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Do You Prefer Sandbox or Party Level Areas In Your Game World?
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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 8218384" data-attributes="member: 6801845"><p>I guess it depends on what you define as sandbox. From wikipedia:</p><p style="margin-left: 20px">A sandbox game is a video game with a gameplay element that gives the player a great degree of creativity to complete tasks towards a goal within the game, if such a goal exists. Some games exist as pure sandbox games with no objectives.</p><p></p><p>So I think improv pretty much has to be part of a sandbox because PCs can go wherever they want and attempt whatever they want. If I happen to mention that the BBEG's castle is on Fort EvilDoom and they want to go there, I'm not going to stop them from attempting even if I think they have zero chance of getting there. So hopefully I can make some encounters with monsters I have prepped (probably doubling the numbers) or I'll do a quick look up for some appropriate opponents.</p><p></p><p>Because even though I knew about Fort EvilDoom, I never in a hundred years expected them to attempt to storm the castle and I only have it vaguely sketched out. After all, it's a sandbox campaign and they never have to go to Fort EvilDoom if they don't want to. It would be impossible to prep the entire world ahead of time.</p><p></p><p>On the other hand I do limit things like Plane Shift and Teleport for my own sanity. I also ask that they don't go completely 100% off tangent from where they said they were going at the end of the last session.</p><p></p><p>Running a sandbox does require a certain level of prep. I know in general who's who and what's where. It gets fuzzier the further out it gets from expected path though. Fortunately it's not a computer game, I don't need to prep the entire world ahead of time, I just need to lean on improv now and then.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 8218384, member: 6801845"] I guess it depends on what you define as sandbox. From wikipedia: [INDENT]A sandbox game is a video game with a gameplay element that gives the player a great degree of creativity to complete tasks towards a goal within the game, if such a goal exists. Some games exist as pure sandbox games with no objectives.[/INDENT] So I think improv pretty much has to be part of a sandbox because PCs can go wherever they want and attempt whatever they want. If I happen to mention that the BBEG's castle is on Fort EvilDoom and they want to go there, I'm not going to stop them from attempting even if I think they have zero chance of getting there. So hopefully I can make some encounters with monsters I have prepped (probably doubling the numbers) or I'll do a quick look up for some appropriate opponents. Because even though I knew about Fort EvilDoom, I never in a hundred years expected them to attempt to storm the castle and I only have it vaguely sketched out. After all, it's a sandbox campaign and they never have to go to Fort EvilDoom if they don't want to. It would be impossible to prep the entire world ahead of time. On the other hand I do limit things like Plane Shift and Teleport for my own sanity. I also ask that they don't go completely 100% off tangent from where they said they were going at the end of the last session. Running a sandbox does require a certain level of prep. I know in general who's who and what's where. It gets fuzzier the further out it gets from expected path though. Fortunately it's not a computer game, I don't need to prep the entire world ahead of time, I just need to lean on improv now and then. [/QUOTE]
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