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<blockquote data-quote="Sunseeker" data-source="post: 6382087">Weren't we talking about BAD sandboxes and BAD railroads?&nbsp; Don't construe my posts to apply to all sandboxes.&nbsp; There are creative DMs who put a lot of little things into their worlds and then let players find them, like an easter egg hunt.&nbsp; A good sandbox is something like that.&nbsp; There are things to find, and you just need to go out and find them.&nbsp; A bad sandbox is like that parent who just wants to keep their kid busy for a couple hours and so they hide one or two eggs in the entire yard, and then claim that the kid must have misbehaved or something so the easter bunny didn't leave them more.I'm pretty sure we're talking about BAD executions of sandboxes.&nbsp; And I'm sorry, no matter how many times a DM tells me &quot;it's out there, keep looking!&quot; If I wander around for 3-4 hours during our session and don't turn up anything, I'm gonna start thinking that no, it really isn't out there.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sunseeker, post: 6382087"] Weren't we talking about BAD sandboxes and BAD railroads? Don't construe my posts to apply to all sandboxes. There are creative DMs who put a lot of little things into their worlds and then let players find them, like an easter egg hunt. A good sandbox is something like that. There are things to find, and you just need to go out and find them. A bad sandbox is like that parent who just wants to keep their kid busy for a couple hours and so they hide one or two eggs in the entire yard, and then claim that the kid must have misbehaved or something so the easter bunny didn't leave them more. I'm pretty sure we're talking about BAD executions of sandboxes. And I'm sorry, no matter how many times a DM tells me "it's out there, keep looking!" If I wander around for 3-4 hours during our session and don't turn up anything, I'm gonna start thinking that no, it really [B]isn't[/B] out there. [/QUOTE]

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