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Message: <blockquote data-quote="der_kluge" data-source="post: 1798625" data-attributes="member: 945">Terwox gives me a lot to chew on here.  I need to find some justification for the war.  In my mind, I was thinking the second son just want to remove the army completely because he figured they would be the most likely thing stopping from oppressing the masses and generally making life bad.  So, without a strong militia, he could as he wilt.The idea of replacing the eldest son or the king with a doppleganger is genious though, and I hadn't considered that. My thought was that by killing the king first, they would be placing the kingdom in the hands of the less experienced eldest son, and with a very real threat of an undead invasion, they could almost guarantee that his first action as king would be to mobilize the troops because all the commoners would be scared and would want him to act that way, so that's exactly what he would do.  So, this army and he go into the swamp, where they have a huge trap waiting for him, and he and his army die, thus increasing the power of their undead army since that's just that many more fresh bodies they can use.  Then the third son takes over, somehow placates the undead incursion, and looks like a hero, at least briefly, and then the taxes come, and then the oppression starts...Or, here's something, the prince and his army go into the swamp, but a doppleganger of the prince comes *out* of the swamp, and no troops.  So, despite overwhelming odds, the prince is the lone survivor of the undead battles, and this doppleganger steps down and appoints the next son as king, and then vanishes... That's sounding good.I do really like the Robin Hood motivation.  That would definitely work.  Because the new king could have all kinds of ties with greedy merchants and Lords who seek more power, so there could be all kinds of low level things to rob from as they gain levels, before eventually tackling the evil king and finally the evil princess in the swamp with her undead army.*sweeeet*</blockquote>

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