Has anyone considered making a mod that would enhance the role-playing quality of the game? I'm imagining a game in which my pretender is my character. Provinces do not produce a flow of taxable income, so recruitment of armies is difficult. But, battles yield loot (magic items to empower heroes, gold that can be used to hire lackeys, and perhaps occasionally free a fellow hero who will join my band of adventurers.
One could even imagine maps in which there are multiple levels to be explored, each corresponding to a dungeon with one or more entrances to be discovered, or possibly levels that lead to levels with even tougher monsters, a la D&D...
Perhaps even modified so that multiple players could join forces within a province, and fight together against a common foe??