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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bloodtide" data-source="post: 9709086" data-attributes="member: 6684958">The solution is simple enough: up the fantasy fiction of you game to Eleven.Too many DMs are stuck in the boring real world stance.  Whatever the game setting, they have the view point of "it is almost exactly like our Earth, but more boring".  When the players are in a fantasy setting "almost just like Earth" and the DM says "oh no bandits are attacking the halfling apple groves", few players care.Have a fantasy world nothing like Earth and the DM says "The WellSpring(drink one drop and permanently gain 100 hit points) is under attack by bandits", a lot more players will jump up and want to rush over and do something.I keep a running semi active group or two on various media of local DMs.  One thing we do is player reports, where a DM can warn others about a player.  It is a long list.  Still players will show up and try the same tricks or exploits or cheats.  But they don't get far....</blockquote>