Travel Check

Motivations can often be more neutral than actions–giving your NPCs and factions more nuance when they decide to act in the world.

Reveal slices of the larger truth about your world, but keep some secrets that you can use to upend players’ assumptions.

Factions aren’t monolithic blocks, they’re collections of people–and people always have their differences.

Give your players space to make their own meaning, and they will create interpretations you never could’ve imagined.

A simple change with a lot of versatility in a long-running campaign.