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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ringlerun" data-source="post: 5729023" data-attributes="member: 6668496">My worst sandbox experiences was way back in the mid 80's with Space Master.  If no one has played Space Master before it takes about 2 hours to generate your character.  Longer if you only have 1 players book between a few people.  Anyway to get back on topic we all spend time creating characters for a campaign a friend of hours was going to run.  In the first 5 min we broke some planetary law and ended up in jail.  And the penalty of breaking any law is to fight in the arena.  To cut a long story short we all died as we had no melee skills.  And my character had his throat ripped out by a foot long space cockroach. I didn't even make it to the arena i died in the waiting cell.A few weeks later we tried again with same GM and same game system.  This time we were stuck on some massive spaceship the size of a planet.  The gist of the game was that this huge ship was being pursued by an armada and when it exited hyperspace to strip a planet for fuel the armada would catch up and we would have to fend off the fighters until the ship jumped back into hyperspace.  (i think the idea was stolen from some book at the time).  Any way none of us had any fighter piloting skills and all the weapons were automated.  So we all sat as the GM waffled on about how great the battle was and how the ship is all damaged and how we barely escaped to hyperspace.  So as a good group we decide to go exploring the ship and find that the ship is zoned into sections of different races, animals, plants and such.  A huge galactic ark flying through space.  Getting more and more bored and not knowing what the hell we were supposed to do a few players started to get a bit antsy.  And when we stumbled upon the gay and lesbian zones they had had enough and decided to kick the tires and light the fires literally.  We all grabbed flame throwers and starting from floor 1 door 1 we went on a killing and torching spree until the automated defenses killed us.</blockquote>

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