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Message: <blockquote data-quote="anest1s" data-source="post: 5299578" data-attributes="member: 94230">Maybe the players have to protect the trade routes from bandits and other dangers if they want the nearby villages to grow. Or they could ask a toll from passengers for keeping the road functional and safe...Then again, if the castle is again functional and with some defensive power, then maybe a village will be build next to it (or inside its walls). Maybe villages from nearby villages come seeking refuge from something. Since they pay taxes they have to be helped.Or maybe some thieves go around the country, pretending to be the tax collectors <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devil.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":devil:" title="Devil    :devil:" data-shortname=":devil:" />Or maybe the lord of an other castle in the area, used to collect taxes from the PC's castle territory illegally- and while he cant admit that he does, he isn't quite happy to part with that income...Maybe the dwarfs who used to mine the rock for the repairs needed for the castle suddenly went...missing <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Also, how and why the castle is deserted? Maybe the last owners died somehow? Or maybe they had their own reasons to leave?</blockquote>