Fallout Official Survival Guide (also known as Official Survival Guide To Fallout) is the official Fallout strategy guide. It was written by William H. Keith, Jr. and Nina Barton and published by BradyGames. With this practical guide, you will be able to survive the horrors of mutants, radiation, gangs, and violence in a post-nuclear world. — Publisher's website description

Statistics
author		William H. Keith, Jr. Nina Barton
publisher		BradyGames
release date		October 1997
medium		Print
pages		264
website		Official Guide to Fallout

Contents

  1 Content 2 The Staff 2.1 BradyGames staff 2.2 Credits

1 Content The guide provides detailed description of all aspects of Fallout, from interface to game mechanics andS.P.E.C.I.A.L. system, to tips for individual quests and information on locations, enemies, and friendly characters. It also includes strategies for tactical warfare, as well as contains humorous and helpful tips from an old-time adventurer named Ol' Slim. The R.A.T.S. system is used to indicate spoiler alert level of various sections of the book.

The guide also provides several additional prefab player characters which players can use instead of Max, Natalia, and Albert:

• Arnold Black

• Barney Black

• Tanya MacMillen

• Frank Charles Luciano

The full walkthrough featured in the guide is called One Woman's Path Through the Desert. It features Tanya MacMillen a.k.a. "Blade" as a main character.

2 The Staff BradyGames staff:

• Publisher - Lynn Zingraf

• Editor-in-Chief - H. Leigh Davis

• Licensing Manager - David Waybright

• Marketing Manager - Janet Cadoff

• Acquisitions - Debra McBride

Credits

• Development Editor - David Cassady

• Project Editor - David Bartley

• Screenshot Editor - Michael Owen

• Book/Cover Designer - Tanja Pohl

• Production Designer - Dan Caparo

• Artists - Leonard Boyarsky, Jason Anderson, Tramell Ray Isaac, Scott Rodenhizer

• Special Thanks - Chris Taylor

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Mentioned-only character Arnold Black "Arnie" "Dutch"

Biography and appearance race Human gender Male affiliation Vault 13 role Player character family Barney Black - Brother Statistics SPECIAL Strength: 10 Perception: 5 Endurance: 10 Charisma: 4 Intelligence: 4 Agility: 4 Luck: 4 tag skills Small Guns Big Guns Unarmed traits Bruiser Bloody Mess

Arnold Black a.K.A. Dutch is an inhabitant of Vault 13 in 2161 and a possible identity of the Vault Dweller. Background

Born Arnold Black, the son of Dutch parents, Arnie has always been a problem in the Vault. When he sits in chairs he breaks them. When he goes through doors, his head cracks the door frame. The door frame cracks, that is, not the head. And when he rumbles "I'll be back," bad things tend to happen within the staid and normally quiet community of the Vault. Maybe that's why everyone is so glad he drew the short straw and is on his way into the outside world. Maybe someone rigged the drawing, to make certain he got the short straw.^[1]

Appearances

• Dutch is one of the bonus Fallout prefab characters featured in Fallout Official Survival Guide.

Notes

• Dutch is designed to provide a combative approach to solving the conflict in the game, similar to Max Stone.

• It is impossible to accurately re-create Arnold in the actual game. If you try, you will lack 1 point while setting hisprimary statistics. +2 ST bonus from Bruiser trait will give you 1 extra point, which makes you unable to start the game unless you use it.

Behind the scenes