Monthly Archives: April 2022

By Kevin Manus-Pennings The sandbox approach I pioneered (or so I believe) back in 1988 was working well. My players had the freedom to accept or abandon adventures as they chose and could follow their own interests in doing so. This style felt natural and removed the artificial sense that episodic or modular play hadContinue reading “The Advent of Continuous Style”

By Kevin Manus-Pennings Like so many of us, my introduction to role-playing was Dungeons and Dragons. Specifically, it was Advanced Dungeons and Dragons when I was in high school, probably around 1988. My group of friends divided into gamemasters and players and we would play during breaks between classes, on the weekends, and on campingContinue reading “Evolving toward the Sandbox”