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That being my point. This approach to building sandboxes - while certainly successful - also requires a lot of front end work to get things off the ground. And there are systems out there for which that isn't true. Thus, some systems are faster and easier for creating sandboxes than D&D...

Uhh, no? At no point have I made the slightest claim about knowing the "right way to run a sandbox". In fact I have repeatedly stated that I've used D&D for sandboxes. What I said, and continue to say is that it is a lot less work ie. faster and easier, to get a sandbox campaign off the...

Define "better". I will argue that Ironsworn is easier to use for a sandbox game. I will not argue that it's better. I will argue that it's easier because it requires a lot less work to get off the ground than something like D&D where you need a lot of work (whether it's you doing the work...

Note, just to be absolutely clear of my own position, which, I'll admit, I may not have been clear about earlier. It is my position that classic D&D is more difficult to use to create sandboxes than some other systems. That the level system, the complexity of the rules, and the large amount of...

Again, cherry picking points while ignoring clarifications are not exactly helpful. Sure, I misspoke. Ok, mea culpa. I have since made it very, very very very very very very clear what I was saying. So instead of belaboring something that I have already clarified REPEATEDLY, why not actually...

Please stop misrepresenting my point. I DO say that it is faster and easier. I DO NOT say that it is better. That's something you folks have attributed to me and I have REPEATEDLY corrected you. Even if I may have mis-stated my point earlier, I have now repeatedly clarified it and it should...

Again, I've never disagreed with you on this point. It works for you (and heck, it has worked for me too). Better =/= easier. I stand by the easier, simply because it's far less work to get off the ground. But better? That's ENTIRELY personal taste.

Yeah, sorry folks, but, that conversation was getting far, far too antagonistic to be continued, so, questions about "better" or "worse" will be tabled and I will simply not answer them from now on. My point is, and remains, that there are other systems where it is easier to run a sandbox than...

Has there been any 3pp who have released crippled content under the CC-BY? I mean, the term crippled content came after OGL producers produced crippled content, not before. So, has there been a bunch of releases of crippled content under teh CC-BY or is this just completely hypothetical on...

But you can't then turn around and claim that CC-BY is less open. If the OGL can be used in exactly the same way as this: then what's the difference? In both cases, publishers are under no obligation to release that work as open. Now, I agree, most publishers using the OGL didn't do that...

As far as adapting travel rules, one nice thing is the dice actually line up nicely. Change the dice from d6 and 2d10 to d12 vs 2d20 and you can use the character’s skills to add to the die. After that you more or less run it like an Ironsworn Travel challenge. Make your move, succeed or fail...

I’d point out that “better” has never been what I said. Easier? Yup. I’ll stand by that. But better is the interpretation that others have added despite my repeatedly saying that it’s not.

Yup. They wlork great.

Because much of the material that's being mad e up isn't made up by me but by the group who has a vested interest in creating stuff that's ... well... interesting to the group.

Not dumb at all. And, to be fair, Ironsworn actually HAS these tables. :D If you need them. The difference is generally it's the players who generate the setting details. Which means that the players are already invested in the setting details. After all, they're not going to add something...

When I've run sandboxes in D&D, I've had big, beefy setting bibles. I did mention that playing the World's Largest Dungeon, for example, meant I had a thousand page module to work from. But, yeah, as @pemerton has said, there's no monster stat blocks. Monsters never attack. You take damage...

Heh, considering I've adapted the Ironsworn exploration rules for D&D, I'd say that it is very possible. :D

Oh, come on. That frankengame that you play is barely 1ed, let alone D&D. :D

Y'know, I hadn't thought of it that way to be honest. I was using Sandbox to mean player driven non-linear play. Maybe that's where I'm tripping up.

Now this one made me LOL. And yes, the thing you stopped and realized was the very first thing that occured to me. :D And just to obey the rules of the thread - a bit of funny truth bombing.