Mixing historical diplomacy with evocative Catholic guilt and contemporary porn trends, Paradox Development Studio has confirmed that, in its next Crusader Kings game, you can bang Papa. The other Papa, I mean.
Like its series predecessors, Crusader Kings 3 is a medieval strategy sim, and introduces a new “Lifestyles” system, according to a recent dev Q&A on Discord and the game’s updated FAQ, which includes choices like “Stewardship” or “Learning”. Or “Intrigue”, with its… intriguing specialisations in “Skulduggery”, “Intimidation/Torture”, and – oooooh! – “Temptation”. Those other, uh, opportunities of Intrigue notwithstanding, it’s the prospects of Temptation that got people asking the important questions about His Horniness Holiness.
Since the events of the game are based between 980 – 1450 or so, this presents a number of different possible Big Daddy contenders, but I’m betting my lunch on Benedict VI, because “six” is “sextus”in Latin and I’m totally immature like that, or maybe Pope Innocent VIII who wasn’t even pope at the time but “innocent”? I think not.