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Description
Hands Off! is for Base Game CK3 & All Total Conversions

Hands off! is a comprehensive Crusader Kings III mod that dramatically enhances the immersion and gameplay around vassal inheritance of lands outside your realm and foreign rulers inheriting lands within your realm

The mod has been updated with a new scenario!

NOTES:
  • Hands Off! is a new mod that took me a long time to figure out. Please be patient and report any weird behaviors and I'll check it out.
  • The mod overwrites no base game files and should (hopefully) be compatible with all Total Conversions and the base game.
  • By default, AI will not declare war for titles that are revoked and they will never give away titles to other rulers. There is a game rule to allow AI to declare wars for titles denied them, but they will never give another ruler their rightful titles (preserves borders on succession)

✔ Achievement Compatible
✔ Ironman Compatible
✔ Works with Total Conversions and base CK3



🎯 Intelligent Inheritance Crisis Management

If your vassals dies and their heir already holds an equal or higher title outside your lands, the mod provides immersive and lore-rich inheritance scenarios.
  • You'll receive detailed events allowing you to:
    • Appoint a different, non-ruler family member of the original heir to the title (siblings, close family, distant family, or dynasty members)
    • Claim the titles for yourself to maintain realm integrity
      • This option is only available if the vassal has no non-ruler House or Dynasty members available
      • If using with AGOT, members of the Night's Watch, the Kingsguard, Maesters, Septons, and Silent Sisters are excluded
    • Choose to let the lands go and bide your time for future opportunities
      • AI will only forfeit land if they have the craven trait, are not brave or ambitious, and their max military strength with allies is less than 75% of your max military strength with your allies

If a foreign ruler dies and their heir already holds lands in your realm, the mod provides immersive and lore-rich inheritance scenarios.
  • You will receive an event that allows you to:
    • Let the lands go and bide your time for future opportunities with pressed claims
    • Let the lands go with no claims
    • Demand your former vassal return the lands to you
      • The vassal can either:
        • Return the lands to you
        • Return the lands to you with pressed claims
        • Decline to return the lands to you, which starts a war for the lands

🛡️ Vassal Independence Crisis Management

If a vassal wins a war for a foreign title equal to or greater than your own and pulls their existing lands out of your realm, the mod allows you to respond decisively.
  • You will receive an event giving you three options:
    • Demand the lands be returned by threat of war
      • This triggers a follow-up event for your former vassal
    • Let the lands go, but retain an unpressed claim (AI gets a pressed claim)
      • This is the default AI choice unless the AI Wars game rule is enabled
    • Let the lands go permanently
  • If you demand the lands be returned:
    • The former vassal receives an event with two options:
      • Return the lands peacefully (AI default without AI Wars)
      • Refuse and go to war (AI default with AI Wars)

🏰 Enhanced Realm Politics
Experience more realistic medieval politics where:
  • Vassals inheriting titles outside your realm or foreign rulers inheriting lands inside your reaqlm creats complex diplomatic situations
  • Lieges must carefully manage succession to prevent realm fragmentation
  • Characters can strategically choose between immediate conflict and long-term planning

🎭 Rich Narrative Events
The mod features extensive event chains that:
  • Provide detailed context about inheritance situations
  • Offer multiple strategic choices with different consequences
  • Create memorable stories of ambition, betrayal, and redemption
  • Include personality-based AI decision making (cowardly rulers may avoid conflict)

⚖️ Balanced Gameplay
AI characters make realistic decisions based on their traits and military strength:
  • Events consider character relationships, prestige, and strategic positioning
  • Maintains game balance while adding significant depth to succession mechanics

🌍 Multi-language Support
  • Fully localized in French, German, Korean, Polish, Russian, and Spanish using the aid of AI. Please provide translations if you want and they will be added to the mod.
  • Chinese translation provided by 牛奶大魔王


    Why "Hands off!"?
    This mod transforms the static, and frustrating, loss of vassals through inheritance into a dynamic, engaging experience where every succession crisis becomes an opportunity for strategic decision-making. Whether you're a liege trying to maintain your realm's integrity or a vassal fighting for your rightful inheritance, "Hands off!" ensures that the medieval politics of succession are as complex and engaging as they should be.

    Perfect for players who want more strategic depth in their Crusader Kings III experience, with every death and succession becoming a potential turning point in your dynasty's story.

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50 Comments
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Valaddar  [author] 19 hours ago 
There's a new release of Hands Off! that prevents the succession event from firing for the following types of rulers:
-Barons
- Nights Watch
- Maesters
- Kingsguard
- Theocracy
- Landless Adventurer
- Republics
Lord Nicodemus 20 hours ago 
Steam users are dumb, this mod is free, the dev can use whatever tools he wants 😭😭😭
Valaddar  [author] 20 Jul @ 2:52pm 
@Blackfish Interesting. I'll have to put a protection on the effect so it doesn't effect Nights Watch rulers.
Blackfish 20 Jul @ 4:56am 
The Mod (as far as i seen) breaks the Night Watch Election and makes them a feudal system with their leader being a king upon succession
outlander7 20 Jul @ 12:59am 
its uggo, people hate uggo things
why this cornball acting tuff 😭😭😭
Romwill 20 Jul @ 12:33am 
Are you people retarded? It is the normal use of AI in this situation. Why people so mad about this?
Romwill 20 Jul @ 12:30am 
@outlander7 sybau🥀
outlander7 20 Jul @ 12:23am 
are you people so dense you don't know how to find an image off of google? ai piss is ugly, its not complicated
GoatSkin 19 Jul @ 8:11pm 
crying about AI use is cringe. developers aren't all artists. It wouldn't be realistic to expect him to commission someone for art work on a mod page he works on for free, so if he didn't use ai art it would just be a random image.
tony balony 19 Jul @ 3:46pm 
this guy supports the game for free and people are really crying over him using ai to be a cover image for mod. get over yourself, ai is cool and creates well made images instantly noone cares about your sonic the hedgehog oc