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<blockquote data-quote="Doug McCrae" data-source="post: 5947226" data-attributes="member: 21169">One way to do it would be to have ruins of the ancients taken over by the usual D&amp;D sandbox monsters - savage humanoids, bandits, slavers, evil cultists and the like. Sometimes unbeknownst to the current lodgers (though probably knownst, in the case of the cultists) these ruins contain the artefacts, portentous frescoes and mosaics, blasphemous tomes, and the like, that point to your unknown history. In the course of dealing with these adversaries, the PCs will be likely to uncover pieces of the puzzle.I played in a D&amp;D campaign somewhat like this, though it wasn't a sandbox. The setting was Greyhawk - the Grand Duchy of Geoff and surrounding areas. We had many traditional unconnected adventures but over the course of those there was a recurring theme of uncovering the mysteries of the Suel. The first Suel ruins we encountered were being used as a base by a large force of orcs and goblins, who worshipped a demon that, I think, had been summoned in ancient times by the long dead Suel. On a later occasion, we raced against our arch-nemesis, a necromancer, to penetrate the secrets of another set of Suel ruins, which ended up being destroyed in a huge explosion when we upset his experiment. It was a pretty cool campaign - D&amp;D with a Lord of the Rings and Mysterious Cities of Gold vibe.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Doug McCrae, post: 5947226, member: 21169"] One way to do it would be to have ruins of the ancients taken over by the usual D&D sandbox monsters - savage humanoids, bandits, slavers, evil cultists and the like. Sometimes unbeknownst to the current lodgers (though probably knownst, in the case of the cultists) these ruins contain the artefacts, portentous frescoes and mosaics, blasphemous tomes, and the like, that point to your unknown history. In the course of dealing with these adversaries, the PCs will be likely to uncover pieces of the puzzle. I played in a D&D campaign somewhat like this, though it wasn't a sandbox. The setting was Greyhawk - the Grand Duchy of Geoff and surrounding areas. We had many traditional unconnected adventures but over the course of those there was a recurring theme of uncovering the mysteries of the Suel. The first Suel ruins we encountered were being used as a base by a large force of orcs and goblins, who worshipped a demon that, I think, had been summoned in ancient times by the long dead Suel. On a later occasion, we raced against our arch-nemesis, a necromancer, to penetrate the secrets of another set of Suel ruins, which ended up being destroyed in a huge explosion when we upset his experiment. It was a pretty cool campaign - D&D with a Lord of the Rings and Mysterious Cities of Gold vibe. [/QUOTE]

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