I accidentally created two characters with the same ID. Is there a way to change the ID of a character?

[Player III]

Story is a few years back I created a Society character for a one off with some friends. It went poorly and actually never finished, but the GM gave us all credit and logged it anyway. Years passed and I forgot about it.

I go to Paizocon and create what I figured was my first Society Character.

Everything I did at the con is now invalid because it conflicts with that first accidental character.

Is there a way to bump that character to a new ID and keep all the things he's worked for?

[Eric Clingenpeel]

Good news, in PFS you can change anything you want about a character until you play them for the first time at level 2. So if you want you can apply the credit from your one off to your new character and everything would be fine.

[BigNorseWolf]

You can (and i would recommend) just consider them run on the same character using the first level free retraining rules. Its perfectly legal to play game 1 as Grankack the barbarian and game 2 as Ulaf the wizard and game 3 as Sneaky the rogue. Once you start game 4 you're locked in though.

[Kahel Stormbender]

BigNorseWolf wrote:

You can (and i would recommend) just consider them run on the same character using the first level free retraining rules. Its perfectly legal to play game 1 as Grankack the barbarian and game 2 as Ulaf the wizard and game 3 as Sneaky the rogue. Once you start game 4 you're locked in though.

Exactly. One guy in my lodge went from being an even bard to a dwarven barbarian/cleric upon hitting level 2. Kahel ended up changing species and gender. I went from human male aerokineticist who fires lighting blasts to female kitsune aerokineticist who fires wind blasts.

Course, I then included in the background that after a recent (3rd) mission he'd come back and got ordered to try on a girdle the dark archive was having trouble identifying the nature of. One unwilling sex change later, and Kahel reveals 'her' true nature as a kitsune by reverting to natural form and pouncing the archives who was responsible.

Surprise! Kahel is a fox! :)

[Jormander]

I went from a female Aasimar necromancer worhsiper of Urgathoa on the path to bloatmage (back during early entry) to a male tiefling wizard/rogue going for arcane trickster.

[cavernshark]

Player III wrote:

Story is a few years back I created a Society character for a one off with some friends. It went poorly and actually never finished, but the GM gave us all credit and logged it anyway. Years passed and I forgot about it.

I go to Paizocon and create what I figured was my first Society Character.

Everything I did at the con is now invalid because it conflicts with that first accidental character.

Is there a way to bump that character to a new ID and keep all the things he's worked for?

To be clear, as the others said it's not necessarily a problem. The only time it might be is if you did the same scenario on both characters. (This wasn't clear from the initial post.). The only other reason you might want to change would be if you lost your original chronicle sheet.

I think in any event if you have to make any more complicated changes talk to your local venture officers or you can reach out to your GM via the sessions tab here online.

[IronHelixx]

It looks like the first session was "Regular Campaign" and the three sessions of Emerald Spire and three parts of Scions of the Sky Key, all at PaizoCon 2015, were played as "Core". So that adds an extra wrinkle into it.

Talk to your local VC and explain the situation to them.

[Player III]

Thanks for the input guys, I'll probably have to talk to somebody about it to get it figured out.

To answer a few questions, none of the sessions overlapped. The first character was played only once, and the new one with the shared ID number has played 5 sessions and is now level 4 with 2 exp (Because of Emerald Spire)

Everything with the later character was done in core, while the first character I really have no idea. I'm pretty sure it was only core, but I couldn't say.

I also do not have any physical record of that first character.

So I guess it boils down to if I can get credit for that first character put unto my second character, or if I can just get the first character deleted as if it never happened. Can either of these work?

[BigNorseWolf]

I would just move the first character over to the -2 position. If you try to do anything else his non coreness will affect all of the non core tables in reporting and .. that just gets weird.

[FLite]

Player III wrote:

Thanks for the input guys, I'll probably have to talk to somebody about it to get it figured out.

To answer a few questions, none of the sessions overlapped. The first character was played only once, and the new one with the shared ID number has played 5 sessions and is now level 4 with 2 exp (Because of Emerald Spire)

Everything with the later character was done in core, while the first character I really have no idea. I'm pretty sure it was only core, but I couldn't say.

I also do not have any physical record of that first character.

So I guess it boils down to if I can get credit for that first character put unto my second character, or if I can just get the first character deleted as if it never happened. Can either of these work?

Either one will work. Call it an honest mistake and move on. If you are very worried about it, contact your local VL/VC and ask them what they want to do. Either they will move the first chronicle sheet to -2, or just tack it onto the front of the character.

[Kahel Stormbender]

My understanding is that core is fairly new. So the original chronicle is probably standard.

Easiest solution is to try getting the original character moved to 2, as was mentioned.

[Player III]

Is there a way for me to move the character or do I need to contact somebody here for that?

[Auke Teeninga]

I looked at your play records and it seems your 2013 adventure is currently set to -3. However, you seem to have played all core games with your number -1, but -1 is registered as a non core PC.