Subscribe to download
Voluntary Abdication

Adds a Decision to let your King step aside, yielding the throne to your Heir. This improves the Heir's claim strength, avoids stability loss and, probably the most important for most players, lets you get rid of a weak King ahead of schedule.

Due to other kings finding your abdication foolish and traditionalists believing you should rule until death, abdicating causes a loss of Prestige depending on the old King's age:
- 60 and older: lose 20 Prestige
- 50-59: lose 30 Prestige
- 40-49: lose 40 Prestige
- less than 40: lose 50 Prestige

If you do this as Holy Roman Emperor and get reelected, the Electors get annoyed (-25 relation) and you get 5 less Imperial Authority out of the reelection. (If you don't get reelected you've been punished enough.)

(The game still says the King dies, because I'm not that good a modder and because changing that would reduce compatibility with other mods. Also, the stability hit still happens, but is compensated for immediately. This works even when you start with 3 stability.)