Anyone know how I update my RPGA number?

[Piratecat]

I have a long, heartfelt, intimate relationship with my RPGA number; I must if I have it memorized. It's one of the old 6 digit ones, and I understand that you damn kids with your newfangled gamedays have longer ones nowadays.

Anyone know what I have to do to update this sucker instead of starting a brand new one?

 

[MichaelSomething]

It's just a guess on my part but your RPGA number should still hold. Just add zero's to the beginning of it until it has as many numbers as a newer number.

 

[fba827]

I have a long, heartfelt, intimate relationship with my RPGA number; I must if I have it memorized. It's one of the old 6 digit ones, and I understand that you damn kids with your newfangled gamedays have longer ones nowadays.

Anyone know what I have to do to update this sucker instead of starting a brand new one?

According to DCI/RPGA login site: https://membership.wizards.com/login.aspx (and clicking on the little "RPGA member" link you get additional info that says...


If you are an RPGA member and you had an RPGA number below 100000000, your DCI number is your RPGA number plus 100000000. Otherwise, your DCI number and RPGA numbers are the same.


Whether or not that is (still) valid info/procedure, I don't know.

Hope that helps.

 

[Piratecat]

Works for me. Thanks!

 

[MerricB]

My advantage here was that I was a DCI member before I was a RPGA member, so I still have a 6-digit number.

Cheers!

 

[Lanefan]

Interesting.

I have a 6-digit DCI number (since expanded to 10 with lots of leading zeroes), and an 8-digit RPGA number. They are not the same.

Lan-"does that mean I've been cloned?"-efan

 

[MerricB]

Interesting.

I have a 6-digit DCI number (since expanded to 10 with lots of leading zeroes), and an 8-digit RPGA number. They are not the same.

Lan-"does that mean I've been cloned?"-efan

You can get them combined through the Wizards Help service. That's what I did. Your RPGA number is probably 10 digits now...

Cheers!

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Interesting.

I have a 6-digit DCI number (since expanded to 10 with lots of leading zeroes), and an 8-digit RPGA number. They are not the same.

Lan-"does that mean I've been cloned?"-efan

Not quite. You are the clone. Unfortunately, now that you have learned this information, I have to ask you to execute Order Alpha-13-Zeta-42-Mu.

 

[Lanefan]

Not quite. You are the clone. Unfortunately, now that you have learned this information, I have to ask you to execute Order Alpha-13-Zeta-42-Mu.

Just to be clear, that's the order that causes me to generate three more clones, right?

Odd that this should come up, in that cloning has become a relevant topic in my game of late...

Lanefan

 

[pedr]

The 8-digit number probably started life as a DCI number. The two databases merged a few years ago, so there's now one system, in which some people now have two records (one which started as an RPGA record, one as a DCI record).

When the database was merged, because older DCI numbers were up-to 8-digits, RPGA numbers were padded to nine digits by adding a 1 to the front and filling out the 'space' with zeros, which still works. You'll notice when you log in, though, that the actual number is ten digits with what I imagine is a check-digit at the front. My number (9536692) won't work now, I can log in as 109536692, but my 'real' number is now 1109536692.