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<blockquote data-quote="Gilladian" data-source="post: 4677511" data-attributes="member: 2093">It helps if the PCs want to see themselves as non-combat-slashy kinds of people. If your pcs are a fighter who kills things, a rogue who backstabs things, and a cleric who bashes and heals, well, I think they're gonna fight everything they meet.ASK your players what besides combat their characters want to do. In my current campaign, the fighter is terrified of dogs. He's miffed that every time they fight any kind of dog creature, he fails whatever fear check is involved, and runs away... So when he was able to make friends with a dog at the local inn, and have fun playing with it, it was a big deal to him.The cleric, on the other hand, really seems to enjoy lecturing other characters about charity. She spends some time everywhere looking for small but interesting good deeds to do. She anonymously hired laborers to help a farm family plow a field once; she had more fun hiring the laborers than killing goblins all night long.And the wizard loves spell research. He was willing to spend a half hour talking to a librarian convincing her to let him have access to a &quot;reserve room&quot; of special books so he could study a new spell. He still remembers the librarian's name 3 months later.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gilladian, post: 4677511, member: 2093"] It helps if the PCs want to see themselves as non-combat-slashy kinds of people. If your pcs are a fighter who kills things, a rogue who backstabs things, and a cleric who bashes and heals, well, I think they're gonna fight everything they meet. ASK your players what besides combat their characters want to do. In my current campaign, the fighter is terrified of dogs. He's miffed that every time they fight any kind of dog creature, he fails whatever fear check is involved, and runs away... So when he was able to make friends with a dog at the local inn, and have fun playing with it, it was a big deal to him. The cleric, on the other hand, really seems to enjoy lecturing other characters about charity. She spends some time everywhere looking for small but interesting good deeds to do. She anonymously hired laborers to help a farm family plow a field once; she had more fun hiring the laborers than killing goblins all night long. And the wizard loves spell research. He was willing to spend a half hour talking to a librarian convincing her to let him have access to a "reserve room" of special books so he could study a new spell. He still remembers the librarian's name 3 months later. [/QUOTE]

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