Two of my favorite characters in the game are the Argonian innkeepers in Riften's Bee & Barb: Keerava and Talen-Jei. I can befriend Talen-Jei by doing his quest, but is it at all possible to befriend Keerava? She is a very grumpy Argonian and always greets my character rudely, telling me to get out if I don't have any money, and I'd like to change that if possible. What are my options? Do I even have any? I know people can become your friends for a variety of reasons, the loosest of which involves dropping items and having them ask you for it. I tried that for a decent amount of time when I was still playing the game last year, but only one other NPC in the tavern asked me if they could keep the item I dropped, and then, they didn't even bother picking it up. If I talked to them again, they would simply ask for the item again over and over. Granted, half the time I dropped the item, a brawl broke out and people ended up dead. Had to reload.

So are some characters simply incapable of becoming your friends? Are they programmed not to respond to dropped items? I wish I could get her to warm up to me, especially since I helped out Talen-Jei.

That's pretty much it.

Now, some NPCs that can ask you for a favor will appear rude or indifferent at certain stages of the game. You can try talking to them again at a different time of the day, or after other events have happened. However, for the most part, NPCs that want you to do a favor are pretty up front about it.

As for Dropped Items, not all NPCs are set to care about that.

That's unfortunate. When you include all of the quests, all of the chores, and all of the investments, you can become friends with nearly every person in Skyrim. But the one person I want to be friends with, I can't be friends with.

I wish disposition was still in the game the way it used to be.
In Morrowind it was no problem getting people to like or hate you.

There has to be a way to raise disposition for masses of people like an entire town, or there has to be another reason why an orc just told me before I did his quest "I like you, you are now a Blood-brother".

Disposition is a mechanic that could have really made this game come alive.