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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 8970746" data-attributes="member: 11760">I have a campaign that's been running (via play by post) since 2006, with off-shot campaigns and live games as well.I started in a sandbox fashion, with a player-facing wiki, and created a hometown with some problems, sitting at what looks like a pivotal moment in its history, and sprinkled about six to eight interesting locales around town, some of them ruins, some actively inhabited areas, some big question marks. I knew what each of them had going on, in broad strokes, and let the players go.They bit on the simplest hook I put in front of them and then, in the second adventure, stumbled across a hook for another area, which they bit on and things immediately snowballed, forming a coherent campaign arc that ran for many levels. Once things snowballed, there was a very clear story arc laid out for everyone, even if the stops along the way were surprises to all of us.They're now on the other side of the continent, following up remaining threads from the first arc and the original mystery I put in front of them, but I have at least one player who still wonders about a question mark area outside their home town. At some point, I expect some of the PCs to return to check it out, or next generation characters to follow up on it in a subsequent campaign.So, I'm not sure I could replicate this success again, but it worked very well the first time, and is probably the model I'd use if I was starting from scratch again.</blockquote>

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