Path of Adventure is a procedurally-generated adventure.

It always follows the same pattern, but each game will be unique due to the number of possible directions for it to take.

Soon after the game begins, you will get an event offering you the choice to start an adventure. If you accept it, then several months later you will get an event describing your ancestor's discovery and loss of a fantastic treasure. You will also hear what happened to it, and be told where to look for the treasure.

You must search each possible site to look for the treasure. You can search them in 3 ways:

1. Own the province. If you own a site, you will automatically search it (although it may take months or even years).

2. Occupy the province in war. You will automatically search it, but it may take a while.

3. Ask the owner for permission through a decision. You must have a diplomat advisor, and you must have good relations with the target. Your vassals cannot refuse this outright, but other countries can. If they do, it will be much harder to ask them for permission again in the future.

If you ever forget where a site is, hire a spymaster. This will give you access to a decision which tells you which provinces have the modifier.

When you search a site, you will get one of several results:

1. You may hit a dead end. In this case, the site is removed as a possibility.

2. You may find a clue. In this case, you will remove at least two sites from the map, and possibly more.

3. You may discover that a rival got there first. In this case, you may weaken the rival if you defeat them, but you will not discover whether the site had a clue or not.

4. You may find something important...possibly even the treasure itself!

There are several stages to the mod; in each stage, you will be asked to search in a different area of Europe, North Africa or the Middle East.

In the last stage, you will discover the real enemy, and you will be unable to use diplomacy to search sites. Instead, you must now own, occupy or vassalize the province in order to fight the secret enemy. When you defeat the last secret enemy, you will find yourself in possession of the treasure that your ancestor discovered.

Enjoy!