Title says it all.
What does that even mean? My friends never play evil characters, so they wouldn't ask. But you have someone that wants to emulate the lord of lust, or greed? You could take it with a twist. Like the lord of love, or charity, or fidelity.
But more seriously, I would have his start as a wizard with an appropriate specialization. I would offer a prestige class that he could work toward, which is a lot easier to construct than a regular class. It could be the basis of some of the adventure, trying to find research and artifacts to help him reconstruct some of the past abilities of the rune lords.
With Thassilon being no more, the title of Runelord is just that, a title. Anyone can call themselves one if your PC desires, but unless you have an empire to rule over in that name they will be nothing but a technical pretender to the seat. In the very very rare case he does encounter someone from ancient Thassilon you could cause some moments of confusion, but unless the player can demonstrate knowledge of that empires history, who his supposed predecessors were for that title, etc...it would quickly be seen through.
IMO, he can claim to be one all he wants, but if he encounters a real one or they become aware of him, they will probably take steps to put him in his place.
well first they would have to rediscover the lost rune magic of Thassilon
Then what should I do after rotrl?
Should I start cotct or shattered star.
If you complete the full AP of either Rise of the Runelords or Shattered Star, you could see perhaps one or more of the PCs trying to adapt the sources of power the runelords used to become as powerful themselves, particularly if in Shattered star:
If they get the rune magic and decide to start their own kingdom, they can call themselves whatever they want.
End the campaign there, then start playing Kingmaker with new PCs. Later on in the AP, have a deranged warlord calling himself "the Runelord of ____" declare war on the budding kingdom.
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I guess it depends on if the player just wants the title with flavor fluff in there or if he really wants his character to become a runelord? If the answer is B, then comes the second question of how much is the player allowed to turn into a Richard with playing his character as evil. That is unless each pc is evil aligned.
I, at one time, had a great story I had built up about a wizard who is curious about death and raising things aas undead and would end up trying to become a lich at the end of the AP/campaign. After taking another good look at the character, in order for the wizard to get to that point, he would have had to have been evil aligned for at least several levels. Things would not have worked out well if I played him. For some reference, there is a society thread about an Inquisitor letting a Necromancy Wizard bleed out for going against a party agreement and raising undead minions.
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Evil PCs can be great teammates. He just has to be a decent and/or loyal partymember who's also planning on taking over a kingdom later. Adventuring's just his day job.