How many Characters can I have?

[wick.evan]

I was just wondering how many save characters I could have if I wanted to make a new character with a new pawn.

[zadymek]

There's only one save slot and only one place at the Rift. You can create as many save files as you wish and swap at will, but the Pawn data sent to the Rift (curently out of order) can be only from one save, else there may be some issues.

[wick.evan]

Originally posted by zadymek:

There's only one save slot and only one place at the Rift. You can create as many save files as you wish and swap at will, but the Pawn data sent to the Rift (curently out of order) can be only from one save, else there may be some issues.

So what your saying is that I can make new characters but the pawn I made on my first character is the only one I get?

[Karathrax]

The game has one save file, to which is assigned one Arisen and one pawn. Each time they level, the current vocation equipped determines the pattern of stat allocation. The six attribute stats of stamina, HP, strength, magick, defense and magick defense are permanent, no matter how often one makes cosmetic changes.

This game is written in such a way that once you acquire top-tier equipment, build-- in terms of these six attributes-- pretty much goes out the window.

That said, if you want to experience different methods of leveling, there's two ways to go about this. Make a copy of your save file (ddda.sav is what you're looking for) elsewhere on your hard drive and start a new game. Or, install a save manager and swap out your files (dll hooks mod has a save file manager, I believe, and there's another mod on Nexus that acts as a save manager; I don't mod, so proceed at your own risk). The third way is to set up a free account or three using Family Sharing, and play separate games. The advantage to this latter method is you have an army of your own pawns, leveled and configured exactly the way you prefer-- but you have to expend the time necessary to play those additional games.

Regardless, it is a very good idea to periodically back up your save file and copy it off to a safe place somewhere else on your hard drive, or even better, a USB stick. Steam Cloud is pretty reliable, but it won't save you if your cloud save was overwritten by a bad save file; and magnetic media is known to fail at the worst possible moment.

[zadymek]

Originally posted by wick.evan:

Originally posted by zadymek:

There's only one save slot and only one place at the Rift. You can create as many save files as you wish and swap at will, but the Pawn data sent to the Rift (curently out of order) can be only from one save, else there may be some issues.

So what your saying is that I can make new characters but the pawn I made on my first character is the only one I get?

No, I'm saying that technically you can create as many saves as you like (just rename your present one and start over) and juggle them at will (you rename any stored save to DDDA.sav, voila) but officially the game supports only one save at once - there's an online component that deoesn't like when you use multiple saves due to Pawn data you send to Capcom's server. Every time you exchange data with the server your Pawn data is both ovewritten and updated and server checks if those updates come from a single playthrough.
You swapping saves may make those data look incoherent for the server which may or may not have bad consequences because, again the game supports a single save.

[ⓀⒾⓦⒾ‰]

dont mess around with game saves its not worth it
you only get one because youre ment to run the game content multiple times on one character

[Bella]

Originally posted by ᵏᶤᵚᶤ‰:

dont mess around with game saves its not worth it
you only get one because youre ment to run the game content multiple times on one character

I agree, the best method is as Karathrax mentioned, create a new steam account and share the game to it.

[Almighty Tarzan]

Just save the game's save file and put it in a backup type of folder so you can swap in between different saves/playable characters, it's something i also do on DD1 I can play as my female archer whenever i wand and i can go play as my male paladin whenever i want.

[M.T. Fish]

One.

You can use a save manager for multiple but it breaks the NPC affinity system and probably a secret at the end of the game if you've beaten the game on your system before.