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 Introduction   Chapter One 

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WELCOME TO THE NEW OPTIONS,
WASTELAND RULES, AND TOOLS

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War. War Never Changes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 New Character Origins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
About This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Winter Wasteland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
Winter of Atom Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Traversing the Commonwealth . . . . . . . . . . .29
Running Winter of Atom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Building Campsites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Settlement Reputation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Designing Combat Encounters . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

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WELCOME TO THE
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THE WINTER WAR
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THE DAY OF DIVISION
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COMMONWEALTH Running this Chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Staging the Gigapede Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Running This Chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Main Quest: Into the Glowing Sea . . . . . . . . 197
Running this Chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Main Quest: A Thousand Feet of Terror . . . . 166 The Crater of Atom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
The Commonwealth at a Glance . . . . . . . . . .54 Main Quest: The Buried City . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Main Quest: The Train Job. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Main Quest: Cleansing Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Main Quest: A New Eden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80
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Goodneighbor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Mirage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Big Top. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Beatsville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Mechminster Abbey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
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APPENDICES
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Character Sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Settlement Sheets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
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WAR. WAR NEVER CHANGES
War. War never changes. The United States of America There are many stories of humanity’s attempt to cling
died generations ago when the Great War ended to life and build a new future amidst the ashes. This
civilization as we knew it. The atomic bombs fell. The book contains one such story, and the ending has yet
radioactive dust settled over sprawling ruins, and the to be recorded.

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world fell quiet over the bones of all we lost.

But life did not end there. America became the

dominion of mutated beasts, terrifying monsters,
In the ruins of old Boston, the Commonwealth settles
in for a long, deadly winter. As its hungry communi-
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weird and irradiated plants, wandering robots free a new sect of the Church of the Children of Atom
from their creators, and surprising new forms of arrives. Their flock grows as they spread their worship
humanity. And the people who survived the nuclear of nuclear division and radiation across the region.
apocalypse did what folks have done for thousands Led by an enigmatic prophet calling himself the Last
of years—they adapted and survived. They salvaged, Son of Atom, the Church’s army plans to ignite an all-
rebuilt, and reclaimed what they could of the old out winter war with the settlements that dare reject
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world. Over the years, pockets of civilization began their Atomic God. A group of ragtag survivors must
to take hold in the wild wastelands across America, do whatever it takes to protect their communities
fighting with each other for control of what little they and keep the Commonwealth from becoming ground
had left. zero… again.
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Return to The Commonwealth

Winter of Atom takes place in the Commonwealth, the and those events are not impacted by the
same setting as the Fallout 4 video game. By default, the choices you make in this book.
locations, characters, and aspects of the Commonwealth
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in this book take place before the start of the video game,

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