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<blockquote data-quote="Malmuria" data-source="post: 8337119" data-attributes="member: 7030755">One of the hallmarks of sandbox play is that the world reacts to the PCs choices.&nbsp; So it's not just that they can choose options A, B, and C, but that if they choose A something still happens at B and C, and this is communicated to the players.&nbsp; For example, maybe there is a timer, and if they choose A, B is not longer available.&nbsp;&nbsp; Or clearing out section of megadungeon A means that the creatures from C move into location A. etc.I consider this to be great fun, and makes the world feel real more so than any illusion of dm preparedness would.&nbsp; Does this happen in linear, adventure path style play?&nbsp; Is this sort of world reactivity fun for people who enjoy linear adventures?&nbsp; Genuinely curious as I don't run those modules, though I have flipped through some of them.&nbsp; wotc's idea of a sandbox (starter kit, etc) seems to be that the players have the choice of which content to engage with first, but it's more or less just sitting out there waiting for the players to arrive.&nbsp; Pathfinder APs that I've read assume that particular events will have happened by the end of chapter 1, and assuming all that happened tell the dm how the 'bad guys' react (which stretches plausibility, imo, when you have a world-destroying threat that the PCs are messing with from level 1).Thoughts?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Malmuria, post: 8337119, member: 7030755"] One of the hallmarks of sandbox play is that the world reacts to the PCs choices. So it's not just that they can choose options A, B, and C, but that if they choose A something still happens at B and C, and this is communicated to the players. For example, maybe there is a timer, and if they choose A, B is not longer available. Or clearing out section of megadungeon A means that the creatures from C move into location A. etc. I consider this to be great fun, and makes the world feel real more so than any illusion of dm preparedness would. Does this happen in linear, adventure path style play? Is this sort of world reactivity fun for people who enjoy linear adventures? Genuinely curious as I don't run those modules, though I have flipped through some of them. wotc's idea of a sandbox (starter kit, etc) seems to be that the players have the choice of which content to engage with first, but it's more or less just sitting out there waiting for the players to arrive. Pathfinder APs that I've read assume that particular events will have happened by the end of chapter 1, and assuming all that happened tell the dm how the 'bad guys' react (which stretches plausibility, imo, when you have a world-destroying threat that the PCs are messing with from level 1). Thoughts? [/QUOTE]

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