Once you're in the game press start and go to multiplayer. Should be able to reassign characters from there.

Already been mentioned but the The Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle) by Ursula K. Le Guin is the only other fantasy that feels "similar" to the Lord of the Rings to me (admittedly I haven't read a ton of fantasy, but I've read a decent amount). I'm reading through the series for the first time, on book three right now, and it's just great. Feel like it does a nice job of defying my expectations of a "fantasy story" and Le Guin's writing is beautiful.

Also these books straddle the line between fantasy and sci-fi, but the Broken Earth Series by N. K. Jemisin are amazing and among my favorite books. Actually gave the series a reread after my most recent reread of LotR earlier this year, so I can vouch they are an excellent follow up! These ones have less of an obvious fantasy parallel to LotR but they're too good for me to not mention!

R really isn't a great replacement for matlab. I'm not as familiar with it but I think octave would be the better choice. Obviously Python as well but that's a step away from these languages.

Anyone here playing it? Curious to hear how it is! FF12 is by far my favorite and one of the only FF games I've actually beaten, so sort of curious to hear a comparison. Still working through Tears of the Kingdom so I won't be getting to FF16 for a bit anyways

If you already feel that away about python you should definitely stay away from R 😂 great language with a stats focus but man it's way too loose with some stuff

I'm still pretty curious to hear from Val and see how that situation plays out...