Dragon Fodder - Mortal Followers

You can find High Poly Head conversions of these followers here: High Poly NPCS

In short, this mod:

-Adds 20 generic, respawning, followers to various inns and guilds across Skyrim

-Adds 12 unique, non-respawning, followers to various inns and a few non-traditional locations

-All followers from this mod can die, from anything. Enemies will continue to target and hit these followers until they are dead

-All followers are on a separate framework. You can take 1 Dragon Fodder follower along with a vanilla follower, and a pet

-Does not alter any vanilla followers. They function exactly as before and are still immortal to most enemy attacks

-Is NOT a full standalone-follower pack (e.g. depending on what skin re-textures you're using the followers's appearance will be different). Hair styles seen in screenshots ARE included with this mod.

Inspiration:

I loved the idea of followers in Skyrim but have always found them to be too much of a crutch most of the time. I wanted to be able to travel the open roads and explore dark dungeons with a faithful companion at my side, someone to aid me in battle, someone to have a drink with at the inn, or even just to give more purpose to crafting and finding gear my own character wouldn't use.

The problem though was always the same: my follower was invincible. Only under very specific, and rare, circumstances would they ever die. I was never once concerned for their well being and knew that no matter what threat we faced they would likely be just fine. This led me to never utilizing more than a few different followers per play-through, and often dismissing the ones I had to go solo so as to create a more challenging game.

I thought back to playing TES 4: Oblivion and how each of the guilds there had respawning, generic followers that could, and often did, die while joining you on your adventures.

And I thought, why not for Skyrim?

Description:

Dragon Fodder - Mortal Followers introduces a custom follower framework in which followers are no longer flagged as essential or protected in either their actor profiles or as a part of the hidden "Dialogue Quest" that sets any active follower as protected. This mod only affects followers that are introduced in this mod, and does not alter the vanilla follower framework, or make any changes to vanilla followers. The Dragon Fodder framework is nearly identical to the vanilla framework and should be compatible with your favorite follower management mod.

Dragon Fodder introduces two types of followers: Respawning and Unique. All followers of both types have the Lightfoot perk (won't set off traps).

Respawning followers are broken up into two classes: