Fallout 3 quests

This is the list of known Fallout 3 quests. For a detailed walkthrough, visit each quest's page. MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS. Note: Every quest that gets marked on your Pip-Boy that is completed will give you an achievement on the Xbox 360, or a Trophy on the Playstation 3 (Because you only get achievements/tropies for main and side quests, not for unmarked quests)

Main quests
"Galaxy News Radio" can be skipped by a Speech check or by meeting Dr Li in Rivet City directly. (If you skip this quest and talk to Three Dog to do this quest later, the reward will be a location for weapon stash.) "Scientific Pursuits" can be skipped by finding Vault 112 without meeting Dr Li, but you will not receive the Scientific Pursuits Achievement. Another way to skip "Galaxy News Radio" is to find your father's holotapes in the Jefferson Memorial. "Rescue from Paradise" can be skipped with a Speech check, or by having the Child At Heart perk.

Unmarked quests
Aside from the major quests listed above, there are a number of minor ones that are not listed as quests in your Pip-Boy. They don't count as achievements either.

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" class="fallout-table sortable" style="text-align:center;" ! Name ! Location(s) ! Given by ! Reward Retaking Capitol
 * Treatment
 * Megaton
 * Walter
 * Caps or karma reward, and xp.
 * Jiggs' Loot
 * Museum of Technology
 * Prime (via a terminal)
 * 500 Caps, Xuanlong Assault Rifle
 * 300 Pieces of Silver
 * Megaton
 * Colin Moriarty
 * Varies, best is 500 caps.
 * Election Day
 * Republic of Dave
 * Dave
 * 25 caps (possibly Ol' Painless)
 * Grady's Package
 * Marigold Station
 * Grady's corpse
 * Naughty Nightwear
 * Cherry's Freedom
 * Dukov's Place
 * Cherry
 * Karma
 * Leo's Drug Habit
 * Megaton
 * Doc Church
 * Karma, Med Stash, XP
 * Just for the Taste of It
 * Nuka-Cola Factory
 * Winger Mercier
 * 250/400 Caps (possibly Ledoux's Hockey Mask)
 * The Lost Initiate
 * Falls Church
 * Paladin Hoss
 * 250 XP
 * The Kid-Kidnapper
 * Paradise Falls
 * Eulogy Jones
 * Boogeyman's Hood
 * A Manhandled Manservant
 * Rockopolis
 * Argyle's Corpse
 * Key to Dashwood's safe
 * A Sticky Situation
 * Little Lamplight
 * Sticky
 * Caps and Party Hat
 * Gallows Humor
 * Citadel
 * Paladin Kodiak
 * 1000 Caps
 * Super Mutant Origin
 * Vault 87
 * Fawkes
 * Good Karma, XP
 * Hired Help
 * The Ninth Circle, Underworld
 * Ahzrukhal
 * Charon as your companion
 * JP Stash Note
 * Sewer (metro)
 * holodisk
 * Ammo, Grenades, Book
 * A Broken Robot
 * Random Encounter
 * scavenger
 * mentats, 2 energy cells, caps
 * Economics of Violence
 * Paradise Falls
 * Pronto
 * 20% discount at the Lock and Load and a better lock and load inventory
 * A Nice Day for a Right Wedding
 * Rivet City
 * Angela Staley
 * Karma
 * Council Seat
 * Rivet City
 * Bannon
 * Schematics - Deathclaw Gauntlet, shop discount
 * Our Little Secret
 * Andale
 * Old Man Harris
 * Karma, some loot
 * John's Treasure Box
 * Random Encounter
 * key and note?
 * three Books
 * Bittercup Runneth Over
 * Big Town
 * Bittercup
 * random items
 * Worst. Doctor. Ever
 * Citadel
 * Sawbones
 * Medical storage health and chems
 * Biwwy's Wazer Wifle
 * Little Lamplight
 * Biwwy
 * Wazer Wifle
 * Bully the Bully
 * Little Lamplight
 * Princess
 * Karma
 * Tales of the Wastes
 * Little Lamplight
 * Knock Knock
 * Recognition, Acclaim, or Infamy among Little Lamplighters
 * Caching in with Three Dog
 * Galaxy News Radio
 * Three Dog
 * Guns and Bullets, Mini Nuke, Stealth Boy, Assault Rifle, leveled armor
 * High Plains Drifter
 * Dickerson Tabernacle Chapel
 * Drifter
 * Reservist's Rifle, Oasis location
 * Light-Fingers Hargrave
 * Rivet City
 * James Hargrave
 * Ammo
 * The Runaways
 * Rivet City
 * James Hargrave
 * Karma
 * Suicide Watch
 * Rivet City
 * Mister Lopez
 * Karma
 * Overdose
 * Rivet City
 * Paulie Cantelli
 * Karma
 * Slave Hunt
 * Rivet City
 * Mei Wong
 * Karma and/or location of the Temple of the Union
 * Merchant Empire
 * Canterbury Commons
 * Uncle Roe
 * improved inventories and repair abilities for Caravan Merchants, Crow's Eyebot Helmet, Mini Nuke, Stimpaks, Stealth Boys
 * The Preacher
 * Seward Square
 * approaching the preacher
 * Mini Nukes, Frag Mines
 * Rube's Gold Ribbon
 * Gold Ribbon Grocers
 * entering the store
 * Nikola Tesla and You, Tumblers Today, Missiles, Mini-Nuke
 * Searching for Cheryl
 * L'Enfant South
 * finding the burial mound
 * Mini Nuke, various loot
 * Ticking Timebomb
 * Big Town
 * Timebomb
 * Lucky 8 Ball, caps
 * Lincoln's Profit Margins
 * Museum of History
 * Abraham Washington, Hannibal Hamlin, Leroy Walker
 * caps
 * Keller Family Transcript
 * North of VAPL-58 Power Station
 * One of the Keller Family Transcripts
 * Experimental MIRV
 * Karma
 * Slave Hunt
 * Rivet City
 * Mei Wong
 * Karma and/or location of the Temple of the Union
 * Merchant Empire
 * Canterbury Commons
 * Uncle Roe
 * improved inventories and repair abilities for Caravan Merchants, Crow's Eyebot Helmet, Mini Nuke, Stimpaks, Stealth Boys
 * The Preacher
 * Seward Square
 * approaching the preacher
 * Mini Nukes, Frag Mines
 * Rube's Gold Ribbon
 * Gold Ribbon Grocers
 * entering the store
 * Nikola Tesla and You, Tumblers Today, Missiles, Mini-Nuke
 * Searching for Cheryl
 * L'Enfant South
 * finding the burial mound
 * Mini Nuke, various loot
 * Ticking Timebomb
 * Big Town
 * Timebomb
 * Lucky 8 Ball, caps
 * Lincoln's Profit Margins
 * Museum of History
 * Abraham Washington, Hannibal Hamlin, Leroy Walker
 * caps
 * Keller Family Transcript
 * North of VAPL-58 Power Station
 * One of the Keller Family Transcripts
 * Experimental MIRV
 * Museum of History
 * Abraham Washington, Hannibal Hamlin, Leroy Walker
 * caps
 * Keller Family Transcript
 * North of VAPL-58 Power Station
 * One of the Keller Family Transcripts
 * Experimental MIRV
 * Experimental MIRV
 * Washington, DC
 * The player
 * caps and Nuka-Cola

Repeatable quests
Some characters want specific items. These can be repeatedly given for xp, caps or Karma.

DLC quests
Quests that will appear in the downloadable content packs.