Welcome to Random Encounters, the blog where we take a popular internet meme, animal video, or the like and turn it into a game rule for Pathfinder or Starfinder.
Hello again! Welcome back! I’m kind of on a fun Pokémon kick, so I want to continue that trend. Last time, I took a look at the pink puffball, Jigglypuff. This week, I’m focusing on another cute little monster....
Not long ago, I talked about using popular culture as inspiration for your campaigns. In that article, I focused on using tried and true concepts and designs as a starting point to make encounters memorable. However, a recent episode of...
Much of the lives of our PCs involves chewing bubble gum, kicking down doors, taking names, and running out of said bubble gum. Even the codified downtime system in 2e assumes that downtime is used either to recover from...
Many years ago, in the land of D&D 2nd Ed., our friends were playing a home brewed Planescape campaign. At some point in the game they split the party (yeah, I know, I wrote a whole blog about that...
These Things Are True… The world is dark. A couple weeks ago the light went away. Day was gone and night was forever. There was some immediate panic but more surprise and confusion. Social media brightened every face that...
Hey, there! This week I return to the world of Overwatch to stat up what I consider to be my favorite character in the game. Based on my in-game stats, Reinhardt is my most played hero so it’s only...
Did you know we have a Discord? There we discuss Pathfinder and Starfinder, share memes and cute pictures, or just gush over anime and video games. We also have a Know Direction Minecraft server you join through the discord...
Paint 2 Play is a new column of as yet undetermined frequency in which I, the Know Direction Network’s director of content Ryan Costello, pick an unpainted miniature in my collection and paint it with a specific mechanical purpose...
Welcome to Random Encounters, the blog where we take a popular internet meme, animal video, or the like and turn it into a game rule for Pathfinder or Starfinder.