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On 05/20/10 we held our first session of Kingmaker with 1st level characters. We played through books 1, 2, and 3, with copious additional material. Over the course of nine in-game years, the party founded a kingdom, conquered the Greenbelt area, and reached level 10. On 08/02/12, party TPK'd against Vordekai.
The following week, we rerolled new characters, starting at level 5, and advanced the in-game clock by 6 months. The kingdom was in shambles, the various cities independent or given over to bandits, and the remaining council squabbling over the scraps. The new party did not consist of rulers, but were merely adventurers, concerned citizens of the crumbling country. They played with these characters for eight months, and the new party gained 5 more levels. They eventually recaptured the imprisoned souls of the old party, returned them to life, and on 03/12/13, the combined two-characters-per-player party defeated Vordekai and his minions in an epic showdown.
However, in the time the king was gone, the inheritance passed to next of kin: his older brother of House Medvyed. So last night, on 04/11/13, in a deliberately brazen move, the king rode his horse into the throneroom of Medvyed, snatched the crown from his brother's hands, and placed it upon his own head.
Now, there will be war.
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That is a fun way of handling a TPK, I must say...
Seconded! Either that or I'll run the "you all waken as undead" plot I've wanted to do for so long. Choices choices....
Awesome! Fantastic handling of a TPK *and* the political scene in the region that always feels like it is moments from a boil over. Can't wait to hear more of how this turns out! Huzzah!
I must agree with the others. This is a brilliant handling of a TPK. You are a committed GM, and you must have a committed group!