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I have fifth, I think. I was running the Great Pendragon Campaign (which is a sandbox in parts, but very much not a sandbox in others)...

It was more a comment to something that occurred in another thread where I suggested something and a poster immediately jumped to the...

I fully support people using what works for them. I would like to think nothing I've said in this thread suggests that methods different...

In my youth I ran an adventure where the PCs got on a ship. The ship was basically a railroad, it was meant to do nothing more than get...

Yes, I pretty much agree. Although, again, I'm operating from the assumption that, based on the hypothetical provided by @AbdulAlhazred...

Accidentally hit post. See full response added in now.

When I replied to @AbdulAlhazred I already stated that if the bandits were a likely encounter, the PCs would know they exist. The...

So?

Yes. The general background events going on in the world are managed by the GM according to their processes. No one in the thread had...

I'm always very confused about objections to houseruling and tinkering on the basis that things might not work out. So you change...

Indeed. Or the bandits have become emboldened and completely disrupted trade, or taken over a town or who knows. The PCs not...

And maybe six months later the PCs hear tales about some other band of adventurers who took out a bunch of bandits out that way during...

Some of this stuff seems to come back to @AbdulAlhazred's assumption that if the GM creates something, they'll make sure the players...

Which is utterly irrelevant as the vast, vast, VAST majority of the setting doesn't get interacted with by the players. Only a small...

First, I use the Forgotten Realms. Someone else wrote it. But even if I did, craptons of stuff gets decided based on at worst a...