Anatomy of a Side Quest: Beyond the Beef

Role-playing games are, funnily enough, about playing a role. The best games offer many opportunities to support the character you’ve built - whether it’s a silver-tongued villain or a benevolent gunslinger. Let’s look at how that works in a stand-out quest from 2010’s Fallout: New Vegas. Support Game Maker’s Toolkit on Patreon - Recommended reading / viewing: Design Rampage: “Design Lesson 101 - Fallout“ GDC Vault: “Do (Say) The Right Thing, Joshua Sawyer“ (Say)-The-Right-Thing PC Games N: “Chris Avellone on how to write an RPG“ Errant Signal: “Fallout 4 and Role Playing“ Games shown in this episode (in order of appearance): Fallout: New Vegas (Obsidian Entertainment, 2010) Fallout 4 (Bethesda Ga