The action takes our heroes to an underground layer full of traps and treacherous foes… again. Inspiring Art by Cathy Dolan Listen Now! (mp3) Adventurous is a production of the Know Direction Network. Adventurous plays on the Roll20 virtual...
From time to time, there is downtime in an adventure. A chance for adventurers to sit together around the campfire, catch up, and get to know each other better. Likewise, from time to time, the cast of Adventurous will...
Bear with me, Game Masters, today’s lesson came from playing Gameloft’s My Little Pony app game (add me if you’re playing! Friend code: ff3619e). It’s a task manager game where there is no cost to assigning a worker a...
Members of the Know Direction Network staff will periodically addresses hotly debated questions posed by the community. This week’s question comes from TheJokerPlays on the Know Direction Discord channel. I’d love to read your take on writing stuff into...
Ever seen an encounter with a flying creature or underwater and wish it just wasn’t there? Ever wonder why? A lot of it has to do with the shift from abstract rules to codified rules. ABSTRACT vs CODIFIED Pathfinder...
One of our jobs as GMs is to get and keep our players engaged in the adventure. Some GMs will argue that it’s as much on the players to come ready to engage as it is on the GM...
GMing can be a thankless job, especially when done right. We are the producers and directors of this game we play and this play we game. We are the supporting actors. Even when we run published adventures, we add...
There are two types of ability scores in Pathfinder: those you aren’t expected to act out at the table and those you might be expected to act out at the table. My patent-pending fitness program where players get bonuses...
Anyone who listened to the first episode of Doomsplay, Know Direction’s Actual Play podcast of the Pathfinder Second Edition Playtest module Doomsday Dawn knows that things were running smoothly until Alex’s paladin was reduced to 0 hp. The new...
GM Ryan takes network members Perram, Alex, Andrew, James, and Loren through the first part of the Pathfinder Playtest module, Doomsday Dawn.