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Welcome to the Know Direction podcast network’s PaizoCon 2017 seminar coverage! 028 – Auntie Lisa’s Story Hour Paizo’s founding CEO Lisa Stevens has seen it all, from the birth of White Wolf to her days as “employee #1” at Wizards of the Coast. She has been Star Wars Fan Club president, helped manage the transition […]

Welcome to the Know Direction podcast network’s PaizoCon 2017 seminar coverage! 027 – Diversifying Your Game Join professional game designers for this how-to panel on telling more enriching stories through making game settings and characters more diverse. Speakers: Crystal Frasier, Jessica Price, Diego Valdez Listen Now! Note: In order to release these seminars in as […]

Welcome to the Know Direction podcast network’s PaizoCon 2017 seminar coverage! 026 – Killer Characters and Killer GMs Killer characters are no fun at the table, wiping the dungeon floor with your carefully crafted challenges. What can GMs do to counter unbalanced characters without completely cheating? Is being a killer GM a bad thing? Speakers: […]

Welcome to the Know Direction podcast network’s PaizoCon 2017 seminar coverage! 025 – World Building 201: Advanced Topics in World Creation Learn about advanced topics in world building, such as advancing timelines and fixing problems in your setting. We’ll tackle campaign history as it relates to the PCs, cosmology, and player-driven world building. Speakers: Wolfgang […]

Welcome to the Know Direction podcast network’s PaizoCon 2017 seminar coverage! 024 – The Care and Feeding of People Who Play, Run, and Write Games We often overlook the work that goes into creating games. This panel addresses the emotional effort of creating games and provides strategies for keeping yourself mentally and emotionally healthy so […]

Welcome to the Know Direction podcast network’s PaizoCon 2017 seminar coverage! 023 – What’s Next for Monte Cook Games The MCG team talks about the Numenera RPG, The Strange RPG, Invisible Sun RPG, No Thank You Evil!, and upcoming plans for Monte Cook Games. Newbies welcome! Fun handouts included! Speakers: Sean K Reynolds Listen Now! […]

Welcome to the Know Direction podcast network’s PaizoCon 2017 seminar coverage! 022 – Starfinder: Designing Aliens Together with Paizo’s elite monster-crafters, you’ll create the Starfinder statistics for the alien brainstormed in the preceding Concepting Aliens seminar, plus explore the differences between creature creation in Starfinder and Pathfinder. Speakers: Adam Daigle, Jason Keeley, Owen K.C. Stephens […]

Welcome to the Know Direction podcast network’s PaizoCon 2017 seminar coverage! 021 – Starfinder: Concepting Aliens Work with Paizo staff members to brainstorm ideas for original Starfinder aliens. Artist guest of honor Remko Troost will draw the room’s hideous new creation. Stick around for the following Designing Aliens panel to bring the new creature to […]

Welcome to the Know Direction podcast network’s PaizoCon 2017 seminar coverage! 020 – Author Reading from Club Anyone, the New Interface Zero Novel Megacorp programmer Derek Tobbit’s midlife crisis is hijacked by a massive conspiracy, and it’ll take all his hacking skills and the redemptive power of love to save everything. Lou Agresta will read […]

Welcome to the Know Direction podcast network’s PaizoCon 2017 seminar coverage! 019 -Official Pathfinder Art Preview Join Paizo’s award-winning art and graphic design staff for a discussion of the illustrations, maps, and other visual elements that bring Pathfinder to life, as well as a preview of what’s to come. Speakers: James Jacobs, Sarah Robinson Listen […]