

If your initial ruler doesn't have Midas Touched, marry him to someone who does. It can take some work to get all of these things into your blood line. If you have one of the stewardship education traits, (the series from Indulgent Wastrel to Midas Touched), then there is a good chance you will pass it on to the child you educate when he or she reaches adulthood. Inherited traits like Genius or Quick help as well, which require planning ahead and marrying someone with one of those traits into your line and hoping to get lucky when a child is born. Also grab Gardener if an opportunity event for that arises. But be wary of ambitious, it can lead to problems. For Stewardship, you want Temperate, Diligent, Patient, Just and Ambitious. When given a choice by the events, give them the traits which add to Stewardship (or whatever your goal is). That said, a less gamey way to make rulers better is to always educate your primary heirs yourself (except as noted below), including the elder children of your adult heirs.


It did need some balancing, but someone at Paradox defines "balancing" as jumping up and down on it until it cries. I use it sometimes when I'm also using the Ruler Designer, to give my ruler more realistic traits, bad and good, like we were able to do before they broke the Ruler Designer in an ill-conceived attempt to do something or another.
