Let's Build a Sandbox!

A great sandbox campaign is incredibly fun to play in, and it's a great introduction for new players. I often start new groups in sandboxes rather than carefully constructed narrative games. It's a simple pitch: Here's a fantastical wilderness filled with monsters, treasures, dungeons, and dragons. Want to go explore it? However, while sandboxes can be a lot of fun to play in, they can be intimidating to think about building. Preparing one adventure is hard enough, how are you going to prepare dozens? In fact, I think a sandbox campaign is actually much easier to build than a linear campaign and takes me much less work to set up. There are a lot of tricks I use in my own sandbox campaigns and we're going to go through the big ones today.

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Let's Build a Sandbox! is an episode from The GM's Guide by Dan Felder.

This episode is 30:36 long.

This episode was published on Feb 1, 2021.

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