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<blockquote data-quote="Alaxk Knight of Galt" data-source="post: 5283908" data-attributes="member: 4129">I think that a Sandbox Style can be run in 4E.&nbsp; The key is how to handle the Extended Rest.An option to prevent the Nova-Rest cycle of typical exploration / random encounters.&nbsp; This makes random encounters part of the &quot;average&quot; adventure day.&nbsp; Once they've reached their second milestone, the PCs have an option for an extended rest.A variant on this rule could be&nbsp; This would make exploring the wilderness a dangerous activity and anchor the PCs to local towns/cities.&nbsp; Travelling between cities becomes a dangerous game as well (who knows how many random encounters they might have, they might even be forced to turn back).For random encounters, I'd divide them by region.&nbsp; Each region would be given a level and the random encounters would be plus or minus some amount of that level.&nbsp; If the Frog Marches are level 3, then I'd have encounters that ranged from 5-1 inside them.&nbsp; When the first level PCs encounter a level 4 encounter in the Frog Marches, they might think better then to continue exploring them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alaxk Knight of Galt, post: 5283908, member: 4129"] I think that a Sandbox Style can be run in 4E. The key is how to handle the Extended Rest. An option to prevent the Nova-Rest cycle of typical exploration / random encounters. This makes random encounters part of the "average" adventure day. Once they've reached their second milestone, the PCs have an option for an extended rest. A variant on this rule could be This would make exploring the wilderness a dangerous activity and anchor the PCs to local towns/cities. Travelling between cities becomes a dangerous game as well (who knows how many random encounters they might have, they might even be forced to turn back). For random encounters, I'd divide them by region. Each region would be given a level and the random encounters would be plus or minus some amount of that level. If the Frog Marches are level 3, then I'd have encounters that ranged from 5-1 inside them. When the first level PCs encounter a level 4 encounter in the Frog Marches, they might think better then to continue exploring them. [/QUOTE]

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