Every week, Now You Know recaps the Know Direction content of the past week, previews the Know Direction content of the week to come, as the director of operations, Ryan Costello, shares his thoughts on the state of the...
It’s time to buzz the tower. Welcome to Essential Builds, the blog that takes popular culture icons and inverts them into Essence20 Player Characters. I’m Ryan Costello, one of the designers of the Essence20 system and an author on...
Jason, John and Ron talk about building a digital tabletop, tools you can use to build NPCs and monsters, as well as how you might incorporate Paizo adventures into your home campaign. Listen Now! Ron Lundeen is an employee...
In episode 81 of Game Design Unboxed: Inspiration to Publication we talk with Whitney Loraine the designer of Skybound’s Pirate Tails game. Her inspiration came from the push-you-luck set collection mechanics of Biblios. She took what she liked most...
With encouragement from Simon, our heroes are able to obtain some critical star charts with 50% less slaughter! Listen Now!(mp3) The GM is Ron Lundeen, an employee of Wizards of the Coast, whose opinions are his own.
Ever since MatPat, the Internet personality behind the ______ Theorists empire of YouTube channels announced his retirement, I’ve noticed two things: A lot more people than I realized enjoy MatPat’s work (which, given his 18+ million subscribers, I should...
“The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.” – Carl Jung I certainly can’t even fathom how much I owe to the play of imagination, to gaming. If I go back far enough it was playing...
Every week, Now You Know recaps the Know Direction content of the past week, previews the Know Direction content of the week to come, as the director of operations, Ryan Costello, shares his thoughts on the state of the...
PCs change depending on who’s building them, but justice is justice. Welcome to Essential Builds, the blog that shifts the shape of popular culture characters with a bucketful of Essence20 options. I’m Ryan Costello, one of the designers of...
After months of talking about getting to the 100th episode, John and Ron ruminate on the past and look to the future of Digital Divination. Listen Now! Ron Lundeen is an employee of Wizards of the Coast, and his...