I was once in. Even if you could imprison and even banish your son, he would still be your heir. You could execute him, but I've found it to be an unpreferable choice due to the penalties (-10 Opinion from all vassals, -20 Piety).It's possible, but there are no guarantees for success. Here's a few things you can do:.

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If your king is old, frail and likely to die soon, you could stillimprison and execute your son, even if you have no moral right to doso. You will get severe penalties to the opinion of vassals and losea bunch of piety, but you will be certain it will work. Having your son excommunicated first will eliminate some of the penalties.

Can be usedin emergencies. Make him lead an army of only a handful of men, preferably not a very skilled troupe. Throw him against far superiour forces, and hope he gets himself killed.

If he gets imprisoned, you could either refuse to ransom him out (in my experience, prisoners often die in custody) or bail him out and send him on more suicide missions. Give your preferred son a whole load of powerful duchies. If everything goes well, this will start a succession war once you die. You will then play as the imbecile. Make sure you lose. This option will probably not work in gavelkind succession, since they prevent you from actively meddling with the succession too much this way. You might also consider changing your succession law to elective, however that might backfire if you don't have enough votes or the ability to make vassals point at your favourite candidate.

Ck2 Kill Son

It might also be messy if you rule more kingdoms. In old versions of the game (v1.x), you could disinherit anyone by appointing them bishops. This exploit has since been removed, but if your save game is very old, there might be hope still. This is definitely the easiest and most efficient way to disinherit someone.You can also do the second option if he actually does inherit. If he dies as a ruler, his eldest brother will probably inherit, so long as your succession laws allow it and he hasn't fathered any child of his own.Similarly, you can actually commit suicide, provided he has the depressed trait.

If he hasn't fathered any children, your titles should go to one of his non-imbecile siblings.None of these options are sure-fire, of course. The sooner you start working on the untimely death of your heir, the better.

You’re a Duke in Crusader Kings 2 for 10 minutes and get bankrupt. You go to Google and want to find some “magical words” like “show me the money” to save your duchy. That’s exactly what I did back in the days when I was new to this game.No need to not feel bad, though, this is not a friendly game to new players, so feel free to grab the some gold from console. Preparation Open the consoleTL;DR:. back-tickAs the first step, I want to show you how to open the console. Open it with a single key called ‘backtick’, it often located in the left of your number ‘1’:You can find it in similar location in the keyboard. You can toggle the console to be visible or hidden:Now let’s get into the console world!

1 MoneyTL;DR:. cashWant some money? Cash command will solve this problem for you.

You just type it in the console:This command gives you 5,000 gold, and that’s a ton of gold. It is enough for pope to start a holy war against Muslims.If you want to add specific money to your character, you can type:.

cash 1000This command will give you exactly 1000 gold instead. 2 Kill SomeoneTL;DR:.

charinfo. find out by hover user’s avatar. kill Kill someone is a little more difficult. We cannot just type something like ` kill county of london `, it’s not working.

We need to know the REAL name of a character to do that. Checkout user’s infoThe real ‘name’ of a character in the game, is, which is a unique number each character have in the game. When you want to do something to a character, like kill someone, you need his first. Here’s how you do it:First, you need to open the console by press backtick button.Second, simply input ‘charinfo’. This is a command that allow you to see information hidden by the game.You should get notification when it is enabled in the game:After that, you simply put your mouse hover the character’s avatar, for a second.

Then it will show you more information than before:Here’s normal information:Here’s the hidden information:You want to write this ID down and you’ll use this to kill someone. Plot the murder!TL;DR:. kill Now is the time to plot the murder (from console)!

I choose the heir of Holy Rome Empire to plot this murder, this will change the politics of continent! I found his id is 1120738:Then I type ‘ kill 1120738 ‘ in the console:He will die instantly:See? It is simple! The most interesting part is this man died a natural death.

😀 3 Titles: Claim, Usurp or just Give it!TL;DR:. claim to claim some title. usurp to usurp title. givetitle to give title to someoneGive TitleWe can either claim, usurp or just give the title to someone (even if we don’t own that title!). I’ll use give title as example, the claim and usurp command are of same format.Sometimes you just want to give a title to your good friend, but you JUST CAN’T. It is very upset and doesn’t make any sense.

I own the title and I should be able to give it to anyone. Let’s spell the charm and (open the console to) do it.To give someone a title of land, you use command like this:. givetitle You probably found that confused, what is cmonemvasia?

What is 70420?Well let me explain.You already know how to find out someone’s character id, right? In case you forget it I’ll briefly list them here:. Backtick to open the console, type charinfo to show the user’s debug info.

Mouse hover your character and write down his character id.Then what should I do if I want to find out the title name?The answer is you need some conversion before the magic happens. Here’s how you do it:First you find the full name of that title. Let’s take following county as example:This is County of Monemvasia, so it’s type is County and name is Monemvasia.Depends on the kind of that title, you have initials for your magic spell, following the rules: TypeRuleExampleCountyinitial with cCounty of Monemvasia → cmonemvasiaDuchyinitial with dDuchy of Achaia → dachaiaKingdominitial with kKingdom of Ireland → kirelandEmpireinitial with eHoly Roman Empire → ehme (special case, see below to find out)Now it’s time to practise.

Let’s try to give “Duchy of Essex” to my son. Notice that the rule is not always working (although it works for most of the case). When you found it is not working, you should find it out what exactly the name of title is.

It is similar to see your, just enable charinfo and hover your mouse over the land:See? The tag is the true name. Name is “ Duchy of Essex”, but its true name is “ dbedford”. Now let’s give it to my son:Now son is “Duke Michael of Essex”!So please find it out the true name of a title when the rule doesn’t apply.That’s it. Time for you to grab some title for yourself 🙂 4 Skills & Traits SkillsTL;DR:.

adddiplomacy. addmartial. addstewardship. addintrigue. Addlearning Say you’re a military leader and you would like to add 2 point of martial skill, Here’s the command:Here 1766 is the character-id of your character.

You must remember how to get it.Now you can see the martial skill rise up from 2 to 4.TraitsTL;DR:. addtrait You’re old but still has no child! That worries you day and night. You want to change this, so you pray to the god. Of course, the god reply to you, from console:If you want to know all the name of trait, visitNow you’re lustful and Fertility +20%! Talk to your wife and have a child!Like illustrated above, you can add some invisible numbers like Fertility by adding some traits to that.

Also you can use ‘removetrait’ with same format. I’ll not expand that here. 5 Religion (DLC Required)TL;DR:. religion WARNING: If you don’t have the required DLC, the game ended immediately.Tired of being catholic? Want to have many wives?

Welcome to eastern religions! Just pick one and type:I become a eastern buddhist! Now is the time to get more wives!EndHopefully you found those commands useful. Feel free to play and don’t feel guilty to use this, you buy this game, you can use it in anyway you like. Actually, Crusader Kings 2 is a in-complete game, even with so many DLCs, you still want to use console sometime to make it more interesting.Have fun!