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<blockquote data-quote="jeffh" data-source="post: 5958983" data-attributes="member: 2642">The original Dark Sun boxed set struck me as very sandboxy. Not just in that it was a box and involved lots of literal sand, but in that the books were full of little adventure ideas and potential encounter areas, with just enough details to get a good GM's imagination going.EDIT: Lamentations of the Flame Princess has two hexcrawl-oriented settings out, Isle of the Unknown and Carcosa. Some people swear by them, though the one review I've read of Isle of the Unknown was rather mixed.BTW, all of the above are written with older editions of D&amp;D in mind (the original Dark Sun was for 2E AD&amp;D, and the LotFP products are written with &quot;retro-clones&quot; and particularly Swords and Wizardry and their own Weird Fantasy Role-Playing in mind, both of which resemble the original 1974 edition). If you're willing to improvise to the extent you need to to run a sandbox anyway, I figure stats should be no biggie, just keep the monster books for your preferred edition handy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jeffh, post: 5958983, member: 2642"] The original Dark Sun boxed set struck me as very sandboxy. Not just in that it was a box and involved lots of literal sand, but in that the books were full of little adventure ideas and potential encounter areas, with just enough details to get a good GM's imagination going. EDIT: Lamentations of the Flame Princess has two hexcrawl-oriented settings out, Isle of the Unknown and Carcosa. Some people swear by them, though the one review I've read of Isle of the Unknown was rather mixed. BTW, all of the above are written with older editions of D&D in mind (the original Dark Sun was for 2E AD&D, and the LotFP products are written with "retro-clones" and particularly [I]Swords and Wizardry[/I] and their own [I]Weird Fantasy Role-Playing[/I] in mind, both of which resemble the original 1974 edition). If you're willing to improvise to the extent you need to to run a sandbox anyway, I figure stats should be no biggie, just keep the monster books for your preferred edition handy. [/QUOTE]

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