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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tomBitonti" data-source="post: 6332189" data-attributes="member: 13107">Well, nobles, and the king, are all probably hurting for gold all of the time.If you have favorable relations with the king (hopefully you didn't just sack the his summer palace, or show up the his champion in the recent fair), one would think that a deal could be made to "donate" a healthy sum of gold in exchange for a castle and land to go along with it.There would of course be a duty of providing defense to the king when requested, and perhaps the king would lean heavily knowing you had gold to burn.There are all sorts of campaign possibilities: A baron back on his obligations forced out his castle, in the field organizing brigands to overthrow the new castle owners.  A lady of the prior owners married to one of the players to give them a hint of nobility to make the new ownership valid, but who has a dark history.  Festering monsters or thieves or cultists in the area, due to lack oversight, due to the prior owners poor finances.  Bad harvests.  An invading group of barbarians keen on relieving you of your gold.  An important delegation of elves who decide to cross through your new lands ...Thx!TomB</blockquote>