Welcome! I haven't been on the upper boards much recently, but I know there *was* a popular Fallout mod... Ah, by Deon of course. I don't know if there's anything like it for newer versions. I'm still occasionally attempting to adapt to 2012 DF so yeah.
I'm the guy constantly trying to make decent story forts but for one reason or another, I have to give them up or I decide to do something else (Losing saves, different mods/premises, that sort of thing.)
And it was indeed a thing, but it didn't feel... Well executed, I guess. Future changes lead to the player civ being changed to the Brotherhood for some strange reason, which was a bit of a deal breaker - the Brotherhood's not really in the market for making new settlements, nor are they the only ones trying to salvage old world tech. There's also the Fallout: Equestria mod, which from memory was pretty well done (ranged combat notwithstanding until very recently,) but the whole "Pony" thing isn't everyone's cup of tea, and even less so since a bit of a self-conducted purge of sorts happened a long while back the last time a serious attempt was made at a succession/story fort with that mod.
I had planned to play Skyrim today, but gift wrapping, drawing, and laundry took today up. Wouldn't have changed the combo much. Just an Elder Scrolls themed mod with a race of one's choice to play as in fort mode, and with a vastly lower life expectancy in adventure mode (the player is kinda OP in the Elder Scrolls version of adventure mode if you ask me.
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But yeah, I don't come down here often. Not much for me down here, but now and then threads such as this one jump out at me.