LE Fleeing Villagers - Make ordinary townspeople run away from an attacki

[billionsofthem]

I'd love to have a mod like Run For Your Lives, but which applies to attacks by the player character.

 

If you attack someone within a town or castle, then town guards and other NPCs would attack you, but Fralia Gray-Mane or a skeevy douche like Belethor would have the decently sane sense to realize that attacking you with their bare hands isn't actually an intelligent course of action and would instead run the f*** away.

 

Basically it'd just be nice to play a version of this game where NPCs show at least the level of rationality and regard for their own well-being as people in the world of Grand Theft Auto.

 

Every once in a while I get the urge to pick a fight with one of the guards or, say,

 

kill a goddamn chicken

 

but having every single person in the town swarm me and start trying to punch me to death tend to kill my joy (especially when I could kill all of them with an angry word)

 

I've looked around for something like this and haven't found anything so i figure it can't hurt to ask.

Edited August 30, 2013 by billionsofthem

[GoldenDragonRider]

Greetings, I haven't seen a mod that answers your questions but... Are you into modding? If you are, you can use the Creation Kit to modify the Confidence of characters you want changed. This is in Actors/(character you want edited)/AI Data/Confidence. For example: Belethor has "Average" confidence, you could reduce it to "Cowardly" after that you can set who he helps (in the same tab). His Assistance is set to "Helps Allies" you can have this changed so he "Helps Nobody". Together he should run away from nearly any battle, unless he himself is attacked then he might fight back (self defence and all). And you also mentioned "Fralia Gray-Mane" just so you know, she is cowardly, but she also is supposed to helps allies. But you can fix that. I could do the mod for you, but doing that for all the NPCs you think should be cowardly would be a bit too tedious... But, good luck with the mod if you decide to make it else, just keep an eye out for the community.

[ScottC12]

Run for Your Lives mod makes non-guard NPCs run indoors during dragon attacks, and there is another similar mod that makes non-guard NPCs run indoors during vampire attacks (which increase with the Dawnguard DLC). I am no modder, but what you are asking for seems to be a variation on existing mods, with the difference being the player character is the attacker.

 

I also marvel at the programmed insanity, ignorance, or sheer cohones of lone (or small groups of) thieves, bandits, assassins, Thalmor, and other idiots that dare to threaten the Dragonborn and his friends when they should be running, hiding, or executing a fighting withdrawal. At least the bears have an excuse - they don’t know any better….