1: Think 'Oh I haven't played CK2 in ages, let me try a new playthrough' 2: Choose some interesting rando duke 3: Over the course of several generations, grow your tiny three area duchy into a grand kingdom 4: Feel good 5: Completely out of nowhere, a horrific realm-ruining disaster obliterates all your hard work, sleeps with your wife, murders your dog, and kidnaps your firstborn child 6: Destroy monitor 7: Give up and never open the game for six months 8: Repeat...

How do I even begin? Every tutorial I've watched online is just 45+ minutes of explaining every single feature and mechanic, but how to actually play it is still a mystery to me. Pls help, I love medieval games but I think I'm just a bit too dense to grasp this game...

I'm playing as an Irish Dutch and since I've taken control of 3/4 of a neighboring dutchy, I can now make a de jure claim on the remaining one, except I can't... I didn't see the "declare war" button so I looked at the list only to find it grayed out so I looked at what was stopping me from dethroning this idiot and the game told me I couldn't afford to lose X prestige I said well , I'll wait a while for it to rise, except when I got 100 from an in-game event (surpassing the desired amount by far) I found...

As always with paradox games, only after lots of hours did I notice you could grant lands to popes and such (and also orders). And while catholic pope doesn't need it that much, others are not as lucky. But I also noticed that granting lands to Nestorian head means he still is a vassal of Abbasids, no point in granting them anything, and it can also be true of orthodox patriarch in Constantinople. On the other hand, miaphysite pope is landless and free, so I gave him a county and now he is participating in...

I play Norse, tribial have a lot of children (each got land for themselfs). I have 1 king title. Inheritance: Absolutive Cognatic Elective Gravekind. After King die kingdom split into 2 kingdoms, between 2 sons (i have 3 of them), some daughters will go independent too. How to stop 2nd kingdom creation? They don't even have money to create title... I am at lost here......