
Sneaking increases your ability to loot and steal, and allows you to avoid undesired confrontations, working as an offensive and defensive skill. Sneaking up on a target allows you to get closer, allows you to avoid taking damage for the longest time possible, and maximizes your damage potential through the use of sneak-attacks. Sneaking can be one of the most important skills in Fallout 3 for certain characters. "The safest distance between two points is a shadowy line."Įxample: A starting Agility of 5 and Luck of 5. The target character can detect equally well in all directions even directly behind him.

The perks Thief and Master Thief both increase your sneak skill.

In Fallout and Fallout 2 you cannot run and sneak at the same time unless you have the Silent Running perk. Sneak only covers sneaking as such, while pickpocketing is covered by the steal skill. The initial skill is determined as follows:
