Modifying existing creatures?

[them3otherguys]

Hello, all.

 

First and foremost, apologies if this question has been answered before. My search-fu here and the Internet-at-large has been weak.

 

What I'm wanting to know is if there's a way to modify the Death Items for pre-existing actors. For example, if I wanted to give trolls a chance to have a troll skull in their inventory on death, is there a way to modify DeathItemTroll to do this instead of simply adding a troll skull to their inventory tab and always having one?

 

Short version: is there a way to edit Death Item categories? I can't seem to find one.

[KingsGambit]

In the CK, you can find the Death Item field on the Traits tab of an NPC's properties. You can add one thing in this field which takes the form of a levelled item, or levelled item list.

 

This would be very easy to observe if you open up an NPC, such as EncTroll or EncTrollFrost to use your example. DeathItemTroll is a levelled item list which you can find under Items -> Levelled Item. You can add more items to this list as you choose (right click and hit New), in whatever quantity. You can configure it to drop one thing at random or all things on the list, you can add further levelled items to the list to increase randomness, you can configure probabilities for each individual item, the quantities, the (player) levels at which different rewards are dropped, and more.

[them3otherguys]

Thanks for the quick reply. I found exactly what I was looking for and a quick in-game test of the mod showed me that I did it right. Kudos, dude.