By adding using the "player.addperk" command, I can successfully give myself a perk.

If I click on an NPC and use the "addperk" command, I can't get the intended effect.

Am I missing something or is it not really working?


*EDIT*

My perk causes a bleeding effect which has a spell flag of 0x0025. Could that be the cause?

It should do are you sure you have the right flags set for the perk effect(s)? I think NPCs use perks not sure though.

That's a good question, haha! Do you happen to know where I could find info on the various flags?

Well looking at the perks using SkyEdit it seems to me perks are only for the player.

Hmm, that's not good

When I used the "addperk" command on NPC's, there was no error or message, so I assumed it gave them the perk. It's a rather simple bleeding effect. They just never cause bleeding, haha!

I think Plutoman was talking about giving NPC's perks, though I'm not sure if his are truly perks or if they just act like perks. Quite interesting

yeah i was a bit sad to learn NPCs can't use perks. I was trying to give my follower the perk that lets you not set off pressure plates.

You sent me a PM, but I'll respond here for general knowledge.

If you open up NPC records inside tessnip or tesvsnip (preferably the latter), you can see that NPC's do indeed have perks attached to them. The problem being that they will likely need to be attached out of the game or through a script, rather than a command. I've got a program set up that allows them to be added via a text file through some various configuration. I'll send you off a test version Kage.

Sounds great! Thank you so very much!

Pluto can I obtain that as well? I would really like to do something like that. I want every NPC to have the block runner perk (not being able to run and block is very annoying).

The way it was in FO3, you could add any perk to an NPC, but most had no effect. The perk "hooks" are not triggered. In a few circumstances the perk was implemented through a script instead of a perk hook, and those would work as "npc.hasperk XXXX" would return true in the script.