Way of the Wanderer
A game loosely based off of the Way of the Samurai franchise's open ended event based sandbox system, but based in a fairly standard D&D setting.
Players are strangers who have wandered to the city of Crossroads, an independent settlement that is torn between three major nations. Each one is vying for control, and the townspeople are caught in the middle. The players can choose where they want to go, from a small list of key locations. Depending on where they go they might stumble onto important events that they can then influence with their presence and actions. Otherwise, they can spend their time doing whatever they want, pursing side jobs, training themselves, resting appropriately, and establishing connections. You can decide who you want to help, who you want to hurt, of if all your after is a sizeable profit. Maybe you don't want to choose any side, or maybe you want to destroy them all.
Certain events will wait for characters to set in motion, but others can be missed. The world around the players is living and breathing, and if one isn't paying attention, they can find events leaving them behind. Eventually everything will culminate into a final event which will determine the ending.
