Too many children

[Darzai]

My wife keeps pooping out children. It is becoming very difficult to get any control over the succession at this rate. Is there a way to become celibate or some other way to prevent more children without pissing everyone off when I murder my wife? :) Why can I not simply chose to sleep in separate bedrooms if I want to?

Succession is the main thing I have trouble with in this game. I became King of Ireland, only to lose half of it on death because of the title inheritance spaghetti. It is already confusing enough without having 5 sons. I also never know in what holdings to invest because of this.

Give me some tips please.

[Kajsa_Kavat]

There's a perk in the learning tree that let's you embrace celibacy. You could also imprison your wife if you don't want to kill her.

[amzzzzzzz]

Did you have the title of Kingdom of Ireland? If so, your main heir should inherit that title and your brothers should be vassals within your kingdom so I don't get how you lost "half of it"

[Kajsa_Kavat]

Originally posted by amz:

Did you have the title of Kingdom of Ireland? If so, your main heir should inherit that title and your brothers should be vassals within your kingdom so I don't get how you lost "half of it"

Because he loses direct control and thus most of the taxes and levies.

[Gorgeous_Joe]

Primary title goes to your primary heir, regardless of succession rules. Historically accurate succession laws are a nice fit into the game design, designed to stop fast blobbing so you continually have to fight to regain your holdings every succession from your siblings.The game does generally proc more girls than boys and later on in the game you can use dynasty points to disinherit other sons, just remember to monk/holy order the 4th,5th,6th etc sons first otherwise they will rise in the succession ranking making you have to disinherit them too. Again, all very historically accurate.

Just remember not to hold too many feasts otherwise the celibacy option is locked out if you become an eager reveller.

[Darzai]

Originally posted by Hlaine:

There's a perk in the learning tree that let's you embrace celibacy. You could also imprison your wife if you don't want to kill her.

Thanks! But I just got the eager reveller trait, doh. Which counters it according to a quote below. Had to get rid of stress, because my family members kept dropping dead.

Originally posted by amz:

Did you have the title of Kingdom of Ireland? If so, your main heir should inherit that title and your brothers should be vassals within your kingdom so I don't get how you lost "half of it"

Had two duchies and several counties under direct control. Duchies got divided over two sons and lost some counties too. And they hate my new me.

Originally posted by Gorgeous_Joe:

Primary title goes to your primary heir, regardless of succession rules. Historically accurate succession laws are a nice fit into the game design, designed to stop fast blobbing so you continually have to fight to regain your holdings every succession from your siblings.The game does generally proc more girls than boys and later on in the game you can use dynasty points to disinherit other sons, just remember to monk/holy order the 4th,5th,6th etc sons first otherwise they will rise in the succession ranking making you have to disinherit them too. Again, all very historically accurate.

Just remember not to hold too many feasts otherwise the celibacy option is locked out if you become an eager reveller.

You don't have to defend the game to me. Also, I just got eager reveller :( And I got mostly boys instead of girls, RNG hated me then.

Pretty sure separate bedrooms is historically authentic too. But I guess from a gameplay pov that would give the player too much control without consequences in a story telling RPG. On the other hand it could just give an opinion penalty from your wife.

(As for historically accuracy . Feudal laws had more regional differences then displayed in this game. You could call it authentic on an abstract level, but not accurate. We even lack enough information for an accurate representation for all those realms that early. )