Hello folks. There is simply a thing I wonder.
Can I add dialogue to specific NPC without making a quest for them? When I check the Tutorials, the only way they show any dialogue is when making a quest too.
So, how do I make dialogue without neccesarily making it into a quest? I know there are many NPCs like this in the game already, but how do I make them?

'Quest' is a bit of a misnomer really since you don't necessarily have to make anything quest-related; just an empty one that you put your dialogue in. The actual stock dialogue also works this way so it's basically normal.

As long as you don't set quest stages, objectives etc. it won't ever show up in-game, you'll just get the dialogue you set up.

Ah, okay. Thanks.
So I'll just follow how the tutorials do it, but without doing the stuff related to the quest?

Yeah, I've been trying to find which quest Bethesda hides most of their stock dialog in. I mean like generic hellos that npc's say when you approach, and particularly the combat dialog. I made a follower with a unique voice and I'd love to record my own grunts and taunts!

If anyone knows where Bethesda tucked this stuff away please let us know!

They are under Quest/DialogueGeneric...there are several generic topics. And also look under Quest/DialogueCombatEncounterTypes (under the combat tab). Make sure you look in all the tabs because some is under Misc., etc.

Go to any standard voice type and export the dialogue - import the dialogue from the resulting text file into excel via the data tab as comma delimited and you will have a nice spreadsheet that you can sort anyway you want to find the quest that drives each topic or line of dialogue along with just about everything else. I built a workbook with each voicetype on separate sheets. Probably took about an hour to build for all humanoid voice types, it is a useful index.

you can have stages and objectives without showing up to the player if you need them. especially stages, this is a good tool for scripting specific fragments and separating them by stage