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Make Me that Sandbox Book

Started by PencilBoy99, November 29, 2018, 08:36:18 AM

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December 02, 2018, 07:27:46 AM
Quote from: PencilBoy99;1066556I'd love to see a Kickstarter book by some of the people here on how to run *any* game as a sandbox.

Any game can be run as a Sandbox.

Some games have a look and feel so they are expected to be run in a certain way, but GMs can run it their own way.

I was at Dragonmeet yesterday and in one of the Seminars, Jeff Richard, of Chaosium, made a very good point - Once you buy a game, it is yours, so do whatever you want with it. So, if you have run a game that normally has defined missions controlled by a central force, then you can run it as a sandbox. Similarly, if you have a game that is normally a sandbox, there is nothing to stop you running it as a series of missions. Borderlands, for RuneQuest, is like that, at its heart it is a glorious sandbox but the PCs are employed by a noble and are sent on defined missions, it works really well.
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