Save Editing my characters alignment?

[Rokatsa Marskirs]

Is there a way for me to edit my character's alignment? I don't like how my current character is playing with it, because I feel it's becoming a bit too evil in terms of how he's acting, but I can't figure out how to change the alignment in the save file, since I can't find where it is stored.

I don't want to hear anything about "cheating"...I just don't want to restart my game since I've progressed so far.

[The Gingerbread Man]

In case you're still looking for a reply to this, I found an answer in a message board. I tried it and can verify that it works.

It's easy to edit the save (search for your character's name, then just before that is an item called Vector which contains the alignment).

Alignment is tracked in x,y coordinates on the alignment wheel. The X axis is Lawful to Chaotic, the Y axis is Evil to Good. Just like in geometry class, the coordinates determine the alignment you end up with, with a max position of 1, and a minimum of -1. For example, coordinates of 1.0,1.0 would be furthest up and to the right, which is Chaotic Good, whereas -1.0,1.0 would be Lawful Good.

Vector/position for alignments:
Lawful Good - X: -1.0 Y: 1.0
Neutral Good - X: 0.0 Y: 1.0
Chaotic Good - X: 1.0 Y: 1.0
Lawful Neutral - X: -1.0 Y: 0.0
True Neutral - X: 0.0 Y: 0.0
Chaotic Neutral - X: 1.0 Y: 0.0
Lawful Evil - X: -1.0 Y: -1.0
Neutral Evil - X: 0.0 Y: -1.0
Chaotic Evil - X: 1.0 Y: -1.0

[dracos24]

The main character's alignment will (rapidly) change depending on the choices you make as well, if you haven't noticed.

[mopple]

I wanted to try this out. So, the save files are .rar files that I could unpack with no problems. I changed the alignment, compressed the files but they are compressed differently than before so the game doesn't recognise the savegame.

How do I do it correctly?

[Insanity_184]

Originally posted by mopple-the-whale:

I wanted to try this out. So, the save files are .rar files that I could unpack with no problems. I changed the alignment, compressed the files but they are compressed differently than before so the game doesn't recognise the savegame.

How do I do it correctly?

I used 7zip to open. Only extracted what I needed (example party file has stats) editors that (using notepad ++) and then just pasted it back into the directory.

[mopple]

Originally posted by Insanity_184:

I used 7zip to open. Only extracted what I needed (example party file has stats) editors that (using notepad ++) and then just pasted it back into the directory.

Nice. Thank you. I made it work. :)

[The Gingerbread Man]

Originally posted by mopple-the-whale:

I wanted to try this out. So, the save files are .rar files that I could unpack with no problems. I changed the alignment, compressed the files but they are compressed differently than before so the game doesn't recognise the savegame.

How do I do it correctly?

Here's a little shortcut so you don't need to extract/compress anything anymore. When you open the save file, right click and select 7zip, then select 'open archive.' This will open the files without actually extracting them. You can edit the party.json directly from there, save your file, then 7zip will ask you to update the archive. Click okay and you're done. :)

[mopple]

Originally posted by Cauthon1041:

Originally posted by mopple-the-whale:

I wanted to try this out. So, the save files are .rar files that I could unpack with no problems. I changed the alignment, compressed the files but they are compressed differently than before so the game doesn't recognise the savegame.

How do I do it correctly?

Here's a little shortcut so you don't need to extract/compress anything anymore. When you open the save file, right click and select 7zip, then select 'open archive.' This will open the files without actually extracting them. You can edit the party.json directly from there, save your file, then 7zip will ask you to update the archive. Click okay and you're done. :)

Thanks. That is exactly what I did in the end. :)

[fractalwolf]

You can also buy a scroll of atonement from Jhod Kavken in your capital. This will reset your alignment back to your original choice.

If you wish to modify the original alignment choice:

-First atone yourself and save your game
-Open the save file as described above
-Extract and edit the party.json file
-Search for the instance of your character name, that has a short alignment-change section (because you atoned)

...if the json file was in 'pretty' format it would look like this:

               "Alignment": {
                    "$id": "108014",
                    "m_Owner": {
                        "$ref": "5"
                    },
                    "m_History": [
                        {
                            "$id": "108015",
                            "Position": {
                                "x": -0.707106769,
                                "y": 0.707106769
                            },
                            "Direction": "LawfulGood",
                            "Provider": null
                        }
                    ],
                    "Vector": {
                        "x": -0.707106769,
                        "y": 0.707106769
                    }
                },
                "Master": {
                    "m_UniqueId": null
                },
                "CustomGender": "Male",
                "LeftHandedOverride": false,
                "CustomName": "Azh",

-Modify both alignment x/y values and the alignment name to match your new choice.
-Repack the party.json file into the .zks save file
-Load the save and see if it worked!

[Phlaago]

Good stuff, I wanted to try a bit of minmaxing CMB with a lvl7 char at hargulka but unfortunately I made him lawful so barbarian is out of the picture atm. (Armored hulk's +1 CMB class feature could be funny when paired with vivisectionist mutagen for an effective +2 CMB over a pure fighter, would be +3 except dipping into vivi loses 1 BAB)
now I can at least edit a savefile when its time to experiment =)

[=[NK]= Col. Jack O'Neil]

That all looks pretty complex.

This mod can do full respec for companions as well. Race and alignment

https://www.nexusmods.com/pathfinderkingmaker/mods/7

[awsyme]

Does that mod work anymore? Realized I made a mistake with a characters alignment (for multiclassing) and tried to use the editor to correct it. On both mac and PC had no luck getting a file to open.

[=[NK]= Col. Jack O'Neil]

Why would it not work anymore? They don't need to all be updated with every update either. It does work