Spawnees and conversations

When a creature is added to an encounter if it already has a conversation it seems from my experimentation that the conversation will not fire. What does work is an onconversation script. So far, I have used these with the convo in SpeakStrings but can't see why it can't also start up a convo by tag.

My encounter creatures aren’t wandering around. How can I fix this?

My encounter creatures aren’t wandering around. How can I fix this?
Make sure your spawn script has the following:

if (GetIsEncounterCreature())
SetSpawnInCondition(NW_FLAG_AMBIENT_ANIMATIONS, TRUE);

Even friendly encounters must be hostile

You can have an encounter spawning lots of lovely grannies or doggies, but the encounter itself must be set to Hostile, or to a faction hostile to the player.