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Why would I disagree? The world is independent of the PCs. That has nothing to do with what monsters leap out and attack them.

The GM, who is presumably using a system that has nonhuman options, should have figured out how they work in the setting in the first place. You can have a faux Ancient Greece setting and still have nonhumans integrated in it.p (the faux-Spartans were actually elves or orcs or whatever, etc). If...

Again, you’re acting like everyone has to run their games in exactly the same way, which is utterly ridiculous. And I’m not saying their way is wrong, especially since we’re talking about two different things here: the sandbox’s world, and encounters. Just because an area is ruled by a...

Exactly. Mechanics and the like may not transfer between games, but the philosophy behind the GM’s principles often does.

Since when is everyone forced to run a sandbox in exactly the same way? Anyway, the world still runs independently of the PCs. The NPCs have their own goals and actions. That has nothing to do with the difficulty of the encounters the PCs may have.

Butting in with pedantry: these were probably not lies. He may truly have meant he would never work with him, and he may have, at that point, either not had any projects with him or been unaware of any projects due to weird contractual issues (look, I don’t get the legalities of it all; I’ve...

I mean, you just have the same opponents, but with different numbers of them or different levels of hit points and AC (lower or higher), stuff like that. Obviously that’s not going to help you if the PCs go to places with nothing but high-level opponents, like the Demonweb Pits or the Valley of...

I must admit I’m wondering how wizards would be if you switched out Spendor for a different domain—Grace, Midnight, Sage, and Dread all would work well. Or create new domains to represent other traditional types of magic: illusion, necromancy, transmutation—all the D&Disms. Or if it would simply...

I don’t know those, but yeah. There’s definitely a lot out there to be adapted.

But that’s going back to the idea that this isn’t really a true sandbox, because the PCs can’t go anywhere—some places are simply instant death for low-level play. If I were to do this sort of sandbox, I’d do a mixture of these myself.

The Guardian feels like a paladin/barbarian mash-up to me, what with the emphasis on a moral code. For clerics, even though they don’t have an official setting and went with frames instead, they do have a cosmos, in which even the new/forgotten gods can’t easily cross into the mortal world. I...

So why does it bother you that I use the term, when I’m not trying to force you to use it? I also note that you’ve ignored the other things I’ve written. Does that mean you agree that pemerton should have understood what I was talking about after I explained it multiple times?

One could easily convert Level Up’s exploration hazards, traps, and even regions into more environments.

I have no idea what @robertsconley does, but depending on what the encounters/locations are like, it’s easy to alter them to better fit the party’s level. Fewer or more antagonists, or a hazard inflicts more or less damage. Obviously, you’re still going to have a TPK if a 1st-level party wanders...

I’m sorry, what made you think I was using the 5e DMG’s definition of the word encounter? Or that I was using only 5e’s definition of the word? I’m using the word as it means in RPGs as a whole, based on, well, every RPG I have ever read over the past 35~ years, as well as how it’s used in...

Yes, because I was showing how the game term uses the same meaning as the real-world term and thus wasn’t as mysterious as penerton kept claiming. You literally are.: And yet you set this in a dungeon and with an X-per-day qualifier, something that nobody does when talking about social...

M I’ve explained this before. And you’re still misunderstanding what “don’t prep plots” means. It doesn’t mean “don’t think up stuff” it means “don’t come up with stories the players have to follow.” My computer broke so I don’t currently have AW to refer to in order to double-check, but I...

Maybe they think they’re taking it away from JG by publishing it? I know that what with copyrights and limited runs they’re not, but GG could possibly feel like they’re letting it out into the public (and maybe even further, what with almost inevitable pirating) and therefore JG can’t hoard it...

The one problem I can see with not using the cards is the loadout/vault issue. If I ever get a chance to play it (I have a sneaking suspicion I’d end up running it instead), I’d keep the text of the cards on a word document and change the font color or move around blocks of text to indicate...

Mysterious double post.