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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zak S" data-source="post: 6610827" data-attributes="member: 90370">Nudging."Nudging: The PCs "should" take some action, notice some clue, make some choice, etc. They aren't doing it. Someone or something comes along and points them in the "right" direction."They aren't realizing the scene isn't going anywhere (or they're not supposed to even go anywhere) so you point them in the "right" direction--the direction being "Stop worrying about this".I think you misunderstood. I didn't define them as a mutually exclusive thing.A "location-based sandbox" is a broad term that could cover almost any of the scenarios I describe under "sandboxes".A clockwork sandbox is a kind of location-based sandbox.</blockquote>