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Ah, maybe you were responding to someone who has me blocked.

In comics, villains tend to be more proactive. it would be fun to play like the Flash Rogues in a supers west marches game, trying to plan heists and stuff while avoiding the supers.

You responded to me very specifically asking what kind of *-punk Star Wars was, not broadly what genre Star Wars was.

How a hypothetical 6E would deal with XP and leveling is another interesting question. Milestones definitely work better for the style of adventures that WotC has produced for 5E, while counting XP from challenges is better for sandboxes and other non-linear styles of play. 6E would need to...

"Space Opera" doesn't really say anything about its outlook, though. Star Wars is Space Opera, but so it The Culture series.

I feel like you could use this format (with a few tweaks) for an ongoing open table superhero game. EDIT: Now that I type that, i think it might work better from a playing villains perspective.

I have never encountered a YT personality before whose voice and appearance were so mismatched that it made it hard to actually watch. Wow. Not a bad discussion, tho.

No, but because the campaigns were not all equally successful. For example, the caravan home base was when playing the Jade Regent PF1 AP which did not work for us. I don't think the failure was based on the HQ tho. I will say that of all the styles, I return to "small town where the PCs end up...

I think it is almost entirely dependent on the nature of the larger campaign. I have used everything from the sleepy hamlet to a trade caravan to the king's court as the base of operations.

But inherently neither. I have probably run as many campaigns where the PCs were the "hand of the king" as I have where they were scoundrels and rebels. Star Wars is more punk than D&D, by a wide margin. Interesting: what kind of *-punk is Star Wars?

Okay, so it is a hobbit, right? Except it is skinny and has pointy ears. No, not like an elf. More like an emaciated gnome. Anyway, it's a hobbit except instead of liking comfort, they are fearless. Not like brave, but like dumb as a stump so they aren't afraid of anything. No, not mentally...

You could build the "return to town" into the setting: maybe the sandbox is a continent, planet, dimension or epoch away and the "recall bracelets" allow you to travel there and summon you back after a period of time (aka the length of the session).

As a separate thing from sandboxes or theme parks. This is one of those threadss where I am literally just thinking on the keyborad, so I am excited to see what other folks think of the idea. In other words, we're just spitballing here. So you oftne here "open" play environments described as...

Sure, but as it relates specifically to D&D, levels of magic and (for lack of a better term) the superheroic abilities of protagonists does vary pretty widly. So one person's "conan-esque" is someone else's overpowered fantasy.

Since PCs are not done being created before level 3, I almost always start there.

It can be a classic adventure, a monster, a spell, a class, or anything else that is iconic of D&D. Otherwise you know how this works. ---------- I'm here to play the lute and [---] dragons, and I lost my lute.

Huh. I don't think it has ever occurred to me to use a published adventure for supers.

Read. Your. [redacted]. Character. Abilities.

Nor do I. I also did not suggest I did. It is just true. So are you playing OSE or OSRIC? If it was merely arrogance, it would not be true. But it is. Whether it is preferable or not, there must be some there there. I personally think it is inertia, but how would I know for sure?

I do play differ games. Lots of them. I like liking D&D. I don't like not liking the current version of D&D. D&D has a long tradition of changing more than most other games and that very likely has contributed to its longevity and dominance.