What Sandbox Campaigns Are and Why They Are The Best
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
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I love a “sandbox” that has home brew adventures, printed modules, random traveling encounters, mixed with city encounters using printed cities and cities made from what limited info is available.
Yup!! Like beef stew. Everything goes into it
ET, Gandalf and Bigfoot walk into a bar and the DM says no homebrew races!
lol that’s what I’d do
Do not plan a 5 year campaign if you are a new gm.
Good advice
Definitely. Scale it back
Bigfoot, ET and Gandalf walk into a bar. The Bartender say's "No pets allowed!"
Bigfoot and Gandalf walk back outside
Bigfoot walks back in and says "I left him tied up outside, but if he craps in front of your bar it's not my fault!"
lol!
Is it the bigfoot from the 6 million dollar man? If so, Gandalf and ET are running. That dude was scary. (Played by Andre the Giant)
Big Foot, ET and Gandalf walk into a bar. The bartender says "no droids allowed!" and Big Foot walks out >.>
lol
I jump when I see his pic online
@ I know, right?!? As an 8-ish year old kid, that thing was scary!
This is the best thing I ever saw.
Gandolf, E.T, and bigfoot walk into a bar. Gandolf yells, "I care not about the size of the room, I shall cast FIREBALL!!"
lol!
Bigfoot, Gandalf and ET walk into a bar. Bigfoot gets behind the drum set,ET takes the keyboard and Gandalf straps on a guitar and takes to the mic. They sing an ode to Frodo; “Carry on my wayward son”. And an ode to ET’s family “Rocket Man”. Then they play “Great Balls of Fire”. As they leave the smoking ruins of the bar Gandalf smiles and says, “I think that one shall finally pass”
Haha well done!
Big Foot, ET and Gandalf walk into a bar. The bartender says "no droids allowed!" and Big Foot walks out.
iykyk >.>
😂
The problem with fantasy maps is they exist, they lock locations and remove exploration entirely. The sand in the sandbox should also be alive, not just everything in it.
History does become important once characters have generated some, the owl bear they slayed, that time bigfoot, ET and Gandalf walked into a bar and they burned the tavern down, and when they left that book of pure evil in the hands of that 12 year old should all come back to haunt them at some point.
The owlbear cave is now a goblin den, the burnt tavern owner will make them slaves, that 12 year old is now a BBEG.
😎
Bigfoot, E.T., and Gandalf walk into a bar. They all fall to the ground and grasp their foreheads. Gandalf exclaims, “who the devil hung this bar at a 45 degree angle across our path?”
lol
Here's a Rifts haiku:
Bigfoot, ET, and Gandalf
Walk into a bar.
Lol
Bigfoot, ET, and Gandalf walk into a bar. After several hours of libations, all three are varying degrees of soused by the time last call is announced. Bigfoot, car keys in hand, stands up and starts toward the door. Gandalf, who is less drunk than his companions, stands up and raises his staff as if to block the sasquatch's way. "You are too drunk to drive, my hairy friend." Bigfoot looks back at the wizard and favors him with a wobbly smirk as if to say, "I got this, old man." CRACK! The wizard's staff moved faster than the eye could track, clouting Bigfoot and knocking him out cold. "You shall not pass," intoned Gandalf. "Ouch!" said ET, rubbing his ham-shaped head in sympathy. Gandalf looked the extraterrestrial in the eye, raising a single bushy eyebrow. "ET phone home," the alien assured him.
Nice!
Last game I ran started off in response to the other DM screwing up his game when he couldn't run his campaign properly.
Best I can tell is that whilst he had a really good setting he couldn't put the work in to make it work turning it from what could have been into a series of one shots that failed because he had to behave like an arse instead of running the game properly.
My one started off as a one shot and was developing into a campaign until he got "bored" and jumped settings.
All he had to do was ask and allow me to set up the situation, but he genuinely didn't give a damn about running a campaign only demonstrating he couldn't even keep his own game straight!
Going back to listen to the rest of this video probably tomorrow at this point!
Good night!
Thanks for the comment! I took over for one gm once too. That’s how the 5e five year campaign started
Gosh, I am happy if I understand what happens around the players during one adventure. Having to juggle all the other information is just too much for me. Nor am I creative enough to come up with all the details, little changes, in fact I am not even willing to create a different region far away - I am just constantly tired and don't have the energy.
We do what we can man. I have no kids and no wife so I have plenty of time
Hi Joe. I've been working a lot. Looks like I have a lot of videos to catch up on.
Enjoy!
00:06:40 Im 3 videos into your channel and if i hadn't subscribed yet, you'd have just earned my subscription with that comment 😂😂😂
lol thanks man! 420 ftw!
If, in the game you’re publishing, you’re going to extol the virtues of a sandbox style game; you may want to spend a half page defining what one is. Having watched a lot of videos, and talked to a lot of players and DMs, I have found that most people now days have the foggiest clue what they are. They think anything in a published adventure that must be done to get a particular outcome makes that adventure a railroad. They don’t understand that there are not infinite ways to achieve a certain outcome. When I talk to them about adventurers, it seems what they want is a campaign expansion, only without having to figure out what to do in the place laid out, themselves. They also seem to think that a sand box means the DM knowing what’s happening in every square foot of the world at any given moment. That or that it is a 0 prep off the top of your head game. Which in my experience runs slow and wears thin real quick.
Will do. Thanks! Do you think this video laid it out? It’s right out of the book I’m writing
@@Joethelawyer I'll rewatch the video and see if there is anything you might want to put more emphasis on, then I'll get back to you.
How do you prep?
Watch the gm series im doing. Theres a playlist
I think that they way you approach a campaign is great if you have all the time in the world. However, here is the big question: Who the hell has the time for that? you are talking about creating huge amounts of content, out of which you will be using 10% to 25% at most on actual play. Most of us simply do not have the time to do something like that and have to be a lot more efficient with our time. If you are a regular joe with a 9 to 5 job and family, I think that you need streamline preparation process and make it so efficient that your content gets used up to 90% to 100%, otherwise you are either going to get burned out or your campaign is just going to suck because you have to rush things. Please note that I am not criticizing your approach. I think it would be awesome to play that way. I am just saying that many of us need a different method in order to be able to DM a fun campaign due to time constraints.
I totally get that man. For me the big joy is in the creation even if I never use it. Also I’m single with no kids so it’s easier for me to do
I will never not run a sandbox campaign.
Amen!
Bigfoot, ET, and Gandalf walk into a bar. The bartender says, "We don't serve his kind here!"
Gandalf chuckles as he turns to ET and says, "I knew he wouldn't pass. You owe me some Old Toby."
ET raises a finger, "Phone home?"
In a distant part of this sandbox world, a phone rings at the Office of Scientific Intelligence.
lol
All the godforsaken coughing 😑
Terribly rough to listen with earbuds.
Solid advice though.
@@sketchasaurrex4087 sorry man!
@Joethelawyer Joe, get yourself a vaporizer such as the Mighty + from Storz and Bickel. No harsh smoke and all the flavour of whatever strain you prefer.
@darrenp9454 I tried it. Like the flower better