Is there any function to read any given attribute from an npc? For example, personality, or stealth, or whatever? I seem to recall there was, thought that might be in Morrowind...

If there weren't, a good percentage of mods wouldn't exist today

The basic functions are GetAV , which returns the total active magnitude of the attribute, and GetBaseAV , which returns the base magnitude, a.k.a disregarding any 'buffs' to it, but there are OBSE equivalent functions which allow even more specific calculations

http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/Category:Actor_Values, if you can make sense of it you will be able to manipulate actor values with security, and even use OBSE functions like GetAVMod for total control of what you want to calculate.

Thank you very much, migck! Exactly what I was looking for! :celebration:

Of course, the one thing to watch for is "abilities", which affect the player's base value, but not an NPCs value.

(ie, Skeleton Key will alter the player's base security, but not an NPC's value).

In my case, I'm still trying to figure out how to detect the "temporary" abilities that come from the skeleton key, the dwemer forge, etc, as compared to the "static" ones, like the Grey Prince's Training, and treat those differently.