could completing a quest using console command break your game?

[trimilkcornbrush]

My problem is that i dont want to trade any of the holds to anyone during the main quest, seems stupid to choose, i like the holds the way they are. so if i skipped season unending would i break my game would all the quest stay the same, or would the holds that could be traded have broken quest and problems with the npcs? or if anyone knows of a way to play and keep everything the same please do tell me./

[cdcooley]

Using console commands to set quest stages can break your game, so in general it's a bad idea.

 

And I agree that particular quest is extremely annoying. You might want to try my Not So Fast Main Quest mod. It's designed to make three changes to the main quest and skipping those annoying negotiations is one of them.

[forskyrimmods]

It's best not to use console commands to skip a quest it can break a lot of things. It's hard to test it out since you won't know until a few hours after playing. Personally it would be too risky.

[phantompally76]

Consoling quest completions CAN break your game. But on the other hand, so can 99% of the mods on this site.

 

Sometimes, you're left with no other recourse other than to console, especially when completing an objective doesn't register as completed by the engine, and when no amount of reloading saves will solve the issue.

 

In your case, you can avoid that quest entirely only by choosing a side in the war and by taking Whiterun before you get to that point in the main questline.

 

Anyway, the whole point of that quest is to illustrate how just because a jarl is a jerk doesn't necessarily mean that he/she is not the best choice for the job, and that just because a jarl is benevolent doesn't necessarily mean that he/she is suited for the task (others will probably try to argue this point, but in the end the choices don't matter all that much....all the jarls are superfluous to the Dragonborn). At any rate, there's nothing stopping you from advising that the jarls all remain the same. You'll just have to take note of who the jarls of each hold are, and afaik there is some randomness involved in which ones will be addressed in the discussion.

[simtam]

Yeah, I'd give it a go and skip it.

 

Unless you plan to break the game by using the Dragonsreach in the middle of the battle for Whiterun, you'll be fine.