Okay, so I've occasionally delved into the modding scene for this game, mostly back in 40d when modding races was (essentially) just changing a name, body size, and some ethics in a text file... and I've found it kinda hard to get into modding in races and creatures in 2010.
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure it's simple once you know how, and for people who already do this sort of thing in situations other than Dwarf Fortress modding, but for a guy like me who's pretty much terrible at coding, even something simple like Dwarf Fortress looks a little daunting once I see all those crazy appearance modifiers and such cascading down my view.
So to get to the point, I'm just here asking for general help modding races into the game. I kinda wanted to convert the default game so that it used the demon-esque races from a world of mine, but I don't even know where to start with modding it so that all these little appearance details, like varying heights, differing horn arrangements for the different races (which are more like castes in the setting of mine anyways, but buuuhhhh)... let alone actually modding the other races in the setting. So I figured here would be the best place to ask for help.
I was wondering, since I'm horrible at modding but have plenty of ideas, if either I could A) get someone to explain it to me like I'm a total idiot, because I probably am, or B) Get somebody bored who's willing to actually help me make the races themselves. I mean, I DO have whole descriptions and quick vector images of them all, so I could easily just plop a race down and have someone help me make them. They're all humanoid, so it's probably pretty simple for anyone not an idiot like me.
Thank you all for your time!