CK2 Dev Diary #12: The Maim event

[Mushro0m]

Random even, everyones favorit :
Your [insert one eyed, one-legged wound etc.here] is getting infected after [insert armycampaign, event, pilgrimage]

Choose :

- pay for medical treatment (25% you die)
- Do nothing (75% chance you die)
- Pray to the gods (25 Piety, 50% you die)

 

[Arthrodira]

There could be an event for one-legged whereby you focus more on cavalry than infantry (gain the cavalry leader trait), or the one-legged trait itself could provide a boost to cavalry and a malace to infantry.

 

[barny]

I hope this won't be a separate "cripple portrait DLC".

 

[Chief of Staff]

How are these injuries received from besides from combat or tortures?

 

[decumos]

Characters who lost all their teeth or bottom jaw (it can happen, right?) should die quicker during sieges. They rely on special type of food and cannot eat horses/dogs/rats/leather.

 

[Dauntasa]

such as: One-handed, One-legged, One-Eyed, Disfigured, or Mangled

Is it possible for someone to lose both their hands, legs, etc.?

 

[Elwyn]

For a blinded person, there could be an event to appoint some courtier whom you trust as your guide. This courtier would of course get a significant boost to his/her plot power...

 

[decumos]

For a blinded person, there could be an event to appoint some courtier whom you trust as your guide. This courtier would of course get a significant boost to his/her plot power...

That should also apply to characters who lost both legs (they need help to move around) and both arms (they need help to write letters/decrees, etc). And body-paralyzed characters, of course, they need help with everything.

 

[Dauntasa]

If you want a less severe injury you could throw in that thing where people would supposedly cut off a prisoner's middle finger so they wouldn't be able to draw a longbow, and have it be a small Personal Combat penalty and possibly a bit of a prestige hit.

 

[Buladelu]

Losing a leg should make a pilgrimage longer affair.

 

[decumos]

And speaking of paralyzed characters. It would be cool for them to have a tiny chance of receiving an "Extraourdinary intelligence" trait with huge boost to learning. Medieval Steven Hawking for the win.

 

[Darkrenown]

I hope Severely Injured characters will still have a high risk of dying. Since the blood loss and infections... Ofc when you lose a part and heal it it doesn't effect your health, but the process of healing it (or not) is really what does effect health.

Yes, also perhaps I should have mentioned it again here, but we do have an "Infection" trait which I mentioned back in...DD#2? You can pick it up when you get wounded etc and makes for an even worse time.

Also, I think a character should also gain disabilities with old age. You know, start limping, become deaf, etc. Do you have a plan to implement something like this?

We do not. We had thought about Deafness as a trait, but there are so many events where you are assumed to be hearing someone talk it would have either ment disabling or re-writing them for a marginally interesting trait.

I hope this won't be a separate "cripple portrait DLC".

Nope. All the DDs I've done are for <Secret DLC>, all one DLC. There will be a content pack too, but I haven't mentioned anything from that yet.

 

[tywinzo]

Quite meager news.

Events can be created by modders, paradox just wastes time on it. These events are just silly. Modders do a much better job.

I also don't need 13 ways of being injured. Adds only cosmetics (quite literally).

 

[Es57]

I hope this won't be a separate "cripple portrait DLC".

Shhhh... You will give the devs bad ideas !

Still, I'm pretty sure the portrait alterations will be part of the <secret DLC> content pack, and not the <secret DLC> itself...

EDIT : After reading the dev's post, it appears I was wrong !

 

[Thure]

That should also apply to characters who lost both legs (they need help to move around) and both arms (they need help to write letters/decrees, etc). And body-paralyzed characters, of course, they need help with everything.

Which ruler wrote decrees/letters on his own?

 

[ranichi17]

For the characters who lost legs, I think a prototype wheelchair already existed during the time, or at least in China, so maybe an event where a merchant or someone who's been to the East gives you a wheelchair in exchange for cash or favors, kinda like the event which gives you a useful court eunuch.

 

[Archinorf]

Effects for having an injury trait:
-Being able to craft or buy fancy and/or useful prothesis.
-Being able to inflict the same wound to your prisoners.
-Being respected on the battlefield.
-Impress everybody in the case of a rare and miraculous recovery.
-The pain helps you to predict the weather (and plots).
-Being allowed to beg incognito in the markets.

 

[Dauntasa]

We do not. We had thought about Deafness as a trait, but there are so many events where you are assumed to be hearing someone talk it would have either ment disabling or re-writing them for a marginally interesting trait.

Just add an option to every event where you barge in yelling "WHAT".

 

[decumos]

Which ruler wrote decrees/letters on his own?

Well... Damn, you got me there!
Seriously, though, some rulers at least wrote secret letters. Handless character would have to trust someone.

 

[Asiak]

This is going to be an improvement over the linear and damning nature of the current maimed trait.