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  1. Hardboiled Android

    Fallout: Van Buren Worldbook (FINISHED - Map and PDF inside)

    Good session! Creative thinking to propose John Henry as a means to escape the Four Corners altogether, but I suppose Red Menace is going to burst their bubble about the prospect of it being quite that simple and re-shift their focus to the other Prisoners.
  2. Hardboiled Android

    Fallout: Van Buren Worldbook (FINISHED - Map and PDF inside)

    As you may know, this is actually how AP actually ended up running the encounter in his campaign. I suppose he could - perhaps that's how the Santa Fe would squash the beef in the case that the player gives the Golden Spike to the Santa Fe but doesn't expose Bourbon, so the Atchinsons end up...
  3. Hardboiled Android

    Fallout: Van Buren Worldbook (FINISHED - Map and PDF inside)

    I don't want to systematically go through the discussion thread right now, so I'm just checking a few things and otherwise going off memory, but in the discussion thread you'll definitely find some detail and rationale that's left out of the worldbook. I would note - in addition to being able...
  4. Hardboiled Android

    Hypothetical Fallout set in the Midwest

    I agree, it's a really cool thing that fits the local character but also feels Fallout-y. Though a stray thought occurs to me - given the dustbowl that the Great Plains has turned into, I wonder how much that has reduced the water volume of the Mississippi. Probably not enough to make it...
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    Hypothetical Fallout set in the Midwest

    No Brotherhood. Have the Enclave be like a dozen, two dozen guys. Control Station REVERE Control Station REVERE is basically a gas station, a fuel and supply depot hooked up to PoseidoNET, meant to serve as a refuel, resupply, and communications hub for whenever the Enclave emerged from the...
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    Play all Fallout games chronologically! - Join! Continues into 2024

    I'm still not sure if it is the case that you need to keep the jailer alive. On my last playthrough, I tried to stealth past the Jailer, got caught and killed him, but I think I was still able to resolve the conflict peacefully. I believe that Davison goes hostile if you kill most or all of the...
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    Play all Fallout games chronologically! - Join! Continues into 2024

    There's another key in a desk. And I would think it would be possible to pick pocket the key off the jailer, though I don't think I've ever done this before.
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    Play all Fallout games chronologically! - Join! Continues into 2024

    I'm pretty sure it is possible to kill the Jailer without Davidson attacking you. Did you kill the jailer before meeting Davidson, maybe? Alternatively, it is absolutely possible to sneak past the Jailer. I've done it with a Stealth boy before, but it's probably possible without one, as the...
  9. Hardboiled Android

    Fallout: Van Buren Worldbook (FINISHED - Map and PDF inside)

    the first half of this rules, great selection of clips, and the transition into Prisoner of Love rules. Personally not so crazy about the Ron Perlman - nothing wrong with the script, it's just so obviously AI which is made the worse by the length of time it goes on. A little late now, but I...
  10. Hardboiled Android

    New Fallout trailer

    The real shame of it is the writers and runners of this show are probably more talented at writing than Emil and other members of the writing team over at Bethesda. Were this show to be set in the East coast, it on balance probably could have improved the world-building of that part of the...
  11. Hardboiled Android

    Fallout 5: Greater Orleans & Your Ideas

    I don't think we need to see the Khans ever again. They had a good send-off in New Vegas. They're just not interesting enough to be retrod a fourth time, at least if the timeline continues into the future, I could be interested in seeing them between Fallout 2 and New Vegas, or Fallout 2 and...
  12. Hardboiled Android

    NV doesn't cleanly conform to any of the prescribed endings of Fo2 for New Reno. The Bishops are...

    NV doesn't cleanly conform to any of the prescribed endings of Fo2 for New Reno. The Bishops are still around, but so are the Wrights (and now also the Van Graffs).
  13. Hardboiled Android

    New Fallout trailer

    One thing notable that occurred to me from the trailer: No Super Mutants. Surely there will be some in the show, but that is actually a somewhat remarkable level of restraint. Brotherhood of Steel, power armor, ghouls, nuka cola... but no super mutants
  14. Hardboiled Android

    Does the NCR have a Navy or Air Force?

    There's also Dayglow. Though I must say, we actually have no strong reason to think that San Francisco was ever absorbed into NCR. It could be the case, but we don't know. Well I think it's really quite simple - California has quite a bad coastline. It's extremely rough and mountainous all the...
  15. Hardboiled Android

    New Fallout trailer

    Now wondering if this woman is supposed to be Tandi in a flashback
  16. Hardboiled Android

    Does the NCR have a Navy or Air Force?

    My guess as regards an air force is probably not. It seems difficult to imagine why something like that wouldn't have been mentioned in the game. We only ever see two aircraft used by NCR, the president's vertibird and a vertibird at Long 15. Given that vertibirds were generally considered to...
  17. Hardboiled Android

    New Fallout trailer

    I mean honestly, I think they probably did think this aspect through a little bit. I think they knew that FNV gave them some kind of warrant to go in that direction. I think the overriding concern was just to have a truly fucked epic Mad Max Wasteland, rather than any intelligent narrative...
  18. Hardboiled Android

    New Fallout trailer

    The shot with the sign that says "Shady Sands" very clearly has gigantic, 21st century metropolis-level ruins. It maybe even looks like LA specifically. So if we assume based on the sign the scene depicted is Shady Sands, either the location has been moved to LA, or they've retconned that Shady...
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