So my idea here is a Roleplay that takes place in the Commonwealth, with Sarah Lyons leading the Brotherhood, the Lone Wanderer having given his life to save hers. The Sole survivor never happened as an accident killed Shaun and they used them for the base of the Synths. The Minuteman managed to reform, the Institute is trapped in a war with the Brotherhood and Railroad. The wastelanders getting caught in the middle, the minute have stepped up with Preston Gravey as General they have become defenders of the common people, killing anyone who would endanger the people. The railroad has gone mostly quiet.

The Brotherhood has struck a deal with the Minutemen with most of their forces having been move to helping protect people. Minutemen now also range outside the Commonwealth and are normally made of locals who act to defend locals until the Brotherhood arrives and can clear them out. The Railroad meanwhile had secretly rescued many more Synths and been freeing them. While the Brotherhood does fear the Commonwealth they are not nearly as Xenophobic as other branches. Often times they take in talented Minutemen, the Institute meanwhile has gone mostly quiet it's fewer Synths can be seen.

However with this newer safer Wasteland people have come together the Brotherhood acting as a neutral party. They set up caravans going northward with fresh clean water in exchange for Laser weapons and other tech. Of course then it happened, off the coast near Salem landed the first ship of a massive fleet. Dozens of more waited off shore, the American navy that had been missing for so long had returned. With them came a new Enclave, one with a new class of power armor. They cut through the town of Salem, they had come to wipe out any and all who had were above ground.

Their ships were loaded with soldiers, having found more and more of their people in Canada and the South East. They had rebuilt on platforms and small islands, now with fresh soldiers, experienced officers and a deep hatred of the Brotherhood they hope to secure a foothold in the North then prepare for with the Mid west Brotherhood. This will be about forty years after Fallout four. Let me know if your interested in the idea!

I really am in the mood for a Fallout RP, but any Fallouts set on the East Coast are utterly uninteresting to me. Could a character be from somewhere further west?

Since in Fallout 2 California at least is becoming pretty damn civilized, and Fallout 4 is 40 years after the start of FO4, I think the contrast between a character from somewhere which has been civilizing for 80+ years and somewhere that is still an F-fest would be fun.
Or maybe some of the interesting tribal stuff from the midwest, or someone from enclave-controlled Chicago?

I don't know: tell me what you think.

sounds good, I am interested.

@Zugzwang I like your thoughts on coming from the west, maybe the NCR sends an envoy to the Eastern Brotherhood. The upper east coast has dealt with most of the raider problem and brought a lot of settlements together though the Minutemen and Brotherhood protection.

The Mid-west Brotherhood is more like the East coast chapter, granted they have working vehicles somehow. Very few of them but they do have some. So I don't see why the NCR couldn't get some jeeps working or even little armored troop carrier.

@Zetsuko Thanks for the interest.

I haven't played Fallout Tactics in a while, but I recall that the Midwest Brotherhood was less east coast "unambiguous good guys who fight for justice and muh freedoms" and more west coast "moral ambiguity, isolationism and technological greed", but things change over the decades.

I don't see why the NCR couldn't send one of their Vertibirds over, since they found a bunch at Navarro and have likely made factories which make similar flying vehicles in the Big Circle or Shady Sands.

My original idea was a tribal from a collective similar to the Legion, maybe some centralized gathering from Texas or the South, but if you want NCR here's my idea:

NCR Ranger as my character, sent alongside a representative to the East Coast on an information gathering and connection-forming mission, which goes predictably awry and my character is the only survivor, dead set on completing his expedition despite his utter lack of diplomatic experience.

@Apollosarcher, I want to get back to writing longer posts. Perhaps I can join?

Also, I only heard spoilers about Fallout 4, but Gods, I hated the story.

Interested though I stand with @Zugzwang about the 'natives' I'd want a Legion character, and are all the factions still in play? Both new and old? Like bringing Legion to the Commonwealth? If not I can settle on an Atom Cat @Apollosarcher

Fallout 4 is in fact HOT GARBAGE

But my idea wasn't a legion character: the legion would never expand eastwards, their whole mentality is a push west, but even so I would not expect them to defeat the NCR, and everyone agrees, especially with Caesar being the only thing holding the legion together, and him certainly being dead in the ~60 years since new vegas.

My idea was someone from another sort of tribal gathering which wears the skin of the old world for the same sort of prestige and legitimacy. There are lots of cool things a southern tribe could carry the trappings of, in my opinion.

Fallout 4 is in fact HOT GARBAGE

But my idea wasn't a legion character: the legion would never expand eastwards, their whole mentality is a push west, but even so I would not expect them to defeat the NCR, and everyone agrees, especially with Caesar being the only thing holding the legion together, and him certainly being dead in the ~60 years since new vegas.

My idea was someone from another sort of tribal gathering which wears the skin of the old world for the same sort of prestige and legitimacy. There are lots of cool things a southern tribe could carry the trappings of, in my opinion.

As I understood it you wanted an NCR character, plus there's no telling that other groups of people hear of the Legion and take after them in the East, like a ah copycat faction of sorts?

@Zugzwang The Mid-west BoS takes in villages and tribal's... Of course they also use the tribes best and brightest for their own gains. Mid-west BoS is still much more about technology and actually can produce working vehicles and new guns, even making their own T-45A power armor. They range from Chicago to Alabama, using convoys to move supplies between fortified shelters and highly trained and experience squads to kill any raiders or tribal's who get out of line.

East coast is the more spread out but has plenty of Enclave tech and Vertibirds from Nellis Air Force base but they are backed by Minutemen and lots of local towns. They are mostly using T-45 suits and the slightly less common T-60. Enclave armor and T-51 are held back for Paladins.

The western BoS is nearly dead, survivors have almost all evacuated. They debate joining the other chapters or attemping to rebuild elsewhere.

NCR has annexed New Vegas and legion broken, Lanius leads a fraction of it's former power but many have returned to tribal life or become raiders. Arizona and Texas have become home to war bands of Legion soldiers, each with their own head attempting to reunite the scattered army.

Capital wasteland has become the home of new life, with the first clean free water it is much more at home. Settlements have grown rapidly and with D.C. becoming the center of fledgling government the arguing towns are attempting to make a unified government.

The Enclave have mostly remained off the coast living on islands and oil platforms. Working to advance their weapondry so they crush the Brotherhood and all wastelander's. Another group of Enclave have actually united most of Alaska and Western part of Canada. Both groups have made activate contact, once victory in the east is assured the Western Enclave will assault the NCR then crush the Mid-west BoS between them. They believe they are the sole inheritors of the United States, no one else is human enough.

@AdamantiumWolf As above their are remnants of the Legion, most are really just tribal's scared of their leader. You could play them but good luck crossing Mid-west with a full army... The Paladins would not take kindly to that. However you are free to make tribes from anywhere you like and have them travel towards the Commonwealth.

@Letter Bee I agree story was bad but the gameplay is good, honestly I would have preferred it if was more go out and find stuff for your Vault and keep everyone in it happy and safe.

Sorry for the huge post I've just been trying to figure a few things out lore wise. Tactics throws a wrench in a couple things but I plotted around it... I refuse sentient Deathclaws.

@Apollosarcher, heh, yeah.

Anyway, will make a female frontiersman (or rather, frontierswoman).

Edit: Or rather, will make a former frontierswoman whose mother married a rich man from the more 'civilized' settlements, has learned how to be refined and polite...but is still a heavily-muscled fighting machine who merely knows how to clean up after bloodying herself with a few Raiders.

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@Zugzwang I kinda want to know what was redacted?

@Zugzwang @Letter Bee @AdamantiumWolf @Zetsuko Thought I should let you all know I'm starting work on an OOC.

@Zugzwang @Letter Bee @AdamantiumWolf @Zetsuko Thought I should let you all know I'm starting work on an OOC.

Cool!

@Zugzwang @Letter Bee @AdamantiumWolf @Zetsuko Thought I should let you all know I'm starting work on an OOC.

Alrighty, I'll start scouting for a decent character picture

Seems like you've got a pretty full roster but I was wondering g if I could still join? I've been a fan of Fallout for a little while now and I really like RPing in the universe.

In terms of what character I would want to use (seeing as this could be a way to see if I was a good fit for your reply or not) I was planning on either using a quasi-raider guy from Canada who was a part of a splinter faction of Sudden-Death Over Time or my usual Fallout Rp character which is a odd Ghoul named Garry Gilbert. Garry's an overall good guy but he's not very outgoing with anything unless he's on a crazy spree.

@rocketrobie2 Both sound interesting I'll have a proper OOC up soon. Maybe you'll want to make a new character based off what's going on or find a way to bring in one of your characters easier than the other.