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<blockquote data-quote="GMforPowergamers" data-source="post: 8714718" data-attributes="member: 67338">it could be... it really depends more on the relationship from DM to players... if I am playing and I start to find out about the dragon cult and say &quot;cool, I want to join them&quot; and the DM says &quot;Dude, no they are the bad guys for you to fight&quot; then that is railroad. if he says &quot;WTF... these are the badguys...&quot; then figures out what it would mean for me to join them and starts to run it... that is a sandbox. it isn't just choice of adventure (although that is a good first step) but choices IN the adventure.&nbsp; in general the more curve balls the DM will roll with, the more 'I didn't see that coming' that he allows the more sandbox it is.just a few things:the time we made magical nukesthe time we forged an alliance of pelor and vecnathe time we ended up with a PC marrying the half dragon queen of the koboldsthe time I personally took a deadlands game half way across the country, killed a dozen important NPCs, just to come back and find that the 1 PC left behind at the town we started at had become mayor...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GMforPowergamers, post: 8714718, member: 67338"] it could be... it really depends more on the relationship from DM to players... if I am playing and I start to find out about the dragon cult and say "cool, I want to join them" and the DM says "Dude, no they are the bad guys for you to fight" then that is railroad. if he says "WTF... these are the badguys..." then figures out what it would mean for me to join them and starts to run it... that is a sandbox. it isn't just choice of adventure (although that is a good first step) but choices IN the adventure. in general the more curve balls the DM will roll with, the more 'I didn't see that coming' that he allows the more sandbox it is. just a few things: the time we made magical nukes the time we forged an alliance of pelor and vecna the time we ended up with a PC marrying the half dragon queen of the kobolds the time I personally took a deadlands game half way across the country, killed a dozen important NPCs, just to come back and find that the 1 PC left behind at the town we started at had become mayor... [/QUOTE]

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