[2019] Need some technical help. Made new account but it didnt let me choose my character name?

Hi! To add to /u/William2692's answer, if you really want to use the same email for a new character and if you use Gmail, you can effectively have more than one character under the same email.Gmail allows you to add ...+text at the end of your email, which will be considered a new email for most websites, but the same one for Gmail.

E.g. [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) - one email on Gmail, one character on RS

[[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) - redirects mails to the above Gmail, a new character on RS

Basically, anything after the + character will be ignored by Gmail and sent to the email before it. Makes sense?

You can use this to make tags and filters on Gmail too.

You don't need to create these new emails in Gmail, just when you create an account on another website.

E.g. [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) - normal email

[[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) - you can add a filter to move everything with +paypal to the Paypal folder

[[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) - another filter can be added to move those mails to RS folder

This is a great way to keep your inbox organised!

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I would personally not recommend doing this. If a hijacker somehow gets access to your account, it's harder to recover without an email associated. As always the best security is to have 2FA on your email, 2FA on RuneScape associated to that email, and have a different and unique password for both. This way you guarantee a higher security while maintaining the ability to recover your account.

We wouldn't do it on a blind state as there's certain processes to it, i.e. verifying the identity of someone trying to change. We have a support page for this exact situation.