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20 April

Adventurous 001 – Joining The Party

Written by Ryan Costello

In this, the first episode of Know Direction’s new actual play podcast, taking us through Paizo’s war For The Crown adventure path, meet: Jefferson Jay Thacker as Glanville Placid Humphrey Alencroft – Human Wizard (illusionist), Senatorial Hopeful Cathy Dolan as...

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19 April

Inspire Confidence – OMG They split the party!

Written by Monica Marlowe

Anyone who has ever watched a horror or adventure movie or gamed for more than an hour knows you never split the party. But we also know that if you don’t split the party, things don’t get done and...

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18 April

Craft (Adventure)—Disguise Self

Written by Vanessa Hoskins

After creating the basic premise of an adventure, the next thing I usually do is to figure out who my major NPCs are. It’s important to try and create a broad mix of interesting people for the PCs to...

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17 April

Burst of Insight—Three Tips for Great One Shot Games

Written by Andrew Marlowe

I used to run one-shot RPG games frequently, as filler between campaigns, holiday events, and sometimes just because players were free on an unexpected night. I still run a fair share of one-shot games and (as then) most are...

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16 April

Guidance — Designer’s Water Cooler: Building a Better (Armor) Crystal

Written by Alex Augunas

Hello, and welcome back to Guidance! For the past two weeks, we’ve been talking about design as a product of need, or as “a thing you do to fill gaps in a game.” We’ve been looking at the armored...

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14 April

Know Direction 176 – Get to Know Jason Bulmahn

Written by Jefferson Thacker

Paizo’s Jason Bulmahn joins us to talk about the man behind the Mahn. And also some Pathfinder 2 questions and answers!. How does an architect become Paizo’s Director of Game Design? And we go over the #KnowTheMahn contest Jason’s...

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13 April

Monstrous Physique — Yoshi

Written by Luis Loza

The very first video game console I had was the Super Nintendo. I was five years old and it came with two games: Super Mario World and Super Mario Kart. One of the first things you encounter in Super...

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12 April

Announcing the #knowthemahn Contest

Written by Ryan Costello

The Know Direction Network is teaming up with Paizo’s Director of Game Design, Jason Bulmahn, for the #knowthemahn contest! As the leader of the Pathfinder design team, the lead designer of Pathfinder First Edition, the lead designer of the...

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11 April

Behind the Screens – The Art of Illusion

Written by Randal Meyer

Will the real blue dragon, please stand up? Adjudicating illusions is often a tricky affair, and I don’t see a new edition changing that. In many cases, the aftermath of an illusion-based encounter is often a bit of a...

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11 April

Dear DovahQueen – Empowered Chain Lightning Round

Written by Loren Sieg

Dear DovahQueen: My group is all in for Pathfinder 2. How are we supposed to wait two years for it? –Conductor of the Hype Train Dear H-Train: Patiently. Ok, in all honesty, lemme ask you this: what will PF2...

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