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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 5132188" data-attributes="member: 18280">This would be true only if what was published had no influence over what happened at the table, or if additional work wasn't required to make sandbox-y materials more linear, or linear materials more sandbox-y.You can work to make DragonLance a sandbox; doing so means that you are no longer using DragonLance as published.You can work to make Keep on the Borderlands more linear; again, though, doing so changes the nature of what is presented.The best example I can think of here is Necromancer Games' Crucible of Freya, which intentionally and explicitly comes with both a mini-sandbox and a linear scenario to run in that sandbox if you so choose.  Looking at the two halves of the module can perhaps shed some light on the interaction between presentation of the published work and interaction at the table.RC</blockquote>