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The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 21st2024’s other great expansion
2024’s other great expansion
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There’s a slight breeze and a comforting glow coming from the crack’s in today’s calendar door, the sound of merriment and many accents from all over the world. Better join in the campfire revelry, because whoever’s there won’t be staying for long.
It’s a rambling camp of travellers fromCrusader Kings 3expansion Roads To Power! But hang on… this isn’t a game - it’s DLC!
Brendy:Yes, it’s an expansion, not a full game. But this add-on to everybody’s favourite historical bastard simulator changes the strategy game in profound ways. Enough to basically merita whole new way of playingfor a life or three.
The standard way to enjoy a blast ofCrusader Kingsis to inhabit the body of a small time Earl, or a lowly Duke, and work your way to kingship through subterfuge, diplomacy, and warfare. Or to start as a big emperor and try your best to stop your realm from falling to pieces. But Roads To Power adds a new way to start your life - as a complete nobody, with neither title nor calling, free to roam the world. As a landless adventurer, all kingdoms are just stops along the road, a mere roadside ambush away from one another.
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But I haven’t played like that. For me, it’s more fun to see the world. To take an Irish rastabout from the bishopric of Armagh, through the middle east,all the way to China. It is astounding how many people need to die to keep one reckless Gael alive on the road. What’s more, Crusader King’s inheritance rules remain intact. So not only did I make it to China with that character, there’s also nothing stopping me from living as his daughter, and travelling all the way back to the Emerald Isle. What say you, wanna come with?
Headback to the advent calendarto open another door!
