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<blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 8563046" data-attributes="member: 23751">In a linear adventure, you generally can't skip portions like that.&nbsp; They're constructed more like...A: The party arrives in town and the barkeep who is keeping an eye out for adventurers tells the group that the wizard Meezap(7th level wizard) is looking to hire a group.&nbsp; B: The group travels to the edge of town and meets Meezap in tower where they are told that his apprentice has been taken by an undead creature.&nbsp; Meezap used his last oil of scrying(made up item) and has determined that the creature, which is beyond his abilities but not a group such as the PCs, is holed up in a cave with the apprentice.C: After arriving at the cave and defeating the undead beastie, the group discovers that the creature was working for an even greater master who took the apprentice before the PCs got there.&nbsp; The master is 1 day away down a passage at the back of the cave to the underdark and will be sacrificing the apprentice 2 days from now.D: The PCs travel through the underdark and battle through the minions of the master to save the apprentice.Those are all parts that you have to go though to discover the next leg.&nbsp; It's linear&nbsp; They aren't really skippable, but you could stop at any points and ditch the adventure.&nbsp; Perhaps the group is like, &quot;Underdark!&nbsp; Master of this guy?!&nbsp; Heck no!&quot;&nbsp; If you can skip parts B or C and go straight from A to D, that's a more open adventure that isn't really linear or railroad.&nbsp; It's also not necessarily sandbox like the Isle of Dread.&nbsp; There's lots of space in-between linear and sandbox games for adventure to fall into, and most adventurers that I've read are in that space.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Maxperson, post: 8563046, member: 23751"] In a linear adventure, you generally can't skip portions like that. They're constructed more like... A: The party arrives in town and the barkeep who is keeping an eye out for adventurers tells the group that the wizard Meezap(7th level wizard) is looking to hire a group. B: The group travels to the edge of town and meets Meezap in tower where they are told that his apprentice has been taken by an undead creature. Meezap used his last oil of scrying(made up item) and has determined that the creature, which is beyond his abilities but not a group such as the PCs, is holed up in a cave with the apprentice. C: After arriving at the cave and defeating the undead beastie, the group discovers that the creature was working for an even greater master who took the apprentice before the PCs got there. The master is 1 day away down a passage at the back of the cave to the underdark and will be sacrificing the apprentice 2 days from now. D: The PCs travel through the underdark and battle through the minions of the master to save the apprentice. Those are all parts that you have to go though to discover the next leg. It's linear They aren't really skippable, but you could stop at any points and ditch the adventure. Perhaps the group is like, "Underdark! Master of this guy?! Heck no!" If you can skip parts B or C and go straight from A to D, that's a more open adventure that isn't really linear or railroad. It's also not necessarily sandbox like the Isle of Dread. There's lots of space in-between linear and sandbox games for adventure to fall into, and most adventurers that I've read are in that space. [/QUOTE]

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