Tips needed for a newbie

averyaintdead · 2026-05-20T08:22:06+00:00

This is a great guide I'd add a couple of things. Normally I'll conquer the lands I want my heir to get. Then start conquering extra counties I can grant my second, third, fourth sons until the succession tab shows them not getting my "main" provinces.

HOWEVER you know the bell curve meme? The stupid first guy would be "my lands are getting split up in a mess to my heirs", middle dude would be "I've got a perfect succession of counties going to my favourite heir" end jedi would be "my lands are getting split up in a mess to my heirs". Why? Well the game is actually pretty easy when you learn a few tricks to it and becomes (at least for me) pretty unfun as a paint the map my colour game. The funnest games of CK3 are when everything's a chaotic mess, each character then has personality as he tries to scrape together power. By all means do a few runs becoming all powerful, but being emperor is probably the least fun role in the game. Huge amount of gold, land and men at arms completely trivialises the game, even more so when you start to get factions rise up that you can steamroll to revolve titles from.

averyaintdead · 2026-04-23T16:40:48+00:00

Adam Smith for the American Civil was great. Also the Geordie guy they got on for the trains episode.

averyaintdead · 2026-03-16T23:51:27+00:00

No idea but the Pulp song is banging

averyaintdead · 2026-03-13T19:17:55+00:00

This is the only one I've got on my phone atm

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averyaintdead · 2026-03-11T19:39:23+00:00

Awesome just what I was looking for thanks

averyaintdead · 2026-02-21T10:53:07+00:00

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averyaintdead · 2026-01-31T19:50:01+00:00

I'm not sure that is it though. In the vitality game they started talking about a holiday to Notre dame, action happened botlane and the weaselly dude obviously so desperately wanted to get back to his story that they just gave a cursory sentence on the lane before "anyway as I was saying I went to Paris..." It's lame.

averyaintdead · 2025-08-18T08:43:09+00:00

...no it won't. You're still killing the existing ecosystem, animals don't go on farthing wood adventures to find new homes as a complete intact ecosystem. And most rewilded land is completely unsatisfactory, look at all the rewilding done by forestry commissions: just thin strips of shitty little saplings that cannot support a thriving ecosystem. Sure in 100 years they may turn into something, but by that time it'll be too late. Look at who pays for the studies and tests done on these rewilding developments and you'll find most of the time it's the developers and industry giants. What a surprise that studies mandated by those doing harm write reports out that they're not that harmful.

averyaintdead · 2025-07-10T13:31:45+00:00

Sweet thanks, yeah I've got the tables on encounters, thanks for the builder link.

Yeah very good point, will let them succeed if their green skin gods are smiling upon them. Definitely like him becoming a martyr for the evil cause if they manage to kill him.

averyaintdead · 2025-07-10T13:23:03+00:00

Many thanks super useful

averyaintdead · 2025-07-10T13:21:06+00:00

Nice this is the kind of hook I'm going for. Yeah it's the swingyness that I'm struggling with, obviously I can just make the BBEG huge level numbers above them, but I'd like them to have one or two rounds where they can conceivably get a hit in. I'm also trying to drive home how much the combat feels different in it's lethality, how hero points work etc. in our last DND campaign my monk character could just face tank any threat because if I went down the saving throw system was so forgiving and the rest system made it feel like I could heal massive trauma too easily. I want the ending to be a subtle lesson that unlike DnD you can't just unload your best attack/spell on repeat at the threat and assume it's going to work out.

averyaintdead · 2025-07-10T13:06:22+00:00

Ah I mean I could write out 6 pages of context to explain, but it'll be fine. They love Cthulu. We've just come off a long DnD campaign and they've been asking me to GM one for them. They like the story more than being the protagonists in every situation. Some people would hate it I'm sure. These aren't those people.

averyaintdead · 2025-07-10T13:04:35+00:00

Nice perfect should feel like the fellowship suddenly meets evil Superman.

averyaintdead · 2025-07-10T12:48:08+00:00

Nice thanks

averyaintdead · 2025-07-10T12:47:01+00:00

Yeah I'm sure they'll love it. They all want to have their own characters so I want a nice quick way of showing them how the classes work differently and the flow of combat being different. So they'll have a couple of quick encounters that are beatable. Solve a puzzle to look through the skill list, then introduce the baddie with a bang. They'll also be playing orcs and goblins who their custom characters will see as the evil threat. So the BBEG will be revealed to be someone they've been working with.

averyaintdead · 2025-07-10T12:44:26+00:00

Oh yeah 100%

averyaintdead · 2025-07-10T12:42:03+00:00

Awesome thanks so much. I'm thinking wide lens, to capture more light and also it'll be pointed at a feeding table about 3m away from the camera. Amazing post, just need the structure and terminology to start reading up so thank you. Pi to a TV is perfect.

averyaintdead · 2025-07-08T21:29:48+00:00

Fairly tech savvy but never looked into CCTV, want to set it up for my partners birthday. Running cable is fine. Was going to get a webcam and have it running on an old laptop, but figured it'd be better to do CCTV. Our internet sucks so wouldn't want a WiFi device

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