A case has been made that one reason the pagans most likely wont get a DLC of their own is that it would be too hard to flesh them out enough to make them an interesting choice to play. I disagree, but there it is. Still there is the possibility to make a comprehensive mod which includes enough aspects of pagan/non-civilized life of the period to improve gamplay significantly. Before the actual modding begins, though, it'd be worthwhile o see what people would be interested in. In this I've drawn inspiration from a similar thread regarding muslims.
So, interesting aspects:
Further ideas will be edited in.
So, interesting aspects:
- Lessen the impact of traits like lustful, celibate and chaste. The attitudes towards these are basically Christian in-game.
- Private divorce (no permission from religious head needed)
- Religious heads... I'm not sure if they should exist at all, but one theoretical possbility could be to start the game with low religious authority and existing "anti-popes". Hypothetically, you could then gradually strngthen your pagan faith by removing the competition and formalizing it (a long shot, I know).
- Slavery. The ability to capture slaves in battle, use them as concubines, soldiers, whatever. Possibly also creating a system around slavery. AFAIK Baltic slave raids were among the reasons for the crusades against them.
- Locking out the pagans from the events which are clearly Christian in flavour and replace them with pagan flavoured events
- Possibly something done to Bishoprics to reflect the fact that paganism isn't formalized like that.
- Perhaps event chains around theological disputes and discussions in regard to things like the relation to other pagans, to Christianity, organized religion etc.
- Little graphical/GUI changes so you see less crosses.
- Pagan flavoured flags, possibly using something similar to Vicky2's system which allows flag changing in game, only based on religion instead of government.
- Also like V2, have various localizations of countries possible in the game, again, based on religion instead of government.
Further ideas will be edited in.