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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 6069244" data-attributes="member: 8863">Well, usually the case is eldest surviving son, and then onto things like brothers and other such side lineages.  But honestly, for a game, you don't need to put a lot of thought into it.  Rules of succession can have arbitrary clauses in them after all.  I'd say it's more important to have something that makes for a good plot in the game than making a lot of perfect legal sense (especially since some of these laws are perhaps not based on logic but rather come from the selfish whims of the aristocracy).  And in a game, you can also assume that women can inherit as well as men.  Really, the players probably won't care what the rules of succession are at all unless one of them stands to inherit something.</blockquote>