Can't play anyone of my choice

[AgeOfBacon]

Hi. So I have an issue, I can't choose any character to start with, except the biggest ones, when I want to create my ruler.
For exemple I have the Old Gods expansion, and I wanted to select a minor lord in the Carolingian Empire. Can't do. Even Bigger ones such as the french king can't be choosen, the "Play" button is greyed, with the mention "can't be selected" or something like that.

Anyone can help? And is there a way to unlock it?

[bri]

You need to click the province again. The first click chooses the top liege for the province in question, a second click will select the province owner.

Note, though, that not all titles are playable. You can't play a bishop (such as Hamburg in the 1066 starts) a non-merchant republic (such as Ancona in the 1066 starts or Genoa in the earlier starts). Additionally, there are a lot of titles in the game that require DLC to play-anything that isn't a christian count, duke, king, or emperor is either unplayable or requires certain DLC to play.

[AgeOfBacon]

Originally posted by bri:

You need to click the province again. The first click chooses the top liege for the province in question, a second click will select the province owner.

Note, though, that not all titles are playable. You can't play a bishop (such as Hamburg in the 1066 starts) a non-merchant republic (such as Ancona in the 1066 starts or Genoa in the earlier starts). Additionally, there are a lot of titles in the game that require DLC to play-anything that isn't a christian count, duke, king, or emperor is either unplayable or requires certain DLC to play.

I did that, and I planned to play a duke of Provence, and it doesn't let me. Even the king of France was unplayable.

[bri]

Do you have any mods installed?

You may also have corrupt files, try using the verify local files action in Steam.

Also what specific message pops up when you hover over the play button?

[AgeOfBacon]

Originally posted by bri:

Do you have any mods installed?

You may also have corrupt files, try using the verify local files action in Steam.

Also what specific message pops up when you hover over the play button?

Roughly translated, it says "not allowed to play"

[bri]

Originally posted by Guan:

Originally posted by bri:

Do you have any mods installed?

You may also have corrupt files, try using the verify local files action in Steam.

Also what specific message pops up when you hover over the play button?

Roughly translated, it says "not allowed to play"

There should be a reason listed such as "Jewish characters require Sons of Abraham DLC" or "not allowed to play theocracies" (assuming the localization includes all the stuff it should if not playing the English version).

[Varainger]

There is no way you can't select standard catholics in France with a non corrupted game, unless the custom character selection page is overwhelming to you...
(with the exception that you can't start a game with any character past 1335 or so, but i presume you know how to change the start date etc.)

Quit Steam, delete the game files folder for CK2 in Steamapps/common,
start Steam again and reinstall.

[Skales]

your game collapsed into itself only way to fix this is to die and hope that game will work in your next life