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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 9791203" data-attributes="member: 907">This made me think of the old World of Darkness games, where you'd put motivations on your character sheet (there was probably some high-faluting term for them I can't remember). The thing was that you'd have two of them: Nature and Demeanor. Demeanor was what you presented as, and Nature was what you really wanted deep inside.This could easily be translated to NPC motivations in Draw Steel, where they would have one public motivation and one secret. Using the example negotiation on page 290, Zola starts the formal negotiation with "The Clock has sacrificed much against Saxton. Why should we risk more to help? No one was here to help us months ago when we stood up to tyranny." She's talking about risk, so it's pretty clear that she cares about the safety of her organization: that's the Protection motivation. But her Benevolence motivation might be harder to discern, without insider information about generous sharing of prizes taken. You could do the same for pitfalls: she might be curt and straight to the point when she meets the PCs, and turning down offers of wine and other pleasantries, making it clear that she's all business and doesn't care for that kind of thing (pitfall: Revelry). But her independent streak and refusal to bow down to anyone else (pitfall: Higher Authority) might require some research.</blockquote>