Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead. I am Len. I am your host for this week, and I am joined by our very good friend PC Games In's Ian Boudreau.

Hello, everybody.

And we're going to be talking about the Royal Court D.L.C. The first major expansion for Crusader Kings 3, probably one of the biggest expansions paradoxes ever put

out. I had to like separate out in my notes like what is actually a free feature and what's

part of the expansion because it's a lot of stuff. You know, what are the highlights of Royal Court?

I think your big bullet points for royal court are, of course, the introduction of the

sort of physical royal court space and all kinds of new story content that goes along with

that.

So royal court is a room you can look at in Crusader Kings where all your characters get together.

There are spots that you can hang new artifacts like tapestries or set or a new throne or,

let's see, just different kinds of artifacts, weapons, or, or I think I found a,

a deer skull, a trophy to hang on the wall. So you can kind of adorn it in the way that you

want and those are all going to have bonuses and different effects. And the other big bullet

point for the royal court is a new approach to cultures.

And cultures and Crusader Kings can now be, you can form hybrid cultures.

There's all kinds of changes to go into the cultural shift.

I'm sure we'll talk about those.

But those are the, I think, the two big high level points that have gone in, but there's,

there's tons of stuff in here.

Yeah.

It's the first time that any paradox game, you know, we, we call them map staring games as

kind of a joke, but the first time I think they've really put you in the world this way,

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