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New Vegas' biggest strength is that it's not a Bethesda potato people jank fest, but an Obsidian potato people jank fest - so it's at least an interesting potato people jank fest. Once it gets going, at least. The early hours are a lot of wandering the wasteland and can involve getting repeatedly murdered by giant radioactive mosquitoes, so it's not going to be to everyone's taste.

Some of this (okay, a lot of this) is fairly technical, but as an overview of how the TotK team thought about and solved a whole bunch of issues during development is fascinating - especially the audio stuff.

The players finally engaged with the cult stuff propertly in this week's Dragonbane session, but are starting to second-guess their enthusiasm for helping the "paladin" hanging out in the town bar after her religious fervour came out full-force in an extremely quick (and maybe too brutal?) battle.

Spoiler - click to showAfter capturing a cultist last time, the Mallard Bard let slip to the paladin that there was a cultist in the town jail. The paladin headed immediately to the jail to execute the captive, but was followed by another cultist who attempted (along with his mates) to ambush the paladin when she came out (having failed to convince the sheriff's deputy to allow the execution). The bard and thief tried to stop the mugging, but I'd underestimated how powerful this knight is; she shrugged off the cultists' attacks and decapitated one in a single hit. To avoid her rendering the players useless, she continued to beat the corpse on her next turn while the mallards dealt with the second mugger.

The paladin has now been arrested for attempting to murder a fourth (officially only "suspected") cultist in front of the deputy. Next session I want to emphasise that she's one of the more reasonable ones, and have her superior arrive to complicate things even further.

They're still on the fence about the precise alignment of their would-be employer – is she part of the cult, or just doing things that happen to align with their wishes? – so I'm trying to figure out how to manoeuvre her so that they can't get a firm grip just yet.

Yeah, it's good - that's how I play with the kid, so we don't have to worry about other players starting anything. There's reduced rewards, but if you're just wanting to chill out and explore it's grand.

I haven't even managed ot save up enough gold to captain a sloop, so I am currently guild-less.