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15 November

Behind the Screens – Mechanics That Elicit Emotions

Written by Ryan Costello
Bear with me, Game Masters, today’s lesson came from playing Gameloft’s My Little Pony app game (add me if you’re playing! Friend code: ff3619e). It’s a task manager game where there is no cost to assigning a worker a...
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14 November

Table Talk – 3D Terrain: From Under Ice

Written by Vanessa Hoskins
I remember getting asked to write my first Pathfinder adventure. It was the Pathfinder Society Scenario 6-18 From Under Ice. I must have spent 80+ hours writing that thing to make sure every last aspect was as perfect as...
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13 November

Burst of Insight—Golarion Without Pathfinder, part one

Written by Andrew Marlowe
  This is a blog post I’ve wanted to write for some time, I even touched on it briefly in my, Thoughts on Design post from this past May. Now, I finally decided to take the risk and post...
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12 November

Fighting Words – Unquestioned Answers

Written by Ryan Costello
Members of the Know Direction Network staff will periodically addresses hotly debated questions posed by the community. This week’s question comes from TheJokerPlays on the Know Direction Discord channel. I’d love to read your take on writing stuff into...
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09 November

Monstrous Physique — Mewtwo

Written by Luis Loza
This week I continue my (apparent) goal of translating as many Smash Bros. characters to Pathfinder. Pokemon was an important game growing up for me and I remember how awesome I felt once I had a chance to enter...
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08 November

Code/Switch – Awaken the Power of Nature!

Written by James Ballod
c Hi, my name is James and welcome to Code/Switch, today I want to talk about the spell Awaken. In the wake of Starfinders Uplifted Bears, I started thinking about how I could “creatively use” Awakened animals in my...
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08 November

Know Direction 188 – Pathfinder Society’s Future

Written by Jefferson Thacker
Paizo’s John Compton and Tonya Worldridge joins us to talk about the future of Pathfinder Society as it prepares for second edition.
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08 November

Know Direction 187 – Adventure with Hoskins

Written by Jefferson Thacker
Know Direction’s Vanessa Hoskins joins Ryan to talk about writing and designing adventures.
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07 November

Dear DovahQueen – Good Endings for Better Memories

Written by Loren Sieg
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...
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06 November

Terraforming – Egg Planet Ours, Asteroid Mine

Written by Randal Meyer
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....
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