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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6231375" data-attributes="member: 4937">Desert of Desolation has minimal wilderness exploration, but considering how much time that the module spends describing wilderness exploration, providing wandering encounter tables, considering the problem of desert survival, and so forth one of my complaints against it is that it doesn't provide enough space to really make it relevant or interesting.  Everything is basically a days journey from everything else.It would be possible to convert Desert of Desolation to a sand boxy environment - there are plenty of factions, plenty of room for adding your own ruins, NPCs, lost tombs, etc.   But while there would be some advantages to this in having the plot evolve more naturally from its initial railroad hook and without the need to resource to Schrodinger's map, this would be a tremendous amount of work.  Fun and good exercise though.  But make sure you know what you are getting into when you say you want a sand box.  By definition, to run a sandbox you have to be willing to prepare more material - much more material - than you ever intend to use.As for the Saltmarsh trilogy, the first module is pretty decent although the haunted house execution involves just a wee bit more poison opportunities than I think is necessary or helpful at this level of play.  But the second and third modules pretty much fall apart in my opinion because they make huge assumptions about party behavior that I think aren't much warranted, don't offer much game play at all if those assumptions fall through, and the finale is pretty ante-climatic IMO.  There is the core idea of a really cool campaign in here, but I think it would be a tremendous amount of work to mine it out of the material.Isle of Dread is one of D&D's iconic sandbox modules, but its really really thin by modern standards and requires a huge amount of effort to realize the full potential of the setting.  Get back to me on this one in a year or two and I may be willing to share my notes. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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