Talk:Generic City Guard private (Waterdeep)

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"Generic City Guard private"? What kind of article name is that? ~ Lhynard (talk) 20:32, December 26, 2014 (UTC)


 * This article was created by High admin BadCat... for basic NPC characters. Ask him directly, if you would like his response :) - Darkwynters (talk) 20:38, December 26, 2014 (UTC)

Hey, what's wrong with it? :p I hashed the idea out at Talk:City Watch (Waterdeep). Basically, I wanted a way to make articles for generic, unnamed NPCs: common bandits, soldiers and guards, typical members of organisations, etc. There is a lot of lore about for such generic NPCs: stats, rank names, standard equipment, typical descriptions and personalities, and we needed the capacity to output articles for them.

As for the name, consider "Unnamed" in place of "Generic". "Unnamed..." is for unnamed but specific characters, and "Generic..." is for non-specific characters.

So, I vote against the merger proposal. The aim of making separate articles was to be able to provide separate stats for each kind of member. Our Waterdhavian City Guard private might be a 2nd-level Fighter in 1e or a 2nd-level Warrior in 3e, but such details would needless clutter the main organisation article (since we keep stats in the sidebar, not in the main text). — BadCatMan (talk) 06:51, December 27, 2014 (UTC)