NPC Plugin Chooser 2

Description

This utility allows you to manage which mod provides the appearance of each NPC in the game. You can use it to easily mix-and-match appearance mods, avoiding face conflicts / dark face bugs.

Why Does This Exist?

Let’s get this out of the way: Yes, I know EasyNPC exists. A bit of backstory: Back in 2021 I created the original NPC Plugin Chooser, which was a Synthesis patcher or standalone command line program. N.P.C. was, for a time, included in Lexy’s LotD, which I’m still very proud of. Then, just a few months later, EasyNPC came out and its UI blew N.P.C. out of the water, so I let the project phase out into peaceful eternity… or so I thought.

In early 2025, I was reminiscing about the early days so I went back to look at the N.P.C. Nexus page and found something horrifying in the comments: My instructions had given someone an aneurysm. Even worse, another user chimed in and said they had one as well! I’ve always wanted to be helpful to the community and yet here I was, apparently…