I'm resurrecting this thread to discuss the new expansion. Prayerful, Trogfecta, Bl. Karl Hapsburg, & YeOldeFustilarians, have any of you purchased Monks and Mystics yet? Or anyone else?
I play CK2 exclusively through HIP, and HIP has not updated for 2.7 or MnM yet, so no. Plus it's Lent, and I won't be playing at all until after Easter. I plan to purchase it once HIP is updated for it.
I am very excited about the
potential of MnM in the hands of the HIP team; I am somewhat excited about the introduction of secret societies and of orders, although I think what makes the DLC
really interesting is the introduction of hidden (but revealable) traits. I would like to see HIP use this to simulate a more realistic experience with homosexual characters who currently are, for game purposes, public sodomites and who suffer only a -15 opinion malus and a mild fertility hit.
I would like to see all members of faggotry have a secret trait that gives, say, a -15 malus and a fertility hit. That simply represents the fact that the people who've met this person know that "something's off" about him. But then you could use intrigue to spy on, and if you find out he's a dyed in the wool homo, opinion malus of like -75.
Judging by the Paradox forums, it seems that currently MnM (like WoL back in the day) has enormously OP powers viz. Satanism. Evidently some are excited about the prospect of taking of the world while ruling a Luciferian Cabal, I am not. I like the flavor and I like the idea of sending my Anglo-Saxon bishops to find Satanists and root them out of the countryside, but aside from that, the Satanism aspect (as hopefully could be anticipated on a Catholic forum!) does nothing for me, and I'm a bit disturbed at how flippantly people are treating it, but I suppose that's the modern world for you.
Anyways, short story is no; I don't have MnM yet. Once HIP is updated for it I will purchase it and play, but not until after Easter. I am very excited about its potential in the hands of the HIP team, who have elevated this game to a level of depth, detail, and realism that incalculably surpasses the vanilla effort (which itself is by no means shoddy at all).