This guide is a bit dated but still very useful, thank you so much.

If you're interested in sharpening it up, I'd recommend walking through it again yourself with the latest version of the construction set. Certain GUI and functions no longer appear as they did when this guide was written many years ago, particularly for dialogue.

interesting but turned too complicated when supposed to add dialogue

add root and add child dont appear in my mod editor. i followed the guide to a t, or at least i thought i did, was the mod editor just updated?

Thanks for the free detailed guide, I've always wanted to add recruitable and enemy NPC's with randomized stats that I get from online random number generators.

Are npc stats still tied to certain number ranges? I've tried changing stats on certain NPC's in the past who seem to be too weak lore-wise and gameplay-wise able to live in harsher regions but when for example; I set an NPC to have 30 in combat skills for some reason they tend to end up with negative stats on other skills.

Besides that I already know how to make high stat npc's recruitable so I'm good on that part. Do I have to make sure every stat has more than 0 skill or is there something else in play that I have overlooked?

Well done!

Nevermind i fixed it one of the conditions was breaking it

I'm not quite sure what is making him unable to speak cause i t gave him Doc and Rukas dialogues to see if the custom dialogue was the problem. but it didn't do much he still was unable to speak i tried to take away the dialogue package to see if it was messing with the Recruitment dialouge some how. but it didn't seem to change anything

The dialouge started with NPC and Monologue was set to true

Also check if monologue is false

Did you start with player or NPC in the dialogue tree?