13 July 2024 Experimental Release

History

• History rework in the Northdark and Glimmerwood
  • Several new or massively expanded drow houses, most of them with at least one playable member
  • New moon elf and arctic dwarf realms
  • Sundry other changes
• History rework in Raurin and Semphar
  • Lots of new historical characters, a few of whom hang on into playable start dates
  • Missing vassals added to 15th century Semphar
  • Later Muhjari Caliphs are actually Muhjari
• Deeper title history in parts of the Shining South
• New historical bloodline
• New affairs and rivalries
• United Kingdom of Moonshae removed
• More monstrous humanoids in the early history of the Moonsea

Decisions

• Decision to refound the kingdom of Muluk
• Decision to refound Athalantar

Map

• De jure rework of the Moonshae Isles

Lore

• Forest Gnome dynasty names
• Character biographies

Gameplay

• Improved mass sacrifice support
• Magic apprentices will eventually graduate and drop the title; they stick around a bit longer if they're loyal
• Duergar and derro can take the ambition to level up as psions, as they should
• Some minor titles (like apprentice) grant regular XP
• Further adjustments to legitimation for polyamorous couples, with more options being considered depending on how these ones go
• Opinion penalties for mixed-species characters reduced and adjusted
• Better aging procedures
• Tightened requirements for title adjacency in several casus belli
• Court priests are easier to appoint
• Some decisions will be available to human players more often
• Adjustments to pregnancy for long-lived characters
• Fewer characters' dark secrets will be given away by things like their combat stats
• It's now easier to convert to your liege's religion
• Nomads are less likely to pillage
• It's not much easier to create the Land of the Lions
• Guardian of the Deep can be chosen from a much wider candidate pool
• The Harp of Healing is no longer indestructible
• Revoke title plot should now be able to be chosen at appropriate times

Graphics

• New static portraits
• Elves can now get grey hair with age
• Less Christian-looking heraldry in Moonshae

Optimisation

• Species compatibility trigger is now modular
• More casus belli brought into line with CleanSlate
• Wonders brought into line with CleanSlate
• Wonder upgrades brought into line with CleanSlate
• More wonder and wonder upgrade flags added for future feature compatibility
• New and hopefully better approach to fixing the overspill bug with the ages of immortal characters
• Some diseases brought into line with CleanSlate
• Temporary artifacts get cleaned up more promptly
• Lots of small CleanSlate fixes

Bugfixes

• AI will not send adventurers against host leaders who are already in prison
• Dryad and centaur seduction now makes sense in context
• Lots of historical wars fixed
• Patron deity traits cleaned up to not have unwanted legacy modifiers
• Gendered pronoun fixes and related issues in several events
• Broken event window frames replaced
• Corrected several tooltips
• Same-gender marriage should now be available at appropriate times
• Several broken historical wars fixed
• Venetian customs will no longer trouble the patricians of Toril
• Cormyrian royal bloodline restored

13 July 2024 Experimental Release

History

• History rework in the Northdark and Glimmerwood
  • Several new or massively expanded drow houses, most of them with at least one playable member
  • New moon elf and arctic dwarf realms
  • Sundry other changes
• History rework in Raurin and Semphar
  • Lots of new historical characters, a few of whom hang on into playable start dates
  • Missing vassals added to 15th century Semphar
  • Later Muhjari Caliphs are actually Muhjari
• Deeper title history in parts of the Shining South
• New historical bloodline
• New affairs and rivalries
• United Kingdom of Moonshae removed
• More monstrous humanoids in the early history of the Moonsea

Decisions

• Decision to refound the kingdom of Muluk
• Decision to refound Athalantar

Map

• De jure rework of the Moonshae Isles

Lore

• Forest Gnome dynasty names
• Character biographies

Gameplay

• Improved mass sacrifice support
• Magic apprentices will eventually graduate and drop the title; they stick around a bit longer if they're loyal
• Duergar and derro can take the ambition to level up as psions, as they should
• Some minor titles (like apprentice) grant regular XP
• Further adjustments to legitimation for polyamorous couples, with more options being considered depending on how these ones go
• Opinion penalties for mixed-species characters reduced and adjusted
• Better aging procedures
• Tightened requirements for title adjacency in several casus belli
• Court priests are easier to appoint
• Some decisions will be available to human players more often
• Adjustments to pregnancy for long-lived characters
• Fewer characters' dark secrets will be given away by things like their combat stats
• It's now easier to convert to your liege's religion
• Nomads are less likely to pillage
• It's not much easier to create the Land of the Lions
• Guardian of the Deep can be chosen from a much wider candidate pool
• The Harp of Healing is no longer indestructible
• Revoke title plot should now be able to be chosen at appropriate times

Graphics

• New static portraits
• Elves can now get grey hair with age
• Less Christian-looking heraldry in Moonshae

Optimisation

• Species compatibility trigger is now modular
• More casus belli brought into line with CleanSlate
• Wonders brought into line with CleanSlate
• Wonder upgrades brought into line with CleanSlate
• More wonder and wonder upgrade flags added for future feature compatibility
• New and hopefully better approach to fixing the overspill bug with the ages of immortal characters
• Some diseases brought into line with CleanSlate
• Temporary artifacts get cleaned up more promptly
• Lots of small CleanSlate fixes

Bugfixes

• AI will not send adventurers against host leaders who are already in prison
• Dryad and centaur seduction now makes sense in context
• Lots of historical wars fixed
• Patron deity traits cleaned up to not have unwanted legacy modifiers
• Gendered pronoun fixes and related issues in several events
• Broken event window frames replaced
• Corrected several tooltips
• Same-gender marriage should now be available at appropriate times
• Several broken historical wars fixed
• Venetian customs will no longer trouble the patricians of Toril

9 June 2024 Experimental Release

Lots of improvements to existing systems this time:

Gameplay

• New tiered acquired traits for intelligence, strength, and attractiveness
• When you go through gender transition, you will be prompted to choose a new name
• Courtiers and heirs for enatic mercenaries should now be much better
• Monster duels during adventures and raids now use simulated duels instead of vanilla ones
• Species fertility system overhauled
• Abyssal piety gain for evil actions should now work better
• Membership in the Heralds is now restricted based on religion
• Characters who are immune to religious conversion are now properly protected from it
• Better logic for assigning children to polyamorous parents
• Sekolah's devotees now have better access to sacrifice
• Certain classes will affect your physique
• Adventurer warbands are unlikely to be led by pacifists
• Clones of characters with biographies and portraits will inherit them
• The Stygian religions now have access to the Cathedral wonder instead of the Pagan Temple
• More nicknames

History

• House Mizzrym now hold the barony of West Wall in Menzoberranzan
• House Morueme now wreak havoc in the eastern Nether Mountains
• Loviatans hold Silverwood just after the Time of Troubles
• Rethmar no longer falls to the gnolls
• Many vampires of Baldur's Gate, past and present
• Ancient history in Raurin

Map

• The Leewai has been separated from de jure Vaasa, and forms its own de jure kingdom with Aefarn and White Peaks (both moved from the empire of Pelvuria)
• Damara now has its canon duchies, both de jure and where appropriate de facto
• Formable duchy of Bloodstone and kingdom of Bakar

Events

• Polyamory events overhauled
• Freelance adventuring tweaked

Graphics

• Lots of new static portraits, especially for Menzoberranyr drow
• Giant troops will be appropriately armed

Optimisation

• All remaining buildings brought into line with CleanSlate
• The XP and level system now runs on the yearly pulse
• Sorcerers' spell points also run on the yearly pulse
• Lots of events now only run for landed rulers
• Artifacts brought into line with CleanSlate
• Many vanilla events brought into line with CleanSlate
• Spell Resistance now uses scripted scores
• Aging system now runs through on_actions
• More casus belli brought into line with CleanSlate
• Improved decluttering of minor characters
• Various events assigned to better action triggers
• MTTH events moved to on_actions instead
• on_actions tided and cleaned
• AI use of the 'clone' spell will be less excessive
• Fewer courtiers for AI rulers
• Recent changes to the CleanSlate base applied to appropriate places
• Wider range of wonder flags
• A new internal flag for quickly checking if a character has a patron deity
• And many other optimisations

Bugfixes

• Various events, especially in warrior lodges, will now correctly say why specific responses are available
• Some casus belli triggers have been fixed
• Society definitions and initial populations tidied up
• Trade route scripted triggers corrected
• Some broken localisation fixed
• Many scripted triggers adjusted
• Reincarnation trait now has an icon
• Astarion no longer has a distant orcish relative
• Robin and Marion will have convincing aliases
• Lake Weng always has sensible culture and religion
• Yikarian succession will work better in certain cases
• Forbidding vassal wars will no longer make you universally unpopular
• Patrician government will be checked more closely
• Healing spells should work more tidily
• You can no longer inherit an undead ethnicity from a grandparent
• Bards, not barbarians, get the opportunity to restory the magistracy
• Dynamic localisation for wonders now works properly
• The Tower event chain from Way of Life now has some sensible checks on it
• A new fix for long-lived adults with child portraits
• Many other bugs fixed

6 May 2024 Experimental Release

It's our one-hundredth experimental release! And it's another bumper one:

Events:

• Idle courtiers may go adventuring or raiding
• Physician-missionary removed
• Eladrin may sometimes switch to follow the Seldarine

Decisions:

• Decision to turn a commonwealth vassal into a merchant republic
• Mass sacrifice option introduced

Councillors:

• Default chaplain activity is now encouraging vocations, not hunting heretics. Hopefully an end to inappropriate burning at the stake!

Titles:

• Scarlet Scourge orcish holy order added

History tweaks:

• Vassal rework in Mulhorand
• Namshita now becomes landed as the only non-dragonborn Thymari leader
• Eltab and Soneillon both have bloodlines
• Ugewood changes to Uzbeg when appropriate

Wonders

• Menzoberranzan and Airspur now have wonder-cities

Graphics:

• Several new event pictures

Optimisation:

• Combat tactics tidied up
• More casus belli brought into line with CleanSlate
• New scripted trigger for flying
• More scripted triggers for character classes
• Several complex sections refactored
• Old Gods adventurers reworked
• More recursive events use 'repeat event'
• Some buildings brought into line with CleanSlate
• Definitions of 'True Outsider' and 'Native Outsider' adjusted

Gameplay:

• Raiding will give XP more consistently
• Newly spawned commanders are likely to have relevant character classes
• Heads of faith will no longer demand you dismiss heathen councillors
• Elven liches will not retreat unless they are baelnorns
• Non-mammals will not suffer most negative effects of pregnancy
• Mercenaries may only employ engineers if landed
• Enatic mercenary companies should get female courtiers

Bugfixes:

• Granular congential traits included properly in lots of places that used to skip them
• Ziss'thiss will not mysteriously vanish
• Booga's children are of her dynasty
• Imbrar Heltharn will remain young forever (but as he's undead, he's not a pretty sight)
• Zealot voting corrected
• Viking invasions adjusted to correct pathfinding bug
• Scopes tightened up in a few places
• Kraken Society malenti invaders won't pretend to be aboleths
• Missing loc added
• Many others

14 April 2024 Experimental Release

Map:
* New provinces of Dun-Orthass, Dun-Tharos, Fields of Nun, Mussum, Giant Gap, Mount Sar, Sar'Rukoth, Vaults of Record, Shandaular, Southern Shandaular, Star Mounts, and Xûl-Jarak
* New de jure duchies of Dunwood, Council Hills, Okoth, Shandaular, and Giantspires
* New titular kingdoms of Eltabranar, Giantspires, Naratyr, Ashanath, and Thentur
* New barony names in Chondath
* The Duchy of Impiltur is now called Uplands
* The Duchy of Uplands in Turmish is now called Halondar
* The Duchy of Imphras is now called Dunthelar (after the original name of the river)
* New Giantspire Mountains region
* More accurate topography for The Rift

Graphics:
* New flags
* New static portraits
* Manshoon will only mask up when appropriate
* Dead characters will still get historic graphics changes

History:
* History overhaul in Chondath, Thar, Impiltur, the Vast, the Sword Mountains, Great Dale, Giantspire Mountains, Eastern Shaar, Shadowdale, and Delimbiyr Vale
* Small history tweaks in Cormyr, Unther, Treacherous Isles, Moonrise

Lore:
* New biography traits to support the new static portraits

Optimisation:
* Diseases brought into line with CleanSlate
* Most Casus Belli brought into line with CleanSlate
* Council voting patterns brought into line with CleanSlate
* Tactics brought into line with CleanSlate

Gameplay:
* Merchant republics allow matrilineal marriage
* Martial Faith can now use haruspicy as intended
* Gender conditions on council posts and minor titles updated
* AI characters whose creature type makes them immune to disease will not shut the gates
* Better event to spawn new concillors on startup, which should especially help enatic realms
* Long-lived species will now have older elders
* The Furious faith now uses county conquests
* Sharess now grants gender alteration, as she should
* Abyssal Army and Animate Dead now use different timers, which are visible and correctly described in tool-tips

Bugfixes:
* Lots of localisation fixes
* Decadence events no longer have unnecessary effects
* The Kuo-Tan Society decision to become a vassal of the Western Shou Provinces can now only target the Governor-General, as intended
* The Old Gods adventure event will now fire properly
* AI should now plunder dragon hoards more appropriately

10 March 2024 Experimental Release

Characters

• More characters' secret society membership has been approved
• Some more baatezu are creeping around
• Vangerdahast has been hard at work concealing the Obarskyrs' extra-marital indiscretions
• Mirandor, Wyvernspur, Winter, Kendrick, Sarifal, and other dynasties corrected and updated
• Lots of small fixes to character history

Culture

• LeShay culture added

Graphics

• Elves can no longer have beards
• Smoother hobgoblins
• Lots of adjustments to portraits, especially religious garb
• Characters without sexual dimorphism now have small gender badges below their portraits

Lore

• New character names
• New nicknames
• Small history adjustments

Optimisation

• Succession gender laws cleaned
• Status of women laws updated
• Job actions cleaned
• Holding types cleaned
• Death and heir text updated
• Settling a tribe is more consistent
• Government flavour updated
• Execution methods sorted out and made more lore-compliant
• New scripted triggers for various elements

Localisation

• The character screen will now say 'spouse' instead of 'husband' or 'wife'. Isobel is very relieved.

Gameplay

• Immortal characters are less likely to seek experimental medical treatment
• AI characters will raid less often
• Special courtiers will not be affected by unusual conditions in the courts they join
• Raiding Shou Lung is now controlled by the same conditions as other raiding
• The Bhaalspawn trait is now occasionally heritable
• Lots of new text for when a ruler dies
• The Black Altar can be landless
• Employees of titles with religious connotations should now make sensible patron choices
• The longevity decision for arcane spellcasters now requires journeyman level in any class that has it
• You can only form a special court type (eg undead) if you are independent or your liege already has that type
• Excommunication chances now get worked out properly
• Naturally long-lived characters should be less bothered about having long lives

Bug fixes

• Lots of localisation errors fixed
• Graz'zt now always has his portrait and biography
• Historical wars of the Tuigans should work correctly
• The outsider purges should now work as intended
• Religious disqualification for certain titles now works better

19 February 2024 Experimental Release

It's been a long time coming, and we're grateful for your patience. But it's here at last - the latest experimental release!

Featuring:

Optimisation

• Full overhaul of government potentials - many realms have different government now
• Corresponding full overhaul of succession laws
• Some fixes imported from CleanSlate
• Cleanup around job titles and some of their actions
• Retiring the 'is Muslim' trigger - the Calishite faith may play slightly more like other Faerûnian religions now

Graphics

• More than 80 new static portraits
• Diversified Dekanter, Tasloi and Batiri portraits
• New Elder Brain portrait set
• New loading screens
• Religious garb now varies by patron deity and class
• Lots of subtle adjustments to portrait rendering
• Additional death type icons
• Icons for all patron traits that lacked them
• Canon heraldry for Barze

Nicknames

• More nicknames added
• Characters who transition gender while having a gendered nickname will now get it replaced

Character history

• Lots of new characters, including dynasties for previously isolated courtiers
• Lifespan adjustments for lots of existing characters
• Historical vampire spawn now remember who spawned them
• Relatedly, Saestra Karanok now actually does the thing she's notorious for
• Aylin and Isobel's happy ending has been upgraded
• Luna's Silver Blood now has a bloodline
• Past Meisarchs of Amn get their correct titles
• More custom titles for other historical characters too

Title history

• Three more dwarfholds
• Kadar and the Nine Council use Divine Elective succession
• New history details in the Western Heartlands

Diversity

• Genies, fiends, and celestials get diverse courtiers

Gameplay

• Long-lived species have reduced disease chances
• More people can now worship the Abeiran primordials
• Some groundwork for future warlock-patron interactions
• Candidates in Nomadic Elective succession must be inside the realm
• Vendettas can only be declared within diplomatic range
• Changes to the celestial summons for some cultures
• Sahuagin CBs are now range-limited

Map

• Aerie of the Snow Eagles is now part of Angalpuk duchy
• Ibelgrak Valley split out from Angalpuk as its own duchy
• Brynwood is now a forest, as it should be
• Commonwealths are now orange

Localisation

• Government flavour updated
• Cooldown timers explained better
• No more 'semper ubi sub ubi'
• Katakoro Plateau region correctly identified
• Warnings about attacking co-religionists no longer assume your religion is a denomination of a wider faith
• Rivals will now accuse each other of being alienists, not witches
• No more references to Purgatory in the English localisation
• Hlal's aliases will work correctly

Bug fixes

• Only adults can appoint apprentices
• Barbarian Adventure CB should now work as intended, with better AI control
• Localisation broken by case-sensitivity should be fixed now
• No more name-swapped murders
• Lots of small fixes

6 January 2024 Experimental Release

Hi!

It's time for another experimental release! Experimental 96, out today, offers:

Culture

• Easting culture (in the Vast) split off from Impilturan
• Rakasta culture (as a form of Tabaxi) added as a minority in Easting culture
• Corbie culture (as a form of Tengu) added as part of...
• ...cultural diversity for drow and duergar added

Religion

• Decadence really removed this time
• Limits placed on AI joining secret religious movements

Casus Belli

• The Liberate Nomad Duchy CB now applies to more regions

Map

• Two new regions defined - the Ride and the Land of the Lions

Character history

• New characters in the Vast, including two Heralds
• New details in Daggerdale, including a new holder

Lore

• Nearly 200 new nicknames

Graphics

• Avatars have different eye effects from Chosen
• New death icon for going to another plane

Localisation

• Better warrior lodge cultural loc
• Lots of fixes
• Copy-editing to add Realms flavour and remove real-world references

Optimisation:

• Old patron events deleted
• Planetouched type assignment overhauled
• Council power laws updated
• Nomadic tribal laws displayed
• New scripted triggers for governments

Bugfixes:

• No more error spam from the Raid CB
• Barbarian Adventure outcome cleaned up
• No level-ups for fully dead people
• Correct scope for law additions in maintenance events
• AI characters will correctly refuse conversion in many more scenarios
• Restoring the Lotus Throne should now work correctly
• Various other events and decisions tweaked
• Employment dates in character history fixed to reflect recent changes
• Evil reformation options for orc and goblin faiths now exclude their opposites correctly

Enjoy!

29 December 2023 Experimental Release

Hi - we have another experimental release for you today, with some bug fixes and some other changes and enhancements we think you'll like.

Religion:

• Decadence is turned off for all religions
• The group formerly known as Akalaic is now called Stygian
• The group formerly known as Unenlightened is now called Ka
• The Thasmudyanic faith is now in the Stygian group, where it should be
• The Interloper faith's deity-specific enemies should now work properly
• Patron selection decision tidied up

Culture:

• The selection of cultures for random worlds should now be better
• The Celestial Sea culture group is now called Han, reflecting its canon origins
• The Bawani culture is now in the Malatran group, as it is not of Han origin and is more similar to Mahasiswa
• Gur councillor events have correct triggers
• The pirates of Jahaka Bay are Nelanthern cultured, so as to be actual pirates

Map:

• Zakhara de jure rework: Empires of the Great Sea, Yehimal, and Segara replace Outer Zakhara, Utter East, and Yikarian Empire respectively; Crowded Sea has different extent
• Yikarian Empire is now titular instead
• Dragonisle is the de jure capital of both Pirate Isles titles
• Adjustments to geographical regions, including new Yehimal and Segara Sea regions

Character history:

• Amn rework finished - lots of new characters, and a different selection of patrician houses in various dates
• Lots of character histories adjusted
• New nicknames, especially for members of the Obarskyr dynasty
• Minthara is a paladin

Graphics:

• Mari hair adjusted

Localisation:

• More culture descriptions
• More real-world references removed
• Better localisation for some religions
• A lot of typos fixed

Optimisation:

• Monster cleanup event now more organised
• Bhaalspawn events now use a counter rather than cached trait checks
• Therianthrope and vampire infection now use saved targets
• Decision conditions tidied up
• Council power law optimisation begun

Bugfixes:

• The nicknames list is working properly again
• The Barbarian Adventure casus belli should no longer cause major lag; if you see it doing things it shouldn't, please let us know

18 December 2023 Experimental Release

Mostly bug fixes this time:

History

• A new historical Magister
• Some title history glitches fixed

Culture

• More cultures have descriptions

Wonders

• Raurindi culture can build pyramids
• Hindu temple removed completely
• Burial ground upgrades correctly flagged
• New 'barrow' upgrade for stone circle

Nicknames

• Yet more nicknames

Bugfixes

• Reduced lag due to 'Cuckold' nickname
• Historical wonders correctly flagged and barred from being duplicated
• You can now safely join the Black Network if you hold, or are vassal to, the Zhentarim title
• Generated barons' culture will no longer be wrongly randomised, but will instead be fixed
• Block some god names from changing when they shouldn't
• Lots more loc fixes
• Vanilla mercenary princess gets her correct troops
• Sending concubines to Shou Lung reflects the emperor's sexuality
• You cannot send creatures with unusual reproduction to Shou Lung as concubines or eunuchs, nor those without hands as commanders