mALX said:
Oh, you have this down to a science!! I am copying this and going to try it.
If you're really spectacularly thorough, you can get all skills to 100 with a starting intelligence of 3, and luck of 5, but you'll need four luck boosting items to get luck to 9, which is it's max bonus to skills. (The bobblehead gives you 4, which you need for Comprehension, then there are 50 points per skill from books (except melee weapons and barter, which are 49 and 48 respectively), 10 per skill from the bobbleheads, and the rest from your levelups and luck bonus.) You'd have to really track your skill point spending on that though, and you'd only have 10 or so left over.
Also, having a high starting Intelligence maxes you out faster, of course.
And having at least 5 starting Intelligence allows you to do the Power of the Atom quest as soon as you leave Vault 101, getting you a house straight away.
In fact, I think the ultimate minmax build would be:
8 Str, boost to 10 with Ant Might and Bobblehead
5 Per, boost to 7 with Shady Hat and Bobblehead
9 End, boost to 10 with Bobblehead
1 Cha, boost to 2 with Bobblehead (can you say Dump Stat)
3 Int, boost to 4 with Bobblehead
9 Agi, boost to 10 with Bobblehead
5 Luck, boost to 9 with Bobblehead, Lucky Shades, Ranger Combat Armour, Lucky 8 Ball
That gives you all the physical stats (melee damage, carry weight, HP, and AP) at max, enough skill points to max out if you're
very careful, and a character who is a demon with every kind of guns, melee, and unarmed out of the box. Pick Lockpick, Science, and Repair as your tag skills (but you do that anyway, don't you?). Charisma is a born dump stat in this game, because all the perks for it are crap, and it's only tied to two relatively pointless skills, whereas Agility is tied to 3 good ones. 4 points taken off of Charisma and given to Agility gives you a profit of 8SP.
Edit: Having worked it out, this build gives you 1344 skill points by level 20 with the selected equipment, which is every skill at 100 with 44 left over if you get every book and bobblehead, and that's with no picks in Intense Training for more SPECIAL points)