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If your takeaway is that such an example is 'foreclosed' then your not understanding what I'm saying about living sandbox D&D play. The...

Let's explore how a very similar story emerges in living sandbox play. All of this you listed above is backstory and is applicable to...

I think the real danger of extensive agriculture in a magical setting is that it encourages your political enemies to research Animate...

Personally, if you are going to trade sheep for wheat, you should ask them for some ore as well. You can't turn your village into a...

While sometimes burning fields was a thing in times of war, monsters aren't likely to actually try to damage crops - the vulnerable bits...

I now want that game.

Your farmers, however... Therefore farmers need to be made of animated bread! I am glib, but there is a point here - who has wild...

There's quite a bit of difference! Just not necessarily a difference regarding where the two campaigns fall on the sandbox spectrum. I...

I think these are a pretty nice, succinct pair of definitions. For me, Railroading definitionally involves resistance to and negation...

Various approaches to content creation are definitely different things, but they don't directly relate to the sandbox spectrum, as I've...

This starts to remind me of alignment discussions, where alignment proponents bring in their internalised assumptions and headcanons...

CL, I'm willing to accept that there's a huge and largely unbridgeable difference in gaming styles here between presenting a situation...

Makes it sound like you've already dismissed it before considering it That's not the kind of fiction I'm talking about. As an...

Maybe it would help some to walk through a 'living sandbox'. The DM defines the starting point, the factions in the world, the major...

That sounds to me more like a static sandbox, where much sandbox play today is more focused on creating a living sandbox - where the...