TES IV, Oblivion
Shady Sam Enhanced 1.0

Many people might not know Shady Sam, since many people may not ever discover him. Shady Sam is a merchant, a fairly shady one in fact, that is included in the Oblivion game by Bethesda. What Sam sells is various poisons and lockpicks to those casual thieves who arn't members of the Thieves Guild, in fact Sam isn't affliated with the Thieves Guild at all.

I know there are various fixes to the problem of stolen goods in mods already, but it always struck me as being untrue to Oblivion's design to have all the merchants buy stolen items, or to have no items flag as stolen. Shady Sam is someone outside the law already, and deals in illicit goods. I've simply made him a Fence for non-guild thieves as well.

I've given Shady Sam an extra 200 gold to work with (to 600 gp now) meaning he's not going to be able to take your high priced wares and fence them on the market. (until you invest in him and/or become a Master Merchant of course.) I've also bumped up his mercantile skill to 85 so Sam is a tough bargainer, you're selling him stolen goods afterall.

However this should make playing a thief outside the guild a bit more viable, while at the same time keeping a little bit of an element of realism. I must stress that I have NOT added Sam into the game, and in fact he comes prepackaged with the game, he has voice work done by the actors who did the voice work for all the other NPCs, and thus sounds "authentic." All I've done his made him buy stolen goods as well, just a small fix.

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Where is Shady Sam?

Shady Sam is located near the Imperial Capital, right outside, head north from the stables, keeping alongside the wall, Shady Sam is a little way from the main gate tucked into a corner right against the wall.

Normally he sells lock picks and poisons as well as a couple other potions. I've not added anything to his wares, I've just made him accept stolen goods.

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Installing the Plugin

1. Place the file "Shady Sam Enhanced.esp" into your .../Oblivion/Data folder (wherever you installed it)
2. When launching the game, on the initial splash screen select "Data Files" and then check this mod. (Shady Sam Enhanced.esp)

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Version History

v1.0 - Initial Release

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Go ahead and use this mod however you like, a nod my way would be neat, but not required.

Find me on the Forum (when I'm not playing or modding) with a PM or attach a comment/question to this forum thread.

Enjoy!

Kilderon