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<blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 5040942" data-attributes="member: 1210">Another key element to sandbox play is dropping plot hooks that the pcs will never follow up on. Some of these are too hard (&quot;We can't do anything about that ancient dragon that won't let anyone cross the desert, we're only 1st level!&quot;), some too easy (&quot;Kobolds are threatening the little village of Crumb? Who cares? We're 20th level, let someone else do it- we won't get any loot or real xp out of it&quot;), some just not interesting (&quot;Who cares if someone is stealing from the Tailors' Guild?&quot;), some not pressing (&quot;Oh, the sun has a wobble in its orbit? It won't cause any harm for 20,000 years? Why bother?&quot;), and some are outweighed by the party's other concerns (&quot;Yeah, I would love to help the thieves' guild solve its succession war, but we have a caravan to guard for the next 4 months first&quot;). Some of these, the party may return to; others, they won't, and said threads will tend to advance along logical lines until the start of the next group, be it via tpk or simply the group moving on to the next set of 1st level pcs. But they all enrich the milieu and help give the sense that the world is full of danger and excitement. Again, meaningful choices.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="the Jester, post: 5040942, member: 1210"] Another key element to sandbox play is dropping plot hooks that the pcs will never follow up on. Some of these are too hard ("We can't do anything about that ancient dragon that won't let anyone cross the desert, we're only 1st level!"), some too easy ("Kobolds are threatening the little village of Crumb? Who cares? We're 20th level, let someone else do it- we won't get any loot or real xp out of it"), some just not interesting ("Who cares if someone is stealing from the Tailors' Guild?"), some not pressing ("Oh, the sun has a wobble in its orbit? It won't cause any harm for 20,000 years? Why bother?"), and some are outweighed by the party's other concerns ("Yeah, I would love to help the thieves' guild solve its succession war, but we have a caravan to guard for the next 4 months first"). Some of these, the party may return to; others, they won't, and said threads will tend to advance along logical lines until the start of the next group, be it via tpk or simply the group moving on to the next set of 1st level pcs. But they [i]all[/i] enrich the milieu and help give the sense that the world is full of danger and excitement. Again, meaningful choices. [/QUOTE]

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