CK3 Schemes
76 Schemes
A complete and up-to-date searchable list of all CK3 schemes.
Schemes are secret or personal plots a character can start against others — such as murder, seduction, befriend, or abduct — progressing over time until they succeed or are discovered.
| Description | |
|---|---|
| Abduct | |
| Abduct Foe | Prison can be a sobering, informative experience for malcontents and rivals, as well as a profitable or gratifying one for their jailer. Enough to make it worth the risk of paying a third party to arrange a visit, at least.contract schemes involve performing various duties for the landed rulers of the world in exchange for payment. Completing a Contract for a Ruler automatically adds them to your contact list. |
| Ambush Travelers | How dangerous some contractors possessive lands can be! They put up a request for aid, and instead, some enterprising adventurer turns up and begins waylaying every fat merchant and juicy caravan they can find.contract schemes involve performing various duties for the landed rulers of the world in exchange for payment. Completing a Contract for a Ruler automatically adds them to your contact list. |
| Befriend | |
| Boundary Dispute | |
| Burn Property | The wonderful thing about an unattended building is that, with enough effort, they always burn. An excellent tool for contractors who need to send a message but simply wish to fire and forget.contract schemes involve performing various duties for the landed rulers of the world in exchange for payment. Completing a Contract for a Ruler automatically adds them to your contact list. |
| Challenge Status | |
| Claim Throne | |
| Coerce Contribution | |
| Coerce Tributary | |
| Collect Taxes | Taxes are the lifeblood of any realm. When their delivery grows sluggish, contractors may put out requests for more exacting collectors.contract schemes involve performing various duties for the landed rulers of the world in exchange for payment. Completing a Contract for a Ruler automatically adds them to your contact list. |
| Conduct Census | It's difficult to run a realm when you don't know who's even in it. contractors with this problem often turn to neutral third parties to inventory their subjects, and most importantly, their subjects' wealth.contract schemes involve performing various duties for the landed rulers of the world in exchange for payment. Completing a Contract for a Ruler automatically adds them to your contact list. |
| Confidence Trickster | A fool and their wealth are easily separated. No contractor would formally ask for this — no, they make the mistake of engaging a fraud in conversation, only to discover after the contract is complete that they've been tricked (or even robbed) and the duplicitous wanderer is gone.contract schemes involve performing various duties for the landed rulers of the world in exchange for payment. Completing a Contract for a Ruler automatically adds them to your contact list. |
| Convert to Witchcraft | |
| Create Work of Learning | Learned wanderers bring with them a certain sense of mystique, often even a touch of the exotic — resourceful contractors often try to capture some of those fleeting wisdoms by commissioning small books of aphorisms and moralizing tales.contract schemes involve performing various duties for the landed rulers of the world in exchange for payment. Completing a Contract for a Ruler automatically adds them to your contact list. |
| Damage Legitimacy | I will attempt to decrease my liege's legitimacy |
| Depose | |
| Disbelieve Mandala | |
| Do a Passage of Arms | Valorous adventurer needed to defend a bridge pass. The contractor offers generous rewards.contract schemes involve performing various duties for the landed rulers of the world in exchange for payment. Completing a Contract for a Ruler automatically adds them to your contact list. |
| Elevate Governorship | |
| Elope | |
| Expand Power Base | I shall attempt to expand the scope and spread of my influence in order to increase my investment cap. |
| Fabricate Hook | Employ underhanded means to create a hook out of nothing |
| Find Secrets | Uncover the secrets of contractor's vassals, allowing you to either blackmail them for hooks or report back to your contractor. |
| Flog Talismans | Who's to say what's magic, what's sacred, and what's exotic? If a contractor is fool enough to believe it, and pay for it, then that's enough. Probably.contract schemes involve performing various duties for the landed rulers of the world in exchange for payment. Completing a Contract for a Ruler automatically adds them to your contact list. |
| Foster Legitimacy | I will attempt to increase my liege's legitimacy and opinion of me |
| Generate Claim | |
| Heist Treasury | Some contractors are simply fools signaling their overabundance of wealth — wealth that is much easier to extract directly than via some tawdry job.contract schemes involve performing various duties for the landed rulers of the world in exchange for payment. Completing a Contract for a Ruler automatically adds them to your contact list. |
| Hired Muscle | When a contractor needs a little extra force applied quietly at short notice, a sword-for-hire can provide a lot more discretion than ordinary retainers.contract schemes involve performing various duties for the landed rulers of the world in exchange for payment. Completing a Contract for a Ruler automatically adds them to your contact list. |
| Hobnob with Ruler | When a contractor is clearly starved for attention, they leave themselves open to opportunists. Opportunists who can eat their bread, drain their cellar, levy a few "loans", and be gone before some bean-counter's cries raise the alarm.contract schemes involve performing various duties for the landed rulers of the world in exchange for payment. Completing a Contract for a Ruler automatically adds them to your contact list. |
| Hunt Criminals | An enterprising band of lawbreakers can do a lot of damage to property, prestige, and even legitimacy given time. Large enough to worry about, small enough to be difficult to catch, such scofflaws make perfect contract scheme contract tender.contract schemes involve performing various duties for the landed rulers of the world in exchange for payment. Completing a Contract for a Ruler automatically adds them to your contact list. |
| Impersonate Tax Collector | Taxes fund the ruler of any realm — but do they need to? When a confidant rogue shows up with an official-looking seal and hired muscle, is that so different than the proper officer?contract schemes involve performing various duties for the landed rulers of the world in exchange for payment. Completing a Contract for a Ruler automatically adds them to your contact list. |
| Improve Ruler Reputation | A contractor finds their standing lacking: either their name is mud, too many vassals hate them, or they simply lack the prestige to justify something they want. What they need is a "neutral" third party to help... bolster their reputation.contract schemes involve performing various duties for the landed rulers of the world in exchange for payment. Completing a Contract for a Ruler automatically adds them to your contact list. |
| Improvised Spycraft | Fresh reports on recent events leagues away from their capital are often invaluable to contractors: enough to be worth purchasing them off of skilled wanderers.contract schemes involve performing various duties for the landed rulers of the world in exchange for payment. Completing a Contract for a Ruler automatically adds them to your contact list. |
| Information Leveraging | The minority represented by the contractor seeks incontestable rights in the face of prejudice. Not only the weak are vulnerable: those in power always have weaknesses that can be exploited for others' gain...contract schemes involve performing various duties for the landed rulers of the world in exchange for payment. Completing a Contract for a Ruler automatically adds them to your contact list. |
| Ingratiate Family | |
| Intimidation Tactics | The minority represented by the contractor seeks incontestable rights in the face of prejudice. A fearsome show of strength will galvanize my contractor's liege into caving to petitions.contract schemes involve performing various duties for the landed rulers of the world in exchange for payment. Completing a Contract for a Ruler automatically adds them to your contact list. |
| Learn Language | |
| Legal Interpretation | The minority represented by the contractor seeks incontestable rights in the face of prejudice. This scheme digs for legal precedents that, when invoked, can shield benighted subjects from cruel masters.contract schemes involve performing various duties for the landed rulers of the world in exchange for payment. Completing a Contract for a Ruler automatically adds them to your contact list. |
| Leverage Contribution | |
| Mediate on Behalf | When bitter local recriminations are hurled through a contractor's lands, and they themselves are thought too inept or too partisan to solve the dispute, they may offer the role of impartial mediator to suitable wanderers.contract schemes involve performing various duties for the landed rulers of the world in exchange for payment. Completing a Contract for a Ruler automatically adds them to your contact list. |
| Mentor in Governance | Attempt to improve another character's skills as a governor |
| Mentorship | |
| Minister: Find Secrets | minister conducts an investigation in the court of scheme target to find any secrets |
| Mug Wealthy Citizenry | contractors with particularly wealthy capitals produce wealthy courtiers. A back-alley bruising lets adventurers transfer that wealth elsewhere.contract schemes involve performing various duties for the landed rulers of the world in exchange for payment. Completing a Contract for a Ruler automatically adds them to your contact list. |
| Murder | |
| Murder Foe | There are times when a contractor needs someone dead, but either won't risk orchestrating it themselves or is too preoccupied with other matters. Fortunately, murder is easily outsourced to the right kind of people.contract schemes involve performing various duties for the landed rulers of the world in exchange for payment. Completing a Contract for a Ruler automatically adds them to your contact list. |
| Open Dialogue | The minority represented by the contractor seeks incontestable rights in the face of prejudice. A genial dialogue will foster mutual understanding and guide us through these thorniest of issues.contract schemes involve performing various duties for the landed rulers of the world in exchange for payment. Completing a Contract for a Ruler automatically adds them to your contact list. |
| Overthrow Regent | |
| Perform in a Play | The people are eager to encounter a true knight. The contractor is in need of a real hero.contract schemes involve performing various duties for the landed rulers of the world in exchange for payment. Completing a Contract for a Ruler automatically adds them to your contact list. |
Abduct
Abduct Foe
Ambush Travelers
Befriend
Boundary Dispute
Burn Property
Challenge Status
Claim Throne
Coerce Contribution
Coerce Tributary
Collect Taxes
Conduct Census
Confidence Trickster
Convert to Witchcraft
Create Work of Learning
Damage Legitimacy
Depose
Disbelieve Mandala
Do a Passage of Arms
Elevate Governorship
Elope
Expand Power Base
Fabricate Hook
Find Secrets
Flog Talismans
Foster Legitimacy
Generate Claim
Heist Treasury
Hired Muscle
Hobnob with Ruler
Hunt Criminals
Impersonate Tax Collector
Improve Ruler Reputation
Improvised Spycraft
Information Leveraging
Ingratiate Family
Intimidation Tactics
Learn Language
Legal Interpretation
Leverage Contribution
Mediate on Behalf
Mentor in Governance
Mentorship
Minister: Find Secrets
Mug Wealthy Citizenry
Murder
Murder Foe
Open Dialogue
Overthrow Regent
Perform in a Play