I'm not squeamish or anything, but I think the gore in New Vegas is absurdly over the top. Limbs should not explode like pork-filled firecrackers when hit by a shotgun at medium range, 9mm rounds should not detach heads from necks and so on. Does anyone know any good mods that can tone it down just a little?

There was a mod posted here that did just that, but it was months ago and it's not available on Nexus.

However Wrye Flash's Bashed Patch has a tweak where you can set the chance of explosion/dismembering (Tweak Settings -> Gore:Combat Dismember/Explode part chance), setting both to 0 would prevent this from happening.

XFO, also has one esp that tones down the gore, it only tones down the chance of
decapitation or amputation, but it turns it down from 75% and 50% down to 10%

You only have to use the one esp from XFO, that's the only other one I can think of.
I didn't even know that Wrye Flash had that option.

Or if you want more control, alter it yourself. The settings for it are fairly simple, just modify the "on hit" information. For example, its a pet peeve of mine as well that 9mm guns shouldn't cause heads to explode or dismember limbs. So I select the "no dismember/explode" option. However, the downside to that method is you cannot specify medium range only limb explosions for shotguns. (Neither can the other methods, all they can do is just reduce occurrences)

XFO has an option that greatly reduces the chances of decapitations and what not.
I'll try to find the mod that changes which weapons could dismember.

Arwen had a good gore remover for FO3 ("Gore No More"). I know she's modding for NV, so she might have something.

Arwen's realism core tones down a whole lot, it's also pretty dang neat for other reasons. Check it out.

realistic death and dismemberment physic.esp

I'm running this one, doesnt effect the gore, but the realism

That's the one i was i thinking. Anybody know where it can be found?

cant find it on nexus anymore, so here you go

http://rapidshare.com/files/450178128/Realistic_Death___Dismemberment_Physics.esp

Thanks. And if i remember correctly it was never on Nexus, the author had some disagreements with them or something :shrug: Or then i'm thinking of some other mod.

FOOK?