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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 6706024" data-attributes="member: 3400">It's pretty easy to come up with a corrupt leader who is loved or at least reasonably well-liked by the people. Congress is full of them. You just need to spend reasonably lavishly on public works while skimming to fatten your own coffers, be buddy-buddy with certain guilds who do most of your work for a bit above the going rate (thus enriching them too). The harder part will be coming up with a reasonable reason the PCs will want to depose him. Graft usually isn't enough unless they're real sticklers.One possibility, building on the Hitler suggestion, is to come up with a leader who rose during a crisis (in Hitler's case, the post WWI economic crisis) and managed to make the people feel good about themselves. Hitler did it, in no small part, by deflecting the blame to a minority group and outsiders, sweeping Germany's own deficiencies and behavior under a rug of denial. And, quite frankly, people seem to drink that Kool-Aid avidly. Once you've got that, the leader will probably have carte blanche to do what he wants with the people's support.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="billd91, post: 6706024, member: 3400"] It's pretty easy to come up with a corrupt leader who is loved or at least reasonably well-liked by the people. Congress is full of them. You just need to spend reasonably lavishly on public works while skimming to fatten your own coffers, be buddy-buddy with certain guilds who do most of your work for a bit above the going rate (thus enriching them too). The harder part will be coming up with a reasonable reason the PCs will want to depose him. Graft usually isn't enough unless they're real sticklers. One possibility, building on the Hitler suggestion, is to come up with a leader who rose during a crisis (in Hitler's case, the post WWI economic crisis) and managed to make the people feel good about themselves. Hitler did it, in no small part, by deflecting the blame to a minority group and outsiders, sweeping Germany's own deficiencies and behavior under a rug of denial. And, quite frankly, people seem to drink that Kool-Aid avidly. Once you've got that, the leader will probably have carte blanche to do what he wants with the people's support. [/QUOTE]

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