Dungeons & Dragons demonstrated that intelligent open world is so attractive people will crank through it with all the friction of paper character sheets, rule

Dungeons & Dragons demonstrated that intelligent open world is so attractive people will crank through it with all the friction of paper character sheets, rule books, encyclopedias of creature stats, dice, dungeon masters prep and problem solving… I would love to collect a group of human and NPC players and attempt a heist from an actually intelligent dragon in an environment where no action was guardrailed Encounter creatures and cultures with no documentation but what you learn my interacting with them And with beautiful scenery to boot