btw just as a PSA, with PFK I discovered how to "farm off" a character to another character-named "tab" (or "folder" or whatever it's called) in the load menu, so you can create/respec new characters out of saves you already have, and they have their own-named "tab" there (or "folder" or whatever you might want to call it). I haven't yet tried this with this game but I presume it's the same process:-
1) Make a manual safety save (original character save) of your main,
2) make another manual save (new character save),
3) open up that new character save, respec your main (using the respec mod ofc), make whatever changes, including a new name, alignment, etc.,
4) now save over the new character save. But that will fuck up the "folder" name (the game "folder" will have the new name), so to get around that just
5) open up the original character save, and save over it, the "folder" will now return to its previous name, and the new character save will now be last but one in the list. Then
6) start a New Game with the same name as your new main, same lvl 1 features. This creates a new "folder" with the new name upon the first autosave. Then
7) manually save the new game after character creation (as soon as the dialogues have finished). Now here's the neat trick, you
8) open up the .zks of that first manual save of the new game with WinRAR, and open up the "Header.json" file inside it
9) look for the "GameID," copy it,
10) paste it into the "Header.json" of the new character save, save it back into the .zks archive (WinRAR does this nicely, dialogue asks if you want to save the change within the archive, no muss no fuss).
11) Voila! Next time you fire up the game, you'll see the new character save has notionally "moved" from the original main's "folder" to the newly-named main's new game "folder," and everything will behave as normal (new quicksaves and autosaves will now appear in that new game "folder).
P.S. The only thing you had to watch out for in PFK was kingdom alignment, which could be different from the new character you created, but that was easily fixed by changing kingdom alignment in PFK's Bag of Tricks. I don't know if this game has the equivalent of kingdom alignment, but it might be something to be careful of until and unless Toy Box implements something for it (i.e. keep alignment of new char the same - which should be no problem if you have a "spread" of chars with different alignments already - I mean most of us probably have several post-Shield Maze characters with various alignments already, for example, if not post-Gray Garrison - you can farm a new char off from an old one with the same alignment you have in mind for the new char).
1) Make a manual safety save (original character save) of your main,
2) make another manual save (new character save),
3) open up that new character save, respec your main (using the respec mod ofc), make whatever changes, including a new name, alignment, etc.,
4) now save over the new character save. But that will fuck up the "folder" name (the game "folder" will have the new name), so to get around that just
5) open up the original character save, and save over it, the "folder" will now return to its previous name, and the new character save will now be last but one in the list. Then
6) start a New Game with the same name as your new main, same lvl 1 features. This creates a new "folder" with the new name upon the first autosave. Then
7) manually save the new game after character creation (as soon as the dialogues have finished). Now here's the neat trick, you
8) open up the .zks of that first manual save of the new game with WinRAR, and open up the "Header.json" file inside it
9) look for the "GameID," copy it,
10) paste it into the "Header.json" of the new character save, save it back into the .zks archive (WinRAR does this nicely, dialogue asks if you want to save the change within the archive, no muss no fuss).
11) Voila! Next time you fire up the game, you'll see the new character save has notionally "moved" from the original main's "folder" to the newly-named main's new game "folder," and everything will behave as normal (new quicksaves and autosaves will now appear in that new game "folder).
P.S. The only thing you had to watch out for in PFK was kingdom alignment, which could be different from the new character you created, but that was easily fixed by changing kingdom alignment in PFK's Bag of Tricks. I don't know if this game has the equivalent of kingdom alignment, but it might be something to be careful of until and unless Toy Box implements something for it (i.e. keep alignment of new char the same - which should be no problem if you have a "spread" of chars with different alignments already - I mean most of us probably have several post-Shield Maze characters with various alignments already, for example, if not post-Gray Garrison - you can farm a new char off from an old one with the same alignment you have in mind for the new char).
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