Know Direction

08 July

PaizoCon 2016 032 – Better Worldbuilding 101

Written by Ryan Costello

Welcome to the Know Direction podcast network’s PaizoCon 2016 seminar coverage! 032 – Better Worldbuilding 101 Want to improve your homebrew setting? Curious about how other game designers publish their worlds? Come talk to three experienced RPG worldbuilders, and...

08 July

Iconic Design — Titanic Wolfman

Written by Alex Augunas

Welcome to Iconic Design, Private Sanctuary’s source for innovative and evocative character builds for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, written by Everyman Gamer Alexander Augunas. Today, we’re going to be looking at a build for another silly hunter build. You...

Alex's Characters Iconic Design 8 Comments

07 July

Behind the Screens – Managing Expectations

Written by Anthony Li

As the great Sun Tzu (probably) would have said had his great strategic treatise been about roleplaying games and not the Art of War, “If you know your players and you know yourself, and you shall be successful in one...

Behind the Screens Articles, Behind the Screens Leave a Comment

06 July

Private Sanctuary Press — Create Demiplane: Birrothgarde

Written by Alex Augunas

While Ryan and Perram are on-air, Alexander Augunas and Anthony Li aim to misbehave! Each week on Private Sanctuary off-weeks, either the Everyman Gamer or the Man Behind the Screens comes to the Private Sanctuary with a bit of...

Create Demiplane Private Sanctuary Press Leave a Comment

05 July

The Problems With Building Anime Characters in Pathfinder.

Written by James Ballod

Pathfinder and other RPG’s are a way to step outside of your usual role and into one more fantastical. You don’t want to be Seth Audit-Bane, you want to be Hakarl, Savior of Westhall and heir to the galaxy....

advice, anime, character, design, Pathfinder, Roleplaying Code Switch 7 Comments

04 July

Guidance – Playing 101: The Gaming Alignment Spectrum

Written by Alex Augunas

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 the spectrum of gamer attitudes. As many of my readers know,...

Playing 101 Guidance Leave a Comment

01 July

KD/Syrinscape Gnome Land Security Soundset Contest

Written by Ryan Costello

Know Direction, the Pathfinder news, reviews, and interviews podcast and blog network, teams up with Syrinscape, the Pathfinder licensee of the ambient sound and a movie-like soundtrack app, to bring you the Gnome Land Security Soundset Contest.

Syrinscape News 2 Comments

01 July

Monstrous Physique: Boiúna

Written by Luis Loza

Greetings! I’m Luis Loza, freelance writer and game designer, and I wish to welcome you to the first installment of Monstrous Physique. My silly writer brain is always growing new monsters and the kind folks at the Know Direction...

Monstrous Physique 10 Comments

01 July

Dear DovahQueen: Maybe you can give me some advice on a pathfinder game I’m hoping to start?

Written by Loren Sieg

Dear DovahQueen: Maybe you can give me some advice on a pathfinder game I’m hoping to start? I DMed a year long game a few years ago in a fantasy setting but I’m not sure how go on with...

Dear Dovah Queen Leave a Comment

30 June

Know Direction 136 Live – Archivist of the Year [Video]

Written by Jefferson Thacker

Blake Davis -Paizo’s 2016 Volunteer of the Year, and the administrator of the Archives of Nethys- joins us to discuss community, content, and the god of magic.

Archives of Nethys, Blake Davis, Jefferson Jay Thacker, PaizoCon, PaizoCon 2016, Pathfinder RPG, Perram, Ryan Costello, Volunteer of the Year Know Direction Video 1 Comment