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Message: <blockquote data-quote="meomwt" data-source="post: 4031995" data-attributes="member: 47885">I've been following and enjoying the Sandbox thread on this Forum. I was looking at it last night, and it prompted me to ask Mrs meomwt (a player in our group) how she had been enjoying the game I'd been running before Christmas (currently on hiatus and replaced by some heavy-duty RuneQuest 3). The game had been set in the Necromancer 'Lost City of Barakus' campaign, with some add-ons from me and a couple of extra adventures. It had been run sandbox fashion, they had been given free choice of where and when to go, and had completed several adventures in the Home Base City prior to heading out to the main mega-dungeon. We'd completed 17 sessions, and had got to Level 3 (Barakus recommends 50% XP Awards). Her comments were that: <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the rate of progression was too slow;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the story focus was missing; </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the reason for the group being together was too weak;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the game had been fragmented by missing sessions due to illness/ holidays/ work.</li> </ul>Obviously, the last one we couldn't do much about, but the others could be addressed. Her comment about story focus was interesting, as there were multiple plot hooks lurking around, it was up to the players to sort them out (they'd not taken on one possible mission in the city, for example, but two of the players had become involved in disrupting an arms smuggling racket which was getting weapons to a fledgling Thieve's Guild operating in a shanty-town outside the city walls). Obviously, I need to discuss with the other players how they were perceiving the game. Can anyone offer advice on whether the situation is retrievable or when I come to DM again, would it be better to start again? (And starting again at Level 1 is something Mrs meomwt threw her hands up in horror at, complaining she'd spent ages getting to Level 3 and would have to start all over again!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> )</blockquote>

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