Adventures are interesting in that the difficulty of the game is generally set by the author, then adjusted by the GM. After all, a GM is the arbiter at the table and can remove monsters, choose not to use...
A human, halfling, orc, and dire wolf walk into a druidic circle … which does the halfling eat first? Selected by druids, this eclectic bunch of rangers enforces the natural order, but how do they get along with each...
Back in 2002, I had a friend who worked in a movie theater. Just before the official release of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets he invited several of our friends to the staff’s late night screening of...
Welcome to Guidance! This is Alexander Augunas, the Everyman Gamer, and today I’m going to be trying something a little bit different. As many of you know, I own and operate a Third-Party publishing company that specializes in providing...
I think every GM has at one time wished they could make the party fight a certain monster just because it was really cool. But does combat really have to be our best option for putting PCs in front...
Greetings! This week, we’re returning to a previous entry from this year and giving it a dark twist. It’s a November tradition… ? Anyway, this week, we head off to space to fight Dark Samus! Dark Samus ...
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...
I remember getting asked to write my first Pathfinder adventure. It was the Pathfinder Society Scenario 6-18 From Under Ice. I must have spent 80+ hours writing that thing to make sure every last aspect was as perfect as...
This is a blog post I’ve wanted to write for some time, I even touched on it briefly in my, Thoughts on Design post from this past May. Now, I finally decided to take the risk and post...
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...