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20 May

Iconic Design — Kylf! Do something!

Written by Alex Augunas

Welcome to Iconic Design! Where I start your week off right with an exciting character build for the Pathfinder or Starfinder Roleplaying Game! I’m Alexander Augunas, the Everyman Gamer, and today I’m putting together a theoretical envoy build for...

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17 May

Know Direction: Beyond 34 – Make My Starfinder: Steven Universe

Written by Jefferson Thacker

Alex and Perram look at how to adapt sci-fi worlds to Starfinder, beginning with… Steven Universe! A show they’re both big fans of. Listen Now! (mp3)

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17 May

Monstrous Physique — Ant-Man

Written by Luis Loza

Howdy! PaizoCon is just a week away and I’m excited to be there! I hope to see many of you while I’m there. In the meanwhile, I had just one more small Marvel itch to scratch this week. The...

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16 May

Behind the Screens – Challenge The Whole Party

Written by Ryan Costello

When your characters aren’t roleplaying or in combat, they’re probably facing a number of other obstacles impeding the progress of their objectives. Or they’re complaining about Game of Thrones in vague terms so as to not spoil it for...

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15 May

Craft (Adventure) — Balancing Experience and Loot

Written by Vanessa Hoskins

Ok everyone, time to get down to some spreadsheet magic. Today we’re talking about how to balance the amount of experience and loot you provide in an adventure.

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14 May

Groundbreaking – Of Governance Vaguery

Written by Randal Meyer

100 miles is a long distance on foot, heck, even horseback. Because you can only travel so far before you need to sleep for the night, you are going to encounter settlements at regular intervals on major roads. Quite...

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14 May

Burst of Insight—Flash-forward Scenes that Won’t Break Your Campaign

Written by Andrew Marlowe

Stories can be told in a wide variety of ways using flash-backs, flash-forwards, skipping to the side to tell a part of the narrative from a different character’s point of view but in RPGs we often only tell stories...

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13 May

Dev Pit — Perplexing Ponderancy Pertaining to Puzzles

Written by Alex Augunas

Hello, and welcome to the third installment of the Dev Pitt! I’m Alex Augunas, the Everyman Gamer, and today we’re talking about puzzle design in Tabletop RPGs. Puzzl— W-wait! I haven’t even started yet! Puzzles— HEY! STOP IT! Let...

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12 May

Know Direction 199 – The Tools that Make Your Game Awesome

Written by Jefferson Thacker

Jason Eric Nelson from Legendary Games talks to us about the upcoming Kingmaker Collector’s Edition, and we talk about what tools and accessories we use and want to use to make playing our games more fun. Listen Now! (mp3)...

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10 May

Monstrous Physique — Squirrel Girl

Written by Luis Loza

We made it! The Endgame has come and gone and the winner is… us, the fans! The movie was a blast! With many of you having caught the movie, maybe it’s time to talk about the elephant in the...

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