The Shape of Things | CK3: Princes of Darkness Ep 13

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The Bavent's saga continues, now in Crusader Kings 3 with the total conversion mod Princes of Darkness. Can Missy and Pecs survive the dangerous nights of the World of Darkness? And how do they fit into a world they weren't born into.
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[@moledaddy]

This series is my favorite thing on the internet right now.

[@wyattweber9983]

I love that there's an Ezio in the Bavent family now

[@justme20244]

Really enjoying this content even though I haven't played the game!

[@LayingLionII]

The tragedy of watching the siblings who took the world and now stepping on each other's toes more and more.

[@jeffqyzt2582]

RE: plots - I think you might be playing an older version - but I believe it's still the case that all vampires have a natural bonus hostile plot, allowing you to use 2 hostile plots at all times (or more if you pick up certain other perks - e.g. Twice-Schemed allows for 3 hostile plots.) It's *extremely* worthwhile to pursue intrigue until you can get up to the Kidnapper perk, allowing you to be constantly running schemes to imprison - either you can select useful vampires (high prowess knights, potential vassals, diablerie options), plot against your own vassals and heirs to try to force-convert them as a condition of release, or just plot to imprison/drain mortals for an extra resonance income (which is the easiest way to power through the discipline trees.) RE: Use of hooks - I would strongly recommend using hooks for conversions prior to taking gold (especially strong hooks.) The vampire trait gives a very strong natural resistance to conversion, and a weak hook gives +100 conversion power, whereas a strong hook basically guarantees conversion (unless there's other circumstances, e.g. monk trait or similar blocking it.) RE: Religion - I realize you are going for a role-play aspect here, but ensuring that your direct vassals and courtiers are of your religion is a pretty core goal of CK3. You might want to make exceptions for faiths that are fairly similar or have tolerance for each other - but allowing powerful zealous vassals with religions that consider yours to be evil is a recipe for lots of heartburn. At the very least you might want to take a closer look at the religions of potential new vassals before landing them - and right after landing them you'll have a strong opinion bonus with them that might be able to convince them to convert to your own religion (though if you can get them to convert while they're still a courtier, that's better.) RE: Demesne improvements - one of the reasons you're so cash strapped (though in general PoD you're far more cash starved than in the base game) is that you have neglected building in your provinces. Once you get a steady income from hooks (whether from mesmerize or from intrigue) you might want to pump that into buildings. RE: Hunt in your Capital options - the only real reason to choose something other than Peasants (the no-cost option) is if you want to find candidates for potential minions. If you just want blood, you're just as likely to find a good resonance candidate with the peasants. Yes, the different base options technically *extremely slightly* weight the likely resonances, but IMO it's not worth the extra cost (especially before you get the perks that let you see resonance beforehand.) FWIW, I don't think the different hunt types (even the exclusive ones from the dynasty legacies) are ever really justifiable once you're Kingdom+ tier, as you can almost certainly invite better mortals to your court, and early on you really only need it if you have some feeding restriction (e.g. Ventrue.) RE: Men-at-arms - while in PoD knights and knight effectiveness are truly where it's at, you might want to check from time to time to see if your vampiric disciplines or your demesne provide any new vampire specific men-at-arms types. Some of these are *far* stronger than the base game men-at arms. At the very least, having a full regiment of ghouls (or the Tzimisce/vicissitude improved variants if you have them) if your religion allows it is highly recommended. Ghouls counter most (all?) all of the base game men-at-arms types. Of course, there are better options than base ghouls, but those require heavy discipline investment. RE: Evaluating military strength (yours and others) - you really should stop looking at just raw troop count. *Especially* in PoD, levies are basically worthless except to keep a siege running. You instead want to look at the knights and men at arms of your opponents (including allies who would assist in time.) While in the base game having count tier allies as a king/emperor doesn't mean much, in PoD if that count has a few mid to high-prowess knights (where mid-to-high is maybe 30+ prowess) or ones with advanced combat disciplines, they may still be a good ally. By same token, if you look at an opponent and you see that their high troop count is mostly levies or low-tier men-at-arms (especially Nosferatu with tons of rats, or Cappadocian/Giovanni with hordes of skeletons) with no impressive knights to back them up, they are weaker than they appear.

[@ryconplays]

Super solid advice thank you

[@daedalusdreamjournal5925]

I hope to see a lot of discipline use shenanigans in the next episode: Dominate, Presence and, most of all, daimonion. I am curious to see what kind of damage the later can do :D After all and since there were a few attempted murder on missy, it only seems fair that she should unleash demonic vampiric powers on her rivals ... till they get completely destroyed ( there is a collection of bone trophy to make here ! CATCH THEM ALL xD ) .

[@halgrimhelgrimson]

Money money money. You need to get some xp in making da cash😊

[@jcdenton9569]

Melissa Bavent, the lion of Romagna

[@daedalusdreamjournal5925]

I see that there is a new video in hte pipeline, when will it be released for viewing ? :) Wanna see the continuation of missy adventures.

[@abc123tiktok]

Maybe I am thinking of some one else but I thought you retired. Did you use to have a Kenshi series? Also loving the series.

[@ryconplays]

Yes there are two channels this one and Rycon Roleplays. The other channel is for the full cinematic Roleplays. I've got an on going Kenshi series on there. Next episode for that will be out this coming Monday

[@RaqwanGaither]

Yes sir now pecs can start his dablerizing spreeeeeeeee and don’t you get a make a new clan option?