How taxing would it be to have a token of some sort placed in every NPC's inventory when you encounter them that adjusts their base HP, then removes itself from the game? Anyone have a reference walking script handy? This is more for personal use than anything else. Thanks a bunch.

I think it would be fairly simple and not very taxing at all. This is how I would do it with a quest script.

scn yourscriptnameref dudebegin gamemodeset dude to getfirstref 69 1while dude	if dude.getitemcount yourtoken == 0		;modify dude's health		dude.additem yourtoken	endif	set dude to getnextrefloopend

In this script I had the NPCs keep the token because it seemed like a good way to make sure their health was adjusted only once.

Alternatively, you could script the token to modify the dude's health instead of putting the adjustment in the quest script.