What started as one gamer wanting to talk about his love of a game grew into a podcast network. Ryan founded what would become the Know Direction Podcast network with Jason "Jay" Dubsky, his friend and fellow 3.5 enthusiast. They and their game group moved on to Pathfinder, and the Know Direction podcast network was born.
Now married and a father, Ryan continues to serve the network as the director of logistics and co-host of Upshift podcast, dedicated to the Essence20 RPG system he writes for and helped design.
You can find out more about Ryan and the history of the network in this episode of Presenting: http://knowdirectionpodcast.com/2021/01/presenting-ryan-costello/
In this, the first episode of Know Direction’s new actual play podcast, taking us through Paizo’s war For The Crown adventure path, meet: Jefferson Jay Thacker as Glanville Placid Humphrey Alencroft – Human Wizard (illusionist), Senatorial Hopeful Cathy Dolan as...
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You players scrutinize everything you say and do as their GM. If a player says they’re sensing motive on an NPC and you say “oh, sure” instead of just “sure,” that “oh” betrays that there’s no reason to suspect...
Note: Ignore Ryan’s face attached to this post. Loren wrote today’s Dear DovahQueen, as usual, but couldn’t post it. Dear DovahQueen: How do I keep new players interested in the game? I’ve had a few players that I introduced...
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