touc
No rule is inviolate
I never did and ended up making up my own Deep Roads adventure based on the original Dragon Age video game, removing the endless battles that video games have, waiving the travel times with a montage, focusing on the creepy lore (some of the best in any RPG, hands down), increasing RP chances, and emphasizing cool/dynamic boss and trap encounters.Did you ever find something that had it all?
It wasn't a sandbox, but the party wasn't in a maze the size of France to sandbox explore. They had a specific mission in mind (so it was a "railroad" map but that's what they were wanting). And, they surprised me by insisting an NPC I had pushed to the background (a recruitable character in the original video game) come with them (the perpetually drunk and foul mouthed Oghren), which just made the entire trip a whole lot more interesting.
I've gotten out of the habit of just writing stuff, albeit I borrowed many direct lines from the game because they're so well written.