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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Agemegos" data-source="post: 3361420" data-attributes="member: 18377">The first campaign in my setting Gehennum centred on a struggle with a bad and unpopular (but not at first tyrannical) emperor over who should marry his daughter and inherit the throne. The emperor had his daughter kidnapped by pirates, offered ennoblement and an estate to whomsoever should rescue her, and supplied his secret bastard son with magical doodads that would set him up to win the prize. The PCs rescued the girl, the bastard tried to re-rescue her from them, and they killed him. So the rest of the campaign went on with the PCs becoming heroes, the princess falling in love with one of them, and the Emperor hating them for reasons that he dare not tell anyone but his closest co-conspirators.Everything the emperor did to cheat, shaft, humiliate, or destroy the PCs only ended up making them more famous, richer, and better-loved by the Opposition (which was powerful). In the end he went right around the twist and attacked them outright with his army. They ended up beating the army and killing the king, though the princess died in childbirth and the PC she married went into the Shee and was never seen again.That left the only survivor of the original four players in the following position:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">He had inherited one of the duchies of the realm: the one with the Spartan military tradition.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">He owned three quarters of the choice 10% (by volume) of the hoard of the dragon Khlorophane (who had been the oldest dragon in the world until the PC and his buds killed him).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">He was married to the daughter of the last great military genius of the realm, who had been the main prop of the old Emperor's throne, and had inherited the loyalty of his late father-in-law's personal troops.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">He was adored by the Populace, and the Army, and had been the leader of the powerful independent-minded nobles in their late victorious Civil War.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Imperial family was extinct.</li> </ul>The thing is that the character didn't want to be emperor, but no-one else had the prestige to make it. He was offered the Crown by the Parliament, but refused it. Parliamentary government didn't work very well, and shortly collapsed. The nobles overthrew the Parliament, and made the PC emperor. He set up a republic and then abdicated. After a bit over a year the Army got fed up with republican government, staged a coup, and made the PC emperor. He abdicated again, and the whole empire fell apart.Teh next campaign was set 100 years later. That PC's great-grandsons ruled three quarters of Gehennum.</blockquote>

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