Hush - NPC Dialogue Throttle

What it does

Dragon's Dogma 2's ambient dialogue has no real cooldown — the same NPC lines and pawn barks get repeated constantly, especially in towns or with a full party. This mod throttles both independently:

Town NPCs - two cooldowns working together: how often any NPC nearby is allowed to speak at all, and how long one specific NPC has to wait before repeating. Each NPC's cooldown is slightly randomized so a group that all spoke up at once doesn't stay stuck talking in sync forever.

Pawns

(yours and party members) - a per-speaker cooldown, a separate cooldown on repeating the exact same line, and a chance-based roll so even an off-cooldown repeat doesn't always play. Minimap markers on blocked lines can be kept or suppressed.

Hire Pawns

- stray pawns roaming the world no longer walk up and solicit you to hire them.

Сonvenience and safety

Quest and story conversations are never throttled — that check is always on and isn't something you need to configure.

All settings are adjustable in real time from the REFramework menu and autosave as you change them — no buttons, no restart required.

Requirements

REFramework

Credits

Pawn dialogue hook based on the approach used in Shut Up Pawns! (emoose). Stray pawn "for hire" hook adapted from r457DontSpeak (r457 & gh057).