The grandeur of your court will affect the quality of guests that visit, meaning you will have an influx of skilled people to be potential vassals and knights. The type of court, number of servants, level of style, and even the language spoken in the court can increase its grandeur. That lavishness doesn’t end at the items you have on display. Having a lavish court with many artifacts is important to stay relevant in the middle ages! Whether a book, a spear, or an interesting rock from some random place, each of these artifacts will impress those who visit your court and bring up its rank. Adventurers will travel to distant lands and report the progress of their search while craftspeople will bother you for new materials or inspiration. In your court, you will find guests and courtiers with ‘inspirations' you can fund in exchange for artifacts of varying quality. Do I go to war for the land of a petitioning noble, expanding my territory but destabilizing the peace? Should I accept a different culture into my empire? Which of my banners should I hang up? All of these decisions and a multitude more are now pressing on your character as they try to rule successfully and set their dynasty up for greatness.Īrtifacts, items that can provide boosts or other benefits, must be placed throughout the court and on your character. In fact, I find myself pausing the game more to consider so many severe and consequential decisions. However, adding this new layer to realm management has had me too engrossed to notice any of those moments. There are some rare moments where Crusader Kings 3 can feel like a ‘wait until an event happens’ sort of game. With the addition of the Royal Court, Paradox has knocked the game on its head. While this is all some exciting stuff, is the DLC actually worth picking up? Gameplay A virtual throne room for the rulers of any Kingdom and Empire, the Royal Court is where you will hold court for your subjects, store all your new artifacts, see your courtiers and manage all your newfound grandeur. Of course, at the forefront of this DLC is the Royal Court itself. As an already solid real-time grand-strategy game, ‘Royal Court’ gives players a slew of new features, decisions, events, and upgrades to complement the base game. On February 8th, the folks at Paradox Interactive released the first expansion for Crusader Kings 3.

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