Ghoul

Ok I wonder why John hancock (not the founding fathers one) wearing 18th century fashion outfit when Fallout franchise was Taking place in 2102 and 2286??

Is he actually veteran of American revolutionary war??, cus he is ghoul,which could speculated that he could died before the bombs fell, which Bethesda didn't tell us about his origin story at all, or maybe he is just wearing it just for honoring the people who fought in the American Revolutionary war??

Sorry I meant to say 22-23th century, cus it cuts out the last word

Since Fo3 was when I got into the series, the impression I got from ghouls is that they're supposed to look like rotting abominations and because of that they face a lot of social stigmas for their appearance. Because of this, I've always been interested in the idea if a Fallout game will have something like an Elder Scrolls race selection and allow races like super mutants and ghouls to be playable characters and get alternate responses from NPCs.

A "mile in ones' shoes" sort of interest.

But when I first played Fo4 and met John Hancock, I couldn't help notice he or the other Fo4 ghouls were not as ugly as Fo3 ghouls. While still have scarred skin, their skin seems more healthy than Fo3 ghouls, and he seems somewhat handsome for a ghoul. Same for The Ghoul in the upcoming TV series, who looks like Goggins with just some mild skin irritation all over. Sure, he lost his nose, but his teeth, eyes and ears still look healthy.

I'm reminded of the fanfilm Nuka Break, which likely had less of a budget than Amazon is providing, yet Ben still had a convincing ghoulish appearance.

I'm just saying, should ghouls look ugly and scary for the sake of lore and not be prettified just to look appealing to audience/Hollywood standard of beauty? Because wouldn't that just defeat the point of it all?

Could mental illness can have a major effect for a ghoul to become feral? I remember watching an iceberg video that brought up this suggestion and I thought it was interesting. But wasn’t sure if this is necessarily true since the nature of ghouls is still unknown.

In Fallout, as far as we know, there were no ghouls in Hiroshima or Nagasaki, why is this? I've seen this question answered with "irradiated fev causes ghoulification" but that seems to have been retconned.

So in canon, do the types of ghouls look the same or different? Because ghouls get treated like they're the same but from a gameplay standpoint they look different. Is it just racism?

All throughout the Fallout franchise, we meet various Ghouls that have been a ghoul for only a handful of years, and some for over 200 years. Being one of the most unfortunate group of people, being treated poorly by everyone, living in bad areas because they can't be in nice places without being shot at, possibly suffering emotional pain because of being a ghoul and not being a "smooth skin".

So my question is, what exactly is the life of a ghoul like? How do they deal with being a ghoul, how to they handle issues, what's civilization in their terms like?

So I just had just finished kiddy kingdom quest where we had to find oswald

And he said that someone was looking for a cure for ghoulism that got me thinking is there a cure to ghoulism. hancock became a ghoul by using an experimental drug, if the post war world had a drug to make you a ghoul wouldn't they have made a way to undo ghoulism

I’d like to hear your thoughts.

I feel that there should be a trade off for each race. Example, a Ghoul would be damn near invincible to rads but normal chems (including stimpaks) wouldn’t work as well.

So... today playing FNV I went to Vault 34 and did the usual drill; avoid radiation, get to the passwords, activate the pumps, etc. But then I noticed that there where ghouls in one of the rooms that where flooded before, which makes me wonder; would ghouls need to breathe? Wouldn't they drown just as a human would if left underwater for too long?

So can y’all tell me why there are no Feral ghouls in power armor like I just find it unlikely that nobody in the armor could be changed

1. What if they were feral ghouls in power armor? Like with no fusion core very slowly coming towards you and knocks your ass out with one punch

2. Can super mutants use power armor pieces for armor? (Like the bigass fallout 4 P.A.)

3. What creatures (animals) can be exposed to FEV and live?

Idk about anyone else, but I'm kind of getting tired of playing as a human. Aside from a few area-specific groups such as intelligent deathclaws, we know of two sentient species common in the wasteland aside from humanity: ghouls and super mutants. Unfortunately, the only games that allow you to control mutant or ghoul characters (or play as a ghoul in the case of the latter) are Fallout Tactics and Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, which are not entirely canon. I don't know about you, but I think that Bethesda should allow you to play as one of these races in a future Fallout game.

Here's how it could work. Playing as a ghoul or as a super mutant could have positive, negative, or other effects on various gameplay and character attributes: for example, ghoul player characters could have the benefit of being healed by radiation and gaining special abilities from it (such as being able to become a glowing one after attaining a certain level of radiation and being able to inflict radiation damage on certain attacks), however they would start off with less Strength and Hit points. Conversely, Super Mutant characters could be left unaffected by radiation (no positive or negative benefits) and benefit from increased Strength, Endurance, and Hit Points but be unable to use most human/ghoul apparel or Power Armor.

Ghouls and Super Mutants could have special race-specific perks such as perk for ghouls that renders feral ghouls non-hostile to the player (similar to the Ghoul Mask in Fallout 3) or a similar perk for mutants that renders centaurs and similar creatures non-hostile. If traits ever reappear in a future Fallout game, ghoul and mutant player characters could choose race-specific traits in addition to the normal ones. Idk, just my thoughts.

What do you think? Should future Fallout games include non-humans as playable characters?