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With a reduction of available scenarios... are you looking at ways to increase replay?

While Dragons and Things finishes out Paizo's Gen Con Online 2020, the crew here at Know Direction are signing out until the next one. We're really proud of the work our team did, and all of the incredible work that Paizo Inc.'s crew brought this year.

We hope you had a great time, and if you missed any of it: do not worry. We'll have audio recordings of it all on the podcast stream, and Paizo will have much of it on their YouTube channel, and we'll have the rest on ours.

If luck and health are with us, we'll see you all next year in person!

And as always, you can find all of our previous convention coverage and other Paizo news and gaming content at our web page: http://knowdirectionpodcast.com/

How have you all enjoyed the PaizoCon and Gen Con online offerings this year? We did our best to try and make it as much like the offline experience as we could.

Gosh, such a wonderful note, Aaron. Thank you so much for posting it. Love you and all of Paizo, especially for helping this queer little halfling feel welcome.

Sporkedup wrote:

You can also usually rewatch things on Twitch without waiting, right? Or are there limits to that?

We intend to post summary outline blogs at 2 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, just after the Marquee event ends. We expect fans will add a lot of detail there. ;) Twitch streams are available as video on demand (VOD) as soon as the stream is done. We will work with Know Direction to upload them all to YouTube within 30 days, if not sooner. Converting our Twitch streams to podcast is a long term goal, but not planned at this time. Most seminar topics will be repeated as blogs eventually too. We intend to send daily morning emails with a link to the prior day's blog and the schedule for the day ahead. Lots of planning happening!

Know Direction will be converting the panels to audio podcasts on our Convention Coverage stream ASAP.

Hey all,

I made these character sheets for my home games, and thought you all might like them. They're inspired by the official Playtest sheets and the old Forgotten Realms sheets for 3rd edition D&D.

I hope to make them form fallible... when I figure out how.

There are printer friendly versions as well in the zip.

http://knowdirectionpodcast.com/2019/08/perrams-landscape-character-sheet-f or-pathfinder-second-edition/

Zythraen wrote:

the sickly dwarf above inherently gets +2 CON, then they apply their floating flaw so they are, so far, net 0 for this step, then apply one of their 2 extra flaws to end up -2 for this step of character generation.

What? Dwarves don't have a floating flaw, as far as I'm aware. No ancestry does. It's always a fixed one (charisma for a dwarf) isn't it?

When you take this new option you choose 2 floating flaws to get one extra floating boost.

+1 for great justice here.

That cover is incredible and deserves to be framed.

If it is a ranged touch attack, it is:
Level + DEX Bonus.

If its a melee touch attack, it is:
Level + STR or DEX bonus. (( Because Touch is a finesse attack. ))

I want to echo support for making the wands into single spell staves. Bond with them for 1 RP, and that provides some sort of benefit when casting that spell. (Extra damage? A bump to the spell DC? Something, doesn't have to be big.)

Then spend an RP to convert a slot to that spell.

This will make it attractive to have wands for your favorite spells. If you slot the spell that is in the wand, you get to enjoy the wand's boost to it, and if you need more or didn't slot? Then you still have access to your favorite spell by using spell slots.

It will also increase the class fantasy of wizards with staves and wands and make them into valuable tools instead of commodities.

Keeping track of charges and RP at the same time is... not something I want to do.

So basically blaster Sorc/Wizard days are over?

Honestly as it stands, blasting Sorc/Wizards are already hurting. Even with free scaling, their damage is too easy to mitigate and most encounters (at least those in published materials) are not against multiple threats, so the AOE aspect doesn't help and is often even an hindrance thanks to your own team in the way.

We'll have to see how the new presentation treats it.

So the Gunslinger came up specifically in our (Know Direction) interview last night with Erik Mona and Logan Bonner.

They said they wanted to not include them in the core yet, for several reasons (flavor, rarity, unique mechanics.)

And when they do reintroduce the Gunslinger, they wanted to have a very focused play-test on the mechanics this time around.

Ok, in the KD Interview they confirmed that the Spell Levels are 1-10, not 0-9.

BUT

Cantrips still exist, they just don't seem to be called 0 level spells now.

This was such an amazing episode to do, I didn't expect that they would be THAT open about everything when it started.

It would make getting more of the existing monsters into the game sooner, but it would also mean $60 monster books, which is worth considering very carefully.

Personally there is little difference in my lizard brain between a $50 book and a $60 book. But that may just be me.

Is this going to be part of the module subscription?

ack.. never know when know direction is coming on..

We're live every other Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. EST / 5:30 p.m. PST. :) We post it on our facebook page and our home page as soon as we confirm the guests that week.

We're not doing a show tomorrow, but will be doing a show the week after.

Hey everyone,

We recently had Owen and Jason on the show to really dig in deep on what you need to know to get ready for Starfinder. Including some real crunchy details on:

• Character Creation
  
• Advancement
  
• Combat
  
• Differences between Starfinder and Pathfinder
  
• and a lot more.
  

It gets really crunchy and elbows deep in details. We were really happy to have them on the show, and thought you all would want to see this one if you haven't.

Check it out here:

http://knowdirectionpodcast.com/2017/07/know-direction-162-getting-ready-fo r-starfinder/

Great move, excited about this book ESPECIALLY the Shifter.

I've also been thinking about a line of miniatures. I don't know if demand would justify multiple series as they do with traditional combat, but I would definitely buy pre-painted plastic minis for ship-to-ship combat. Been looking online the last two days and have had trouble finding anything I liked (i.e., not obviously bound to an existing setting such as Star Wars or BSG) and within my budget.

Anyway, I was listening to a podcast by someone who was able to play test the space combat. This is probably available elsewhere on the forums (or refuted elsewhere), but he said there was no NDA. It was a play test and things could change but what I recall is:
- ships have a movement speed and must move a certain number of spaces before turning one point on the hex
- there are three phases of combat: engineering, movement and gunnery. Each phase is resolved simultaneously. Initiative's role is to determine who has to declare their actions first. You want to declare last so you have the benefit of responding to the other ship's declared actions.
- the three phases help give every PC a role
- roles on the ship are independent of your class abilities, apparently linked to a skill.
- you can pull off special maneuvers but the DCs for these are so high they can only be achieved by the crew working together and giving bonuses to the PC who makes the tough roll. This is by design to encourage crews to communicate and work together (like a real crew)

Take all of that with a grain of salt.

That was me! It was the Gen Con 2016 play test, and I'm sure things have changed since then, of course. We posted up some pictures on our Facebook page, as well.

Picture of the play test in action.

Didn't they used to give more info about products revealed at Paizo Con during Gen Con? I was so hoping we would get more info about Bestiary 5, Inner Sea Races, Occult Bestiary, Distant Shores, Occult Realms, and/or Occult Origins.

Inner Sea Races and Bestiary 5 were given a lot of details we live blogged on our Facebook page. We'll have more detailed information and the full audio of the announcements on our site soon. We just need to get back to our studios.

Our Facebook page is:Facebook.com/knowdirection

Totally looking forward to the AP!

We appreciate when we can help. We spend thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours of our time to produce the show and get this sort of information out as quickly as possible.

If you haven't checked out the show, I recommend you do! I like to think we are more than just "some podcast."

Follow up to the comics was announced. Seems a slight tie in to Shattered Star. Forgot the name I'm afraid.

Arcane Codex was announced as well for the campaign setting line. I may have the title wrong. It will be six spellbooks in Golarion.

Roleplaying

Horror Adventures, the new hardcover from Paizo for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game will launch I’m August next year, along side the Strange Aeons Adventure path!

Features Include:

Advice for running horror themed Adventures in Pathfinder.

Madness rules will be Included.

Lovecraftian horror Included.

Major character system: Corruption.
System by which you can slowly descend into a new form. Vampires hinted at after the biting.

Embracing the corruption gives you abilities for your character, such as becoming more charming… But a drawback is tied to it. Such as aversion to sunlight.

Lovecraftian, werewolves, insanity, possession mentioned as possibilities.

Touches of playing monsters, but focusing on the RP possibilities and the slow turning and resisting or embracing that.

Body failing and replacing with golem parts?

Wicked Woodpecker of the West wrote:

So, another evil AP. Gooood.

Huh?

No mention of this being an evil AP.

Insanity will be a feature.

Will be a Pathfinder Adventure, defeating monsters, etc. Not a Call of Cthuhlu Adventure where investigation is 90% of play.

http://knowdirectionpodcast.com/2015/07/next-pathfinder-adventure-path-anno unced/

We will also have the full seminar recording posted on our site!

As a long time subscriber to the different product lines, I have a 'My Downloads' page with hundreds of PDFs at this point, but downloading them is rather annoying, and I think the process should be improved.

Problem #1 - Customization

I have to click the link twice, after waiting 10 seconds the first time... but sometimes it still isn't done yet if its a hard cover. If I download the same book again? I /still/ need to customize it.

I understand that this is to place the Watermark on the PDF pages, but it means downloading any one file takes several steps, takes time, and is in general an annoying process.

Problem #2 - Downloading Multiple Files

There is no method in place to easily download multiple files. So if I want to download all of my PDFs that I've bought, I have to do the above customization process every time.

It's painful when I'm simply downloading every adventure in an AP, but when I'm trying to get my entire collection? Almost unbearable.

If I'm going to use the PDFs at a convention or on my iPad or other tablet, I need to download them and transfer them to the device. This makes it very difficult to do.

If there were a way to at least batch the process to download multiple PDFs at once, things would be a lot easier.

Problem #3 - The File Names

I just Downloaded Unchained. It comes in a zip file named PathfinderRoleplayingGameUnchainedOGLPDF-SingleFile.zip. But when I open that zip file so that I can pull the PDF out, I find a PDF named PZO1131E.pdf. Some apps won't read the PDFs inside zip files, so I have to unzip them, which means in order to know what file my book is I have to rename the file myself.

Again, in the context of a single file, its annoying but not a huge effort. But when I'm dealing with a catalog of hundreds, having to personalize them, download them, unzip them, and rename them one by one? Very unsatisfying.

So please, improve the system.

Ok! We've got TWO videos up now!

Paizo 2015 and Beyond Seminar - This is the one that they make the Occult Adventures announcement, as well as Inner Sea Races! And they talk a little about all the other things going on.
Link: http://knowdirectionpodcast.com/2014/08/gen-con-2014-paizo-2015-and-beyond- occult-adventures-races-of-golarion-announcement/

Pathfinder’s Expanding Universe - This is the seminar with the most information about the deal with Obsidian Entertainment and talk of the digital version of the card game. It also talks about the miniature line, the new campaign coins medallion, and other tie in products.
Link: http://knowdirectionpodcast.com/2014/08/gen-con-2014-pathfinders-expanding- universe-obsidian-entertainment-card-game-more/

Ok! We've got TWO videos up now!

Paizo 2015 and Beyond Seminar - This is the one that they make the Occult Adventures announcement, as well as Inner Sea Races! And they talk a little about all the other things going on.
Link: http://knowdirectionpodcast.com/2014/08/gen-con-2014-paizo-2015-and-beyond- occult-adventures-races-of-golarion-announcement/

Pathfinder’s Expanding Universe - This is the seminar with the most information about the deal with Obsidian Entertainment and talk of the digital version of the card game. It also talks about the miniature line, the new campaign coins medallion, and other tie in products.
Link: http://knowdirectionpodcast.com/2014/08/gen-con-2014-pathfinders-expanding- universe-obsidian-entertainment-card-game-more/

I'm working hard to try and get the videos posted. Its... taking awhile to render them and upload. New equipment has great new quality... but that quality means more computing time.

Hey gang! Here are the notes we have for the big announcements made at Gen Con 2014 for the Pathfinder RPG. We recorded nearly all the seminars this year as well and will be uploading them shortly.

Announcements include:
Hell's Rebels Adventure Path
Inner Sea Races Hard Cover
Occult Adventures Hard Cover (Includes Psychic Magic)

Here are our notes:
http://knowdirectionpodcast.com/2014/08/gen-con-2014-pathfinder-announcemen ts-hells-rebels-occult-adventures-inner-sea-races/

Fantastic news! This was one of my favorite books in the Tales line. Looking forward to reading this!

You can tell he's a Gorumite from that flail! :D

Love the flail, and extra glad to see a half-orc without implied rape in the back story.

Haha!

Love it! Thanks for selecting the little devil to be the monster. Her obsessive collecting is likely to only get worse.

Special #2 – YOU Are the Publisher.
Featuring Lisa Stevens, Erik Mona, and F. Wesley Schneider.

http://35privatesanctuary.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article &id=528%3Apaizocon2013-special-002-you-are-the-publisher&catid=35%3 Athe-tome-know-direction&Itemid=34

Know Direction’s PaizoCon 2013 coverage was made possible by the KD PaizoCon 2013 Con Team, including Mitchell Anderson, Sarah Bull, Darran Caldemeyer, Venus DeCoy, Robyn Nixon, and Justin Sluder. Huge thanks to them for all the help. If you like this special, check out 35privatesanctuary.com for more recordings from this and previous year’s PaizoCon, check out the Know Direction YouTube channel for seminar videos, and don’t forget to visit our sponsor at chimeragames.ca.

I'll be updating this thread as the seminars are released!

First up: PAIZOCON2013 SPECIAL 001 - PREVIEW BANQUET
Audio: http://www.35privatesanctuary.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=art icle&id=526:paizocon2013-special-001-preview-banquet&catid=35:the-t ome-know-direction&Itemid=34

These are really neat, but leaving so much blank, you mean the cards wont contain the full text?

The first print run CRB's were actually notorious for having weaker bindings. I believe that new print runs had stronger bindings than before. This isn't the first time this concern has seen the forums.

The CRB is one of the few RPG books printed so thick, and certainly the thickest book to see such widespread use. I'm not blaming Paizo for not being able to predict what would happen, but I don't think it dismiss-able either.

Honestly, I'd love to see the CRB split into two books, a Player's Guide and a GM's Reference. At $29.99 and $19.99 respectively (The GM sections are small compared to the player section in the CRB, not all of the DMG made the port over), or even a bit more each, inflation and binding costs etc...

Rynjin wrote:

shallowsoul wrote:

Sorry but Harry Potter is not a good comparison unless that is how you run your world.

Why isn't it?

Because Harry Potter is a style of fantasy where magic is a day to day thing where you can buy magic wands around every corner. Not everyone runs their games like that so its a poor comparison unless that is how you specifically run your games.

I keep hearing this same excuse for your stance. "Not everyone runs their game that way."

The flavor texts were written assuming a certain play method for the game. It has even been explicitly called out as such by one of the games creators.

If you don't play with that flavor, then you are explicitly playing the game in a non-standard way. Which is totally cool, but don't ignore the spelled out facts. If it doesn't have a GP cost it was just something the writers put in the game to sound neat and help describe things during play.

The explicit balance of the game was already established, and using this as a crutch for your house rules is poor form.

If you make house rules stand by them on their own merits. But apply them equally across the board.

You obviously have a problem with casters, but I don't think this is really the ship you wanna sail your crusade on. Its got leaks. Go back to the original problem and figure out how it works better for you.

And hope your players agree with you.

Know Direction is now going LIVE, WITH VIDEO! Starting Wed. February 6th, 8:30 p.m. EST, 5:30 p.m. PST!

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Important note: you'll need to slightly adjust the print settings when prepping the spell cards. On the Playing Card size, size down to 97% and remove the header and footer from the print job or you will have some of the bottom cards run onto a second page.

Stay tuned to the site this week, an update to the cards will solve this problem forever!

Ryan and Perram are back in full swing, with an extended review segment and the most questions ever asked for Know Questions, including our first PFS question for Venture Lieutenant Brian Darnell.

You can listen the episode right here:
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Here is another draft of what they could look like...

As you may have heard in Know Direction 47, I'm currently working on a complete revision of Perram's Spellbook, and I need your guys help. I want to make this the best spell cards available, PERIOD.

The goals:

• Better Looking Cards (Example Below)
  
• Save Cards as PDF Files, to help resolve printing issues.
  
• Using Inspirations from CCG and Board Game cards to make reading the cards easier and more compact. Using Symbols, etc...
  
• Still having the cards be customizeable ! Important to include the option for both large and small text for users who are unable to read small text.
  
• A cheat list option, instead of cards. Basically like a reference table of the basic stats without the full text description.
  
• Ability to enter your caster stats in, and have the spell display modified numerical info like range and save DC based on level, stat, bonuses, etc...
  

So please chime in with your requests and suggestions!

Example Here.

I think it is pretty obvious that this would quickly become the complaints box nearly entirely. And it would very quickly discourage GMs from stepping up. It is hard enough to get GMs for events as it is!

If there is a legitimate problem big enough to need action, contact the organizers or Paizo with details.

But if GMs start having to worry about their 'report cards' after a long hard con dragging their equipment around, loosing their voice, stressing about the tables, struggling to even /hear a word/ because the con hall is so loud it drives you deaf, and then dealing with things like last minute changes, or picking up a slot for a GM that didn't show up...

Well, then players should expect it to be nearly impossible to get seats in the very few chairs remaining.

The Know Direction Podcast will once again be releasing audio recordings of the majority of the sessions, presentations, and seminars of PaizoCon! So for those of you, like myself, who were not able to make it, this is the second best thing!

These recording would not have been possible without the help of Justin Sluder, Jessie Banner, and Paul Rimmer. Thank you three for your help, support, and hard work. I’m sure the Pathfinder fan community appreciates it as much as we do.

Our plan is to release a new segment every day as they finish editing.

Our First Segment: The PaizoCon 2012 Banquet!
You can listen to it right here!

But But... POOG was bestest goblin!

I would like to see a Andoran Naval story along the lines of Horatio Hornblower.