I was one of the types that badmouthed Fallout 4. Fanboyism aside, can you blame me? Let's look at the details - I held tightly the factors that most seemed to ride on about FO4 that didn't quite sit with me right. First, it was the story - it felt like it was sold to me. Like the main audience who had played FO3 years before might have grown out of a story line that had the player chasing daddy and, with many of those original gamers now daddies themselves, what better plot than chasing a baby this time around? [...]

As you approach the gates of Rastfull, the small village on the outskirts of the Pall district, the capital is only a days journey away. The sweet smell of roasted apple tarts and a spitted hog fill your nostrils as you weave through a swarm of dancing children, faces ripe with inked pastes in the shape of monsters, birds and mammals. A bazaar has been set up just inside the open gates with local sellers showing produce, grains and baked goods. A local man and his brother play a tune for some dancing farmfolk as preparations are made for the [...]

Want to know, ahead of time, what the hardest thing you'll ever have to do really looks like? What a gift, what a curse! Here it is. Knowing full well, the idea that you're about to face a challenge, yet deciding to do it anyways. That's the hardest part. Knowing that you've got uneven, rocky ground in the path ahead and deciding to forge onward with little deviation. Last week, I embarked on a new (and old) passion. A martial art I've long wanted to go back to since pausing my involvement in college. I went down to D&D United [...]