Martin Dialogue Variety

Martin Dialogue Variety

Overview

I sometimes like to bring Martin along on my adventures before dropping him off at Cloud Ruler Temple, but his dialogue gets repetitive, and not even the dulcet tones of Sean Bean's voice can prevent that. To help alleviate the repetition, Martin Dialogue Variety grants him earlier access to some generic lines otherwise locked behind later parts of the game. The mod also does a few other things. First, it allows Martin to enter conversations with other NPCs. In vanilla, most of his AI packages disallow this. I linked some of his lines to other topics so they actually work in conversations. However, the conversations are short and mostly consist of Martin and the other NPC greeting each other. Second, if told to wait, he now walks around instead of standing completely still. Third, he is allowed to fall and swim while following the player. Last, he can check corpses and say his corpse-checking line. Be sure to manage your expectations: this is a small mod without any new dialogue, but it does still lessen the repetition.

Things to note

There are more lines of his that can likely be unlocked safely, but more testing is required. Those may come in future updates.

Compatibility

The mod only edits some of Martin's dialogue and a few of his AI packages.

Installation

Extract the contents of the archive to the Data folder of your The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion installation.

Ian Patterson et al. for OBSE.

llde et al. for xOBSE.

shadeMe for the Construction Set Extender.

ElminsterAU et al. for xEdit.