What It Takes to Turn a Video Game Into a Tabletop One

Andrew Fischer was facing a conundrum. Gamers sink literally hundreds of hours into Bethesda's Fallout games. The twisted steel and charred homesteads sprawl out in every direction, and it's hard to feel fully satiated by your save file until you've explored every square inch of the atlas. To truly appreciate Fallout, one must commune with the ghouls, and ride with the raiders, and spelunk through blown-out cafeterias and coffee shops long before we see the credits roll. Hell, sometimes we even set the side quests aside in order to bask peacefully under the wide open night sky during the brief breaks between super mutant assaults.