Quote Originally Posted by paladinofshojo View Post
This sounds a lot like railroading… which I am against on principle. I’d rather have my characters play as fascist lapdogs then to contrive scenarios which don’t make any sense but to corner them into being forced to play a certain way or force a certain outcome.

For starters, why wouldn’t a claimant to the throne want the old king’s enforcers serving him? It adds to his own legitimacy…
well okay.

then lets back up and do this: the king is mad right? and they serve him unquestioningly right? well what if the king's insanity was getting worse to the point of delusion, and thinks that if they kill him he will ascend and become immortal and godlike and thus orders the party to kill him and serve no one but him even after he ascends? but he is completely wrong and it just screws up everything.