Honestly is there any way to do the the "Foreign Relations" approach of the Power Grab quest without having to have sex with the leader of Tredony or their husband/wife. I hate this.

In my game the leader of Tredony happened to be a man, and the wife the game spawned for him was extremely ugly so I ended up seducing him instead. Which I hated to do because my King is already married, to a woman, and I hate to cheat on her... much less with another man.... but I needed those pesky Security aspect points cause my kingdom was going downhill with bandits

i never tried that one but usually when i wanna skip a part of the quest i just ctrl + click on the icon, with testingcheats on.

That's just one option of doing the quest as far as I remember. The game also gives you an option to send your maid to the secret meet in the woods instead of going yourself.

With Grimreefer's core mod, you can set your kingdom aspects to the correct levels, and practically skip this entire ambition. no more Downlow Kings!

You can?? I am using Grims Core, where is the option to fix kindomg aspects?!?!?

using grim's core mod for the P&N/2.0 it should be in the first menu when you left click on your hero sim. it's under *Debug: Set Kingdom Aspect* i just set each one to 12 and that takes care of the bandits and what-not.

If you don't mind doing the woohoo part, you can use Edit in CAS (part of Grim's mod) to fix the grotesque appearance/ turn them into a lady.Or even cheat, and then undo the romantic interest relationship, which is part of the normal testingcheatsenabled options.

yeah, i tend to just force click my way around woohoo if my sim is married. i don't believe in making my sims break their force-clicked vows, lolz

you can blackmail him with your royal advisor and you dont have to woohoo him