i wish that was why i rerolled constantly and never went much farther than vordakai
truth is i have terminal restartitis
pls spread awareness
There's a way of being able to "farm off" characters to different folders, so you don't have to do that - e.g. if you have 5 characters at various levels through the game, you can pick up where they left off as different characters, with their own game "folders." And you can do it as many times as you want. Here's the procedure:-
Make a manual save "character x to character y respec" or something like that, respec your main, give it a new name, and save over. This will change the game folder name to the name of the new character. But don't worry.
Create a new character with the same name, same starting attributes and manual save "New character xxx build yyy" after last convo with linzi (as ppl are shuffling out of the hall to bed).
Copy the "Game ID" from the Header.json of that save over to the Header.json of the the "character x to character y respec" save.
That save will now appear in the new game's folder, immediately after "New character xxx build yyy", and the original character's folder will reappear, minus that save.
(To do this comfortably use winRAR and Notepad(++). WinRAR allows you to change a document in a compressed file and resave it back into the compressed file without having to unpack then repack the whole file.)
What this means is that you can be restarting new builds from the middle of the game instead of always the beginning. Of course you're stuck with whatever progression through the story, companion choices, quest choices, etc., you had with the original character you respecced, but usually if you have several characters, you've covered most of the bases in terms of doing different things (e.g. having an evil character or two, having different alignments, etc.), and you've at least beaten the Stag Lord and done all that starter stuff.
Means you never have to do the Sycamore cave ever again (unless you want to
). Also, you're "starting" new characters at the middle levels, so you already have some new toys to play with, instead of being a schlub with a crossbow.
(Note: if your alignment is different, you can change the kingdom's alignment using Bag of Tricks - don't know if it makes any difference, but it might be worth doing to align the kingdom with your character.)
I somewhat agree with the bad design criticism. 
