Realm of Thrones (Game of Thrones)

Realm of Thrones (ROT) turns Bannerlord into Westeros and Essos around the War of the Five Kings: the great houses, hundreds of characters, and the Free Folk north of the Wall.

Links

• ROT on Nexus Mods (public release and the install guide)
• ROT on Patreon (newer builds, including the War Sails version)
• ROT Discord
• Slop Studios: a set of add-on mods tuned for ROT

Install

1. Delete every old ROT folder from Modules first. The ROT team says leftover files will crash the game.
2. Set the game version the ROT page lists for your build (Steam, Properties > Betas). Public and Patreon builds can target different versions.
3. Unzip with 7-Zip and check it finished with no errors.
4. Drag the ROT modules from the zip's Modules folder into your game's Modules folder.
5. Install Harmony, UIExtenderEx and MCM (plus ButterLib, which MCM needs).
6. Unblock the DLLs (see Start Here).
7. In the launcher, put Harmony and the other library mods above the official modules. The ROT modules sort themselves below them. Any other mods you sort by hand.

Keep a rollback copy

ROT updates are big, and a new version can break your add-ons. Keep the zip of the version that works for you. If you're on the Patreon build, download the matching version again before you delete an old one.

With AI Influence

AI Influence works well with ROT. The community has a Realm of Thrones context pack, so ask in the AI Influence Discord. Two rules:

• Turn off ROT's scripted wars and events in its settings. Otherwise ROT and AI Influence both try to run diplomacy and fight for control.
• See AI Influence context packs for how its files work.

Known crashes

• Crash right after closing the loot screen, following a fight with the White Walker bosses in hideouts. The crash happens in ROT's own end-of-battle code. It showed up when an AI Influence NPC was travelling with the party ("follow me"). Workaround: dismiss followers before those fights, and save before you enter.
• "Shader cache version of the external module (ROT-Content) is invalid" in the log is only a warning. The game rebuilds the cache, so it's not your crash.

Don't mix

ROT is a total conversion. Don't tick it with TAOM or Empires of Europe. You can keep all three installed and switch between them, see Two campaigns, one install.