I have also now spent 3 lifetimes trying to find the lair of one vampire. I don't neccesarilly think thats bad... excpet that it resets every time I die... so... I will never find this vampire. its impossible... its... become pretty poorly tuned. if you could just keep progress between charecters it would be fine.. but otherwise we have to be able to find them faster if inquisitors are going to be playable.

so I have a bit of a problem. I understand that the exp gain in this mod was greatly reduced for vampires (to prevent them from maxing out other trees) but this didn't used to apply to humans like the inquisition. now it does. my inquisitors can no longer even get a SINGLE TRAIT in an ENTIRE HUMAN LIFETIME! Inquisitor Jehan Huntress of tomorrow of Acer... unable to get a single military trait in an20 years + 70% exp gain (Genius + Brilliant Stratagist) its absurd. I played her from 40 to 67... and nothing nothing at all. and her heir? the one who doesn't have scripted traits? well. they had actually 0 lifestyle traits their entire life... I don't know if this is intentional or something broke... but its basically unplayable like this. Humans can't feed on others to gain EXP.

cool mod, but im playin as a demon and I can't attack or interact with any other ruler, says they're outside my diplomatic range even though their country borders mine.

A unique mod that always cares about the player's experience and strives to make the mod better

剑舞者 , thats subjective. We are always striving to make it more interesting. If you have exhausted POD for CK3, there are some other great mods you might want to check out! Maybe check back with us in a few months when we release our update for Paradox's DLC All Under Heaven.

It doesn't feel as interesting as before

Chough : that interaction didn't work. It bypassed every single check and converted all your vassals. If we can make it work properly, meaning making sure it checks if the vassal would actually accept, then it might come back

Prince of Pain, the only thing changed with the latest version of the mod was a single trigger and the version number.

Check that you are on the latest version of CK3 and the latest version of the mod. Verify your file integrity.

It seems that the latest version leads to crash.

@Karde I'm not talking about individual conversion of faith, but rather an interaction that demands all vassals to convert with a single click.

I think the new Tributary mechanic is a bit broken for immortal characters (vampire, kuei-jin, true fae, mummy, etc.). Vanilla tributaries are designed to be a "for your lifetime" thing. That doesn't mix well with unending lifetimes. I also haven't seen any mechanic for a tributary to break free. Catching the Black Cross empire at a vulnerable moment and making them my tributary, and having that last for centuries without any trouble just didn't feel right.

Chough : I'm not even sure what you are talking about. You can one click convert faith in the faith window as usual. Only exceptions are if you are trying to go from say a vampire faith to a werewolf faith since that would break our scripts

Orangenord : Seems like a major case of wrong installation. Start from scratch and don't use any other mods. Delete everything, unsuscribe, re suscribe etc

i just cannot open it.

I love, love this mod but it has not allowed for seduction to work anymore, graphic error on the convert culture and religion, and the character creation is not working anymore as it defaults to a very large nude woman. Even going back to older versions that worked it is not working as it did.

While vanilla CK adds powerful new gameplay elements with each update, PoD is moving backwards - every patch removes viable strategies for rapid progression. The most baffling part? Even if you're balancing by someway, why remove one-click religion conversion? They're literally deleting convenient player functions. Do you really intend to force players through unprecedented grind, tedious and repetitive operations, and Souls-like difficulty to achieve your ideal mod experience?

Not yet, it will be added back when we work on demon domicile

Is there no Nephilim decision in the new version?

Sparc, Thanks a ton for the help. RIP to my wandering Vampire.

Constantinople loses all building upgrades on load

鬼MissSatan,

If your save file is from BEFORE the lastest update, then its probably an issue where the index numbers for portraits reference the old index numbers. Paradox added new hair styles (etc...) in the last update... which could have impacted the gene index numbers.

1) Revert to the previous version of CK3 and POD.
or
2) Start a new game and play that (RIP your old save file)

Probably its a good idea to do 2 anyway, as there might be other weirdness with using an old save file on an updated version of the game andmod.

Sparc, Cecilia 'The Desired', sorry, I was writing without thinking. She's not a canon character but I've seen her in multiple play throughs in different eras. After I load the game her hair is brown and she looks nothing like her character but if I start a new game she's back to being blond and fair skinned.

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The comparison between New Game Vlad and my Loaded game, he lacks his eye colour, his skin is pale, his hair is now light brown, his face is now more rounded. Whereas for her her entire face structure is just different. It's strange.

鬼MissSatan, there is no canon character "Celine" in the mod. Do you mean the easter egg Marceline?

A lot of characters are getting portrait DNA for the first time. A few have recently been reworked. I don't think that was done to Vlad Tepes.

Strange issue on my end after the update. All of the characters in the game after relaunching the game lose their original appearances. For instance my character has different values completely. Celine is now a brunette and looks different. Dracula got more Turkish looking.

Gunsaremagic, make sure you are both using the same version of the mod, with the same version of CK3, and neither one of you are in debug mode.

strange for some reason when i tried to play with someone it keeps saying different checksum

Gunsaremagic, some people play it.

so i have a question. With the recent update adding the other Fera options, at least the basic splat options, i noticed also some extinct Fera as well as being playable. Does that mean we will get to play with the Saber-tooth Bastet, the Khara as a possible option in the future? They are generally my favorite of the Bastet.

does mp work

The POD/Barbershop Compatch is gone :c

I suggest you give barons a minimum income of 0.1 per month. I've got a baron (kuei jin local ancestor) in my prison with negative one gold and zero income. They've been trapped for 21 years. I think if they could always afford their own ransom every 25 years that wouldn't be too much of a free gold pinata.

# Princes of Darkness, "Wind from the East", Version 1.16.2.2, 5/26/2025
- Compatibility with Crusader Kings III 1.16.2.2 "Chamfron" hotfix

## Debug
- Added a character interaction in Debug Mode that opens the Vicissitude portrait editor, letting you change certain characteristics like height or muscularity

Also, this is just my opinion, but tempt to sin feels extremely broken after finishing the first demon objective I can vassalize most of the map extremely quickly.

I think this might be an oversight, I was playing as a demon and recommended one of my vampire cultists to embrace a human cultist but it converts them into one of the default vampire religions and I can't convert them back because they're at -100 opinion and hate you now.

Ok, thank you for the answer.

DMtrooper8415, its not canon. It also is several thousands years (hundreds of thousands of years?) before our earliest bookmark of 1230 AD. One of our mod developers has done some writing for Savage Age though.

But i if i may ask a new question. I don't know if you know about this expansion, but it's called Werewolf the Savage Age. Is their any interest or thought on working on adding that content to this mod, or did you not know about it until i mentioned it.

Ok. Thank you for answering. that is kind of what i figured if i am being honest, but wanted to make sure i did not get confused.

# Princes of Darkness, "Wind from the East", Version 1.16.2.1, 5/22/2025
- Compatibility with Crusader Kings III 1.16.2.1 "Chamfron" hotfix

- Compatibility with 1.16.2.1

## Gameplay changes
- Barons now have reduced income #To avoid them being free gold pinatas
- Churloviosis frequency has been toned down #Doing our part on the fight against eldritch horrors
- Only mortals characters can be invited to witch coven stuff anymore
- Players will now bypass the opinion prerequisite for ashen ambassador patron if the prospective patron is another player #for multiplayer purpose

## Graphics
- Added new icons for these traits: Ghoul, Revenant, Szlachta, Zadruga

## Translation
- Fixed the faulty character stats in the Chinese translation

## Bugfixes
- Hunters can't convert to Shih religion anymore #Shih needs a trait to work
- Removed the non working rustle animals landless contracts
- Removed the option to train in visit settlement event since it did nothing (except taking your gold, scammers)
- Removed references of gaining skill points for the monument expedition since it doesn't do that in PoD
- Fixed a bug that would destroy your adventurer title if you inherit someone else's hideout as an adventurer
- The house Balor objective should now properly check for the artifact it describes

DMtrooper8415, there are many months of work ahead of us to have the mod updated for east Asia. You can not expect us to have completed that work before Paradox has released their own East Asia expansion DLC.

Thanx Sparc for u and the teams great work !!!

glade to hear the news about mages . . . but i have a question.

didn't you say the focus was on getting ready for the Asia expansion? or has that been completed by now?

Real Vitamin C, Thank you. We are adding that to the mod, and it will be in our next update to steam.

DJTarjan, when we add mage there will playable Marauders and Nephandi.

Will i be able to play Marauder or Nephandi in the mage ?

To Chinese users: you may follow https://tieba.baidu.com/p/9712494881 to solve the displaying mistake of characters' 5 main attributes.

That's fantastic news! Thanks for the reply.

Albacksen, yes, but probably until not after the All Under Heaven DLC is released.

I don't remember if this has been answered. Is adding Mage on the agenda?

I met the same problem with 1430064689, the character attributes turned into the name of some variables. My language is Chinese and didnt use any other mods.
I guess it comes from the update of Chinese localisation.