Dread is OP though

[BlackZodiac]

Can't get enough of CK3. Wonderful game and a true improvement on the CK2.

But dread is hilarious.

Pro tip:

Since all executed prisoners give you 10 dread, regardless of rank or religion, it's worth keeping a jail full of PoW's.

If you ever have a very strong plot against you, just murder all of your prisoners. Each gives you 10 dread, and if it's of an hostile or evil religion you don't get tyranny.

Stacking dread high will make people terrified and back out of a plot.

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I almost had a very close succession crisis where the plot against me was 230% stacked with some very powerful vassals. So I sliced up my farm/prison of evil religious PoW's and everyone noped out.

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I'm pretty sure this will get balanced at some point to make only prisoners of a certain rank and/or prisoners of the same religion cause dread to your vasals. Because why would they be terrified of me slicing up some PoW's?

[Сааребас]

To be fair tho, wouldn't you worry about your own safety if you go after someone who willy nilly executes people?

[kluglater]

Originally posted by Mr. Gutsy:

To be fair tho, wouldn't you worry about your own safety if you go after someone who willy nilly executes people?

especially if they are albino

[Alzar]

Glad it exists.

[UnCivilServant]

My most recent run has been 0% dread, and had neither assassination attempts nor hostile factions because everyone loved me. I expected a stewardship focus to end quickly but no one lifted a finger. The system appears to be set up to reward consistancy. If you want to be both loved and feared, you'll be deposed. But if you pick one strategy, you can counter the computer's efforts.

[EmptyK]

I want people to fear how much they love me.

[SumatranRatMonkey]

It's good mechanic to enable evil play, don't overnerf plz. That said, they should look at making it less no-brainer, and especially executing prisoners is very rewarding. Yeah sure, you piss some characters off, but they're almost certainly going to be unrelated to anything in your realm.

[BlackZodiac]

Originally posted by Mr. Gutsy:

To be fair tho, wouldn't you worry about your own safety if you go after someone who willy nilly executes people?

Yeah but from the vasal´s perspective I just killed a bunch of no-names from a enemy kingdom. It should just look as housekeeping. Is a little less spooky then say...killing a bunch of dukes/emirs. If you ask me, they should definely introduce some sort of weighing factor based on rank and religion + piety.

Originally posted by UnCivilServant:

My most recent run has been 0% dread, and had neither assassination attempts nor hostile factions because everyone loved me. I expected a stewardship focus to end quickly but no one lifted a finger. The system appears to be set up to reward consistancy. If you want to be both loved and feared, you'll be deposed. But if you pick one strategy, you can counter the computer's efforts.

Maybe I haven't put in enough hours yet but I haven't see it directly affect opinion of me as a ruler.

I can usually win over their hearts and minds in time. But for the early succession it's useful to have people be afraid of you.

Originally posted by Skynet:

It's good mechanic to enable evil play, don't overnerf plz. That said, they should look at making it less no-brainer, and especially executing prisoners is very rewarding. Yeah sure, you piss some characters off, but they're almost certainly going to be unrelated to anything in your realm.

Maybe it says something about me or the amount of hours I've put into Crusader Kings or how zealous I am IRL, but I don't even see it as evil. It's just cleaning house for me. I could keep all these prisoners or release them if I'm really really nice or get them to convert. But if I can't ransom them back and they're just sitting around in my dungeon...

Besides, it's their fault for being the wrong religion and oppose me..or something like that..