User talk:Sirwhiteout

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— Hashimashadoo (talk) 02:09, September 16, 2016 (UTC)

Welcome!
Thanks for all of your dragon edits! ~ Lhynard (talk) 11:32, September 16, 2016 (UTC)


 * SirWhite, thank you for all your recent 5e updates. Keep up the good work :) - Darkwynters (talk) 19:14, December 22, 2016 (UTC)

New Images
Thanks again for your great work adding 5e information to this wiki.

Regarding your new images, it is important for legal reasons for us to state the source and the copyright information for each one. Please see File:Shield guardian.jpg as an example. We prefer if you use the Information template. The Shield_guardian.jpg page uses the following mark-up:

Be sure to specify the source as well. Did you get these by scanning the 53 Monster Manual yourself? Or did you get them from a legal online source? If the former, you need to use the Fairuse tag instead of the Promotional tag. If neither, the image needs to be deleted.

Thanks again for joining our team!

~ Lhynard (talk) 15:39, September 17, 2016 (UTC)

Once again, thank you for your contributions; it is great to have so much new art on this site.

Could I make another request, though? Please add categories to all of the images you have uploaded. You can see the list here: your images

I am going to start working up from the bottom of the list. Please be sure to follow my lead in adding categories to any new pages and work your way down from the top of the list.

Thank you!

~ Lhynard (talk) 01:25, November 20, 2016 (UTC)

Wow, that was fast! Thanks! ~ Lhynard (talk) 05:32, November 20, 2016 (UTC)

Spell tables
Please read the Template:Spell/doc page and use the appropriate field values for the various types of spells (oaths, circles, and the new traditions, etc.). The automatic category generation code depends on finding certain words in the Spell table and will create spurious categories if the guidelines are not followed. Thank you for your contributions, and have fun! &mdash;23:52, December 3, 2016 (UTC)

Advanced features
Thanks for your work on the 5e spells. There are a few things you need to know when dealing with spells that cross multiple editions. First, for rituals in 4e and 5e, you need to add the  parameter to the Spell table so the categories are generated properly. See what I did to locate animals or plants. Only 3rd edition calls it detect animals or plants, so after I renamed the page to the 5e name, I turned off the 3e categories using  in the Spell table. I re-added the 3e categories to the redirect page. I hope that makes sense. &mdash;Moviesign (talk) 03:26, March 24, 2017 (UTC)


 * I see! Thanks for clearing that up. I had asked something to that effect about rituals in the Template talk:Spell page, but for some reason it wasn't generating the page correctly. Maybe I had messed something up. I'll get on to fix the ritual pages I edited as soon as possible then. As for redirects, the 5e name always takes precedence over older names, right? In any case, since I don't currently have previous edition sourcebooks on me, I don't feel comfortable doing the redirects and moving categories about without checking how each edition names each spell, so if what I did on Locate animals or plants is alright I could just do that for now on other spells that have changed names. Sirwhiteout (talk) 03:52, March 24, 2017 (UTC)

Food & Drink
I just wanted to say thank you for your latest project; I am quite enjoying it, and it is very helpful to a DM to be able to look up setting-specific foods. ~ Lhynard (talk) 03:15, March 6, 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks! This project started exactly during research for an upcoming Storm King's Thunder campaign. I'm glad it's being useful. Sirwhiteout (talk) 03:47, March 6, 2017 (UTC)