What I believe Rysky is saying is that the rules are different in the Beginner Box. The Beginner Box does not use the Core Rule Book. Very similar but not the same.
Not owning the Beginner's Box, I couldn't tell you what the rules for Force Bolt are in that ruleset. If it's a discrepancy between those rules and the pregen, then go with the rules from the Beginner's Box.
EDIT: The PF2 official/Core Rulebook-based Ezren pregen does not have Force Bolt.
Are there any one action spells in the beginner’s box? Maybe they made all spells take two actions for consistency?
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I would say that it probably is an error. As they intentionally tried not to change anything fundamentally (i.e. allow something in beginner box tha is not normally allowed) instead the beginner box, when rules differ, it is due to their having simplified the rules and presumed a selection, leaving some other option. Or bundling together a couple choices that don't have to be bundled, but gave a more simplified set of choices for building the beginner box character.
Now because the standard pregen characters use varied optoins from the core rulebooks, when they re-made the pregens, the beginner box pregens do not necessarily match the Core pregens. So in that sense, yes the characters are different depending on which rules you are using. But they are just template/base starting spots allowing players to play quickly without having to build something, or giving them a starting part to build off of or change based on their own inspiration.
If it had been true that they had had all spells be two actions, I'd be willing to consider it a simplification of the rules (that the going to the core rules just gets you a bit better version/option). However, given that on Ezren's sheet it shows magic missle as being variable action. That gets rid of that.
Actually, looking at the Heroes Handbook, Force Bolt is listed as a Single action spell. So it looks like it is an error on the pregen character sheet. I would say you should be good to mark out the second action requirement on the pregen player sheet if you use Ezren with the beginner box.
In theory, the pregen's from the beginner box, should be legitimate builds in the core rules, they just used fewer choices to get there. (and even though they may differ from the core pregens) That said, I don't think beginner box is PFS approved, so you probably can't use BB pregens in a PFS scenario for PFS credit as a pregen.
The discrepancy is not between the BB rules and the core rules, which both have Force Bolt as a one action spell. The two action entry on Ezren’s character sheet is a misprint.
BB Ezren is an Evoker. CRB Ezren is a Universalist.