Know Direction’s Vanessa Hoskins joins Ryan to talk about writing and designing adventures.
Two years of blood, sweat, and tears invested in one campaign can make for a fantastic story, but you know what they say about “all good things.” Today, we look some ways of using the last session to give...
In addition to planets, there are plenty of other things in space that we can mine for adventure. In addition to the biggest gas giants and the rockiest of solid planets, let us use the remains of failed planets....
Ever since the magus showed up on the scene, combat magic hasn’t really been the same. While the magus isn’t able to bring down the full force of a pure arcane caster, the arcanist has tricks up its sleeve....
To celebrate the holidays, GM Alex Augunas joins Perram, Venessa, Luis, and Paizo’s Jason Keeley for a holiday special play-through of Everyman Gaming’s Yuletide Terror! I mean, how bad can a babysitting job go?!
Perram here, subbing in for Luis for this week’s Monstrous Physique. On the recent Know Direction: Beyond, we celebrated Halloween by each creating a monster for the season using the Alien Builder rules for Starfinder. Again I was impressed...
What goes bump in the night? Our creations for this Halloween Special.
In RPGs, there are two basic structures for an adventure: linear and non-linear. The GameMastery Guide (pg. 36) also includes unrestricted, but I see this as a variation of non-linear. So what are these adventure structures and what considerations...
Forests can offer challenges and rewards for PCs of all levels from hunting for food to escorting nobility to tracking down a local thieves guild. Let’s start to look at sandboxing The Hunting Grounds for low to mid-level heroes....
I’ve talked in the past about some of the elements of fear including isolation and powerlessness. Today we’re going to talk about the unknown. Specifically, how to leverage what the player’s don’t know about the monsters they encounter and...