Build-a-Courtier
Populate your court with courtiers of your own creation!
Build-a-Courtier allows you to easily add non-ruler characters to your own court during gameplay. Promote them, sacrifice them, marry them – whatever you want, you can do it.
- Start a game normally
- Press ESC
- Click Switch Character
- Choose "Create your own Courtier"
- Design your new courtier as desired – they will be automatically placed into the court of your last played ruler with their own minor dynasty
- Select your original character again or just press ESC to return to the game
- Keep playing
Note: Due to the way this mod hijacks the Ruler Designer, the next time you open it (for example, to create another courtier) it will appear just as you left it – i.e. with your previous character still loaded. Just overwrite them – this will not change the character you have already put into the game, it’s just a result of there not being a universal "reset ruler designer" option that I know of.
Also, in case you wonder what it does when used from the new game setup screen: If you are not already playing a ruler, it will just create an adventurer.
Do not enable this mod alongside any other mod that overrides the file gui/multiplayer_types.gui. Doing so will overwrite the changes of whatever mod is higher up (=earlier) in the load order. Most TC mods might have a problem with this.
It will also collide with Ruler Designer Unlocked, because it uses a similar method to make the button work during an ongoing game by modifying the UI file. Therefore, please support Hades over at RDU – this wouldn’t be possible without their work. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2478202444
Hades: in case you take issue with this mod being around, please let me know.
Basically, the Ruler Designer only creates rulers (duh) – however, this mod remembers the ruler the player is currently controlling. The Courtier creation tool pretends to create a landless Adventurer (a LAAMP), but immediately strips them of their title and force-recruits them into your ruler’s court (serves them right) after creation. And voila – fresh courtier using the pretty interface of the Ruler Designer.
PS: Apologies for the cheap AI logo.
