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Originally Posted by Curmudgeon
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4. Appealing to a foreign power or launching a rebellion are acts of treason. The PCs need to be successful. If they aren’t they need to put a vast distance between themselves and the king. They are unlikely to get the use of the heir presumptive’s forces since it would make him a part of their treason.
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Kings are normally priests. (The taking of Holy Orders which makes one a priest is part of the Coronation ceremony.) Getting the king excommunicated might help. More generally, getting the kingdom placed under interdict might bring the king down and deposing the king almost certainly would.
Other possibilities include arranging for a very public failure of the King’s Touch (healing) or a failure in the fertility of the land, either of which might indicate either a withdrawal, or the absence, of the Mandate of Heaven.
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Which reminds me ... in medieval England, there is one foreign power that it is not treasonous to approach and who might have some influence - the Pope (although in 1399 you had a choice of three - Boniface IX, Benedict XIII and Alexander V) ... a Papal Bull might be of significant use in gaining an air of legitimacy (and Benedict XIII was a client of the King of France who could probably be persuaded to meddle in English politics).