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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 7650548" data-attributes="member: 2067"><p>So, if they already have goals and objectives in mind that they've done some work on, figure out what stage they are in accomplishing that (have then not even started? have they done some things but not others?). Peg them at a Trust rank from 1-5 that approximates how many more major steps you'd like them to perform before they reach their goal. If they're almost there, put them at Rank 4; if they haven't started, put them at Rank 0, if they've done or or two things, put them at Rank 1. It'll be a judgement call, but use however many steps you want to put between them and this ultimate goal as your baseline for what rank to put them at with regards to the goals that they already have.</p><p></p><p>The things they've already done to get toward this goal feed into the next things they'll need to do. If they've already started it, go back to what they did to start it, and introduce some complexity that they need to resolve at this point. If they're nearly done, take whatever they just did, and introduce one final step to cement their progress. </p><p></p><p>And if if they're not in deep already, don't be afraid to introduce some NPC that can give them their ultimate goal who needs them to start building trust again. Bears may not be a major challenge, but keep in mind that this is just working to gain trust: do something simple, and you've shown that you're willing to do it. The harder challenges lay farther up the trust scale. Let them go kill some bears off-screen with a skill challenge or something to get to the bigger challenges. The tasks don't all need to be major challenges: sometimes, we do simple things for people to prove that we can take on bigger tasks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 7650548, member: 2067"] So, if they already have goals and objectives in mind that they've done some work on, figure out what stage they are in accomplishing that (have then not even started? have they done some things but not others?). Peg them at a Trust rank from 1-5 that approximates how many more major steps you'd like them to perform before they reach their goal. If they're almost there, put them at Rank 4; if they haven't started, put them at Rank 0, if they've done or or two things, put them at Rank 1. It'll be a judgement call, but use however many steps you want to put between them and this ultimate goal as your baseline for what rank to put them at with regards to the goals that they already have. The things they've already done to get toward this goal feed into the next things they'll need to do. If they've already started it, go back to what they did to start it, and introduce some complexity that they need to resolve at this point. If they're nearly done, take whatever they just did, and introduce one final step to cement their progress. And if if they're not in deep already, don't be afraid to introduce some NPC that can give them their ultimate goal who needs them to start building trust again. Bears may not be a major challenge, but keep in mind that this is just working to gain trust: do something simple, and you've shown that you're willing to do it. The harder challenges lay farther up the trust scale. Let them go kill some bears off-screen with a skill challenge or something to get to the bigger challenges. The tasks don't all need to be major challenges: sometimes, we do simple things for people to prove that we can take on bigger tasks. [/QUOTE]
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