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Hi,
In my recent move across my city for family purposes, one of my boxes got lost, and was never found - assorted textbooks, my Skulls and Shackles AP, and two of my characters (my -1 and -3).
When I lost the characters, they were in personalized folders with all of their respective chronicles.
All of their scenarios are reported here online - all seven for my -1 and all three for my -3. I'm pretty sure that I can rebuild them exactly as they were, but here's my question. Is this allowed? Can I continue to use them, even now that I don't have any of their original chronicles, but given that there is an online record of those chronicles being granted?
I hope to be able to, because otherwise I have 10 permanently wasted scenario chronicles and two forcibly retired characters - characters that I'm pretty fond of.
If anyone has any idea what to do in this situation, please let me know.
Thanks.
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Pauljathome,
Thank you for the quick reply!
When I last checked, my area was "between" Venture Captains so to speak, but I will check to see if/who has been appointed. Once I find out who to talk to, I definitely will.
I'm glad that there's a chance of recreating them - best news I've heard since I moved.
Thanks again.
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Dreamer,
You would need to talk to one of the VOs in your new area and explain this to them. After that, logging in to show them the online record would show which chronicles you need to replace. As Paizo's website reporting does not allow for which tier was played, you would most likely only get in tier gold for the level applied. You should have no issues with building your characters back into what they were, other than maybe some gold discrepancy.
Edit: This ninja'd post is what happens when multiple tabs are opened at once!
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Thank you again to everyone - I didn't expect such a helpful response!
Things should be pretty straightforward from here, now that I know what to do.
In future I think I'll start keeping photocopied records of my characters and chronicles in a safe place, so this doesn't happen again.
Much appreciated.
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Ugh... sounds painful.
My "official" copy of all my character records are online. I play a lot online, so this makes sense for me. Many of the chronicles I receive are already indigital form, but I scan the physical ones I get. I keep them in a directory on my machine, but that directory is cloned to my laptop (and I think it's also backed up to a disk on another room every night), so it's reasonably robust.
When I'm going to play characters in face-to-face games, I update my printouts of chronicle sheets, so that's another backup.
Probably the most hazardous thing I do is keep all of my actual definitive character sheets in spreadsheets on Google Drive. Yes, as online services go, Google is probably pretty reliable, but it's still a single point of failure. If I were smart, I'd probably regularly make local backups of my google docs.
(The biggest worry probably isn't that Google will hav sudden server failure; I bet their redundancy and backups are good. The bigger worry is that Google will all of a sudden decide to shut down its spreadsheet service, and they'll do it with a month's warning during a month I'm not gaming for whatever reason. They tend to do this kind of thing with their serivces every so often. The other worry -- and this has happened already -- is that an upgrade to the sheets will break my older formulae. Thus far, I've been able to recover them, but it's a bit of a pain. Again, were I smart, I'd probably keep local backups. Hell, every so often I think about just going to LibreOffice spreadsheets, which would have some advantages, but the advantage of easily having it accessible everywhere ends up making me stay with the Google sheets.)
(And, yes, I'm aware of herolab, but I don't want to get sucked into another money pit....)
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@rknop: You should, actually, already have local backups on any of your PCs which you have the Google Drive application installed on. Mine is on my C drive, in my User folders, on my Windows 7 box...
I typically do most of my Google Drive stuff on my C drive, and just let Google handle copying the updates and changes online. Because I access them on multiple devices, sometimes I get a popup update notice on one of my other devices that file "such-and-so" has been updated.
Now, if only I could trim my online content down a bit. 14 GB on Google Drive, 2 GB (I think) on Dropbox (including my HeroLab POR files), and some on Yandex Drive, to boot. Of course that includes the scanned files for all the chronicles I have sent out as online GM, all my local tokens and maps and such from the online games I GM, my tokens for my 37(?) PCs, various chronicles for said PCs, and my whole Pathfinder PDF library, including a mostly complete collection of scenarios and modules. And my Pathfinder Tales ePubs. And this and that...
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Heh, yeah, I hear you, I have massive amounts of disk space given over to Pathfinder. Eventually I had to decide not to keep *everything* on the 16GB tablet.... And, I haven't kept all the old chronicles I've sent out as an online GM. I delete them after a few months, figuring that if somebody really needs a new one, I could regenerate it.
As for Google Drive ap, I don't have one. (I run Linux; I'm not sure there even is one.) Ideally, I'd like to do local backups to a more open format that doesn't depend on continued support from a single company. (I suppose PDF printouts, or files stored on disk, sort of qualify for that.)