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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CF07" data-source="post: 9721589" data-attributes="member: 7052262">I can't recall the last time I used a royal PC in my campaign... except right now I'm running something where an NPC quest giver is the last descendant of the First Emperor (loosely modeled after Qin Shi Huang), the daughter from a union between the First Emperor and an Elven Queen, who bore him a half-breed daughter to sanctify a treaty. She was never in the line of succession and his dynasty did not survive her brother's short reign, but the line of the First Emperor has long since died, as has her mother, so she is---in theory---the heir of both. The PCs have chosen to help her but the First Emperor was actually a terrible necromancer who fed off his own blood via his children to sustain himself after death in his tomb, so this is a trap they are now walking into, though they figured that out and now have to survive it. As to what will happen afterwards... good question. The PCs may well end up being kingmakers!Edit: Now that I think about it, that same campaign has quite a bit going on where the PCs have the ability to remake the world. It's something I've been striving to allow in my games more broadly. But I haven't done any kind of classic "king succession" type things.</blockquote>