Astoundingly Awesome Tales (Fallout 4)

Astoundingly Awesome Tales is a perk magazine in Fallout 4 that gives the player ranks of Astoundingly Awesome.

Characteristics
Each issue helps in combat. Many of them directly increase damage, while others assist with health or in other ways.

About the magazines

 * Most of the issue numbers are torn off the magazines. The issues numbers in the table above are the file names of the replacement materials for the model/world data in the game files. For example, the one used by "Rise of the Mutants" is named AwesomeTales43.BGSM, and a "#4" is visible on the cover. Another example is "The Mad Russian's Revenge" with filename AwesomeTales41.BGSM.

Behind the scenes

 * The name of the magazine is a take on pulp science-fiction/fantasy/adventure magazines such as Amazing Stories and Weird Tales.
 * On the cover of issue 43, the license plate reads "4LL-0WT-4" and "Bethesda MD" referencing the name Fallout 4 and Bethesda, Maryland, the original home of Bethesda Game Studios.
 * "The Man Who Could Stop Time" is also a play on the fact that the player can effectively stop time when using V.A.T.S., hence the additional action points.
 * The title "Have Dog, Will Travel!" is modeled after a phrase made popular by Have Gun – Will Travel, an American tv and radio western that ran 1957-1963 (1958-1960 for radio) featuring Paladin.
 * The issue Invasion of the Zetans refers to the Zetans the player faces in the Fallout 3 add-on Mothership Zeta.


 * "The Man Who Could Stop Time" may be in reference to an episode of The Twilight Zone (1959-1964), where a man is given a stopwatch which stops time. He then uses it for cheap party tricks, then escalates to robbing a bank where he breaks it, and time is now permanently stopped.
 * "My Brain and I" is possibly a reference to the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Old World Blues, in which the Courier can flirt with their own brain.
 * The magazine named "Attack of the Fishman" could be a reference to 1954 movie "The Creature from the Black Lagoon." The cover of even resembles the movie's poster.

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