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Hum--You can do what my anal-retentive ass does when creating a map. Step 1: Find a topographical map of an area with varied terrain and note its scale which may show as 1:300,000 or as little as 1:24,000. Step 2: Determine how big of an area you need. Hum, trying to list all the steps I use...

HEY... None of these adventures that are being mentioned exist without references. :p

Issue #9 and after reading it, I am going to find a location for it in my sandbox. Thanks :)

Your way implies very dense populations. In the sandbox I am creating I am using a slightly modified version of the BECMI encounter rates. Each hex is 3 miles and I roll once for each hex. In grasslands/plains/inhabited hex, 6 on a d6 results in a random encounter, in forest or hills a 5-6 on a...

Did it work out well for them? Since WOTC gave the licenses to Paizo they lost $10-15 per month from me. Paizo gained that money and built up their brand and grew what I would presume to be a profitable business. Just on the magazines that WOTC didn't want in-house anymore. WOTC didn't re-earn...

Has anybody read the "My Brother's Keeper" trilogy that deals with a young Kirk and Gary Mitchell from "Where No Man Has Gone Before?"

You studied under Picasso? I'm impressed. :p

As it clung to her thigh. You're not.

Dungeon or wilderness are the same with regards to my point. Go to your local sports store and buy a ruck sack, then fill it with two weeks worth of trail rations, a sleeping bag, (maybe a one-man tent as well), a change of clothes or two, a blanket, A light source (if spelunking), and a...

Thanks for the link

Thanks for the link, d/l now. :)

Thanks. I never thought to quote someone to see how it works. :)

I've quickly looked at the FAQ but couldn't find out how to add spoiler tags within a post. Can anyone instruct this forum noob on how to add them. Obi Wan you're my only hope.

This is all excellent advice which leads me to ask, do you or anyone else know of a supplement (print or PDF) that discusses the theoreticals of designing a sandbox. One that goes beyond what your bullet-point blog post you linked to earlier. Or is it really this easy to do?

That is why right now I no arc planned. I hope to play off of the players motivations and goals and craft the area situation to encompass their needs and desires. I have never liked the sandbox that starts with the DM asking, "What do you want to do?" I plan on giving some of the PCs a mentor...

I know that I am a controlling DM. I have had one of my players (an actor in a local theatre) tell me about a year into a campaign that I should be writing fiction. I took it both ways and rightly so. He enjoyed the setting and the pace and the interweaving of plot lines but felt it more...

WOTC had a cool series of articles years ago called Vicious Venues and Random Encounters which were themed locations with a handful of encounters. I've downloaded most of them and have used some in every setting/campaign over the past six years or so. My favorite (and most used) one is called...

This here sums up my feelings on a lot of discussions on the internet.

I don't know if it would help the community in general, but when I want to quote an idea rather than a person, I will delete the name tag and respond or just paraphrase. Maybe I missed the point of the OP? EDIT: 500th Post, yea me :P

Did you find that a problem because you going more for an adventure path style, the direction they wanted to go wasn't prepped as much, or the direction they wanted to go was either too difficult or too easy? Or another reason I may have missed? And that's why Johnn Four's 5-Room Dungeon has...