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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 4888995" data-attributes="member: 54707">There are already a lot of good responses so no need for me to reiterate those.To me one of the most important factors with the sandbox is that players do not have to necessarily proceed in a linear fashion from mission or adventure to any other related adventure. That might seem initially self-evident but it isn't until you get used to the style.  You can pick up and put down related or unrelated interests at various times, as it suits the needs of the players and DM.Adventures in a sandbox may or may not be related, but they are not temporally fixed, moving from A to B to C in any particular order, or even timeframe.I do however in my sandboxes have things constantly in motion. If the party is adventuring at point Alpha, then points Bravo and Delta are not static, but operate like they would in real life. They do not sit around stoically waiting on the "heroes to appear," and only then go into motion.Populations and events and places are in constant motion and activity in relation to wherever the PCs are operating, or not operating. Unexplored places do not sit around statically waiting on the players, they have their own business to attend to with or without them. That to me is part of the process by which certain areas change and attract or repel new exploration. One day an area may be quiet and uninteresting, the next week it is bustling with immigration or movement or combat engagements or trade or covert activity. Things constantly changing makes a sandbox alive beyond just character involvement.</blockquote>

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