When looking at creating a sci-fi fantasy sandbox, take a loot at how you would accomplish the feel you want in traditional fantasy, and then try ways to adapt that to space. Thus, dwarven mines become an asteroid field...
A human, halfling, orc, and dire wolf walk into a druidic circle … which does the halfling eat first? Selected by druids, this eclectic bunch of rangers enforces the natural order, but how do they get along with each...
In addition to planets, there are plenty of other things in space that we can mine for adventure. In addition to the biggest gas giants and the rockiest of solid planets, let us use the remains of failed planets....
Ever since the magus showed up on the scene, combat magic hasn’t really been the same. While the magus isn’t able to bring down the full force of a pure arcane caster, the arcanist has tricks up its sleeve....
Forests can offer challenges and rewards for PCs of all levels from hunting for food to escorting nobility to tracking down a local thieves guild. Let’s start to look at sandboxing The Hunting Grounds for low to mid-level heroes....
Gas giants aren’t the only place to have varied adventure locations. Assuming a sufficiently advanced civilization, rocky planets are just as likely to have terrestrial space stations, orbiting space stations, lunar space stations, and perhaps relay stations beyond that....
After reading last week’s Protector Healer by Vanessa, I started thinking about my recent witch PC, primarily his role as the party healer in Rise of the Runelords. He was *not* a front liner, but did he have range!...
Sandboxes are all about the “freedom” that the PCs have to adventure, discover, and interact with a given environment entirely at their whim. It also includes adventures, encounters, and plots that the party just isn’t ready to handle yet....
Gas giant planets are good for more than taking your fame, finances, and popularity to the next level while making deals with Galactic Empires. Aside from being adventure locations, they are also sources of materials both varied and abundant....
We have made the trip to the basin, climbed the volcano to the caldera, and descended to the lakeside village. Where should we go first to rent a … wait, is that … crushed ice … under those fish?...