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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kahuna Burger" data-source="post: 3774757" data-attributes="member: 8439">While I enjoy both running and playing a sandbox as much as anyone, I will make a judgement on the above - some DMs don't improvise well, and do run very good preplanned adventures that work well once you take the hook. While a "sandbox" campaign may be fun, I'm completely in favor of cooperative metagaming by both the players and the DM. That is to say, if the DM says "I'll give you options, but I don't have the time or talents for a total sandbox" I think a good player takes a plot hook and runs with it. (and for the DMs part, they don't pull the "ha ha, you took this job and it's all a setup, what dorks!" move to punish the metagaming that was there to help the DM in the first place.)In other words, if you are running a sandbox campaign, say so. If a group is playing in a game which is not a sandbox and decides at the start of the session that they want strike out on their own, then no, I don't think value judgements should be placed on a DM who says "OK, so you take a boat ride. It's boring. See you next week when I'll either have put together something for this adventure direction* or we'll play Xbox."*(In between my job, my family and the crunch this week that was the reason I picked up this adventure in the first place to reduce my prep but still be able to run a game.)</blockquote>