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Yeah, I get why folks have this particular belief but don't personally share it myself. Fully agreed that they share a lot--but so do...

I always kinda wanted to play a Fighter/Wizard for that, but the ability management makes it hard. But area (or close) bursts are really...

Again, you are just proving my point. If I need three full modules, just to provide a modicum of choice for the players, that's not a...

Personally, I'd allow a character to sort of..."backfill", if that makes sense? File this under "another optional rule that would be...

Yeah, charitably, Bloodtide is living in some kind of odd gaming pocket (such things can occur). Otherwise you have to assume the...

PCs need to come with motivations, and players need to employ those motivations. Players that agree to a player driven sandbox campaign...

Except that the description you keep giving is NOTHING like what such DMs run. That's where the disconnect is. The phrases you used...

I've never seen anything like what you describe. I have never heard of it from anyone but you. I have spent pushing 20 years frequenting...

Perhaps. I would argue that the DM throwing any hooks, even with such noble intentions, is pulling at least slightly away from sandbox-y...

No, it doesn't, mostly because this whole "dm-player" you keep talking about doesn't exist, and is instead the fictional strawman you...

Minor point of order: I'm fairly sure Bloodtide is describing a style they explicitly don't like. (Or, rather, their utterly mistaken...

Look, it’s a colloquial term that stands in contrast to a pre-written plotted campaign/adventure game in a relatively conventional RPG...

once again: this isn't the definition of a sandbox. It is the definition of cooperative storytelling. Which is fine, but it is a...

If that is an issue it's an issue with the player, not the system. Also something I've never encountered. Someone has to define the...

What is your definition of sandbox, because your posts don't seem to be operating from any standard definition of sandbox I have encountered