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I don't know, the sword has to be somewhere. The DM saying it is in the Dark Tower is no different from the players saying it is in the...

Depends entirely on what you're going for as a referee. Do you want to maintain the strict integrity of your prep, shoot for...

I can get with that, though I think equating Adventure Path with Campaign is a little off. Every campaign I've played in, even those...

It is an Okay definition. This sounds like a terrible game to me, but I can see the appeal to others. The above reduces a RPG to being...

I generally play out each fight, but on occasion I have just told the players that you travel to X and encounters goblins along the way...

In a perfect world where the GM had infinite time, they could keep track of all the moving parts as they are happening. Let's say that...

I can also see where one style of play has the world having its own plot and story going on and the PCs are free to interact with it...

If you prep something and the PCs do not go there, and then several levels later they choose to go there, should it be the same dungeon...

The bolded is unrelated to what comes after it. The DM can have created the world long ahead of time; as long as the players can bash...

This is, to me, so silly a position that it makes it impossible to take seriously.

I would say bare minimum. All Linear DMs lock in details when they create something. It is not impossible. I wrote a simple 1st...

I guess like everyone, I have shades of both in my campaigns. I start them in a defined place such as Phandalin and that place has...

So a sandbox with discrete linear adventures within it is still a sandbox? For instance, the DM is running a sandbox campaign with a...

I'll reask my question here: Let me ask the infamous sandbox question: at what point does the "box" apply? What if the players decide...

I do not mind a short campaign lasting a summer or something like Lost Mines of Phandelvar going levels 1-5. There is always an option...