Hello. Me again. I'm the same nox that wrote the Bandit King mod for M&B back when. Ex-game dev and grumpy old man.

I'm developing against this mod for personal use, and am interested in reaching out to the author to offer collaboration.

I can either publish a derivative mod, or update this one or publish nothing if you wish. It's your mod, so you decide.

What I am doing is -

- developing generic dialogue classes for prisoner recruitment for all classes of npcs (with lots of interesting conditions and specialities)
- adding recruitment dialogue packages to all non-storyline breaking NPCs

The three classes of recruitment I see are :

- releasing prisoners from cages that the PC did not imprison
- releasing the player's own prisoners
- rescuing friendly NPCs that are recruitable (like disarmed, near-KO, wounded etc.) - if you are saving their lives and they like you, you might be able to talk them into recruitment too

the idea is to make recruitment orthogonal and consistent but also interesting.

I'm developing against this mod because it already has a following and it was a good idea so I'd like to improve it.

Anyhow, let me know.