# Running Very Short Online Voice-Based Sandbox Sessions?

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**Created:** [December 17, 2023, 9:50am UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/running-very-short-online-voice-based-sandbox-sessions/1413 "2023-12-17T09:50:34Z")\
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This is a direct cut-and-paste of a post I just made on r/osr, thought I’d bring it here as I’m sure there’ll be members with valuable insight!

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I’ve recently started a new sandbox campaign, inspired by an interview with Luke Gearing on Ben Laurence’s _Into the Megadungeon_ podcast. Luke’s group are exploring a megadungeon through weekly online sessions taking place during his lunchbreak. As someone with young children and a relatively demanding job this struck me as a tidy way of running the kind of game I enjoy the most.

I’m only one session in so I’m very interested to hear from other people who’ve run drop-in based sandbox style games, especially online and especially with such restricted timeframes! For context I’ve been running games since the 90s, and have recent experience for running a “long form” sandbox game over discord.

My main worries/concerns are:

- getting the most out of just one hour of play
- ending sessions at a natural stopping point…
- …so that it’s easy to pick up the following week
- sharing information between sessions

What are your thoughts? Here’s what Luke and Ben had to say:  
[https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/into-the-megadungeon/id1698032870](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/into-the-megadungeon/id1698032870)

…the episode also includes a great conversation about _Gradient Descent_

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