Recent content by Pax

Gotta love the T-51 original. I'm still irritated that Bethesda didn't understand that the brown circular bit around power armor users' necks was a cowl that's part of the helmet. It adds to the whole whole sealed gas mask/protective suit aspect of the PA. I do kind of like the design of the...

You'll probably be fine. It sounds like you already have the major problems that plagued me taken care of, and I doubt your players are as damn ornery as mine are. If you have a hard time getting them to Boulder Dome, somewhere I found a mention that ZAX might actually try to contact the...

To be honest, things went really not well for me. First session I had them escape from the prison pretty cleanly, and tried to keep them together by effectively making them a chain gang via electric shocks from their Pipboys whenever they got too far apart. Unfortunately, this lead to them...

I tried to run a game based on Van Buren, and so I'll say my number one bit of advice is to make sure your players have a strong goal upon leaving the prison, and if they don't just group up naturally, make sure you have a hook to help keep them together. And don't draw attention to the Pipboys...

Finally found this old thread from 2007 with lots of quotes from developers, makes things a bit more clear: http://www.nma-fallout.com/threads/van-buren-main-plot-and-the-missing-doc-13.178406/ (posted just in case somebody's Google search leads this here one day)

Thanks for the reply, Phipps, but yeah, I'd found that bit already. And that and being hunted by robots are absolutely going to be factors, but in a more background way at first, the same way running across Super Mutants in Fallout 1 foreshadows your ultimate goal. No, I need a tangible quest...

Unless it's going to be out by this Friday, I'm going to have to figure something else out.

Ho there, long time visitor, first time poster. My question is this: do we know what the main quest of Van Buren was going to be, from the player's perspective? I know the leaked docs go over what Presper's plan was pretty thoroughly, but so far I can't find anything on what the player's...