Diary of a Madman

What is this mod about?

Choice. Specifically alternate ways to beat the game. Traditional Fallout was a role playing game. The series has strayed from those origins:

- We can blow up Megaton in Fallout 3. Why can't we blow up Diamond City in Fallout 4? How about an optional quest presenting dilemmas that might lead us to feel destruction is a reasonable thing to do, with consequences for our actions, replayability, and options to escalate or de-escalate the situation?

- Suppose we tire of being "General" of the Minutemen, or never want to do work for that faction at all? How about an option to Kill Preston, become enemies with The Minutemen, and blow up The Castle, but still keep our settlements and claim new ones? The base game makes it impossible to do this. Even if we join the Raiders in Nuka World and start pillaging the Commonwealth, Preston won't become an enemy. That doesn't make sense.

- If we choose to destroy The Railroad, walking in and shooting them doesn't provide enough closure. After murdering them, how about we detonate some explosive charges on the support beams and collapse the roof over their corpses, forever burying them in rubble?

- The end sequences when destroying The Prydwen and The Institute are pretty cool, but a lot of us don't love the grind, mental gymnastics, and alliances we're forced to accept in order to do make that stuff happen. When we blow up those guys, if that's something we choose to do, let's do it on our terms, for our reasons, and not because some under-qualified faction leader orders us to do it, over our objections, for reasons which make little sense.

- When choosing any of the above options, the game and the characters in it should respond appropriately to our choices.

Didn't you make an alternate ending mod like this before?

This mod is the Ying to Project Valkyrie's Yang of alternate endings- and yes, you can do both: make peace with all factions during Project Valkyrie, then blow up any or all of them with this mod. You can also skip the peace process and jump straight into murdering people. Project Valkyrie is not required for this mod to work.

I don't want to side with anyone

In Fallout New Vegas, there was a character called Yes Man who allowed you to complete the main quest without siding with one of the other main factions (NCR, Legion, Mr. House). Same concept here.