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If every person playing every game came up with a label for every style of play in action….we’d be buried under semantic distinctions. At some point all of the distinctions become meaningless. To me at least. How I play is personal to me and I can describe it without assigning labels. People...

I’ve never optimized a character. Y’all are speaking Greek to me. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I like to start a campaign with one main plot line. With the intention of getting to that end by level X. Along the way we usually get distracted by new plots. So it’s not unusual for one campaign to have many many plots. How long a campaign is and when it ends usually comes down to….are...

OMG!!! I'm a Virgo!!!! ☺️

When other people use labels it helps to know what it is that they mean. I didn't wont, and can't insist any one do anything. Were all volunteers here. We choose to enter these discussions. I don't tell people they are wrong. I disagree with them. You are welcome to disagree with me...i...

I appreciate your appreciation. 😊

I’m not a labels person. A game is just a game. Labels create division.

We agree. Here’s what happened. In the mystical before times a DM would buy a module/adventure and run it. Which was nice until players got smart and realized they could give the DM a hard time. “Go left you say…why I’ve got agency so I’m going to go right since I don’t really respect how...

I’m just interpreting the comments as they come my way. Everyone’s opinions are valid. I don’t present my responses as facts or other responses as wrong. I can’t control how others interpret my opinions. I can choose to disengage with statements that I don’t feel further the conversation...

We’ll just have to agree to disagree. I appreciate the engagement. Most of these threads turn into angry exchanges. I don’t feel the usual “verbal diarrhea” serves the community. Now I’ll get flack for saying so I image. Have a great weekend.

I’ve never run a full pre published adventure path. Those are great to cherry pick but it’s too much work to read it all and stick to it. When I build games I use the characters as the foundation. For me the whole point of gaming is keeping the players interested. If I want to fight uphill...

So the players get to determine what kind of game the DM runs? Not so much player agency as players bullying the DM. How come no one talks about DM agency?

These comments come off as confrontational to me. Thank you for playing.

I read a lot of stuff on these forums that make me ask….what game is everyone playing?!? 😉

I guess my disbelief in the differentiation comes from this… As a player it would never occur to me to not want to do what the DM presented. If I don’t want to do what the DM is offering; that’s it…the game is over. As a DM I present an elevator pitch for a game I’m prepping and people...

So at any given moment; this kind of game can turn into that kind of game. Which is less about player agency and more about players breaking the social contract. I find that terms like “sandbox” and “player agency” are very pretentious. But who am I right? Is it player agency to screw the...

We’re all volunteers here friend. Have a great weekend.

So now aka yourself…if there are linear narratives IN the sandbox…is it still a sandbox? This isn’t a confrontational series of questions. I’m trying to learn where the lines blur and does the fact that they can blur make them meaningless.

Players eventually have to do something that the DM has planned. 3 choices or 100 choices….in the long run…DMs provide an encounter. I don’t know….are there games out there where the DM just lets the players roll on random tables for what comes next? For the players to have a choice in what...

If we must use the term “definition”. No. This is wrong. Sandbox requires the DM to run encounters in no particular order. Allowing the PCs to roam the country side at will. Or…what do you guys want to do today? Linear requires the PCs to follow some kind of prescribed order. Or…mom gave...