Are you on Mac or PC?
For Mac, I put this together a while back.
Dialogue for Macs thread. Hope that's a little helpful...
The numbers above the qwerty keyboard are mostly critical when you walk up to an npc-- they correspond to the spawn number of the npc, so if you want to talk to the 4th guy you made, you need to use these keys when you type in:
dialogue ##(outcome of conversation-- like fight, win level, etc)(4-- spawn number)dialoguename
(EDIT-- I might have the effects of those numbers in the wrong order-- check the wiki again)
The head movement stuff is for moving heads when you "film" your cutscene... this is done on the number pad, and is very handy for dramatic stuff and for making the characters actually look like they're having a conversation.
For PC, there's a fantastic
Dedit thread.
For strength, speed, and damage resistance, here's another old post that may be of some use:
"Yeppers, when you're building levels you can mess with all kind of stuff on every character: change speed, size, proportion, "armor" (against sharp things-- though the maximum I ever got is up to 8 sword slashes) blunt force tolerance ("protection" -- seems like the sky's the limit on this) color of clothes and skin by using "tint"...
Of course there are limits to what looks realistic-- anything above about 1.2 speed starts looking cartoonishly fast, for instance. And the idle animation looks like the character's in an old undercranked silent film-- totally corny Keystone Kops style.
The .png armor art has no effect on how much damage a character can tolerate, btw-- it's just clothing like a shirt. But in conjunction with a leetle boost in assigned damage resistance it's a really cool effect-- looks great, and protects the wearer like, well, armor.
one glitch I got a kick out of was typing in a really bright tint like tint 0.7 0.0 1.0, then typing: clothes lonsleeve <---(NOTE MISSPELLING) Then you can add more layers of the same tint and the color gets even more intense.
This makes your entire fur an awesome silly purple, or whatever. Looks great on white bunnies and wolves. Easter!!!"