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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Doug McCrae" data-source="post: 5596474" data-attributes="member: 21169">As Elf Witch says, that depends on the players. If you've got players (or just one player who leads the others) with clear long-term goals then it would probably be fine.The OD&D megadungeon was an entirely reactive sandbox and yet it worked. Part of that was down to the large player to GM ratio and the lack of The Party as a unified entity. Players were strongly motivated by competition to have the most powerful PC. At times they'd even PvP. There's a story in Dragon #308 about Terry Kuntz's PC enacting a terrorist campaign against the lands of another player to extort money. By this stage the players are practically running the game themselves and the GM is truly a referee.You're quite right that one can have a sandbox with plots in it. The last time I ran D&D it started out as a game with pretty much a single mission for the PCs, and some setting info, and had become a sandbox by the second session once I'd prepped more material. However the players were so strongly committed to the original mission that it might as well not have been a sandbox. I could've prepped a single adventure path and the game would've played out much the same.</blockquote>