mitchell looks at their Crimson Caravan ID when picking a Custom Traveler Origin character, he says about your gender, age and what you are, leading to the creation of the character's appearance. The customization is more extensive than in previous games and more in-line with Cyberpunk 2077 and Black Desert Online.

SPECIAL
One begins the game with 33 primary statistic points to allocate during the quest An Alluded Concussion when picking the Custom Traveler option. These have a direct effect on:


 * starting skill levels.
 * which perks will become available at level-ups.
 * one's derived statistics.

SPECIAL stats can be raised during the game by:


 * choosing traits at character creation;
 * buying implants;
 * wearing clothing and armor items;
 * Picking up a You're SPECIAL book;
 * Getting a Shock to the System every five levels (ten levels in Wasteland Survival difficulty).

The maximum value for a SPECIAL stat is 25, and the minimum is 1.

Skills
Initial skill levels are determined by your primary stats. During the quest An Alluded Concussion when picking the Custom Traveler option, you will choose three Core skills to receive a one-time boost of 15 points. Skills can be raised during the game by


 * choosing traits at character creation;
 * distributing points at level-ups;
 * choosing perks at levelup;
 * reading magazines (temporary);
 * wearing clothing and armor items;

At first, spending a skill point on a Core Skill (e.g. Melee) improves all of the Specialized skills in that group up to 50. Once you've reached 50, players will have the freedom to directly add the skill points to the Specialized Skill (e.g. 1-Handed Melee) up to 250 - Legendary.

Skill magazines raise the corresponding skill by 10 for a short time, or 20 with the Comprehension perk. There is no finite number of skill magazines.

Skills will also impact what dialog options can be selected, including "dumb" and "sarcastic" dialogue option if the right stats have been selected, which should provide some comic relief and also affect the affinity of certain companions (i.e Piper likes that if doing sarcastic).

Based on the system from The Outer Worlds, every 20 points put into a skill, a tiered perk for that individual skill is earned. There are 5 tiered perks for each skill. The tiers are Novice (20), Competent (40), Adept (60), Expert (80), Master (100), Virtuso (150) and Legendary (250).

The maximum value for a skill is 250.

Traits
Traits are chosen during the quest An Alluded Concussion when picking the Custom Traveler option, you can choose up to 2 traits that both help and hurt you. Some of them can be off-set with perks later on, like pairing Small Frame with Adamantium Skeleton.

Profession
Profession are categorized as the player's natural ability, these work hand-in-hand with Skills which grants a bonus to a specified specialized skill, extra starting items, possible dialogue choices when meeting certain NPCs and situations and other benefits such as increase reputation fame for a major faction. Choosing an Profession only occurs during the quest An Alluded Concussion when picking the Custom Traveler option and one type of Profession can only be chosen, there are many different Profession a player can choose from.

Flaws
These negative effects usually provide a skill point bonus in exchange for accepting a flaw. In normal game, players are given the option to accept or reject it (with the exception of the Dishonored flaw), in Sawyer Mode, it will always accepted no matter what.

Perks
Some perks directly affect your primary stats and skills. Others have a variety of gameplay effects.

Which perks become available to you depends on


 * your level.
 * your SPECIAL stats.
 * your skills.
 * your gameplay choices.
 * The Traveler's Race (Human, Synth, Dwarf, Ghoul and Super Mutant)

You get to choose one perk at every even level-up or two in Sawyer mode.

Races
For the first time in the series since Fallout: Tactics, there are four playable races in Fallout: The Traveler, each of which has its own unique abilities and powers, as well as a +10 bonus to one skill and +5 bonuses to five other skills. Race is the only choice during the Custom Traveler character creation process that has an effect on the player's skills and abilities.

Flaws
Returning from the Outer Worlds, Flaws trigger and appear only if certain causes are inflicted on the player's character, for example, being hit on the head too many times can lead to a permanent concussion, or getting attacked too many times by a specific type of enemy may cause your character to become anxious or paranoid around that enemy. Whenever a flaw is found in you, you are given a choice to accept it which is permanently applied to your character's stats or to reject it, in Sawyer Mode however, it will always accept it no matter what.

Derived Statistics
Derived statistics are attributes of a character that cannot be set directly, but are instead based on (or derived from) the character's primary statistics or attributes.

Trivia

 * It is the first time where you can play as either a Human, Synth, Dwarf (not seen since 2), Ghoul, or Supermutant.
 * In most promotional art of Fallout: The Traveler, the Traveler mostly depicted as Lumine or Aether Traveler Origins character wearing a t-shirt (or a black sports bra under her tank top for Lumine), a hoodie, star pendant necklace, a satchel bag, cargo pants and a few Tactical armor set applied.
 * As such, the Traveler makes a distinction to be the first protagonist not to begin with and wearing a Vault suit.
 * The Traveler is one of three protagonists throughout the series to not begin their adventure by leaving a Vault. The other protagonists is the Chosen One from Fallout 2 and Courier Six from Fallout: New Vegas.
 * How they speak in game is similar to the Traveler in Genshin Impact, making it a fusion of Fallout 4 voiced protagonist and pre-4 silent protagonist. In, outside of cutscenes, skill call, and notification (yelling in pain, noting injury, ordering companions, using Chems, etc) all conversations and dialogue choices are silent.
 * Every time the Traveler levels up in-games, certain Level Up music themes from previous Fallout games would play instead of the regular Traveler level up music when reach a certain threshold.
 * Level 10: New Vegas Level Up theme
 * Level 20: Fallout 4 Level Up variation 1
 * Level 30: Fallout 4 Level Up theme variation 2
 * Level 40: Fallout 4 Level Up theme variation 3
 * Level 50: Fallout 3 Level Up theme