In the past, Know Direction staff took the months after Gen Con easy, often replaced by a two week Guest Blogger Takeover. This year, we’re going in the opposite direction. Alex is back! Well, he never fully left, since...
Who’s that girl with the pig and braces? She puts smiles on everyone’s faces! Welcome to Essential Builds, the blog that takes popular culture icons and bedazzles them with Essence20 options. Today we’re turning Mabel Pines into an Essence20 player...
Pathfinder Adventure Paths have always been numbered, but now their days are as well. On last week’s Paizo Live, Paizo associate publisher Thurston Hillman, Director of Narrative Adam Daigle, and Pathfinder Narrative Creative Director James Jacobs joined Publisher Erik...
Ryan writes a blog about building elaborate Essence20 characters. Charles needs a new character for a G.I. JOE RPG campaign. Together, they solve crimes. Listen Now! (mp3) Featuring Letter From Snake Eyes part 4, generously provided by Wordburglar. Check...
In episode 121 of Game Design Unboxed: Inspiration to Publication, J. Evan Raitt shares how an infamously frustrating game first sparked his interest in design, which eventually led to a make-your-own-game elective in college and most recently to the creation of...
Logan Bonner and Jason Keeley take us on a tour of the latest Pathfinder 2e hardcover, Battlecry, and how it leads into the upcoming Pathfinder adventure path, The Hellfire Crisis. Listen Now! (mp3) From the Gen Con 2025 Starfinder Launch...
Jenny Jarzabski, Mike Kimmel, Dustin Knight, Aras Yazgan, and Jessica Catalan (with special appearance by Thurston Hillman) of Paizo’s Starfinder team cracks open the pages of Starfinder 2e for reveals and more. Listen Now! (mp3) From the Gen Con 2025...
Multiple Essence20 Core Rulebooks boldly call Story Points “The Great Equalizer”. Ryan and Charles look at how this isn’t an exaggeration, and point out how this meta narrative control consumable can elevate the stories of your G.I. JOE, My...
Starfinder designer Dustin Knight joins Alex and James as Starfinder 2e launched into the ether, becoming one with the cosmos. Recorded live on Twitch. Listen Now! (mp3)
If a game won Gen Con every year, Starfinder would be in contention for 2025. Obviously the Starfinder 2e Player Core released. Paizo also released 1st level deluxe adventure Murder In Metal City, Era of the Eclipse by Tim...