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thefalloutwiki
thefalloutwiki

Fallout: The Roleplaying Game: New Vegas Artwork

Pictured: A female NCR Trooper with her left arm placed on her hip, and her right arm holding a Service Rifle against her shoulder.ALT
Pictured: A Securitron, with the screen face depicting a man in a hat with a pipe in his mouth.ALT
Pictured: Craig Boone, wielding a Machete in his right hand and his Hunting Rifle in his left hand. He is wearing a plain white shirt, glasses and a 1st Recon Beret.ALT
Pictured: Alice McLafferty in her full black suit and pants looking down on you like a girlboss.ALT

Pictured: An NCR Trooper, a Securitron, Craig Boone and Alice McLafferty, as they appear in the newly released Settler's Guide Book supplement for Fallout: The Roleplaying Game.


We'll be updating our pages to account for this new supplement soon. In the mean time, you can read more about Fallout: New Vegas here:

https://fallout.wiki/wiki/Fallout:_New_Vegas_Overview

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thatgirlonstage

Please don’t let fandom ruin something you love. Walk away and unfollow the fans and enjoy the thing by yourself, or find a limited circle of people who ignore the discourse, or get your irl friends into the thing and collectively ignore the Internet community, or blacklist from here to the moon if you need to and only ever scroll through your rarepair ship’s tag on AO3. But don’t let fandom distort a show or a movie or a book or a comic you used to love so badly that you can’t enjoy the original anymore. Please. It isn’t worth it.

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Anonymous asked:

I was telling my boyfriend about your post regarding the voice actor strike and he brought up a good question: aren't there voice actors that are not in the Screen Actors Guild that publishers could start using instead?

askagamedev answered:

Yes, non-union talent is available and often hired for many projects. SAG-AFTRA only comprises around 40% of the total voice actors out there, and a lot of developers don’t use them because they are quite expensive (especially for indie developers). The issue generally comes from the size of the publisher, and the importance of licensed properties in that publisher’s portfolio.

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In such a situation, it isn’t just Bioware hiring voice actors or dealing with a union for its games - it’s Electronic Arts (or Take 2, or any of the other companies that are listed on the strike) as a whole that has the contract with SAG-AFTRA. This means that any contract negotiations also covers projects being done by other studios under the same umbrella, like EA Sports, DICE, Playfish, the Sims, any other studios working on licensed TV/Movie/whatever properties. As such, if Bioware wanted to go with all non-union actors for a new game, then the entire union could potentially refuse to work with the rest of EA, and that would probably affect sales of games where specific SAG-AFTRA members that are associated with specific brands (e.g. the Star Wars cast refusing to voice games because EA hired non-union actors for Plants vs Zombies). This isn’t as big a problem for smaller publishers because they have fewer projects and fewer licenses to worry about, but it definitely gives the union significantly more leverage over the larger publishers.

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I spoke about the strike with a friend of mine (a struggling non-union voice actor) at our weekly tabletop game session this past Friday, and she’s disgusted by the strike in general. Out of all of this, the whole situation probably hurts the non-union workers the most. The union puts pressure on non-members like her not to cross the picket line if they ever hope to become members, and many actors like her cannot meet the requirements (including financial) to join the union. For those unaware, SAG-AFTRA membership requires a certain number of accredited roles (where non-union actors already have to compete with union actors at a distinct disadvantage), followed by a $3,000 initiation fee and annual dues of $~200 (not to mention the 1.575% cut the union takes from the first $500,000 members earn each year), and struggling actors of all kinds, union or not, rarely have that kind of money or opportunity available. If my friend tries to compete with union members for jobs and doesn’t defer to them, she could also get blacklisted by them from future jobs with a strong union presence (e.g. union members could pressure companies not to hire non-union people by refusing to work with them). Furthermore, if the union strike does force the publishers to pay more, it will almost certainly be the non-union voice roles that get cut first when the budget gets reallocated.

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What bothers her most about all of this is that there’s really a handful of voice actors out there who get a huge percentage of the roles that would actually qualify for residual payments. These elites have lots of regular work and are already paid hundreds of dollars per hour for it. It’s this rich, successful, ubiquitous group of performers that will be the ones pocketing the majority of any bonus payments that the union is demanding, not those desperate for work. If you play a lot of games, I’m sure you’ve started recognizing the same collection of voices in game after game too. That’s the group that stands to benefit the most from all this, because they get almost all of the work. It almost certainly won’t be the voice actors that are struggling to get by who benefit most from this - unknown actors like my friend don’t get enough lines or large enough roles to warrant the number of sessions it takes to qualify for receiving much in terms of residuals. In order to qualify for residuals, actors will need to record multiple four-hour sessions for a project. Those in small parts won’t get those sessions, and casting directors tend to choose either celebrities (like Ron Perlman for Fallout) or from the same group of voice actors in the large roles. To an actual struggling artist like my friend, the union’s decision to strike after being offered so much from the publishers already is more of a cruel joke than anything else.