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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7424226" data-attributes="member: 29398">First off - I think you might have missed one in the OP: A fifth PC motivation is level advancement, which in-game means the PC just wants to get better at what it does and sees adventuring as the fast-track means of doing so.  This one works with any kind of play, provided of course that the game system being used has an advancement mechanism (not all do).Agreed.And those first few sandbox-y adventures are where the party cuts its teeth, as it were: they get to know each other, get to know their surroundings in the game world, make some contacts, sort themselves out, find ways overt or covert of ridding themselves of undesirables, etc., so by the time the "real" stories get going they're halfway settled in to being a party.Another trick for later is to have the later "adventure path" overlap with or lead into another, e.g. during their pursuit of the lich lord they become aware that the space-based Githi are planning an invasion and the world's defenses are in dire need of repair...stuff like that.  And, throwing in some side-treks or non-story-related adventures can be a nice change of pace particularly when they're caused by (or IME in rare cases, written by!) one or more players.** - obviously if a player writes an adventure she doesn't then turn around and play it through; she has to sit that bit out, or play in a different party or group.As for PC motivations: wealth acquisition IME never fails - it doesn't matter how much they have, they want more. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Sometimes they retire with it; other times they just keep on bangin' away, hoarding as they go.And with a story-based game, whether said story is driven by the DM or the players (see the various worldbuilding threads if you want to dive into that argument) there's a sixth motivation that applies to players rather than PCs: they want to see how the story ends.Lanefan</blockquote>

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