Ordinary People - NPC Overhaul
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 0.5% endorsement rate
- 🏆 #52 of 84 NPC mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
A personal overhaul of several Skyrim and Solstheim NPCs, named and unnamed, in my niche style}.
Made from facegen assets of Charmers of the Reach, and custom self-ported-self-repainted face textures (full list of credits down below). Plus a lot of fiddling in OutfitStudio and Nifskope.
It doesn't cover every single NPCs. I originally made it to cover a few select NPCs (and it snowballed from there), then I made it to complement my existing face replacers and RedguardDiaspora's amazing True Sons of Skyrim and Men of Skyrim (link to his Patreon).
And if you don't see a particular NPC covered, it's probably because I already covered them in my other overhauls:
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]Thieves Guild[/][
]Dark Brotherhood[/][
]Diplomatic Immunity[/][
]Daedric Princes[/][
]Marcurio[/][
]Serana[/][
]Harkon and Valerica+ go check out Kids in Nirn! It's a collab between me and draqqable :-D
Feel free to make a bug report or PM me if there's any issues. I'd gladly help.
List of all overhauled NPCs are here.
Technical details/known bugs:
- Racial Skin Variance exclusion patch included. It's technically a SPID file that distributes the "RSVIgnore" keyword to every NPCs overhauled with the mod. The patch won't do anything if you don't have Racial Skin Variance installed.
Even in the off chance RSV is updated to work with CotR-based overhauls in the future, making all of the NPCs use the exact same, albeit racial-based diffuse and/or normal textures will most probably ruin the intended look of their faces (a button nose doesn't look like a button nose anymore, cleft chins no longer look like cleft chins, etc) and render my Nifskope tinkering useless. So please, exclude 'em.
- Incompatible with VHR - Vanilla Hair Replacer due to headpart naming conflict. If you use it, you'll see the dreaded dark face bug or floating mouth NPCs on a few NPCs. Please choose this or the other; it would be a painstaking task for me to redo every single facegen that uses vanilla hair to make them compatible.
- Hair textures further edited to be rough, natural and uniform to each other (no shiny-haired NPC next to a matte-haired NPC). Custom eye textures based on Lograam's The Eyes of Beauty and Khisartin's Eyes mod 3.
- Optimized for performance. 2K body and face textures, 1K for hair and 512px for eyes, BC7 compression. Tintmasks are mostly 1K (2K for NPCs with tattoos), some particularly plain NPCs get 512px tintmask. Hairs on the higher-poly e
A personal overhaul of several Skyrim and Solstheim NPCs, aiming to improve their appearance. With 1,409 endorsements and 309,600 downloads, it's a popular choice for players seeking a more natural look for key characters. Last updated in July 2026, it remains relevant for current Skyrim versions.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Huge community trust: 1,409 endorsements and over 300k downloads
- Covers both Skyrim and Solstheim, so you get a consistent overhaul across the base game and DLC
- Recently updated (July 2026), so it's likely compatible with current Skyrim versions
⚠️ Cons
- No screenshots or comparison images provided, making it hard to judge the visual style before installing
- May conflict with other NPC overhauls if you use multiple mods that edit the same characters
For Skyrim players who want a subtle, personal touch on NPC appearances without a massive overhaul that changes every character. If you're tired of vanilla faces and want a community-approved alternative, this is worth a shot. Skip if you need detailed documentation or before/after previews—this mod is a bit of a mystery until you install it.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Use a mod manager like Vortex or Mod Organizer 2 to install and manage this mod easily.
- If you're using other NPC overhauls, load this one after them to ensure its changes take priority.
- Check the mod's posts or comments for any known conflicts with popular mods like USSEP or other NPC mods.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Skyrim Mods
- Author
- KaruraWasabi
- Version
- 1.44
- Downloads
- 309,600
- Endorsements
- 1,409
- Category
- NPC
- Created
- 3/23/2024
- Updated
- 7/12/2026
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