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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 9853967" data-attributes="member: 19675">Not exactly what you’re describing, but mu best campaign ever was essentially a sandbox.  But I didn’t design it from the ground up.  It was a supers game run in HERO, but using the Space:1889 campaign setting.But I didn’t simply use it as written.  Instead, I added a bunch of thematically appropriate bits from literature, anime, comics, TV & film- enough to make it my own.What made it truly sandboxy, though, was that the campaign had a built-in plot-dangler: the infra-agency newsletter for the organization the PCs were part of.  It contained recaps of the previous session’s actions (if completed), as well as “news of the world”- events (adventure plot seeds) that the players might find interesting.While there was an overarching campaign plotline, the players themselves essentially chose at least half of the adventures they went on, based on what was in the newsletter.  If enough liked a particular blurb, I’d write it up as the next mission.And a lot of the world’s news plot seeds came from PC backgrounds & roleplay, coupled with player speculation and table talk.  In a very real sense, they helped make the setting work, because some of THEIR ideas about what was going on were better than mine.So my personal sandbox secret was a combination of listening to my players and essentially having a good way to connect the them with their setting’s current events.</blockquote>

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