Editing Forum:NPC Table Template (An Adventurer Apr 2009)

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| I have a suggestion for a new wiki template to be used in the page templates for towns, geographic areas, POIs, dungeons, and anywhere else NPCs may be found: An NPC table template, similar to the dungeon table template. Something like this:

{|cellpadding=4 style=" border:1px solid #e5e5e5; background:#F9F9F9; vertical-align:top;"
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|bgcolor=#d0d0d0 align=center valign=top| '''NPC Name'''
|bgcolor=#d0d0d0 align=center valign=top| '''Location'''
|bgcolor=#d0d0d0 align=center valign=top| '''Purpose Served'''
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| --
| --
| --
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'''Geographic Area Example:'''
{|cellpadding=4 style=" border:1px solid #e5e5e5; background:#F9F9F9; vertical-align:top;"
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|bgcolor=#d0d0d0 align=center valign=top| '''NPC Name'''
|bgcolor=#d0d0d0 align=center valign=top| '''Location'''
|bgcolor=#d0d0d0 align=center valign=top| '''Purpose Served'''
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| [[Adrien Swiftblade]]
| [[Paradox-touched Valley Tent]]
| Quest: [[Paradox-touched Olthoi Egg Quest]]
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| [[Ethan Wintermaine]]
| [[Paradox-touched Valley Tent]]
| Quest: [[Aerbax's Prodigal Olthoi]]
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| [[Hisham al-Evv]]
| [[Paradox-touched Valley Tent]]
| Vendor: [[Small Olthoi Venom Sac]] Shop
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'''Town Example:'''
{|cellpadding=4 style=" border:1px solid #e5e5e5; background:#F9F9F9; vertical-align:top;"
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|bgcolor=#d0d0d0 align=center valign=top| '''NPC Name'''
|bgcolor=#d0d0d0 align=center valign=top| '''Location'''
|bgcolor=#d0d0d0 align=center valign=top| '''Purpose Served'''
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| [[Archmage Cindrue]]
| 42.6N, 33.9E - second floor
| Vendor: Magical supplies
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| [[Ecutha the Tailor]]
| 42.6N, 33.5E - first floor
| Vendor: Clothing
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| [[Fispur Ansel the Grocer]]
| 42.2N, 22.6E
| Vendor: Food and cooking supplies
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This looks much better than what is currently in the town template, and it would allow us to list all NPCs in one section, instead of subsections for vendors, crafters, quest npcs, misc npcs, and outskirt npcs for all those categories. By using ''Location'' instead of ''Coordinates'' the the general ''Purpose Served'' we can use the same template for NPCs in locations other than towns as well. The Template could even be used on the outdated [[NPCs]] pages.

edit:

perhaps a better table still would be this:
{|cellpadding=4 style=" border:1px solid #e5e5e5; background:#F9F9F9; vertical-align:top;" class="sortable"
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|bgcolor=#d0d0d0 align=center valign=top| '''NPC Name'''
|bgcolor=#d0d0d0 align=center valign=top| '''Location'''
|bgcolor=#d0d0d0 align=center valign=top| '''Type'''
|bgcolor=#d0d0d0 align=center valign=top| '''Details'''
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| [[En al-Pisci]]
| [[Yaraq]]
| Quest
| [[Apple Grinder of Doom Quest]]
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| [[Merchant]]
| [[12.3S, 12.3E - Desert Camp]]
| Vendor
| Basic Supplies
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| [[Town Crier]]
| [[Yaraq]]
| Misc
| Rumors
|-
|}

with Purpose Served divided into type and details, and with the columns sortable.

--[[User:An Adventurer|An Adventurer]] 13:41, 14 April 2009 (CDT)
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 | Text = I've finished the template using your last example as the basis, {{tl|NPC Table}}. Add more example types if you think of some more. We had shopkeepers and vendors called one thing some places and the other in others so when I was normalizing the template names I changed uses of Vendor to Shopkeeper to align with the category. You can integrate the template into the [[Town Template]] if there's nothing else to add to it. --[[User:Tlosk|Tlosk]] 13:24, 15 April 2009 (CDT)
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