Ryan Costello

17 May

PRESS RELEASE – First CRPG Pathfinder Game in Development by Owlcat Games and Game Designer Chris Avellone

Written by Ryan Costello

Owlcat Games studio is proud to unveil it is developing Pathfinder: Kingmaker – the very first isometric computer RPG based on the highly popular Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Additionally, helping shape the game’s narrative is Chris Avellone, who has worked...

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10 May

Keyword Design – “Commute”

Written by Ryan Costello

In Keyword Design, I use a single word as inspiration for a mundane item, a magic item, a feat, a spell, and a class option. Today’s word is “Commute” as suggested by Quo. As the meme mentions, long journeys...

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26 April

Keyword Design – “Key”

Written by Ryan Costello

In Keyword Design, I use a single word as inspiration for a mundane item, a magic item, a feat, a spell, and a class option. Today’s word is “key” as suggested by Caroline. First of all, we must all...

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13 April

Behind the Screens – TPK or Be TPKed

Written by Ryan Costello

Some thoughts on Total Party Kills from guest blogger Ryan Costello now that he’s been on both sides of the board for a (near) TPK. As I mentioned in yesterday’s Keyword Design, our last Hell’s Rebel session was savage....

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12 April

Keyword Design – “Resilience”

Written by Ryan Costello

In Keyword Design, I use a single word as inspiration for a mundane item, a magic item, a feat, a spell, and a class option. Today’s word is “resilience” as suggested by Aaron. Of all the synonyms for toughness,...

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01 April

Upcoming Pathfinder Releases Leaked!

Written by Ryan Costello

Due to concerns with the direction of 2018’s Pathfinder releases, the Know Direction network was leaked a list of products that will be announced at this year’s PaizoCon by a source at Paizo who wishes to remain anonymous (thanks...

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30 March

Know Direction Teams with Syrinscape for a Special Soundset and Promotion

Written by Ryan Costello

We’ve talked at length and with love about Syrinscape, the interactive audio engine that adds encounter-specific, movie-quality soundtracks to your gaming sessions. We teamed up with them to create a unique soundset about a certain chimera attacking a gnome village called Gnomeland Security....

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29 March

Keyword Design – “Recursion”

Written by Ryan Costello

In Keyword Design, I use a single word as inspiration for a mundane item, a magic item, a feat, a spell, and a class option. Today’s word is “recursion” and was suggested by Peter. So, recursion. The repeated application...

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22 March

Third Party People – Rusted Iron Games

Written by Ryan Costello

Third Party People talks to the people behind the third party publishers that innovate new options for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game and provide hungry young freelancers a venue. Today I speak with Russ Brown, owner of Rusted Iron Games....

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08 March

Third Party People – The Book of Passion (Misfit Studios)

Written by Ryan Costello

Misfit Studios is running a (currently funded) Kickstarter campaign for a Pathfinder compatible rulebook about love and sex in a fantasy setting, The Book of Passion. Here to tell us about the project are authors Will Wells (WW) and...

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