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Originally Posted by crash_beedo  Sandbox Theory and Dungeons
I guess I consider Sandbox theory the opposite of railroading. |
An aside:
I finally figured out what my problem with the term "sandbox" for this is. In software development, and several other more experimental professional realms, a "sandbox" is the place you go to play with stuff that's segregated off from other things, so you can't break anything important. You go off to the sandbox rather than playing with all the other kids.
This is rather different from how folks use the term for RPGs - the sadbox is still a place for play, but nobody is saying it is for safety of anything. There's no risk of breakage.
Every time "sandbox" gets used int eh RPG sense like this, I get cognitive dissonance, as I understood the software development version first.
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