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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7433072" data-attributes="member: 29398">Oddly enough, this is almost exactly what's happened in one branch of my current campaign over the long run: the PCs took down the long-time Emperor (a lich) of a nasty realm, and then spent the next year or so involving themselves in the resulting civil war as various warlords (mostly the main slave lords from A-3) tried to take power.  They then got stuck in what's become an extended side trek to fulfill a quest, and left the area.The civil war is still ongoing in the background and it'll no doubt become relevant again someday.This ties into worldbuilding in that when I set up that realm it was with the specific intent of a party someday taking out the Emperor, but both the lead-up series of adventures and the way the takedown came about played out vastly differently to anything I had in mind ahead of time.Lanefan</blockquote>