Falling Upward

I've started a game in easy mode, to get to grips with army movements and suchlike. As this disables achievements, maybe I ought also to have taken advantage of enabling gender equality. Started with an independent duchy in France, that of Duke Konan app Alan of Brittany. This should help with my understanding of French geography! My RNG Duke is paranoid and highly skilled at intrigue. IRL, he may have been more belligerent, feuding with Normandy. Having taken advantage of William's trip across…

I picked up Crusader Kings 3 last week. May have been a mistake, given the 30+ hours already spent in play, plus watching videos and reading the wiki. Ah well. Here's the story of my first post-tutorial playthrough. I started as the Earl of Dubhlinn because one video suggested that it was an interesting start, and the terrain of Ireland was somewhat familiar from the tutorial. Earl Murchad (1066)Rather quickly inherited Leinster, which I think was the point of the 'interesting start' video.…

Picked up the blindfolded playthrough again. Seems that Tasha has made it to level 59, without grinding iirc. She's got new drip in the leather armour, foot soldier greaves, and the exile hood. New drip to go with new weapons : dual knives. Never done that before, but hoping that it will improve my dodge game. After watching a bunch (too much) of @robdood's overexplained playthrough, I admired his stepping back and trying to learn moves. For me, I think the key may be to not obliterate bosses…

I started a new run, roleplaying Lae'zel as my main character. The mantra: What would Lae'zel do? In the early game, this is obvious: locate and head for the creche. Sometimes the game helpfully provides specific dialogue options, so that's easy. It also is taking me down a story path that I wouldn't otherwise. No Rolan, for instance. Lae'zel's single-minded goal of being purified means that she ran past Shadowheart's enclosure on the nautiloid. And then they naturally fought at the mausoleum…