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I havent played 3 yet, but I played 2 modded specifically to make it harder, because 2 also generally made it too easy to balance everything and expand. CK2+ funnily enough, it was originally started by Wiz, who is now Vicky 3s project lead and overhauled Stellaris was my sweet spot mod for making shit harder while adding a bit of flavor without going overboard.

Crusader Kings was always something you made your own stories for though. Like the time in CK1 the Hapsburgs lost their land and one became a refugee in the Sicilian Court, only for the ruler to die without an heir and him to become King of Sicily, so I pretended he had seized power. Or another time, when I seized Sicilys throne, I had made my current characters younger brother a bishop, so I imagined him crowning his older brother. He later rebelled, so obviously he was bitter over being excluded from the succession by his father.