CK3 DatabaseCrusader Kings III · 1.20.0.3 “Crozier” · unofficial

Intrigue lifestyle · perk tree

Skulduggery tree (Schemer)

9 perks. Each costs one Intrigue perk point: 1,000 experience, earned at a base 25 a month while a Intrigue focus is chosen — 9 × 1,000 ÷ 25 = 360 months, about 30 years for the whole tree before modifiers. The last perk gives the Schemer trait.

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Tree layout

Truth is RelativeDigging for DirtI Look Good in ComparisonSwift ExecutionKidnapperPrepared for AnythingA Job Done RightTwice SchemedSchemer

Positions and links as in the game's files. A perk needs every perk linked above it.

Focus

Skulduggery Focus

Not Adventurer government

Schemes, subversion, and secrets.

  • Intrigue+3
  • Scheme Secrecy+15%

Other Intrigue trees

All trees: Diplomacy · Martial · Stewardship · Intrigue · Learning · Wandering

Perks

Truth is Relative

Starting perk of the treetruth_is_relative_perk

  • Enables the Fabricate Hook Scheme
  • Not Adventurer governmentFind Secrets may also fabricate Hooks

Digging for Dirt

Needs Truth is Relativedigging_for_dirt_perk

  • Not Adventurer governmentFind Secrets Progress Speed: +25%
  • Adventurer governmentEnables the Search for Secrets Travel Option

I Look Good in Comparison

Needs Truth is Relativecourt_of_shadows_perk

  • Not Adventurer governmentDisrupt Schemes Effectiveness: +50%
  • Not Adventurer governmentSchemes using Grace begin with an extra 4 months of it
  • Not Adventurer government; in some casesInfluence College of Cardinals Vote Character Interaction Acceptance: +20
  • Not Adventurer government; in some casesIncrease Papabile Score Piety Cost: -25%
  • Adventurer governmentExposing Secrets gives Prestige based on the Rank of the target
  • Adventurer governmentSchemes using Grace begin with an extra 4 months of it

Administrative government

  • Political scheme success chance max+10%

Swift Execution

Needs Truth is Relativeswift_execution_perk

  • Murder Phase Length20 days faster per Scheme Phase

Adventurer government

  • Murder Phase Length100 days faster per Scheme Phase

Kidnapper

Needs Digging for Dirtkidnapper_perk

  • Enables the Abduct Scheme
  • Nomadic governmentIncreases the chance of Imprisoning Characters during Raids with the Capture Raid Intent

Prepared for Anything

Needs I Look Good in Comparisonprepared_for_anything_perk

  • Enemy Hostile Scheme Success Chance against your Courtiers: -15
  • Enemy hostile scheme success chance-25%

A Job Done Right

Needs Swift Executiona_job_done_right_perk

  • Hostile scheme success chance+25%
  • Hostile scheme success chance max+5%

Twice Schemed

Needs Kidnapper, Prepared for Anything and A Job Done Righttwice_schemed_perk

  • Max Hostile Schemes+1

Administrative government

  • Max Political Schemes+1

Schemer

Needs Twice Schemedschemer_perk

Source: game/common/lifestyle_perks/00_intrigue_1_skulduggery_tree_perks.txt, game/common/lifestyles/00_lifestyles.txt, game/common/focuses/00_lifestyle_focuses.txt and the English localisation, Crusader Kings III 1.20.0.3. Effects shown in the game only for certain governments, faiths or cultures carry that condition; “In some cases” marks a condition the files test that is not spelled out here.