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<blockquote data-quote="DrunkonDuty" data-source="post: 4169013" data-attributes="member: 54364">I like the Rightful King trying to overthrow the popular democracy. One wonders by what right he claims a mandate...&nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Related theme: what have folks done with &quot;The Dark Lord on his Dark Throne&quot; trope?For my Borderlands campaign there is in deed a Dark Lord in the East. He's your basic Dark Lord type but with strong overtones of Rasputin. He came to power by winning the confidence of the old Tsar, performing &quot;miracles&quot; etc. and rising to become one of the great boyars. The old established families resented this upstart but to no avail. Just before the old Tsar died of a, er, sudden illness, he named the upstart as his successor. The Dark Lord then crushed a revolt by the boyars and set himself upon his blood soaked throne. Only one legal claimant to the throne remains alive; a paladin-Anastasia who has retreated to the Borderlands with her followers. Here she is likely to clash with the humanoids who live there.How could I spice up my Dark Lord? It's a low magic setting, more sword and sorcery then a standard DnD. This is all theoretical as I doubt I shall ever run anything in it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DrunkonDuty, post: 4169013, member: 54364"] I like the Rightful King trying to overthrow the popular democracy. One wonders by what right he claims a mandate... ;) Related theme: what have folks done with "The Dark Lord on his Dark Throne" trope? For my Borderlands campaign there is in deed a Dark Lord in the East. He's your basic Dark Lord type but with strong overtones of Rasputin. He came to power by winning the confidence of the old Tsar, performing "miracles" etc. and rising to become one of the great boyars. The old established families resented this upstart but to no avail. Just before the old Tsar died of a, er, sudden illness, he named the upstart as his successor. The Dark Lord then crushed a revolt by the boyars and set himself upon his blood soaked throne. Only one legal claimant to the throne remains alive; a paladin-Anastasia who has retreated to the Borderlands with her followers. Here she is likely to clash with the humanoids who live there. How could I spice up my Dark Lord? It's a low magic setting, more sword and sorcery then a standard DnD. This is all theoretical as I doubt I shall ever run anything in it. [/QUOTE]

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