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Okay. That's not how we do it. Any area, including a city, has the potential for CR 20+ stuff. The farther out you go, the more...

Your scenario appears, to me, to be: A group of seasoned, skilled outdoor survivalists are travelling in the wilderness. They lose...

Yes, we discussed this to death a few thousand posts ago. No one's imaginary gameworld is an accurate and comprehensive simulation with...

I'd be perfectly happy to see people providing perspectives on why they run and play their games the way they do, or even commenting...

On a slightly different point, this comment helped me identify more clearly the problem I have with fail forward in a more grounded...

If I'm playing a game where wilderness exploration is taken that seriously and the characters don't have the necessary skills to survive...

In the distant past when I designed worlds, there were indeed safer areas and more dangerous areas. And not at all because of level...

If the group has been thrown in a pit from which there is no feasible means of escape and they have been left to die, "points of...

Because the way I see it, if the game can't go forward without getting through this obstacle, then there must be a story everyone is...

Meanwhile knowing that there is something beyond the door has unique character is one of the things I enjoy. :)

5e took out Warp Wood? Druid spell? And indeed, it's possible they don't have the correct resources. Again, so be it - go back and...

I was pretty sure that's what you meant, I just wanted to head off reigniting a settled argument over a momentary lapse in wording.

I should have added that I reserve the label neo-sandbox for what you describe. The neo-sandbox conceptual 'project' is the...

Traditional, living world sandbox, as advocated for by the trad gaming crew in this thread, worries about and takes care to establish...

If I had made a boo-boo and included a trap that can result in a TPK, in a game where a trap causing a TPK was not an acceptable...