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My main gripe with Kingmaker is that it never truly concludes the Brevoy politcal instability plot.
Since chapter 9 is more of a filler chapter and it's near the end of the campaign right before the tipping point, I had the idea of reworking it into a Brevoy civil war.
The issue is that I am not really good at planning campaigns (which is why I'm playing premades most of the time). So I'm asking your help to brainstorm ideas I could mold into a satisfying chapter.
The idea I had is that the chapter would start with the death of king Noleski Surtova.
Then queen Natala Surtova would officialize her ascention to the throne. This would be legitimate in her eyes since she was the one actually ruling for many years since her brother was not doing any of his official duties.
But some noble houses would be against this, either they want the throne for themselves, they suspect foul play in the death of the king or they simply do not think her claims legitimate.
With the kingdom so fractured, this is the perfect moment for lady Aldori to strike and take back Rostland's independance. She and the other swordlords would raise their troops and march toward the capital expecting the PCs to follow.
Here the PC would either follow Aldori's lead, support the queen or ally with other nobles to make their own faction.
At the end of the chapter, the PCs would become ruler of Brevoy. This would be the trigger for Nyrissa to launch her plan in Chapter 10.
So my questions are:
- Is this a good idea? Do you think this would make an interesting conclusion to the Brevoy plot line?
- Did you run a similar story in your campaign? If so how did it go?
- Do you have ideas to improve this story line?
- Did you run Chapter 9 as written and you think my players will be missing out if we don't play it? Should I play chapter 9 as written and have this Brevoy conclusion chapter as a bonus chapter that would only award Kingdom Xp?