LE Homes for All Orphans

[MadModderJess]

I am wondering if it's possible to make a mod that allows the player to find homes for all the adoptable children in Skyrim, once the Dragonborn has already adopted all the children they can. A quest of some sort, perhaps, to match couples or single parents with children. I'd guess a hurdle here would be dialogue, but it would be nice to see other people in Skyrim adopting, since there are so many sob-story urchins and the Dragonborn can't adopt them all.

[ToppDog]

I built Dragons Keep specifically to solve the same issue, but instead of placing them all over the place, I created a boarding school for them to live in together. It has enough beds for six girls & six boys in the dorm rooms, along with six beds for your adopted children. There are plenty of npc children already running around, so they'll blend in well, as the school appears to already be in full operation. It does require the use of certain mods for this to work, which is all in the readme.

 

You could still pretend that they are adopted all throughout Skyrim by either having them live with some other followers in a new home together, or by moving the custom followers into the children's existing home, so the children maintain their daily activities.

Edited March 23, 2015 by ToppDog

[Boombro]

I built Dragons Keep specifically to solve the same issue, but instead of placing them all over the place, I created a boarding school for them to live in together. It has enough beds for six girls & six boys in the dorm rooms, along with six beds for your adopted children. There are plenty of npc children already running around, so they'll blend in well, as the school appears to already be in full operation. It does require the use of certain mods for this to work, which is all in the readme.

 

You could still pretend that they are adopted all throughout Skyrim by either having them live with some other followers in a new home together, or by moving the custom followers into the children's existing home, so the children maintain their daily activities.

But isn't the modded limit 6?

[ToppDog]

Yes, with the multiple adoptions mod you can adopt a max of six, compared to only two without the mod. And, any adopted kids have to live in the same house together due to the way the game is coded, & the creator of the multiple adoptions mod did not change that, so even if you adopt six, they will all live in the same house.

 

What my mod does is allow you to use the various follower mods of your choosing to recruit children as followers, show them where their new home is, & release them as followers so they can sandbox in their new home. All the default vanilla & DLC children are already assigned to new factions that will tell them where to sleep, play, etc. in case they are ever recruited due to becoming orphaned during a playthrough. I would also like to create a dialogue system that would assign custom followers to the same factions, but I haven't got around to figuring out how to do it yet.

 

Using this method there really is no limit on how many kids you can recruit to live there, but I kept the number of available beds in the dorm rooms to 12 (6 boys & 6 girls), with the other 12 being used by npc kids that have scheduled activities to make the dorm room look lively throughout each day. Hopefully nobody is letting so many parents die that they need all 12 beds, LOL.

 

So, if the OP really wants to make it appear that the kids were adopted & living in separate houses with different parents, it can be done with a combination of the same follower mods that I recommend using to get my mod to work. It's the same concept, just using different locations. They wouldn't truly be adopted, but the result would be the same as what the OP is looking for - children npc's living in a house with grown up npc's.

Edited March 23, 2015 by ToppDog