Hands off!

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Author: Valaddar

Last revision: 12 Aug, 2025 at 15:23 UTC (3)

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Description:

Hands Off! is for Base Game CK3 & All Total Conversions

The mod has been updated with a new scenario!

NOTES:

• Hands Off! is a new mod that took me a long time to figure out. Please be patient and report any weird behaviors and I’ll check it out.
• The mod overwrites no base game files and should (hopefully) be compatible with all Total Conversions and the base game.
• By default, AI will not declare war for titles that are revoked and they will never give away titles to other rulers. There is a game rule to allow AI to declare wars for titles denied them, but they will never give another ruler their rightful titles (preserves borders on succession)

✔ Achievement Compatible
✔ Ironman Compatible
✔ Works with Total Conversions and base CK3

If your vassals dies and their heir already holds an equal or higher title outside your lands, the mod provides immersive and lore-rich inheritance scenarios.

• You’ll receive detailed events allowing you to:
  
  • Appoint a different, non-ruler family member of the original heir to the title (siblings, close family, distant family, or dynasty members)
  • Claim the titles for yourself to maintain realm integrity
    • This option is only available if the vassal has no non-ruler House or Dynasty members available
    • If using with AGOT, members of the Night’s Watch, the Kingsguard, Maesters, Septons, and Silent Sisters are excluded
  • Choose to let the lands go and bide your time for future opportunities
    
    • AI will only forfeit land if they have the craven trait, are not brave or ambitious, and their max military strength with allies is less than 75% of your max military strength with your allies

If a foreign ruler dies and their heir already holds lands in your realm, the mod provides immersive and lore-rich inheritance scenarios.

• You will receive an event that allows you to:
  
  • Let the lands go and bide your time for future opportunities with pressed claims
  • Let the lands go with no claims
  • Demand your former vassal return the lands to you
    
    • The vassal can either:
      
      • Return the lands to you
      • Return the lands to you with pressed claims
      • Decline to return the lands to you, which starts a war for the lands

If a vassal wins a war for a foreign title equal to or greater than your own and pulls their existing lands out of your realm, the mod allows you to respond decisively.

• You will receive an event giving you three options:
  
  • Demand the lands be returned by threat of war
    
    • This triggers a follow-up event for your former vassal
  • Let the lands go, but retain an unpressed claim (AI gets a pressed claim)
    
    • This is the default AI choice unless the AI Wars game rule is enabled
  • Let the lands go permanently
• If you demand the lands be returned:
  
  • The former vassal receives an event with two options:
    
    • Return the lands peacefully (AI default without AI Wars)
    • Refuse and go to war (AI default with AI Wars)

Experience more realistic medieval politics where:

• Vassals inheriting titles outside your realm or foreign rulers inheriting lands inside your reaqlm creats complex diplomatic situations
• Lieges must carefully manage succession to prevent realm fragmentation
• Characters can strategically choose between immediate conflict and long-term planning

The mod features extensive event chains that:

• Provide detailed context about inheritance situations
• Offer multiple strategic choices with different consequences
• Create memorable stories of ambition, betrayal, and redemption
• Include personality-based AI decision making (cowardly rulers may avoid conflict)

AI characters make realistic decisions based on their traits and military strength:

• Events consider character relationships, prestige, and strategic positioning
• Maintains game balance while adding significant depth to succession mechanics

• Fully localized in French, German, Korean, Polish, Russian, and Spanish using the aid of AI. Please provide translations if you want and they will be added to the mod.
• Chinese translation provided by 牛奶大魔王
  Why "Hands off!"?

  This mod transforms the static, and frustrating, loss of vassals through inheritance into a dynamic, engaging experience where every succession crisis becomes an opportunity for strategic decision-making. Whether you’re a liege trying to maintain your realm’s integrity or a vassal fighting for your rightful inheritance, "Hands off!" ensures that the medieval politics of succession are as complex and engaging as they should be.

  Perfect for players who want more strategic depth in their Crusader Kings III experience, with every death and succession becoming a potential turning point in your dynasty’s story.

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