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<blockquote data-quote="el-remmen" data-source="post: 9641183" data-attributes="member: 11">To me a sandbox means more than &quot;you can do it in any order.&quot; Instead, characters having a meaningful in-game influence on the direction of their adventures within limits set by the DM which can be relatively narrow but also potentially global/planar.Yes, you can use pre-published or other prepped material in sandbox and it still be a sandbox. I might say, when I first prep an area, &quot;The Crypts of Istaris (which are detailed in the adventure of the same name in Dungeon #9) can be found outside the city of X in the kingdom of Y.&quot; If the PCs ever go there, I can drop some potential hooks, but I don't have to prep it or even do more than a skim to judge potential usefulness in order to place it there. Once they express their plans to go there, I begin to prep. But I don't feel like I have wasted time if they don't, because I haven't.Then again, today the PCs just flatly refused a hook for something I did take a lot of time prepping (even painted a mini!), but I am not mad. Their choice made sense. . . and I have to respect that. And that material will still be useful (if different with the passage of time) should the PCs end up going there later on.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="el-remmen, post: 9641183, member: 11"] To me a sandbox means more than "you can do it in any order." Instead, characters having a meaningful in-game influence on the direction of their adventures within limits set by the DM which can be relatively narrow but also potentially global/planar. Yes, you can use pre-published or other prepped material in sandbox and it still be a sandbox. I might say, when I first prep an area, "The Crypts of Istaris (which are detailed in the adventure of the same name in Dungeon #9) can be found outside the city of X in the kingdom of Y." If the PCs ever go there, I can drop some potential hooks, but I don't have to prep it or even do more than a skim to judge potential usefulness in order to place it there. Once they express their plans to go there, I begin to prep. But I don't feel like I have wasted time if they don't, because I haven't. Then again, today the PCs just flatly refused a hook for something I [I]did [/I]take a lot of time prepping (even painted a mini!), but I am not mad. Their choice made sense. . . and I have to respect that. And that material will still be useful (if different with the passage of time) should the PCs end up going there later on. [/QUOTE]

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