"There's a new sheriff in town..."

[Greymane]

I made the suggestion in passing over in the Marriage Mod thread about how getting married and buying a house in Primm could lead to the scenario where you've settled down enough to satisfy the townsfolk you're fit to be sheriff. Someone else thought that while this was a good idea, it really belonged in it's own mod rather than as part of the Marriage Mod. Inclined to agree, I thought I'd make a request thread for it.

 

The basic idea is for the Courier to take over as Primm's sheriff. This would net you a house in town, probably a small wage, and a discount at stores. One of your first steps would be to pick your deputy or deputies. Beagle and Meyers both would be avaliable and each offer their own benefits (Beagle is a useless coward in a fight but excels at gathering information, while Meyers is great back up but also extremely quick to leap to capital punishment) for a price, while Primm Slim could still be reprogrammed as a cheap but also less effective alternative.

 

How well you care for Primm and the choices you make would have a wide spread effect on the town. Despite being a sheriff in name, you'd function a little closer to being a mayor as the final arbitrator on most disputes in addition to enforcing the law. How do you deal with a splinter tribe of Great Khans who recently set up camp near Primm and began making people nervous? If a child is kidnapped from town, do you hunt them down alone despite odds against you? Do you raise a posse from the citizens, even though it means putting them in harms way or do you take your deputies with you and leave the town unprotected for a few days? How do you deal with Layla and her deserters when they come into town, particularly when they offer to help you protect the area? Do you offer them amnesty even if it means angering the NCR? When you find a cache of caps the old sheriff was hiding do you use it to build a jail, a school, renovate the Bison Steve so you can open it for business again, or just keep it for yourself?

 

The player should have to find themselves forced to make difficult choices sometimes. For example, Primm desperately needs a doctor and several choices come up. A Legion explorer offers to have one of their physicians secretly take up residence in town, a very young and naive doctor trained by the Followers wants the job as well, and so too does a jaded but brilliant older physician who effectively wants 50% of the Vikki and Vance casino. Any offer from the Legion is a double-edged sword, yet their doctor is competent. The Follower trained doctor is kind and earnest and works virtually for free, yet also inexperienced and may make mistakes, even cost lives later on, while the arrogant older physician will improve the health of everyone town, even though his price is astronomically steep.

 

I could even see this going out of Primm, into the other small communities like Goodsprings, Novac, and maybe even a resettled Nipton. Sort of a 'Desert Rangers Reborn' style mod, though that's probably extremely ambitious. Not that this isn't already.

[GirlGamer55]

This is exactly what I was looking for! We need this.