Is there any reason NOT to appoint someone to council that hates you?

Stewards can steal money from the treasury. Don't know if that has to do with opinion or if they're greedy or something else, though. Council members also get an income and prestige, which will make it easier for them to plot against you I guess.

I think they are worth more percentage points when plotting. But I'm not entirely sure.

Chancellors and spymasters are the only ones that matter. Chancellor can elect to not give you claims they fabricate if they hate you.

Fairly sure chancellors and spymasters are pretty god damn dangerous if they hate you, if I recall correctly.

edit: whoops, someone already came before me

Don't dismiss how much percentage power they give to any plots they'd join, by being on the council.

shypixel said:

Besides Spymaster, I have not noticed any downside to having my councilors hate my guts.

I have logged hundreds of hours, and have yet to see anything bad. Chancellors that have -100 (Ambitious/Claimant/Rival/Kinslayer) have been among my best claim fabricators.

Spymaster is another story. But what about the rest?

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All (maybe not all but most, and I suspect all) council members get a bonus to plot power. Go to a kings character page and start a plot to kill him, you don't need to follow through, just look at who has the most plot power. You will find that councillors, and not just the spymaster) get more plot power than an idle courtier with the same intrigue. In fact, sort by plot power, and then by intrigue. You will find that when a character has more plot power than his intrigue would normally provide, it's because he is in a position close to the king, councillor, guardian and regent(if applicable), spouse, and I think honorary titles may have a small modifier as well.

So it's the same reason as with the spymaster, just not to such a high degree. If you want to still use someone with the best stats for the job, even if they dislike you, it's advisable to see that they have low intrigue, and/or start a plot in your court and see whether they are "amoral" or have "moral qualms" to gauge the threat of them plotting against you.

And also, councillors have events where they can decide whether or not to actually aid you, like the chancellor not bothering to fabricate that claim.