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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 6410276" data-attributes="member: 19675">I've done the XP for background thing.&nbsp; Also have given out material rewards (read: gear) for good backgrounds.&nbsp; I've found it works for @25% of my players.&nbsp; The rest don't bite.I've also found that if you present a really cool campaign world/setup, you get better results. Almost every truly cool campaign I've run, I've gotten no less than 50% player investment, with my peak being 100% buy in for my first Supers: 1900 game.&nbsp; The problem is that &quot;cool&quot; is subjective, and requires a LOT more work on your (the GM's) part.But overall, the true key to player engagement is the players themselves.&nbsp; Some players play RPGs like parchesi, some like amateur thespians.&nbsp; For example, the SECOND time I ran a campaign in my Supers: 1900 setting, player investment was only @33%.&nbsp; Some players didn't even read up in the campaign setting at all. The changes in the setting I made between 1992 and 2010 were minimal, but the group was entirely different.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 6410276, member: 19675"] I've done the XP for background thing. Also have given out material rewards (read: gear) for good backgrounds. I've found it works for @25% of my players. The rest don't bite. I've also found that if you present a really cool campaign world/setup, you get better results. Almost every truly cool campaign I've run, I've gotten no less than 50% player investment, with my peak being 100% buy in for my [I]first[/I] Supers: 1900 game. The problem is that "cool" is subjective, and requires a LOT more work on your (the GM's) part. But overall, the true key to player engagement is the players themselves. Some players play RPGs like parchesi, some like amateur thespians. For example, the SECOND time I ran a campaign in my Supers: 1900 setting, player investment was only @33%. Some players didn't even read up in the campaign setting at all. The changes in the setting I made between 1992 and 2010 were minimal, but the group was entirely different. [/QUOTE]

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