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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6696288" data-attributes="member: 177">My understanding is that there are a couple of things here.&quot;Sandbox&quot; is &quot;the world is there, pre-populated, and the PCs can interact with it any way they want.&quot;&quot;Status quo&quot; is a slightly different situation - it may be a sandbox, but the world will remain largely static until such time as the PCs interact with it.&nbsp; If you are in the Southern nation, the West and the North may be at the brink of war.&nbsp; They will *stay* on the brink of war, the situation not fundamentally changing until such time as the PCs muck into that plotline - the status quo between elements will be maintained.&nbsp; The setting will not evolve without PC intervention.This, in contrast to an evolving sandbox, in which all the elements that are pre-populated are in motion, and when the PCs finally get to them, they may not be in the same state as when the campaign started.&nbsp; Wars will break out, rulers rise and fall, and so on, whether or&nbsp; not the PCs interact with those areas of the setting.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 6696288, member: 177"] My understanding is that there are a couple of things here. "Sandbox" is "the world is there, pre-populated, and the PCs can interact with it any way they want." "Status quo" is a slightly different situation - it may be a sandbox, but the world will remain largely static until such time as the PCs interact with it. If you are in the Southern nation, the West and the North may be at the brink of war. They will *stay* on the brink of war, the situation not fundamentally changing until such time as the PCs muck into that plotline - the status quo between elements will be maintained. The setting will not evolve without PC intervention. This, in contrast to an evolving sandbox, in which all the elements that are pre-populated are in motion, and when the PCs finally get to them, they may not be in the same state as when the campaign started. Wars will break out, rulers rise and fall, and so on, whether or not the PCs interact with those areas of the setting. [/QUOTE]

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