Astute players will notice they're shoved into the world right next to an area marked (training grounds) and head there first, but it doesn't really matter - you can go anywhere you like and earn experience any way you wish.
Mount & Blade takes the sandbox principle to its extreme: after character creation, you're dropped into the middle of nowhere with no main quests or clear instructions of what to do. Broadly speaking, strength governs combat skills (power strike, ironflesh), agility governs physical aptitudes and combat skills (weapon master, riding), intelligence governs leadership skills (leadership, pathfinding, tactics), and charisma governs personal interaction skills (persuade, trade). Mount & Blade utilizes a simple character system: your main attributes are strength, agility, intelligence, and charisma, and each attribute has a number of skills tied to it. Kind of like Arena, you can tell that this is not a game that set out to be a perfect sandbox title, but instead strove to be a fighting game first and foremost and this has its positive and negative sides. It too has compelling and addictive gameplay offset by repetitive and uninteresting quests and NPCs. TaleWorlds' indie action RPG Mount & Blade is no exception in its widest scope. The sandbox (sub-genre), if you can call it that, has occupied a valued niche in the RPG pantheon, usually with the same pros (addictive, open-world gameplay) and cons (quantity over quality, repetitive gameplay).
The concept easily reaches back to some of the early Ultima titles, Darklands, Sid Meier's Pirates!, and The Elder Scrolls: Arena. Despite what a lot of people seem to claim, sandbox gameplay is not a recent invention.
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