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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greg K" data-source="post: 4486641" data-attributes="member: 5038">The best experience that I had was not forcing the players to save the world, but allowing them to decide to do so on their own.  I always let the players choose where the characters were going based on their motivations (the exception being the first adventure when I brought them together,. However,  it was still done using the backgrounds and motivations of the individual characters and threading them together).   Along the way, the party occassionally encountered undead or a plague. However, they party pretty much ignored following up on the undead and the plague.  Oh, they would destroy the undead creatures and cure townspeople if they encountered them.   They just never went out of their way to investigate it.  They were too busy following other things that they deemed more important.That is until they realized the plague and undead were spreading towards their homelands.  Suddenly, the players had their characters abandon other plotlines to save their homes and NPCs that they had deemed were important to them. Discovering  that an enemy that they had made earlier in the campaign and everyone had grown to hate was behind the plague and undead just fueled their desire to stay on the path.Now, when questioned by the players as to why I didn't  force them to investigate the plague and undead, I replied that I wanted the players to decide on their own if and when it was important.   I was willing to let the players continue on any path they chose even if it meant that  campaign setting be completely altered.  This took them by surprise, but they really liked the idea.</blockquote>

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