My players are getting interested in having diplomatic relations with neighboring kingdoms, so I'm reading up on Diplomatic Edicts, and I have a few questions:
1. The diplomatic edict check adds both target kingdom size and your kingdom size (divided by 5) to the DC. Doesn't it make more sense that you should subtract you own size modifier? The way it is, it just gets more and more difficult to do diplomacy the larger you get (especially since this is against a character's Diplomacy skill and not a kingdom stat). The only way to make the check passable is with an inordinate amount of bribes and gifts (which may be the intention, but I still think it sounds odd)
2. For a treaty you need 3 diplomatic edict checks and for an alliance you need 6. If you spend BP on bribes/gifts to reduce the DC, will those bribes last for all 3/6 checks, or do you have to spend BP on each of those checks?
3. On treaty and alliance checks, it says that you have to roll them in order, since particularly good or bad results may change the attitude. Am I to assume that it is meant that any of the checks that succeed with 5 or more increases the attitude by one step, and any of the checks that fail by 5 or more decrease the attitude by one step? And if this is the case, are the changes to attitude permanent for each of the rolls (so if you started at indifferent, rolled three checks for a treaty and got two 5+ and one -5, you would end up as Friendly going forward?)
4. What would you say the Size of Brevoy is? At a glance, I would estimate the entire country of Brevoy to be about twice the size of all the Stolen Lands, so somewhere around Size = 500. Do you agree?
