I know New Vegas is only weeks away, but I figured it couldn't hurt to ask.

its pretty simple, really. I was playing Fallout 3 and thought it would be cool if you could sneak up to an NPC and slit their throat. so I was thinking like a high-level perk that requires superior sneak and melee weapons skills, that when you make an sneak attack on an enemy NPC with a combat knife, say, you slit their throat, quickly and quietly, killing them instantly. Their DR or amount of health doesn't matter because you are close enough to go right past their armor and deal a fatal blow. Obviously, this wouldn't work on robots or bugs. so it only works on raiders (or humans), ghouls, and super mutants.

I assume you want the cool animation and everything?

No. So learn how.

ooh rah on the Eagle, Globe,and Anchor but I don't think you will have much luck on getting someone to make this for you :shakehead:

Probably a lot more work than you think it is.

Even if the animation can be copied from an Oblivion mod, and I'm not sure it could be, there is still substantial scripting to make it work.

This is a really easy one to make, to the extent it's not really worth anyone else's time doing it. Take the Sandman perk, look at the conditions, change/remove/add to them. The GECK wiki has details on all the functions you can use for conditions.

^^^ Zero scripting, all you need's a perk that adds a new activate option "Backstab" conditioned on the player being hidden, with "Kill Player" in the script. Animations aren't really a necessity.

I think that is the whole point of the OP's request, have the animation of the NPC cutting someone's throat from behind.

Now, I hear there's this game called Rogue Warrior ...

Threads like this make it svck to be a modder.

I'd do it if I knew how, but it's apparent a few people know it's in their ability.

http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=9396 does not have a throat slice but it does have the ability to assassinate while stealthed with Melee Weapons.

...no, he described a new game mechanic, one that'd work whether you had a throat-slitting anim or if it played you lighting a cigarette and quoting the Spy from TF2 instead.