Bethesda employee Todd Howard revealed that the PC edition of Fallout 3 will not include an editor to allow user-created mods, unlike past Bethesda games, over on the game’s official forum. However, he (somewhat) assures us that one may be released later.

“If and when one is available, it will be a free download. I wish I could promise that an editor will be coming and when, but I can’t,” he explained. “It’s a major undertaking getting an editor ready for release, and making sure the game plays nice with the data users create. That being said, we’d love to see it happen.”

In related news, when asked about whether the game would feature sex, homosexuality, nudity, prostitution, cannibalism, child killing, drug addictions and the like, Howard replied that while the game will not feature any child killings or nudity, it will “feature the types of things you mention at about the same rate [of the original game].”

Fallout 3 is due out this Fall on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.