(10-13-2018, 07:49 AM)Crice Wrote:Oh Hey I am doing really well! I took over another region and I am up to level 8. Oh wait, the people are rioting... oh and never mind the city has been destroyed and I lost.
Hah,
Yea this is how all of my games have gone so far.
For me it is the relationships that have burned me. It usually starts with them sending me a dispatch but being too far away to answer it. If you don't get back or answer you take a -1 on the relationship. Once you fall below zero they start sending spies to fuck with you. If your military is too low and they have sewn enough discontent they then invade you and kill you to get you out of the way.
Take enough relationship hits and you can be invaded if your military isn't up to snuff.
In my last game my military was fine but then my dumb ass general lost two battles "in utter failure" in two straight battles so I lost 6 military. Next came the beating drums of my enemies.
The events work as such.
Every roll is a D20. You don't see the difficulty of the event, say it is 22.
Say your general is +6.
When you resolve a 22 difficulty event if your modified result is 14 or less you have an utter failure and lose 3 of whatever the event is (Military, Econ, Loyalty etc). 15 to 21 is just a failure and you lose one. 22 to 29 is a success and you gain 1. 30 or more and you gain 3.
On a D20 a 1 always fails and a 20 always succeeds no matter the difficulty.
Reach 20 unrest and your kingdom fails, get invaded with out successfully defending and your kingdom fails, lose a war with a rival and your kingdom fails, die in some horrible way and your kingdom fails.
In general I would say be in your capitol at the start of every month. Deal with kingdom stuff then head out and advance the story. Just be back by the start of the next month. I am trying that and it works better but the quest get further and further away from the capitol so...