I had a question come in from a reader asking how proficient with the rules he should be before taking a seat behind the GM screen. How long did it take me to master the rules? How did I...
Hey everyone, There’s no podcast episode this week. Between my catching the sickness last week and Alex coming under a similar malady this week it just wasn’t in the cards for us. We normally try and have a couple...
Pathfinders’ campaign setting Golarion is huge. Seriously, the Paizo store says the Campaign Setting line has 116 items! The line encompasses books about events, cultures, religions, and regions, and its regions I want to talk about. Each region has...
Welcome to Guidance, Private Sanctuary’s source for tips and techniques for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, written by Everyman Gamer Alexander Augunas. Today, we’re going to be talking about parallel storylines. So I gotta be honest, folks. My brain is shot....
Get to know Ryan and Perram’s gaming preferences like never before! Recently, Pathfinder developer Owen KC Stephens started posting Questions For Your RPG Group to his personal blog. He’s posting these in increments of 10. There are 40 so far, of...
Get to know Ryan and Perram’s gaming preferences like never before! Recently, Pathfinder developer Owen KC Stephens started posting Questions For Your RPG Group to his personal blog. He’s posting these in increments of 10. There are 40 so far, of...
Every little girl needs a best friend. Lunella Lafayette just happens to have a gigantic, mutated dinosaur for hers. As mentioned last week in Alex’s Iconic Design, this is a team up! I have the second half of this...
Two weeks ago at Know Direction, Facebook Edition we shared a website that talked about X Cards by John Stavropoulos, which leads you directly to a discussion about Veils and Lines developed by Ron Edwards. These are just some...
This week I’d like to talk, not so much about Pathfinder, but about gaming in unusual circumstances. More specifically creating games for non-gamers. For my day job I work in retail management. About three months ago I was informed...
Welcome to Guidance, Private Sanctuary’s source for tips and techniques for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, written by Everyman Gamer Alexander Augunas. Today, we’re going to be looking at Alex’s WIP rules for character creation, dubbed the ‘Harrowed Character Building’ rules.