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I've been patrolling your recent edits, and I wanted to say that I really appreciate the work you do. I found your summaries of edits really helpful in the patrols, so please keep doing that! Thank you for your contributions lately!
I also have a couple of screenshots of instances that I would like to add; Though I have yet to figure out a routine for editing and posting these pictures. I'd appreciate it if someone could help me - maybe I could take pictures of creatures, landscape, locations, etc and funnel them to you? Talk to me if you're interested!
I'm also trying to figure out what to do with Lore-Master stats for NPC's that turn evil and become creatures later on in the quest line (ie. Ordlac) Would I create a new creature page and link it to the NPC page, or edit the existing NPC page?
Help:Images is a pretty decent guideline to preparing and uploading images
My thoughts would be to create a new creature page and link it to the NPC page via a disambiguation link or similar
