The Mad King! Question....

[General Karthos]

So, the last three generations of my family, the King has become a lunatic in his mid to late thirties or early 40s. I'm just wondering if this is a genetic thing? The wiki doesn't say one way or the other.

I'm embracing the madness. It's kind of fun. My horse is the best chancellor I've had in a long time. I would like to know if it's a genetic thing, and if I'm going to have a long line of lunatic kings.

Also: I'm disappointed that only the AI can plot their own assassination, but I guess it's kinda gamey if you're able to plot your own assassination.

 

[corny.1234]

"Burn them all!" Mad King

 

[Patroclusmega]

It isn't congenital but if I remember well since Way of Life a lunatic guardian may pas this trait .

 

[kmh42]

You definitely have "bad" luck. I had a game were 3 rulers die underthe age of 20. So I played 50 in regency.

 

[General Karthos]

It isn't congenital but if I remember well since Way of Life a lunatic guardian may pas this trait .

Interesting. Since Conclave came out though, I haven't been educating my own heirs in most cases, but passing them off to a more talented AI, none of whom were lunatics. Besides, as I mentioned, they became lunatics later in life. But it gave me a good reason to wave off spending time with my lover when my wife was on the case despite having the lustful trait. ("He is always watching us....")

Still, my last few rulers have also been geniuses, and they do say genius and madness are two sides of the same coin.

 

[xxdspawnxx]

Interesting. Since Conclave came out though, I haven't been educating my own heirs in most cases, but passing them off to a more talented AI, none of whom were lunatics. Besides, as I mentioned, they became lunatics later in life. But it gave me a good reason to wave off spending time with my lover when my wife was on the case despite having the lustful trait. ("He is always watching us....")

Still, my last few rulers have also been geniuses, and they do say genius and madness are two sides of the same coin.

now if only jesus would start giving you military advice and satan decides one of your spawn needs som helpful hints ;P

 

[General Karthos]

now if only jesus would start giving you military advice and satan decides one of your spawn needs som helpful hints ;P

I already had a devil spawn kid, but he (rather fortunately) died suddenly. Probably something related to my imprisoning him and executing him before he had a chance to escape.

I did have a possessed count escape my dungeon through intervention by the devil.

 

[ninoallen]

clearly you got some targ blood hahha

 

[General Karthos]

My current king is approaching the age. I'll probably see tonight whether the madness takes him.

 

[orochi2k]

My king is definitely not mad. What mad is this world.

 

[Dahoota]

Being stressed for long periods of time often leads to it turning into lunatic instead. Are you using business and rulership focus a lot?

 

[BestOfTheWest]

Also: I'm disappointed that only the AI can plot their own assassination, but I guess it's kinda gamey if you're able to plot your own assassination.

Haven't played the game in a while, but some event-chains like the hunting stuff can cause your king to die or at least to get maimed etc. if you make the "right" decisions afaik

 

[General Karthos]

Haven't played the game in a while, but some event-chains like the hunting stuff can cause your king to die or at least to get maimed etc. if you make the "right" decisions afaik

Not any longer, as I recall. They revamped the hunting some time around RoI, and now it's much less likely to result in death, but also much less likely to result in positive stats. (Used to be how to break the ruler generator. You could take bad stats that were replaced by grand hunt results and in a handful of grand hunts, replace all your stats with good ones.)

My Kings have actually in a large number of cases been stressed for a time, that's actually a good point. My current King was stressed at one stretch for about ten years, and then for four, the first one removed by his family focus, and the second one removed by his hunting dog. He's past the point where his grandfather, great grandfather and great-great grandfather developed lunacy. (The past three Kings.) His father was executed in his early 30s, so no idea whether he would have gone mad or not.