Beastfolk Game Rules: Marriage and Children (EK2 submod)

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Author: Ri'Zakar

Last revision: 17 Feb, 2023 at 14:38 UTC (2)

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Description:

EK2 Version: 0.11
CK3 Version: 1.8.1

This mod adds two game rules:

1. No Marriage — No Marriage between Beasfolk and Men/Mer (EK2 default, I included it, so you can set EK2 default with no marriage and no offspring, if you want).
2. Unrestricted Marriage — Beasfolk can marry Men/Mer, and vice versa (this mod’s default).
3. Player Only Intermarriage — Only the player can initiate and engage in intermarriage (you can marry your player characters, their heirs, courtiers, and the usual).

1. No Offspring — No Offspring in Beasfolk and Men/Mer unions (EK2 and this mod’s default).
2. Hybrid Offspring — every race can have kids with every other race (nightmare fuel alert).
3. Limited Hybrid Offspring — Only Goblin and Dremora hybrids are allowed (Khajiit/Argonian/Lilmothiit hybrids are disallowed).

Thanks to the Goblins Unchained mod for the game rules code.

This mod also fixes broken descriptions of marriage penalties (no more HUGE_LETTERS and no actual numbers) and makes use of no offspring in the beasfolk unions penalty (hopefully, if the devs left it there, they’re planning on enabling interracial marriage themselves, which will make this mod obsolete).
The latter required editing 00_marriage_scripted_modifiers, and since you can’t use two mods that edit that file, I also included some of the changes from the Less Man-Mers mod:

• Old age marriage penalty is removed for characters with lifespan/tsaesci/vampire/undead traits, so Mannimarco/Serana/Divayth Fyr won’t be that easy to marry. Mortals and other non-elves are still affected by the penalty ("Less Man-Mers" removes the penalty for everyone).
• Higher penalty for different lifespans (so a lifespan 3 character would have a harder time trying to marry a character with no lifespan trait, for example).
• Some smaller changes: AI is a bit more reluctant to betrothe old women to boys; the isolationist culture penalty takes into account the culture of the actual people you’re trying to marry.

No offspring penalty is only relevant for Unrestricted Marriage (since you need AI to be able to marry) and No Offspring / Limited Hybrid Offspring settings, so if you don’t use those and don’t like the changes above, just delete 00_marriage_scripted_modifiers_bgr from

You can also edit the modifiers yourself using Notepad or Notepad++ (use Ctrl+F and search for #MODDED, I left the original values for comparison).