Scott Campbell is one of the masterminds behind the original Fallout. Among other contributions, he wrote the story for the game and laid out many of the major non-player characters and locations.
I'm not going to go anywhere near the argument of who is responsible for Fallout's greatness, except to say that Scott Campbell never gets the credit he deserves in all these arguments. He wrote a lot of the original story and came up with a lot of the characters and places as well.
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