There's a lot of not-necessarily-hostile NPCs in the game that deserve a bullet to the head as soon as you meet them. Benny, Joe Cobb, maybe Vulpes Inculta too. However you'll find this is actually quite difficult to do because, under normal circumstances, you'll have put at least 2-3 bullets in them straight to the head before they go down, making for some very unsatisfying executions. There are some workaround for this that can help alleviate the problem, like using a mod that increases weapon damage multipliers, temporarily lowering the game difficulty, or exploiting sneak crits, but I figured "why go through all that trouble?" So this mod provides a workaround of sorts for this very particular problem, by adding a hidden perk to the player via a script once the game is loaded.

Providing some conditions are met, you'll be able to walk up to just about any NPC you don't like and just blast them away with a single pull of the trigger (or a single smash/slash/punch if that's more your style).
What are these conditions you ask? Well, here they are.
-You have to be within spitting distance of the target (in other words, no farther than about 3 yards from them(2.7 meters for you foreigners))
-You can not already be in combat
-You can not be sneaking (to prevent sneaky exploits against otherwise hostile targets)
-The target must be human (i.e. an NPC; animals and robots won't count)

Additional Notes:
With the latest version of this mod, I've reworked the way damage calculation works for point blank executions, to prevent damage challenges (such as Lead Dealer) from being completed far too quickly. You can read the changelog for details, but in short the mod will work as expected with only a few exceptions. If an NPC has more than 500 health, you may not be able to kill him with one shot, although you will still do a lot of damage to him (I don't think there are any NPCs with more than 500 health besides Ulysses, however).
If you play on a difficulty higher than normal, you may also encounter a few enemies that you can't one shot (although from my brief playtesting, Benny and Joe Cobb are still fair game as long as you aim for the head, and I can assume many other enemies will be as well). Realistic Weapons Damages (R.W.D.) will more or less negate these effects, so you can consistently one shot enemies on any difficulty.


I whipped this mod together real quick for my own latest playthrough of the game, but I figured someone else might get a kick out of it as well. Some people might see a mod like this as cheating, but I think it's a perfectly fair compromise between realism and gameplay balance.
Enjoy and blast away!



Here's a basic demonstration video