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No. Time is valuable in my games. If something would be a waste of time it does not happen. So weak, pointless encounters can not...

It is better if you want a more pure sandbox game where nobody says any details. The player-dm does not get to ask the players of...

Why? It is how Linear Games work. Like I said, a Pure Sandbox is just chaos. The players simply do random things as the DM-player...

This is true, but goes way beyond just Linear or Sandbox. The Classic Traditional DM creates Encounters for the players to have. Quite...

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...

If I was talking about a game I would say it's name. Different then a linear game, yes. I agree this describes sandboxes. This does...

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

A big part about Sandbox play is the "Game About Nothing" (like the TV show Seinfeld). An Open Sandbox lets the players have their...

I was not for that text. Yes, afterwards I did talk about the sandbox type game. A pure sandbox game would just be random chaos. The...

This was not my description of a sand box though This is my description of a Rules First Game with a Player-DM.

A big 1E thing was random character death outside of combat. With two common ones: Death by environment. A character might fall off a...

Well, first we need to add the Other way of playing D&D: 1.The DM-Player frames a scene 2.The players describe what rule actions they...

The important part is to not worship the rules like you find in many modern games and play styles. So many gamers get stuck by "what...

I run a very 1E feel game, so I would recommend some beyond the rules type things: 1.Toss out the rules. As DM just make up whatever...

I'm not writing or recording songs: not really my skill set. And remember, I don't do any sort of "memory check" where a player can...