It’s been around since 2013 and the developers have long been tinkering with it, but playing an up-to-date version involved a bunch of irritating steps, not so much jumping through hoops as navigating some really annoying Oblivion gates. Elder Kings is a mod that turns the world of khans and popes into one filled with cat mayors and lizard barons. One of Crusader Kings II’s best mods just got a little less fiddly.