Hi everyone,

First of all, I'm new to the creation kit, and any advice will be appreciated

I was thinking about making a mod that edits stats and perks of hold guards. By editing EncSoldierImperialTemplate, I was able to make changes to some of the stats and perks. However, changing levels in creation kit did not seem to have an effect in game. For example, when i used console command "getlevel", the returned value did not reflect the change I made on EncSoldierImperialTemplate. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?

Also, I read that making edits to EncSoldierImperialTemplate and to other vanilla npcs is a bad idea, but didn't get any explanation why. Is it indeed a bad idea, and what are the risks?

This template is used by 14 other templates and npcs, so modifying it will screw all the other users.