Quote Originally Posted by SirNibbles View Post
It's like telling the truth is somehow inferior to lying, unless you go with Diplomacy to convince people of the truth. But what happens when you have someone with a high diplomacy score on the other side? They are good at diplomacy so they outroll you and think you are lying even though you're telling the truth?
Well most of the time it is. Especially when trying to convince enemies not to fight you. They still get a chance to disbelieve your lie if they Sense Motive. They would also get a huge bonus to a ridiculous story like the tower is going to explode. Diplomacy is just another example of that and failing at it means they don't trust you. However, these are enemies. They didn't trust you to begin with. You're rolling to adjust their trust of you into the positive range. Surely they won't just roll over and take that without an opposition check to shift their reaction towards you (or at very least some Charisma silliness).