I've actually been trying, but I'm big struggling, lol. I've been facinated with like AGOT combat style and even the POD mod combat styles. But I for the life of me can't replicate it.

@A homeless orphan, You could reuse the logic from "diablerie" decision "decisions/vampire.decisions.txt" and call the same effect from some event options you think it would make sense.

Adding new options with such effect to existing combat events is in theory trivial, However, I believe it would require to override the whole event (copy the whole event to a file within the mod folder and modify it by adding new options). I am hesitant to do that within the scope of this mod as it would lead to incompatibilities with other mods that might be overriding same events. However feel free to go crazy and create an extension mod that is based on this.

This mod is great. I've got a lot of playtime out of it. Any way to make it so that you can dioblerize people you defeat in duels? I like the idea of vamp vs vamp combat having extra quirks to it.

@Deaka Thank you! It is really nice to hear that you have been enjoying this!

@Juggernaut all three suspicion levels have a 5 year Mean Time to Happen setting before it drops a level. However if you are already exposed it is more likely that the other event that kills you during the day happens.

To avoid this it is a good idea to maintain good behavior that would not draw unnecessary attention... or to have other vampires in your court that could be used as scapegoats.

Love the mod, quick question though, does the -50 modifier for being discovered as a monster ever go away? I know the other ones take a bit of time a subtly but does the "final" one go away or is it a no step back sort of thing and lasts until the mob eventually gets you?

One of the best mods for CK2. Love this mod and always come back 2 it

@Haralddeking thank you the feedback and glad you enjoyed it!

Leveling up events are triggered by random "mean_time_to_happen". You get from Fleddgeling to Regular Vampire in ~5 years. It takes another ~25 to reach Ancilla, and extra ~70 years to get to Elder. After ~100 more years you get to the Ancient level. I think the number of years are reasonable, but since it is random, you might get lucky and promoted much earlier.

Also diablerizing some other more powerful vampire might have sped it up?

I think the Vampire mod is really good and adds a lot of fun to the game. It’s cool to play as a vampire and have special powers that change how you play. The mod feels well-made and fits nicely into the game.

But in my opinion, you become an elder vampire a little too fast. It would be more fun if it took longer and felt like more of a journey.

Still, it’s a great mod and I really enjoy using it!

@Conquistador I am glad to hear you are enjoying this and thank you for the kind words!

I really really wanted to avoid having to constantly support this in case something changes in the vanilla game - cross mod compatibility was a nice side effect :D

This has been my favorite mod to use. It's flexible and it works with almost all other mods, even some total conversions and it's well designed, no bugs (unlike mythos). Thank you for making a mod I've been playing with for years.

@Ashspeaker I am glad to hear that you enjoy this!

I'm having a lot of fun with this amazing mod! Thank you :3
Creating a vampire dynasty is quite entertaining

@seba111 you might have a higher level trait. Try removing all five: vampire, vampire2, vampire3, vampire4 and vampire5. After that make sure you can no longer see any vampirism traits on your chatacter.

Hey! I have a question, is there a console command mod to remove the vampirism from a character? After using remove_trait vampire there is still option to suck blood etc...

@bsplunge539 no, creating random npc vampire rulers are only supported from the game start. Other than this you can embrace some new npcs and let them loose on the world yourself.

is there a way to turn on ai vampires after a start game already?

@palpatine1214 there are multiple ways of becoming vampire for a game already in progress:
- For games already in progress similar event will be repeated on an adult character inheriting your titles or child ruler coming of age.
- Alternatively you can either use character editor to grant yourself Vampire trait or use an in-game console command `add_trait vampire`.

Here some information about console commands and how to run them in case you are unfamiliar: https://ck2.paradoxwikis.com/Console_commands

Is there a way to become a vampire after the start of the game?

I'm not seeing the event, how does it start?

Cool mod, would it be possible to add dhampirs? Perhaps fledgling vampires can retain the ability to have children until becoming full fledged vampires.

I kept getting ill and getting killed after feeding a few times

I tend to play as female rulers so this explains some things. Thank you! Thankfully I had a daughter before converting

@taesunwoo while using this mod and playing a vampire character you should not be able to have regular human children. Infidelity still happens though, so don't get surprised if vampire's wife still ends up pregnant.

This mod also gives an option to embrace a new vampire into your family and accept them as your heir.

dumb question but can you have kids? I know you can with the vampire/lycan mod in CK3

This is an amazing mod!!

I don't think the AI knows how to Vampire. If left to there own devices (observe mode) they live for a little time they feed like, once, and then they ALWAYS get burnt at the steak some time later, by who? who the hell knows the game doesn't say who. >:/ and the mod gives the option for the AI to become vampires at the start and yet they just die after a few years, a dozen if they're lucky. they don't seems to know to how expand there "Family" they feed, sometimes i notice it says they've fed recently but they never take a childe (or however that's spelt) and then inevitably they die. theirs no future for vampires in this mod, they just die regardless of there stats or traits.

@John Weak I have just given it a try on my end and the mod got re-downloaded properly. I would have gotten very surprised if it didn't since it wasn't updated in while now.

After googling for a bit I came at this rather extensive list of other mod related things to check: https://appuals.com/fix-steam-workshop-not-downloading-mods/
Hopefully something from that list could help you out.

The ritual was a failure, every mod was re-downloaded after the purge, except yours sadly. It's as if there were no file attached to this page.

Thank you for responding, I will try to purge the mod folder again, though I might be forced to rely on pagan rituals and sacrifices to make it work.

@John Weak I am sorry to hear that you are struggling to set it up. I am not sure what the problem on your end could as this this is really a straight forward mod with nothing fancier than normal in it.
I can only suggest to clean up the mod folder, subscribe/unsubscribe and reboot the game a few times - maybe something crashed and got stuck in a weird state and need some help cleaning up. I don't think there is anything I can do on my end, since I have no way to control how the mod gets downloaded.

After verification it seems that subscribing to the mod doesn't download anything. I tried disconnecting, checking files, anything, but it just won't download your mod. I have no problems with other mods though.

@John Weak It should start pretty much right away. I am hooking on the "on_chronicle_start" action trigger.

Double check if if the mod is download properly and whether it is enabled in the launcher. An easy way to check if the mod is set up properly is to look for an extra trait in the ruler designer.

Hi, is the event supposed to pop up instantly when i create a new game ? I passed a few months and i still got nothing...

@BanDHMO yes, it is as simple as that! I don't think you even need to zip it again as the game should perfectly handle folders instead of zip files too.
Once you get a taste for it, there is plenty of info about how scripts work on ck2 wiki.

Thanks, @mirksmail, that makes sense. I've never made a CK mod before, so I'm a bit away from that, but maybe small adjustments to this one will be easy. I see that it's in a vampires.zip file in Documents folder, and inside that is just text. If I was to simply unzip it and edit the traits file in notepad, then zip it back up, would that be enough to change how it works for me locally, or are there any tricks beyond that needed?

@BanDHMO Thanks for the feedback. My ideas was to keep this mod rather generic vampire mod so it could potentially be extended by separate mods for different kinds of vampires. So all the specific vampire powers ideally would go into separate mod as an add on top of this - feel free to make one!

First of all, awesome mod! CK and vampires belong together.

Suggestion, a setting to increase the power of vampiric traits (except combat which is already big). By WoD lore I'd like to approximate, a 200-year old vampire should be very powerful, able to read and manipulate kine minds, infiltrate and eavesdrop unnoticed, easily assassinate mere mortals, etc. Getting only +5 intrigue, for example, at the top tier is underwhelming.

I know it's unbalanced and not for everyone, but as an option, it'd be great to have.

@The Unseen it goes down over time if you don't do anything that would make it rise instead. Also if you have other vampires in your court, suspicion event offers to sacrifice them as a scapegoat.

Also wanted to say that this mod is awesome!!

How do I remove suspension?

can you make it so we can feed on cattle a way to feed and not raise suspicion

@ryanscottxeper yes, there is a decision you can manually trigger.

Is there a way to feed any time? I got the prompts but chose not to feed on the person and now I cannot figure out how to fix my hunger lol.

@Sigismund, No, it does not require any dlcs.

Hey does this require any specific dlcs to work?

Make a CK3 version

I found that if you create a new ruler using the ruler designer, you'll get the two startup events (ai vampires and become a vampire) twice, and the ruler you replaced (who is in your court) is also a vampire.

Thanks, that's good to know!

You can reduce the hunger to a minimum without killing, but removing the last step requires fully draining someone. Always feeling the need for the blood is intentional.