Divine Intervention(Playable Papacy)
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Here’s a link to the Divine Intervention thread in the CKII User Modifications thread on the official Paradox forums. The manual download link is contained within, in accordance with Paradox’s guidelines for user modifications.
Here it is, boys and girls. The thing you’ve wanted all your lives, but never knew you wanted. You can now play as the pope again, since the old "Give the pope a holy order via the console" trick was patched.
I just created a new government under the feudal type, but made it function exactly like the papacy, to avoid the "THEOCRACY OH ♥♥♥♥ GAME OVER MAN" BS.
Works exactly as the pope normally does in the game,(No game over on succession. You just play as the next pope.) except for the following:
1 – Cardinals are appointed through honorary titles. Further details are in the discussions tab, in the thread titled "Cardinals And You"
2 – People will bug you quite a bit about forgiving their sins. I tweaked that event to actually give the Pope some of the money, though, so you hopefully won’t feel too bad about being notified that random Catholic rulers are giving you 25 gold because they were reading dirty books or something.
3 – The Papacy is now directly selectable at the start of the game.
– Flesh out/add more events/decisions to make playing as His Holiness more immersive, and give players more to do as the Pope, so there’s less time spent running at max speed waiting for things to happen. I know it can be pretty boring being the Pope right now, and I apologize for that. Working on it!
– Fix a number of non-gamebreaking bugs. For the most part these are silly situations where because of the way events are set up, the Pope sometimes interacts with himself. Sending letters to himself demanding the release of imprisoned Bishops is the main one right now. This currently does something like drop your piety by five points if you refuse, and can be avoided by just pausing the game, executing/banishing the guy, and then agreeing to release him.
If I get a lot of questions about a particular subject I’ll try to put together a relevant guide in the Discussions tab, so check there if you’re interested in a particular feature or something.
Most of the credit for this really should go to Voltage_Z(AKA VoltSpark on Steam) on the Crusader Kings subreddit, for coming up with the idea of fooling the game into letting you play a theocracy by making a "fake" Theocracy government type in the feudal government section of government types.
That’s pretty much it. Enjoy being the pope, and see what sorts of fun stuff you can do. Share any crazy screenshots of your adventures in the comments, if you want!
If you run into any bugs, feel free to bring them up in either the comments or discussions, but I must warn you, if it’s something that’s just part of how the game works, it might be hard to fix without a lot more knowledge on my part. I’m not exactly the most well-versed modder around, and this is my first real published mod for CKII. Take it easy on me, and I’ll do my best for you. Act like a jerk, and you won’t get a whole lot of help from me.
If you want a less janky version of this, please bug Paradox and ask them to make the Papacy and other non-dynastic nations playable! They won’t know people want it if you don’t speak up!
If you use this as a starting point for your own mod, or if you just want to snag a few bits of it, please credit the following:
Voltspark
Metal_Izanagi
The creators of any mods mentioned in the "Special Thanks" section.
I’d love if you asked me for permission to use Divine Intervention in your own work before doing it, but I obviously can’t make you do that, and I won’t hold a grudge as long as you mention the folks I listed above. If you do ask me for permission and I don’t get back to you within 14 days, consider full permission granted, and please direct anyone who questions if I really gave you permission or not to the end of this section.
A message for those directed to this page in response to a query regarding permission to use Divine Intervention in their own work:
Yes, if someone waited 14 days and I didn’t get back to them in that time, permission is granted for the use of Divine Intervention, as I am probably either dead, in the process of dying, or have fallen and can’t get up. Carry on in my stead!
Modding is a community effort, so let’s all work together to make the games we love into what we want!
– Metal Izanagi
Oh, and the 14 day thing also goes for if you want to host Divine Intervention elsewhere. Try to get in touch with me, and if I don’t respond within 14 days, consider permission granted.
As of the latest patch, be sure to change the "Number of Theocracy vassals allowed" game rule when you start a new game if you plan on playing as His Holiness,(And really, why else would you be using this mod?) or you’ll be limited in the number of vassal Bishops that you can have, which isn’t very fitting for the Pope.
Comcast Customer Service – Gave the old papal succession script the rather fitting name of "The Dead Cardinal Shuffle."
ngppgn – Resolved the "levies bug", revamped the College of Cardinals, added new events for the Pope going to war, and made the mod much more compatible with other mods and future updates.
Carbon – Creator of the mod "Deus Meus et Omnia" from which certain features were incorporated into Divine Intervention, with their permission. Link to Deus Meus et Omnia: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/mod-deus-meus-et-omnia-college-of-cardinals-mod.740416/
kookusking – Creator of the mod "-Infinity- Play Non-Dynastic Heirs" which has been integrated into Divine Intervention to fix a base game bug, with permission of course. Link to -Infinity- Play Non-Dynastic Heirs: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=472394596
Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
