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Message: <blockquote data-quote="swiftbombay-gm" data-source="post: 8240010" data-attributes="member: 7030324">The Fallout fandom can be ridiculously toxic at times (I haven't seen that here on ENW yet, the criticisms that I read seem rational to me). Those who hate Bethesda are very vocal about it and I advise avoiding r/fallout if you want help with lore and sticking to either r/fo4 or r/falloutlore.That said, my perfect campaign for this would be the main story of FO4 with people who have never played it. Then I could let them do as they would without the railroading (puns are fun) into specific outcomes that are... problematic (this from a guy who loves the crap out of FO4 and has logged more hours on it than any other single-player game).The Commonwealth is a great setting with huge potential. I love the area and the way they structured the factions. To address  the criticism of it still being too dirty for so long after the bombs, I'd just compress the timeline a bit and set it in 2200ish. Long enough for all of the events to happen and all prewar humans to die off and necessary events to occur.This is where taking Fallout to your tabletop shines. You can tweak and mold the meta to your liking and not be trapped by design decisions made by Bethesda (or Interplay or Obsidian for that matter) that you don't like.</blockquote>