There are plenty of tutorials regarding quest dialogue, but none I can find on dialogue outside of a quest.

Is all the dialogue in the game through "quests"? I know Bethesda uses quests for more than just adventures, so are they used for standard dialogue to?

Yes, it's all in quests.

I knew it! Lol thanks mate

Even things like a follower saying, "Hey man, check out that cave!" are part of a quest ... even if the only purpose of that "quest" is to collect odd-dialogue. Quite a few vanilla quests are nothing to do with the PC and are there just to hang various scripts, functions and dialogue from.

Actually I have another question

Say I make a dialogue quest for my mod, and it's just asking an npc various question and stuff, obviously that means the quest has been started.

Can I then add more dialogue, and actual questing to that quest, and the mod user will have the new additions added. Or because they have already started this quest, will that not work?

They'll get the new dialog. I've added new dialog to existing quests.

If you add more dialogue to an already existing quest, the changes should show up for the mod user when they update the mod.

Ok thanks guys my ironing out the final stages to begin my hunting guild. This forum has really helped me cheers!

Glad to hear you figured it out, sounds like an interesting mod as well.

Thanks Steez

Been thinking how I'd have multiple quest from one guy, but it's easy to just have the actual quest's seperately (as they begin by accepting notes and challenges), and just have my npc as an alias, and giving him the skin/heart or whatever of the creature as the quest complete.

Then he can have the dialogue "quest" and it makes it all simplified.

Modding and scripting seems really daunting at first, but it's all logical isn't it. It all makes sense once you learn the functions and stuff.

Yeah, you do get that moment when suddenly it all starts to make sense ... until you get that moment when it suddenly stops making sense again (and rinse and repeat)

Lol