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Message: <blockquote data-quote="UselessTriviaMan" data-source="post: 5854652" data-attributes="member: 6678460">In a recent long campaign (2+ years), I tossed side quests at most of my players over the course of the campaign. I specifically targeted the neophyte players who hadn't (yet) really seemed to immerse themselves, and almost all were successful.- While (briefly) in jail, the barbarian was approached by a thief who "knew where to get a great treasure, but he needed the help of someone strong." We actually did that entire side-quest via email during a break between games sessions.- The fighter had a romantic fling with a somewhat important NPC. We didn't really dwell on it, but when the NPC's daughter was later abducted, it helped draw the player into the story.- The druid was by far the most fun. This player knew NOTHING of D&D before this campaign, and struggled with creating a backstory. I asked if she'd allow me to help her... <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devil.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":devil:" title="Devil    :devil:" data-shortname=":devil:" />  She was the amnesiac daughter of one of the main BBEGs, and as the campaign progressed she slowly began to remember bits and pieces. I totally cliched it, but with a new player it was awesome. Getting to tell her (via side-quest) that "Izzanthriel... *I* am your mother!" was a whole lotta fun!- But then there was the one guy who - even though I tried to spoon-feed him the opportunity - simply would not act in character. Period. (He's kinda not involved in our gaming group anymore.) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" /></blockquote>

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