Kanil: You're right! I think there's an artist working for Paradox with some kind of nasal fixation...
dublish: They did of course fall out with each other, plus she was older than Adolf so she left to marry the Duke of Alsace before Adolf was even old enough to marry her.
jordarkelf: Too right - the stuff of [Crusader] Kings...
The_Guiscard: That's what makes CK such a great game for AARs - you don't actually have to make up anything, just tell it like it is.
It also means that even while the game is going down the toilet, the AAR can still be great fun!
Murmurandus: Well Gebhard and Adolf are both almost of age so Friedrich will have to die very soon to leave an underage heir. Still - in this game anything is possible...
Kurt_Steiner: Absolutely - now all Friedrich's problems have disappeared now he has Il Padrino to guide him once more. Now everyone else's problems have begun...
stnylan: At one time I did think that CK seemed to throw up an unrealistic proportion of crazy rulers, until I noticed how many of Europe's rulers really were mad at the time of the Napoleonic Wars, for example. Mind you, by that stage it was probably more due to centuries of inbreeding than anything else.
J.Passepartout: Right. OK. Well, I'm sure that's a very normal thing. No, really. No, I mean, really really...
AllmyJames: Well, yes, but sometimes I just long for a normal ruler. I can't believe I'm less than 20 years into the game and look how messed up the house of Hohenstaufen is already!
Well, I've just been playing a few more years and, not to give anything away, it only gets worse...
No update yet though.
Thanks, as always, to all for reading and posting.