

Without WoL, a skill of exactly 7 makes it easy to gain +100 prestige from fulfilling a skill improvement ambition. If you have WoL, take Amateurish plotter and level it up through events in the Seduction focus (or Intrigue focus, slower but less hassle).įor your remaining skills, consider setting them low enough that you can improve them through ambition events (7 or below without WoL 4 or below with WoL and a +3 focus). Both skills will help you get foreign heirs in your court and get their territory to inherit into your realm. Your high diplomacy will keep your realm stable and ensure large vassal levies. Arrange for children to inherit higher titles through a mix of undiscovered Seduction focus tumbles, inviting heirs, and arranging marriages followed by the deaths of in-laws. Good for counts and countesses, especially those who do not have CBs to expand personally.You'll also be able to ignore one of the penalties for breaking a truce, since more negative diplomacy does not have increasingly bad effects.Īnother good build is high diplomacy and intrigue. You won't be needing many vassals or caring what they think of you. Consider dumping your diplomacy into negative.If you have, take Indulgent wastrel and level it up through events in the Rulership or Business focus.

It costs 10 points, gives you +3 stewardship, and eventually gives you (+10 vassal opinion) and Legendary Wisdom (+1 monthly prestige) if you have over 8 and 12 stewardship skill respectively. Consider taking Administrator, especially if you do not have Way of Life.Good for medium ranks, letting you hold a large demesne and having it provide large amounts of demesne income and levies.One good build is high stewardship and martial. And if you do care, they're in your court, where each point in your diplomacy skill gives +3 to "personal diplomacy" opinion.Ĭhoosing skill levels As the only landed member of your dynasty, you probably don't care what your kin think of you. Diseases can be lost by becoming a Demon worshipper and reaching lv3.Celibate can be lost by joining a monastic order and reaching lv2.Slothful can be lost with the Scholarship focus.However, with the Reaper's Due DLC, Wounded may lead to Infection instead, and infections cannot be treated by your Court Physician consider taking Scurvy (-35) instead and stay on land until it wears off. And it leaves you with Scarred, giving you +0.1 monthly prestige. Wounded (-11) tends to go away on its own.You can lose Stressed (-14) and Depressed (-15) in several ways.Take negative traits that are easy to lose. using the War focus or Scholarship focus). The main downside to this strategy is that you might lose positive traits you gain through events (e.g. When you have more than 5-6 personality traits, each one has a separate MTTH to disappear. Most lifestyle traits are pegged at 10, while Indian religious branches and homosexuality are free. Event effects, including events to lose the trait or gain its opposite, do not affect the cost. Congenital traits, most of which have a 15% chance to be passed to children, do not have a multiplier. 0.25x for a specific religion group (definitely take Sayyid if Muslim!)Ĭombat modifiers, for when you personally lead an army:.0.5x for dynasty opinion (note that you don't have much of a dynasty).

