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I’ve been trying to make a custom follower mod for Skyrim, but I keep running into a weird issue where their dialogue options just vanish after a certain point in the questline. I followed all the standard tutorials for setting up the dialogue quest and conditions, but something’s clearly breaking that quest stage flag handoff. Has anyone else had their custom NPCs just stop talking because of a main quest dependency they didn’t account for?

Yeah I ran into this with a follower mod a while back. After a certain beat in the quest the NPC would just go mute and the dialogue lines vanished. It felt like the main quest progress was flipping a stage flag and wiping the branch conditions. I tried loosening the conditions and it still cut off.

I did a quick audit of the quest scene graph and found that the branch assignments shifted as the quest moved along. In my mod the same block would disappear after the main quest marker progressed. I logged every stage value I could find and saw a mismatch creep in at runtime.

Sometimes I worry the problem is not the script but how the game loads things. I kept thinking about a race between when the NPC is loaded and when the quest scripts run. I tinkered with load order and kept notes on what changed, but nothing felt reliable enough to pin down.

Could it be that the problem is not the dialogue at all but the quest stage logic being tied to a side effect elsewhere in the mod stack?

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