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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: NPC Name Location Purpose Served -- -- -- Geographic Area Example: NPC Name Location Purpose Served Adrien Swiftblade Paradox-touched Valley Tent Quest: Paradox-touched Olthoi Egg Quest Ethan Wintermaine Paradox-touched Valley Tent Quest: Aerbax's Prodigal Olthoi Hisham al-Evv Paradox-touched Valley Tent Vendor: Small Olthoi Venom Sac Shop Town Example: NPC Name Location Purpose Served Archmage Cindrue 42.6N, 33.9E - second floor Vendor: Magical supplies Ecutha the Tailor 42.6N, 33.5E - first floor Vendor: Clothing Fispur Ansel the Grocer 42.2N, 22.6E Vendor: Food and cooking supplies 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 The Template could even be used on the outdated NPCs pages.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: NPC Name Location Type Details En al-Pisci Yaraq Quest Apple Grinder of Doom Quest Merchant 12.3S, 12.3E - Desert Camp Vendor Basic Supplies Town Crier Yaraq Misc Rumors with Purpose Served divided into type and details, and with the columns sortable. --An Adventurer 13:41, 14 April 2009 (CDT)

I've finished the template using your last example as the basis, {{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. --Tlosk 13:24, 15 April 2009 (CDT)