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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FrogReaver" data-source="post: 8440438" data-attributes="member: 6795602">My goal was to illustrate how living sandbox is a mix of both backstory first and situation first.what you are getting raked over the coals for is using a categorization structure that pigeonholes living sandbox into a backstory first description when there’s so much more to living sandbox play than backstory first.Then you aren’t listening to my explanation for why.  When everything is in the fictional world it doesn’t matter how it got there, it matters what the players focus on, what they put in front of themselves, as that's what drives the game. That’s what comes closest to impacting play in such an environment.  That's why from the players perspective in a living sandbox they don't need to see the GM machinery that creates the world - it's just not important for how the game plays or feels.Imagine for a moment if I started a categorization framework intent differentiating all the things important to living sandbox play.  Does anyone think that such a categorization framework would adequately describe the things important to story now play?  I certainly don't.  And yet we are here trying to shove living sandbox into categorizations that were solely created to be able to differentiate story now play from other play.  For living sandbox play how the fiction is generated doesn't have a great deal of significance on the play experience.Whatever the GM allows (typically what fits in with the backstory he has made - for example he might limit racial choice to dwarves.  And yes, the fictional backstories of the players should affect play...running out of timeNo world is truly infinite.  The most we can do is approximate infinite with a large world or procedural generation of content.  I'd say that for a typical living sandbox it's up to the players and not the GM to place themselves into situations where they can meaningfully engage their priorities.  And note, getting themselves into those sitautions isn't instant like story now (pacing is a big difference).  ...out of time</blockquote>

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