ChaunceyK: Thinking of replaying one of the Fallouts on here as a Pacifist/Diplomat/Scientist. Anyone finish either one of them without killing, or will I regret not picking any combat skills?
It's possible to finish both Fallout 1 and 2 without attacking enemies in combat or relying on party members to do so. However, some caveats:
1. You will need to cause the death of at least one character in each game through means other than engaging in combat.
2. You will still most likely need to enter combat at times, primarily in the form of random encounters. However, you can always run away.
3. There are several quests you can't complete in a nonviolent run and you obviously can't rely on random encounters/respawning enemies as a recurring source of experience, so there'll be a hard and relatively low limit on the amount of experience you can gain in the game unless you resort to bugs/exploits. It should still be plenty more than you need, though.
4. IIRC, the nonviolent path through FO1 was not something the devs intentionally set out to include in the game so much as a natural consequence of the game's design (non-linearity, multiple solutions to problems, the inclusion of non-combat skills). So it requires a bit of meta-gaming/convoluted actions on your part.