I get a lot of my ideas (both for new builds and for new content to design) from my Pathfinder Society experiences. I love seeing new builds and new ideas, but watching other people build characters also gives me...
I’m 100% stealing this line from my friend N. Jolly, but there are literally two types of Tabletop RPGs—Marks and Smarks. I don’t care who you are or what you say you believe in, you’re either a Mark or...
Last Christmas (which was literally yesterday), I did a lot of thinking on the nature of gifts—specifically, why we give them. What I came up with is simple: usually, we gift people to show our appreciation, to show someone...
It doesn’t happen often, but every now and then a Pathfinder RPG option is released that I go absolutely ga-ga for, and this month it happened. In a book I wrote for, no less! But before you start worrying...
Money—it literally makes worlds go round, be they the real world or fantasy worlds. When you get right to it, money as a societal construct is what allows us as a species to barter with one another on a...
Last week I had a friendly chat with a fellow game designer who Third Party fans might recognize—N. Jolly, creative mind behind Purple Duck Games’ Kineticists of Polymorpha series, as well as Legendary Games’ Legendary Vigilantes. N. is a...
Ah, the investigator. Combat’s favorite punching bag. Many people believe that the investigator simply cannot keep up in the throngs of combat, what, with its limited ability to use studied strike and its lack of competitive damage options. Well,...
The other day I was skimming Facebook like I’m ought to do when I have far more important work assignments on my plate when I came across a Facebook post from my friend and business partner, Owen K.C. Stephens....
When I first started with the Know Direction Network, I was not a PFS player. Ryan and I even talked about it a few times on the Private Sanctuary Podcast, back when we cohosted it together. Shortly after I...
It’s no secret that I’ve done plenty of design work for the kitsune race, both 1st Party and 3rd Party. One of the big aspects of the race’s mechanical design that I’ve taken numerous stabs at is the “nine-tailed...