Its a rough start UNLESS, you know what yer doing... Here is my test for how good you are...Play Eudes of Anjou.... IF you are the duke of Neustria, Anjou AND Orleans before Eudes dies, you know what you're doing. IF you're the King of France, you're an expert.

Make some alliances with kids to some folks not too far away, Tuscany is decent, anyone in/around france/aquitaine are fine... Options might be to get independence and swear fealty to france for the defense and chip away. takes a bit of time, but stuff will usually start breaking apart. Capping mallorca is a decent start.

Oprindeligt skrevet af armyissue69:

Its a rough start UNLESS, you know what yer doing... Here is my test for how good you are...Play Eudes of Anjou.... IF you are the duke of Neustria, Anjou AND Orleans before Eudes dies, you know what you're doing. IF you're the King of France, you're an expert.

Make some alliances with kids to some folks not too far away, Tuscany is decent, anyone in/around france/aquitaine are fine... Options might be to get independence and swear fealty to france for the defense and chip away. takes a bit of time, but stuff will usually start breaking apart. Capping mallorca is a decent start.

None of that helps if my character randomly becomes paralyzed and dies for no reason 10 years into the playthrough every time...

If his death isn't random, then adapt and focus on facilitating the job for his heir so he can do what his dad couldn't.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Jean-Maurice Nya:

If his death isn't random, then adapt and focus on facilitating the job for his heir so he can do what his dad couldn't.

No because the heir also died for absolutely no reason, every single time. He was healthy and not even at war.

Unfortunately 50 seems to be the turning point where you can become incapable. I also noticed a lot that my character turns 50 and instantly becomes incapable.

Oprindeligt skrevet af JinxHeartnet:

I've had 4 games as Aragon now, trying to form Spain by assassinating everyone until my son and heir is married to the Queen of Castille, and all 4 times my character who is "whole of body" becomes incapable and dies decades and decades before he's should. I also have like 15 billion daughters before getting my first son, and when I do get a son he has only negative traits despite me and my wife only having good traits. Is this supposed to happen? This ♥♥♥♥ isn't fun.

Whole of the Body is not "i live 100 years every time trait" It simple adds health points to character and those extra hit point can easily lost to diseases, incapable anything that gives negative health modifiers even temporarily.

After the age of 25 your character starts to lose 0,125 health per year (usually male characters have about 5,5 - 6 health without temp buffs or Herculean trait). Using flagellant stress relief function also cuts your hit points by 0,125 every time you use it.

Female characters have slightly more hit points (i guess to simulate longer life that women generally have).

After your characters hit points drop below 3,0 you get the poor health status (be it old age or diseases it does not matter) you character trigger death timer that at the start checks with low percentage chance every month if your character dies.

And that % chance to die starts to grow every year when your characters hit points go down to near zero by yearly ticks of 0,125.

After your character go under 1,0 health you get skull icon and you are near death and monthly chance to die grows even more.

If you have perk that informs your death one year prior then you roll the i die this monthly check and trait gives 1 extra year and then you die. This does not work on deaths that are in battle getting decapitated by berserker or died to battle wound or getting killed by enemy knight or some random soldier.
Also those bad luck now i die instantly events are not informed by that trait.

And you having billion daughters is just RNG. There is 51% chance that child is girl and 49% chance that child is boy in the rule set.

Child getting bad traits. If you are speaking about inherited traits then there is RNG and chance to get a bad trait.
Another possibility is wife cheats and have found the most frog faced mayor in the realm and give him ride of the life. And "your" child is fruit of that frog loins.
Or your characters are siblings and inbreeding kicks in and bad traits with it.

If you are talking about educational traits then those are you guessed RNG based you can get pure crap traits or good ones. RNG is keyword here. You can affect what education traits you get by culture innovations like legalistic which gives higher chance of getting just trait as a example.
Also if you have wardens and ward dlc you can affect what educational traits your ward gets by influencing their education (and that means giving one of your traits to ward with % chance to success).

I practically never get Whole of Body.