Thread: How to export a character?
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May 7th, 2020, 14:48 #1
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How to export a character?
Since the FGU does not have a manage characters button, and there is no option to export characters in the PC screen, how do you export a character from one campaign into another?
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May 7th, 2020, 15:20 #2
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May 7th, 2020, 21:08 #3
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May 7th, 2020, 21:44 #4
Indeed, click edit in character selection and then the blue down arrow. Or type /exportchar <name> in chat.
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October 23rd, 2020, 05:13 #5
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Neither of these options work for me. In the character selection, I have three options: character wizard, import character, and new character. My GM has "edit list" apparently. The /exportchar just gave me a list of slash commands available to me (I did rename the character to a single word, just in case spaces or whatever messed it up).
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October 23rd, 2020, 08:27 #6
Welcome to the FG forums. Only the person running the campaign (the GM) can export characters from the campaign.
If you’re using FGU you can start up a campaign (use it just for PCs) and have access to PCs you’ve used in that ruleset in other games you’ve joined from that computer.Private Messages: My inbox is forever filling up with PMs. Please don't send me PMs unless they are actually private/personal messages. General FG questions should be asked in the forums - don't be afraid, the FG community don't bite and you're giving everyone the chance to respond and learn!
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October 23rd, 2020, 18:05 #7
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Thanks for the reply. In FG classic, I was able to use the "manage characters" button and just download from what I assume was the local cache or whatever. But now, I have to create a whole campaign to download my own character's xml? Is there no way to just access the xml somewhere, or to download with in an easier method? Because this was a pretty annoying workaround.
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October 23rd, 2020, 18:25 #8
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The Manage Characters button in FGC does essentially the same thing as loading a campaign; except that the Manage Characters had some limitations that always ended up causing issues due to limited access. By accessing in a full campaign, everything is available to use after importing your character. It's really just a different set of steps; and roughly the same amount of steps.
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October 25th, 2020, 17:04 #9
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I suppose what I'm getting at is this: why can't I just download my character's xml from right within the campaign? That would be much easier for me as a user.
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October 25th, 2020, 17:20 #10
Right from within the GM's campaign when you're connected to them? This would require a major change to the architecture as players don't have direct access to the FG database to do things like that. Hence why you need to load up your own campaign infrastructure - Manage Characters in FGC or load a "character management" campaign in FGU. This has the advantage of allowing you to access your character XML even when the GM's campaign isn't running. In FGU it allows you to access *all* of your characters for a specific ruleset in one single campaign. You're actually getting more functionality in FGU, for the slightly "annoying" thing of having to take a few seconds to load a campaign in FGU.
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