Motivation: IC Vs Fun
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I love to hear/see people doing those kind of things. Making new people feel welcome is really important and it's nice to know players take the time to help out because usually DM's are busy!
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why i love chaotic neutral
you can rush about and just do whatever, but you still can have that momentary sense of balance and duty until oh a giant to kill lets go
the only time i slow down, is when i run into a new person, and ill take them aside and give them a little tour enough to get into moving about east and the safe areas to find out what the hell they are doing
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Similar in nature to whether or not you pick up plots that might not be IC would also be whether or not you do things somewhat OOCly for good reasons. A great instance is taking time out for the obvious new guy. When I played a high-ranking guard faction character, it was completely IC for me to ignore a new guy bothering me with questions unless he was a criminal or a victim. As a player, however, I realized that there was no long term good in that, so I made it a point to make time, not exactly ICly, to help those guys get pointed in the right direction and if ICly it got to be too much of a stretch, I'd give them some hints over tells and answer their OOC questions that way. Every once in awhile, one of those guys would make something of themselves on the server and you could just feel a little better that you were the guy that helped Pyatt Pree when he was a noob and now he's making you look like a third rate actor on the second stage of the renaissance faire.
regardless of how you feel, I have always noticed your play was just as good as his (not to denigrate his stellar performances) also you tend to do something I could never do, you have been able to help new ones and get them beyond the mere starting point, and more importantly I noticed you hosting events many many times that included new and veteran players, the server really could use a lot more of this and to a degree many inside some of the factions are actually doing this in game now, the mage guild members come to mind, since i hear a lot of sending from them when i am on
but that being said…the way you did it was quite fun to observe, and on several occasions i did follow invisible and watch the fun, the detail was there, stopping to explain small nuances of the land and its fauna