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To me that's like saying an action movie has to be all full-blast action all the time, without any slowdowns for character development...

In a typical D&D setting that has magic, arcane academic types, and long-range travel, I would expect mapping to be considerably more...

They're ingredients, then, that can become fully fleshed-out locations. I guess I don't understand what you mean by autonomy and...

True. It would be pretty boring, though, if the complications were all the same!

It's the difference between: GM: At the end of the corridor are two doors, one on the right and one on the left. and GM: At the end...

Right; the GM is applying their judgement to adjudicate the world. Different GMs could play them differently. Just as 'success with a...

I wasn't using them synonymously.

Ugh...the OP is right...this is exhausting. I think it all boils down to, regardless of what is or isn't going on behind the scenes...

There have been plenty of times in my games where what I had anticipated as the only sensible option available was the opposite of what...

I've give my opinion on this before but if you're making decisions based on established fiction then by definition you aren't...

So some people insist that if the players are not making informed decisions it's not really a sandbox. Now, if they are making informed...

OK, but I was talking about locations. But even with your example, I don't have to detail the home of your brother's killer until you...

In a sandbox game I would say that players have different authority, not less. If we need to go somewhere and my wife is driving I...

Because when "what the DM has written in his notebook can overrule anything else happening at the table", they have de facto unlimited...

To me, at least, "boisterous and friendly" doesn't automatically mean "willing to share rumors." A GM could decide that the innkeeper...