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I understand I have to start at level one, follow all the rules regarding gear, money, experience, items, fame, etc.... But I really liked the character that died. I know there is no getting him back, However, is it possible to make this characters new backstory that the soul of my previous character was reborn into this new body? Or maybe some druid somewhere brought the soul back, and put it into a homunculus? I'm not doing this for any experience or trying to cheat death, I don't even want him to keep the memories if that isn't possible, I'm thinking purely because I liked the name and the physical appearance of the character, as well as the personality. I just wanted to know, is it legal?
Anyway, I know that is a pretty big question, and I appreciate the answers I get ahead of time. I just feel I put a lot of myself into this character, and it would really suck to lose him.
Venture-Lieutenant, Indiana—Northwestern Indiana
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Very often, players will chip in to raise a character from the dead. Note that this is not always an option.
If the new character is interacting with the former character's associates, they may be a bit creeped out by claims of reincarnation. Your new character could be a relative or a stranger who looks like the old character and there is a lot of fun role playing opportunities there. (Besides identical cousins, you may have others mistaking your new character for the former one.)
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Unfortunately, raising the dead isn't an option, as he was only level 3 so his fame/prestige wasn't high enough, and it was a TPK so there was no bringing his body back.
5 pp will recover a body. (with your stuff)
If you're all dead anyway, you may as well sell all of your stuff and pool it to res SOMEONE in the party.
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Unfortunately, raising the dead isn't an option, as he was only level 3 so his fame/prestige wasn't high enough, and it was a TPK so there was no bringing his body back.5 pp will recover a body. (with your stuff)
If you're all dead anyway, you may as well sell all of your stuff and pool it to res SOMEONE in the party.
That's why the gods gave us potatahs. "One potatuh. Two potatah..."
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You can always create a new character with identical stats, name (except for a "2" after it in the online database or something), etc and claim that he was raised from the dead, but couldn't get his equipment back or cover the negative levels, which is why he's starting over at level 1.
Or be his identical twin brother. Or aliens decided to make a clone of him. Or his son, carrying on the father's legacy.
But all of these would be purely role playing and have no mechanical impact. Mechanics-wise, you're still playing a brand new level 1 PC.
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-the one that died was a doppleganger
-You were duplicated by a magical transporter tapestry accident
-identical triplets
-Reincarnated by a druid, who curse you out for using up all the luck they wanted to use in magnimar
-brought back from the dead by a deity... who wants to collect a favor. A lot of them.
-You accidentally wandered into kyras cloning vat
-test of the new semilacrum blog
-experimental remote control body.
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Portable tub?One of the guys in our area has played multiple iterations of the same Time Oracle, with the "bit" being that these different characters are all the same time-traveling character at different points in her timeline. It's pretty fun, actually.Where did he get a big blue phone booth?
Or some strange contraption with a giant wheel in back?
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Or some strange contraption with a giant wheel in back?Portable tub?One of the guys in our area has played multiple iterations of the same Time Oracle, with the "bit" being that these different characters are all the same time-traveling character at different points in her timeline. It's pretty fun, actually.Where did he get a big blue phone booth?
It's on the chronicle sheet for Scenario 10-13 (10-11 subtier).
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This might be relevant: How many of those have you got?
Silliness aside, I'd suggest throwing in some other random quirk to help differentiate the new PC from the old. Especially to those who may have been familiar with your first PC from a previous adventure, it can make the roleplaying more enjoyable for both sides.
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DO NOT MAKE ANY MORE POSTS USING THE FIRST CHARACTER'S NAME.
You can still change the name of your dead character before you've posted 10 times, and you're currently at 9 assuming this is the character. Then you can re-use the name in your new character after you've freed it up.
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Zak is correct. I tend to change the name of my dead characters to 'the late'. I did that with one PC who died in the first level of Thornkeep, and created a new character using the name again.
It's funny because the concept behind the character(s) is that he's a member of the Belmont clan from the Castlevania video game series, so it's like I just lost a life and had to start back at the beginning of the level.
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DO NOT MAKE ANY MORE POSTS USING THR FIRST CHARACTER'S NAME.
You can still change the name of your dead character before you've posted 10 times, and you're currently at 9 assuming this is the character. Then you can re-usr the name in your new character after you've freed it up.
Good call. The rest of us should have thought of that.
Change the original character's name to "Tankallex the Dead", and then just plain "Tankallex" will no longer be taken, so you can use that for the new character.
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DO NOT MAKE ANY MORE POSTS USING THR FIRST CHARACTER'S NAME.
You can still change the name of your dead character before you've posted 10 times, and you're currently at 9 assuming this is the character. Then you can re-usr the name in your new character after you've freed it up.
Done and done, seriously, thank you SO MUCH for that advice.
-the one that died was a doppleganger
-You were duplicated by a magical transporter
tapestryaccident-identical triplets
-Reincarnated by a druid, who curse you out for using up all the luck they wanted to use in magnimar
-brought back from the dead by a deity... who wants to collect a favor. A lot of them.
-You accidentally wandered into kyras cloning vat
-test of the new semilacrum blog
-experimental remote control body.
All great ideas, I especially like the deity bringing me back for favors...
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Hide behind the mound of dead bards
Dead Wizards. Wasn't Ezren voted as "most likely pregen to die"?
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It isn't. you can't register a second character with the same name.I understand I have to start at level one, follow all the rules regarding gear, money, experience, items, fame, etc.... But I really liked the character that died. I know there is no getting him back, However, is it possible to make this characters new backstory that the soul of my previous character was reborn into this new body? Or maybe some druid somewhere brought the soul back, and put it into a homunculus? I'm not doing this for any experience or trying to cheat death, I don't even want him to keep the memories if that isn't possible, I'm thinking purely because I liked the name and the physical appearance of the character, as well as the personality. I just wanted to know, is it legal?
That was covered earlier in this thread.
As long as you haven't made 10 posts under the alias, you can still change it, so you can make it a different name, whether it is Tankallex the Dead, or Goblindead, it frees up the original name, Tankallex in this case, to use for a new PFS PC.
I know I have several PFS PCs (21?) with the same name as someone's board alias or another PFS PC. I usually add " PC" to the end of the name, which allows me to use it. Heck, one of the board aliases I was in conflict with was my own alias which is what I named my second PFS PC, who is registered as "Kinevon PC", since the system said Kinevon was in use. <glances upward to the name used for this post>.
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Hide behind the mound of dead bardsDead Wizards. Wasn't Ezren voted as "most likely pregen to die"?
I've only killed two PCs in over 60 tables of PFS GMing. The first was an Ezren.
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Hide behind the mound of dead bardsDead Wizards. Wasn't Ezren voted as "most likely pregen to die"?
Reiko for dead pregen. Ezren solos scenarios with his staff.
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Reiko for dead pregen. Ezren solos scenarios with his staff.Hide behind the mound of dead bardsDead Wizards. Wasn't Ezren voted as "most likely pregen to die"?
I have yet to see a pregen drop stone cold dead. Generally speaking, they've been the skills we've needed and the roles we've needed and they've been solid and alive the whole time. (And that was before the tweaking that they apparently got recently).
In fact, come to think of it... while I'm not volunteering for such, I haven't seen anyone *bite* it yet... though a few folks came within one round of it?
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One of the guys in our area has played multiple iterations of the same Time Oracle, with the "bit" being that these different characters are all the same time-traveling character at different points in her timeline. It's pretty fun, actually.Where did he get a big blue phone booth?
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That's not a real surprise. Wizards are squishy after all, keeping them alive is a mix of tactical sense and luck.I've only killed two PCs in over 60 tables of PFS GMing. The first was an Ezren.Hide behind the mound of dead bardsDead Wizards. Wasn't Ezren voted as "most likely pregen to die"?
This one was a pretty funny story. I was GMing First Steps 1 for a group that was new to Society, but experienced 3.5/PF players. The guy playing the Ezren pregen tried to acrobatics past Mr. Moustache in the final encounter, failed, and took a crit to the face. It was one of those "Well, I was doing something silly because I don't care anyway, so I really don't care that I died" moments.
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to the tune of modern major general
The wizards spellbooks thinner than the the sharp edge of reality
with valeros dual wielding calling miss is mere formality
The one to pick I fear I must prognosticate
with cons that low i doubt at all they can coagulate
Why anyone would play a toon this bad remains a mystery
I can't believe you'd tolerate them in your character history
with Merisiels lack of social skills you will achieve
a little less p a then if you'd maxed out ranks in basket-weave
That I'd rather eat an otyug may speak to my neurology
but the saranite is limited to healing methodology
the thought of picking any one of them's unbearable
Harsk is bad beyond the worst but every pregens terrible.