One thing I’d like to clarify is that Sandbox Play is not the same thing as the old rec.games.frp.advocacy Simulationism (nothing to do with whatever the Forgeites mean by that term; I don’t even want to go there).  The point of Simulationism, at least at the far end of the spectrum, was that the game-world […]

When you set on the voyage to Ithaka Pray that the road is long Full of incidents, full of knowledge. The Laistrygonians and the Cyclopes, Raging Poseidon-do not fear these… – Ithaka, Cavafy (1911) I’d like to elaborate on some comments I made in the thread on my original Sandbox Play post. In Sandbox play, […]

Sandbox Play is a term that comes from computer RPGS, though it is said to refer back to when war games were played on sandboxes where the wet sand could be shaped into any kind of terrain.  It refers to CRPGs where there is no plot that the game is taking the player through, but […]