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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 5057741" data-attributes="member: 463"><p>I run a sandbox 4e game and a 'plotted' or linear 3.5e game.  In the sandbox the PCs go anywhere within the box, there's always stuff going on, and they decide what to do next.  In my 'plotted' 3.5e campaign I base it off published modules in a loose 'adventure path'.  4 so far, each has run for 4 sessions, usually with a BBEG at the end.  Fighting the BBEG or otherwise winning the module gives a natural high point to end on, then I can take a break, or go into the next module.  Longer term plots build slowly in the background, perhaps hinted at by NPCs.  Links between events gradually emerge.  The importance of events rises as the PCs go up in level; from saving a person at level 1, a community at level 3, a kingdom at level 5, the world at level 7, and hopefully the timeline at level 9 and the universe at level 11 - that's the next two adventures.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>