Sex and Sorcery
So, back in 2021, I published my first CK3 mod, Sex and Immortality (now hopelessly outdated). It had what I think were some interesting ideas, at its base, but it was kind of a mess. I was still learning to mod for CK3 at the time. With some new ideas, I then started working on creating a new version that would have better content, and be better implemented. Since then, many things (work and life) have gotten in the way, and the game has changed over and over, making a lot of my work obsolete. Also, the idea for what the mod should be has evolved.
Long story short: I’m nowhere near done, but I now have time to work more extensively on this. I decided that it will be easier and go faster to get to the mod I want, if I just upload what I have ready at the moment and then update regularly, using feedback (even if it is nowhere near what it should be yet, and is smaller than the original mod). I had more done on this back in the spring (including a system with court prostitutes as a court position), but this is what’s reasonably upload-ready for this version of the game, right now.
I’m planning to update this about once a week going forward, and there should very soon be way more features and content in here.
The mod is called "Sex and Sorcery" because those are the two things you will get. Right now, it’s all features on the sex side and nothing supernatural yet (not even immortality), but there will be lots of both soon enough. For those who don’t want supernatural content, there will be game rules to turn them off. There will probably be rules for some of the sex side of things as well.
Long term, the plan is to have loads and loads of content adding to both the sex, romance and family aspects of the game and also lots of supernatural content.
There will be things coming like lots of random flavor character events, court prostitutes, a carnal coming of age rite for carnal exaltation faiths, an orgy variant of the feast activity for appropriate faiths/cultures, a carnal culture ethos, and lots of other things in culture, religion, court positions, activities, etc.
There will also be things like magic, ghosts, several types of creatures that characters can become, such as mages and vampires. Each type of creature will have their own special rules and systems. And there will be much else like that.
What is in the mod right now? Well, not too much, but here is the list (not exhaustive, but just the important stuff):
1. All the content in my mods More Consanguinity Doctrine Choices, 4 Personality Traits, Improved Personality Formation System, and Arabic Names and Terms Fix.
2. Lots of tweaks to the fertility and child cap numbers and so on. Essentially, the artificial cap numbers for how many children a character can have are relaxed, but it’s generally a little more difficult for them to have children.
3. Several small changes, relaxing different limits, like 3 max wards (instead of 2), 2 schemes of the same type can be run at the same time (instead of just 1), relaxed trigger that prevents incestuous seduction of characters below 20 (now 18, and applies in fewer circumstances), reduced incidence of STDs (cause those are no fun), and I’ve also made it so that close and extended family members of the court owner, who like their liege, won’t randomly leave.
4. The rule for nudity is changed to follow the religion of the court owner. A nudist in a normal court will stay dressed, and all courtiers in a nudist lord’s court will have to follow the local customs.
5. AI lords/ladies with concubinage in their religion are more likely to take their lovers as concubines, and they also become gradually more likely to dismiss concubines as they become too old. Also, it is not possible (for player or ai) to dismiss a pregnant female concubine unless you’re sadistic.
6. Tweaked lots of triggers and modifiers to make the whole lovers and seduction system of the vanilla game a little more complicated under the hood.
7. Modified the system for for determining when sex, sexual relationships, and pregnancies are fully accepted (even with spouses), merely accepted (by society in general), shunned, or criminal. I’ve also tweaked the rules for when love affairs are public or secret, based on the new system for determining acceptance of relationships. Sex with clerics are fully accepted in carnal exaltation faiths, and pregnancies are not considered bastardy in those relations or between characters in polyamorous faiths. Also, sexual relations with complete strangers are shunned in Divine Marriage faiths (though this particular part isn’t fully consistently implemented yet, but ultimately I want those relations to be treated a bit like incest is treated in normal faiths).
8. Have you ever had a faith with polyamory and carnal exaltation, and yet young, unmarried, lustful courtiers in your court just remain single and childless until they turn old, instead of getting it on with each other like rabbits like they realistically would? Well, I’ve added background events that will continuously create and end lover relationships between courtiers where it makes sense that they do.
