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Is there any support by default for bringing in conversations saved in csv, xml, or whatever at runtime to populate a dialogue db? The idea is that the writer can just dump their dialogue into a directory without having to do any fiddling in the editor.

Absolutely! http://play.chatmapper.com/ (which is driven by the Dialogue System) does this. The most robust format to import at runtime is Chat Mapper XML. Use the ChatMapperToDialogueDatabase utility class.