Tim Merchant

Drunk Bosmer merchant in Skyrim

This is a simple pattern I made for myself and am now sharing for anyone who might enjoy it too. This little guy is mainly for weapon merchants to add to their mods, but I made him versatile so he can sell or buy other items as well

For mods that add new items to the game. Sometimes they require you to craft them, and other times they may distribute them to the world as loot or enemies can use them. I limit these types of changes to the mod to personal preference to prevent clutter in my crafting inventory and reduce world editing. I also like that NPCs can't share unique items unless I give them to them. While I can grab whatever I want using additem I don't want to get a bunch of good stuff for free. What I wanted was a merchant that could sell me items for mods based on my level that I could replace with my sick gold, so Tim was born

The way I set it up is that if I ask him to sell all the items, he will randomly draw from the lvld list so that his choices will change every time you visit him. I like this and it makes him feel like a merchant rather than an add-on item that also requires your gold. So when you progress in your level after a raid or 2 then see him, drink some beer, make a stew and see if he has anything new you want

main document

This will put Tim in the world ready to sell. This is also a method that myself and others can use to create new optional files to expand his inventory. This is intentional, there aren't any optional mods loaded that won't take too much away from the base game. There are many other existing merchants. His purpose is mainly to sell new items from other mods through optional add-ons, which are loaded after being made for him

Optional files

These addons only allow Tim to sell items from listed mods. You will need to access and DL the original mod to get the files as I won't be including them here. Unless otherwise stated, all changes will be made via the new plugin, which is intended to be used in place of, not alongside, any original

It should be noted that I may have changed the stats including cost, dmg, materials, etc. depending on what they can buy. The stats should suit most users, but if you feel they are too strong or weak for your game, then you can change them yourself in Xedit or CK to whatever you want

The main files should not be merged and left unchanged, but if you use more than 1 optional then they should be merged. When merging them, make sure that the merge adds each form to its chest, not just the last form in the merged list. If you combine all optional present and future, you only have 2 available slots, which is acceptable considering the number of items he might be able to sell you. The problems caused by merging the main files to save 1 plugin slot is not worth it, so don't do it. Remember, whenever you add or remove optionals, you need to rebuild the merge.

For convenience I will host a merge of all options so you don't have to, but if you don't want them all you will need to create your own

SOSB will not start selling until you are 25 years old. This is intentional, as these weapons are intended for the mid-to-late game, as the game's silver weapons drop early. So for the early game just steal some silver hands and check back later because you'll really appreciate it later on in Lady Stone South

Location

Traveling south to fight the powerful undead, he camped near the shore

Credits

Tim wears Viltuska's barbarian loincloth