Chris Avellone
Veteran video game writer and designer known for major writing work on Planescape: Torment, Fallout 2, Knights of the Old Republic 2, and Fallout: New Vegas, with deep expertise in narrative design for role-playing games.
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May 1, 2026 • 1h 1min
618. The Story of Fallout (with Chris Avellone)
Chris Avellone, veteran RPG writer behind Planescape: Torment and Fallout: New Vegas, reflects on Fallout's storytelling and influences. He talks about the game's reactive endings, tonal choices like humor born from desperation, design origins from Wasteland and A Boy and His Dog, Dogmeat’s accidental impact, faction rebuilding in New Vegas, and adapting the world for TV.
