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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9646457" data-attributes="member: 42582">I know two of the systems on your list very well.Burning Wheel does permit &quot;total freedom&quot; of the sort that [USER=22779]@Hussar[/USER] described. It is not designed for the sort of learning of pre-authored setting details that you talked about upthread. It doesn't use map-and-key to resolve travel; journeying is just another test&nbsp; (say, on Orienteering) with failure narrated in the system's usual way.Given the way that &quot;sandbox&quot; is normally used, I think characterising Burning Wheel as a sandbox game would tend to mislead.Turning to Classic Traveller, it's system for resolving on-world exploration is terrible, in my view. I discovered this first-hand, in the third or fourth session of a game that I started some years ago. There are rules for rolling for vehicle malfunction on a per-time-period basis; and there are movement rates for vehicles; but all the distances just have to be made up by the GM, in the context of a game where moving from world to world is an assumed part of play.After the first bad experience, I just avoided having on-world exploration in subsequent sessions. That's not to say that I avoided on-world action - but it wasn't based around trying to get to certain places in a certain time without getting lost or similar.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 9646457, member: 42582"] I know two of the systems on your list very well. Burning Wheel does permit "total freedom" of the sort that [USER=22779]@Hussar[/USER] described. It is not designed for the sort of [I]learning of pre-authored setting details[/I] that you talked about upthread. It doesn't use map-and-key to resolve travel; journeying is just another test (say, on Orienteering) with failure narrated in the system's usual way. Given the way that "sandbox" is normally used, I think characterising Burning Wheel as a sandbox game would tend to mislead. Turning to Classic Traveller, it's system for resolving on-world exploration is terrible, in my view. I discovered this first-hand, in the third or fourth session of a game that I started some years ago. There are rules for rolling for vehicle malfunction on a per-time-period basis; and there are movement rates for vehicles; but all the distances just have to be made up by the GM, in the context of a game where moving from world to world is an assumed part of play. After the first bad experience, I just avoided having on-world exploration in subsequent sessions. That's not to say that I avoided on-world [I]action[/I] - but it wasn't based around trying to get to certain places in a certain time without getting lost or similar. [/QUOTE]

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