I have a question - Should we start discussing some kind of "big bad" to invade the Wasteland? If we want to focus the story a bit and get everybody kind of working together towards a common goal of some kind, it'd probably be good to start discussing that kind of thing.

Something that threatens not only the Coalition's trade empire, but also The Railroad's efforts... The "freelancers" can probably sprinkle their way in.

My off-the-cuff response are people like Caesar's Legion, or perhaps the Khans, starting simply. If we want to have an offshoot of The Institute in the mix that seems reasonable too, though we'd kind of be treading the same ground as Fallout 4.

But we could come up with someone, or even someTHING else entirely - from an Enclave invasion, to NCR overreach, to the BoS rearing their heads...

We could even [i]have[/i] a hyper-intelligent supermutant beginning a revolution of sorts, or acting as his own kind of crime boss. (A cunning supermutant is pretty interesting, actually, especially given the precedence with Brian Virgil - Imagine someone with less simple self-preservation instincts, but instead, a kind of evil super-genius who is affected by the FEV. That could be a powerful foe.)

Or how about a fanatic offshoot of The Railroad that has decided that synthetics are not just [i]equal[/i] to humans, but are, in fact, superior? They decide that Synthetics are the "next step in evolution," and that boring old humans should be enslaved, instead?

Perhaps we've got a group in Vancouver similar to the San Francisco Shi (descendents of the of the [i]Shi-Huang-Di[/i] submarine who created a remarkable culture and an impressive hub of research and scientific knowledge out of their scrapped submersible). The Enclave/BoS has showed up to "wipe out the red menace/claim their tech" and so the area has been thrown into the middle of a notable conflict.

Just random ideas. I'm game for whatever, but if we start discussing things, we're bound to come across something interesting that can get our random characters interacting with each other and shooting bad guys. Lol.

Thoughts? Ideas? Suggestions? Deep yearnings? Tarot readings?