What do you do if your players won't do shit in a sandbox game? Presume you've given them several opportunities and several hooks and multiple options to bite at - even random miscellaneous things in the wilderness to do and explore like a videogame. Yet still, all they ever really do is move from city to city, spending their nights at the taverns having irrelevant wasteful conversations with irrelevant NPCs.

I'm genuinely considering just introducing some kind of villain that's after them personally so they're forced to deal with him, but they do so little that they've never slighted anyone powerful enough to make such an effort.