Pyramid #3/104: Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game

[johndallman]

Originally Posted by PK

...did you catch that it was a reference to the popular meme, "The Cake is a Lie!"?

I'm another one who'd never heard of it and had to look it up.

Originally Posted by PK

I'm honestly confused, because the words "the sandbox is a lie" don't translate to "people cannot enjoy sandbox play" -- at least, not in any way that I can possibly see. Can someone explain where the insult is?

I have a hypothesis about it. Some people who run sandbox games are quite ideological about that. One quite prolific poster here (now banned) claimed it was the only morally sound way to run an RPG. It can be a whole lot of work.

The title, in isolation, can be interpreted as claiming that "People who claim to be running sandbox games are lying about that and manipulating their players to keep them on the planned plot." GMs who go to a lot of effort not to do that could legitimately be annoyed.

Me, I prepare ideas, but I feel I have to cope with the players whatever they decide to do, preferably without the joints showing. Fortunately, I can improvise.