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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6812924" data-attributes="member: 7006">I am usually not a huge fan of strictly sandbox play for the simple reason that going from one event at a town to another event in another town to a third event in a third location ad nauseum does not usually result in an interesting overall story to the campaign as a whole for me.  In cases like this... our group really just feels like mercenaries, going from place to place solving problems for people (probably for a reward).  But once a problem is solved, there's no story involved for moving on or looking for another problem, we just do.  Because sandbox.  The party basically becomes like the A-Team... but an A-Team that doesn't have the Colonel constantly chasing after them giving them reason to keep moving (because the Colonel trying to find and arrest them for a crime they didn't commit is by definition a "plot" that pushes the campaign forward, which as you say, you don't think is as good.)To me... having an overarching story in the background for the players to engage in beyond just what they "find" in any location actually helps define the campaign, and gives a more interesting backdrop for what they are doing.  Now how much or how often they engage in that background story is usually up to them and I wouldn't "force" them to engage in it... but if them choose not to, they do hear about what is going on in the world outside of their focus and which continues to progress even if they choose not to get involved.  (Although more often than not, they DO choose to get involved because just doing independent "side missions" all the time can just get old after a while.)</blockquote>

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