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<blockquote data-quote="Kzach" data-source="post: 5739809" data-attributes="member: 56189">In the last few years I've mainly run games for temporary groups of people that never stay together for more than 5-6 levels. In this circumstance, I've found that providing incentives to create character detail creates more problems than it solves. Inevitably, people feel entitled to the freebies and when they don't meet your standards of creativity, they either feel resentful, left out, or disparaged against.Instead what I find works better is simply to provide benefits as we play through roleplaying. A player who has spent time on developing some sort of backstory will get more involvement and interaction with the story elements and therefore more out of the game. I find that this tends to motivate other players to go back and put the effort in to flesh out their characters. People see the benefits and rewards and realise that the onus is on them to provide the necessary material to facilitate that involvement.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kzach, post: 5739809, member: 56189"] In the last few years I've mainly run games for temporary groups of people that never stay together for more than 5-6 levels. In this circumstance, I've found that providing incentives to create character detail creates more problems than it solves. Inevitably, people feel entitled to the freebies and when they don't meet your standards of creativity, they either feel resentful, left out, or disparaged against. Instead what I find works better is simply to provide benefits as we play through roleplaying. A player who has spent time on developing some sort of backstory will get more involvement and interaction with the story elements and therefore more out of the game. I find that this tends to motivate other players to go back and put the effort in to flesh out their characters. People see the benefits and rewards and realise that the onus is on them to provide the necessary material to facilitate that involvement. [/QUOTE]

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