Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9641085" data-attributes="member: 29398">Not at all.A sandbox, by its very nature, has to have sand in it.&nbsp; In D&amp;D, that sand is directly analagous to the setting created by the DM; and while there still may be borders as to how far that sand extends, within those borders there is sand.&nbsp; Some DMs might not even have any borders, or those borders are so far distant that for play purposes the might as well not exist, at which point the &quot;sandbox&quot; more comes to resemble a sandy beach.What makes a sandbox campaign different from a linear campaign is that in a linear campaign - to follow the same analogy - the DM doesn't just provide the sand but also tells those playing in the sand the exact specifications of the sandcastle they're going to build and then sits back and watches them build it.&nbsp; Meanwhile in a true sandbox campaign the DM still provides the sand but doesn't much care whether they build a castle with it or draw a picture in it or even throw it in each others faces.----------Other than that, it's hard for me to engage with the thread as posited in the OP as in the first post the OP has defined-used a couple of terms in ways that don't make sense to me.A -- B -- C -- etc. in any form isn't an adventure, it's (part of) a campaign; where each of A and B and C etc. are themselves adventures.&nbsp; Of course, an adventure itself can be internally linear or non-linear - adventure design is a whole different topic - but rarely if ever is a single adventure ever referred to as a sandbox.A campaign is also, at least the way I see it, everything in aggregate that happens in play within the same setting that has a reasonable degree of connection with the rest.&nbsp; So if Party A do four adventures while Party B do three then they meet and combine into a big Party C for a while before splitting out again into Parties D and E, lather rinse repeat for years or even decades, that's all one campaign.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 9641085, member: 29398"] Not at all. A sandbox, by its very nature, has to have sand in it. In D&D, that sand is directly analagous to the setting created by the DM; and while there still may be borders as to how far that sand extends, within those borders there is sand. Some DMs might not even have any borders, or those borders are so far distant that for play purposes the might as well not exist, at which point the "sandbox" more comes to resemble a sandy beach. What makes a sandbox campaign different from a linear campaign is that in a linear campaign - to follow the same analogy - the DM doesn't just provide the sand but also tells those playing in the sand the exact specifications of the sandcastle they're going to build and then sits back and watches them build it. Meanwhile in a true sandbox campaign the DM still provides the sand but doesn't much care whether they build a castle with it or draw a picture in it or even throw it in each others faces. ---------- Other than that, it's hard for me to engage with the thread as posited in the OP as in the first post the OP has defined-used a couple of terms in ways that don't make sense to me. [B]A -- B -- C -- etc.[/B] in any form isn't an adventure, it's (part of) a campaign; where each of A and B and C etc. are themselves adventures. Of course, an adventure itself can be internally linear or non-linear - adventure design is a whole different topic - but rarely if ever is a single adventure ever referred to as a sandbox. A campaign is also, at least the way I see it, everything in aggregate that happens in play within the same setting that has a reasonable degree of connection with the rest. So if Party A do four adventures while Party B do three then they meet and combine into a big Party C for a while before splitting out again into Parties D and E, lather rinse repeat for years or even decades, that's all one campaign. [/QUOTE]

Verification