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Now, can you please explain to me what the explicit connection is between the PC's happening to be at a particular location at 6 PM and...

I think it might be helpful to seperate between the concept of random encounters and random stocking. It appear to me like what you...

So those trolls might be at any location the party happens to be at a particular time. But they’re not quantum? Right.

Hang on a tick. How can you roll random events beforehand? What triggers the events? How can you know how long the party will spend...

I mean, let's be honest here. Virtually no company has succeeded on solely RPG products. TSR made a very large amount of it's money on...

Then I am simply jumping off your point. This whole notion of "quantum" encounter is just more smoke and mirrors trying to pretend...

I disagree. When you have more time to think, you can make encounters that better reflect your interpretation of the world. But, at no...

Except that the only actual difference here is time. After all, the DM either made or chose (in the case of using someone else's) the...

The fiction line suffered some bloat in the mid-1990s, to be sure, like all the company lines, and TSR would have done better with...

I think, in the sandboxes I’ve seen, there is clearly consideration for things like level and danger. I don’t think that means that...

Oh, stop it! There's huge concessions to playability in all these setups! Of course there are always clear signposts telling the players...

And, most often, they aren'T outside your level range. And, in cases where they are, there is almost a guaranteed exit possiblity...

LOL. No. I haven't looked at every single sandbox ever made. That's true. Just every single one that's been brought up as an example...

Heh. I did play Everquest for a very short while many, many years ago. But, I do recall dying a HELL of a lot, even in the "easy"...

Before the first expansion, the human city in WoW - Stormwind - reachable at level 1, contained a black dragon and their minions that...