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I find FNV SPECIAL system the most right and interesting among all the role playing systems I met in the games. But one thing bothers me - Charisma itself is a pretty useless attribute. AFAIK many players prefer not to spend any points on it, that ruins the system's integrity. So the idea is to raise Charisma usefulness by adding Charisma checks (from 3 to 5) into the companions' dialogue lines so that this companions would refuse to join a player if Charisma check is not passed (temporary boosts should not affect). I am still new to the game, I haven't dealt with the companions yet, so I am not sure how much this idea fits to the game.

I NEED TO SLOW THESE MOBS DOWN. wall of text to follow... I am hoping someone with some knowledge around here could be so kind as to help me, or at least point me in the direction of help so that I might figure out how to fix a recurring problem on my own and possibly share the result of which with others who might enjoy my fixes. My problem is with the large overhaul mods out there. They all have their own charms and downfalls to make them all worthwhile and very enjoyable but after much trial and error I have come to the conclusion that I find Cinders to have a lot to offer for those new to the mod scene, Convergence has the most to show people who want to play dark souls but at the same time play something completely different and Champion's ashes has the most to show people (only on nexus though...because imo EKWRP trumps this) like me who, after so many years of playing, need combat to feel fresh again... SO! My problem is this....Dark souls is easy. Cinders is Too easy... but Ashes and Convergence are toooooooo god damned hard for me to enjoy them for very long even though I really really want to. It's just simply no fun at all to get the s#*! kicked out of me a million times by some random motherf*#@ing pleb mob (or even easy bosses like vordt, for that matter) that I steamroll in vanilla. I tried fiddling with difficulty scaling in HoodiePatcher but quite honestly, that dont do f*#@all it seems. I just need to know what files to edit or get rid of to make the asshole peasants need to catch their breath between beatings so that I can stop torturing myself by trying over and over and over and over. Please. Pretty please, Help me.

I see a lot of NPCs in both vanilla and mods that have SPECIAL points in INT, LCK, and CHR - sometimes, in insane proportions - but I have absolutely no idea why. As far as I know, NPCs don't have any way to use these since they don't gain experience, can't deal critical hits, and don't ever deal with dialogue checks. Does anyone know if any of these SPECIAL ratings do anything? At all?