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Message: <blockquote data-quote="slobster" data-source="post: 5923154" data-attributes="member: 6693711">Cool idea! There are still ways to assassinate someone other than poison, but which still highlight the king's folly for relying on force alone. Magic springs to mind. Servants would have access to the king's chambers, and could hide a fetish under his bed or his throne which allow dark magics to be worked on him. His barber could secret away a piece of his beard, which gives a dark sorcerer a mystical link that can be used to kill him.Heck, he's not immune to disease. Arrange to taint his food/clothes/whatever with disease, so that he falls ill and dies. Make it a bizarre, rare one with strange effects so that his advisors and doctors can't aid him, and to play up the strangeness surrounding his death. That's a poisoning in all but name, anyway.There is other stuff you could do. Think of the restriction as a challenge to your creativity! It will challenge your players even more because they know the king was immune to poison; what else could have struck him down so quickly and without apparent cause?</blockquote>