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That sense of the unknown is important to some people. It is like spoilers in other mediums. I recall a study was done on film spoilers...

Something I've noticed and read testimony to here is that it doesn't work for some players to explore what they invent. So there could...

But those are just common aspects of living sandbox. You don't have to embrace them. I don't even embrace all of them. But they are a...

Same here. I usually have some idea what to expect prior to the session but that's only because I know the players plans ahead of time...

I think the immediately obvious one would be that it potentially results in an incoherent setting. The more constraints and consensus...

So, to try to bridge the divide, I'm going to use an analogy. A parent telling their child a bedtime story. A parent reading the story...

There is nothing snobbish about sandbox. And I am not framing it as elite. I included what you do as sandbox too because to me, sandbox...

I think it might have something to do with the "game" part of "roleplaying game". This is completely in-line with everything I've been...

This is going off into a different set of preferences now, but personally, I'm not a fan of the thought-bubble approach. In a comic...

What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

What sort of prep and how much would acceptable for you to not consider the GM a storyteller?

Hey, the jianghu needs villains for the martial heroes to defeat, nothing said the players couldn't be those villains.

Some things you can anticipate. If I have bandits on an encounter table, it is very likely they will try to rob a party that encounters...

You invoked your length of participation in the hobby to imply that you were more experienced and thus your view holds more weight...

Supernatural/occult stuff of varying stripes is my jam, so I was intrigued by Curseborne when it was first announced, but everything...