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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yora" data-source="post: 6279868" data-attributes="member: 6670763">That's what I mean. Saving one particular slave or refugee is one thing, trying to improve the fate of a whole population is an entirely differently one.Usually in such stories, those people who get the heroes help are not random strangers they just happened to pass by. There's almost always some previous encounter that left an impact on the hero and because of that, the hero makes the whole thing personal. It doesn't have to be a relative or very close friend. It could also be a virtual stranger the hero met just 2 minutes ago and doesn't even know the name of, but for some reason they find themselves in a situation where the hero regards them as someone who belongs to him.I think this can actually be made into a solid piece of advice: Make the PCs action help an actual specific individual with whom they have made some form of personal connection. Saving some girl from the village who has disappeared isn't going to make nearly as much of an impact than saving the daughter of the barmaid who is always brining the PCs their drinks at the tavern and once delivered them a secret message. If she pleads with the PCs to rescue her daughter, it's going to be so much more of an impact than having "some villagers" telling them that "a child" has disappeared.</blockquote>