You have to have at least two attributes at 12 or above, though, and you have to be their educator/guardian when they hit adolescence. 
Bonus points for when the kid had inherited loads of cash, then on their 16th birthday you banish them, taking it all, and see if they last long enough to die dueling you.Yeah, you can. I do this all the time to have plenty of rivals to duel.
Yeah, you can. I do this all the time to have plenty of rivals to duel.
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From what I understand the penalty for new children in the court as no effect after the new court mechanics, even if you turn the rule off.
When I go raiding I usually have tons of rivals after some children have grown up, and as long as I educate them to be pagan as well I can even fight the female rivals without penalty. My total prisoner count went from over 100 down to 5. Yet I still have 12 rivals, all of them from giving them Ambitious after they hit adolescence. One of those is a son of mine, the other 11 are former prisoners.
Yeah, I got you. I'm saying I get the event for imprisoned children as well.
(If both parties are pagan it's one of the exceptions to the penalty for fighting females as a male.)
In my current game I haven't been raiding in ages since I got locked up in seclusion for YEARS due to the black plague.
I don't know why you don't get the event, though. Maybe it will only pop them for children that are covered by the Conclave Childhood Focus Alerts game rule setting? I dunno, it's weird that you don't get them and I get them for virtually every imprisoned child.
EDIT: Ok, I think I may have located the issue. For the ambitious/rival event (ZE.13615) to fire the children have to be in house arrest, not the dungeon or the oubliette. I usually put children in house arrest as soon as I capture them, so that's probably why I got so many rivals from them.
If you wanna verify for yourself it's events\ze_adolescence_events.txt lines 5206-5211 (I have not updated to the latest update, so line numbers may or may not be slightly off).
I have the same issue. It's annoying as heck that there is no notification when the Court Tutor dies. The way I get around it is by starring him as a person of interest and setting the message setting for deaths for POIs to a pause and popup.
The only issue then is remembering that it was the Court Tutor when it pops, heh. But it's not too hard because I almost always use monks for their society boosts, and you can tell by their tonsure.
I checked the smith event and it uses is_inaccessible_or_incapable_trigger as one of the functions to eliminate. is_inaccessible_or_incapable_trigger returns true for prisoners (regardless of form of confinement), so the smith making kids Brawny should never fire for prisoners. Perhaps a fix from previous versions?
As for house arrest I always put captured kids there so I can make them rivals and duel them later.
Positions like Groom of the Stool come to mind. Those actually had the duty of handing the Ruler to toilet paper. Or whatever passed for toilet paper at the time...
Now THAT is the dude I want to get on board with my explosive outhouse plot!
is_unimportant_trigger = {
NOR = {
is_married = yes
is_landed = yes
has_job_title = yes
has_minor_title = yes
AND = {
NOT = { dynasty = none }
num_of_dynasty_members = 2
}
any_lover = { ai = no }
any_close_relative = { ai = no }
any_friend = { ai = no }
any_rival = { ai = no }
any_consort = { ai = no }
num_of_claims = 1
has_character_flag = eternal_life_mystic
trait = horse
trait = vestalis
trait = retired_vestalis
has_character_modifier = in_seclusion
has_character_modifier = elder_long_life_modifier
immortal = yes
}
}