It is, frankly, a tortured landscape largely littered with the metaphorical bodies of artists creating new and interesting artwork by combining previous works to create something new.
Most of those posts deal with the copyright implications of mashup creators, be they for music or literature. Each lifestyle has three skill trees that allow characters to enhance skills related to that lifestyle.Search the Techdirt pages for the term "mashup" and you will see a metric ton of ink spilled on the topic. Characters are able to select one of five lifestyles to follow. Characters are able to frighten their vassals into staying loyal by increasing their Dread, which increases when the character performs malevolent actions, such as executing or torturing other characters. The game’s genetics system allows characters to pass on some of their characteristics to their descendants. Taking choices that go against a character’s traits will increase that character’s stress. As in Crusader Kings II, they have traits that affect their stats and behavior. For example, the heads of dynasties are responsible for legitimizing bastards.Ĭharacters have full-body, 3D-rendered character models instead of 2D portraits. The heads of dynasties will be able to use a new resource known as Renown to assert their control over their house. Dynasties can form cadet branches that have their own heads and act mostly independently from their parent dynasty. Unlike its predecessor, at launch, it only has two start dates: 8. The game, like its predecessors Crusader Kings and Crusader Kings II, is a grand strategy game and dynasty simulator set in the Middle Ages, and will run from the Viking Age to the Fall of Byzantium. Supplement your income with ransomed prisoners or raiding parties on neighboring realms.