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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.

On a scale of 1 to a steamer trunk full, how many dragon miniatures should I have to run this AP?

Another thing of note: Jason said no changes to which ancestries would be included from the playtest. This probably means Goblins are in, and weren't cut after feedback.

Wow! You got these notes done FAST!

Here is the edited audio version as well as the permanent YouTube video for those who want to catch the episode themselves.

http://knowdirectionpodcast.com/2019/01/know-direction-191-pathfinder-playt est-interview-with-jason-bulmahn/

+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.

Please please PLEASE make a Landscape GM screen.

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.

CorvusMask wrote:

Well it is in youtube for everyone who wants to see it

"Everything you want to know about Pathfinder 2.0 playtest."

"Everything" I want to know?
I am... skeptical.

Ok so yeah, I made the title a bit too click-baity, but that was just for the YouTube crowd. I used much more rational titles for our Podcast Feed and hosted version.

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.

A nice calendar I can hang on my wall with the in game year would be wonderful. If it doubled as a conventional calendar, great, but having something like this would be wonderful to hang up in the game room.

You've got SO MUCH art you could use for it each year, and AND you could sneak in promotions for book release dates on it. Marvel does this for their comic books.

It would make my life so much easier, and you could release a new one each year!

I expect this book to be 160 pages, as it is the same price as the Alien Archive.

Good catch!

Thanks for all your help.

Thank you, Diego.

The email I got didn't show any of my discounts applying, will they apply when they ship?

As quickly as possible, please. It's own order.

I pre-ordered before I had the sub, I guess the sub ate that. Reinstate the sub, I didn't know the pawns were part if that.

Thanks.

I'm sorry to see that. It looks like the system had some trouble generating your November order. Sorry about that! I've generated most of the missing items to your sidecart for now. I'll move them out to a newer, but I wanted to check on something first -

I'm not finding a pre-order for the Alien Archive Pawn Set on your account, and I want to make sure you don't end up with two copies of that. Do you have an order number for your pre-order?

Order 4391542

It seems I have an entire shipment that is missing or was never processed. I don't have access to the downloads either. This is a follow up to my earlier email expanded.

Missing Items I've noticed so far:

Ultimate Wilderness
Alien Archive Pawn Set (Pre-ordered in September)
Iron Fang Invasion Pawn Set
Pathfinder Player Companion: People of the Wastes (PFRPG)
Pathfinder Adventure Path #124: City in the Deep (Ruins of Azlant 4 of 6)

And there are probably more, but the site is very slow and its hard for me to sort through all the product lines to see which items have been released I haven't been sent.

Is this going to be part of the module subscription?

Perram wrote:

BigNorseWolf wrote:

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.

I always see the articles for code switch and the like but live broadcast tommorow" or the like never shows.

Sounds like facebook's algorithm getting uppity again. I'll have to look into that. But the recordings are usually available a day or two after the live show finishes.

Hey, sorry to bump, but right now all my stuff that I would pick up at Gen Con is listed as "Items shipping with a later subscription shipment"

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/

Hello Perram,

I see all of the starting items in your sidecart and I see your account set to pick up your subs at GenCon. I do want to give you a heads up that your Limited Edition is also in your sidecart but those will not be available for pickup at GenCon. So right now it is set to be shipped out with your September subscription order.

Ok, thanks, anyway to change that LE to just ship as soon as possible, then?

I recently did three things in rapid succession:

1) Subscribed to just about everything Starfinder. (Maybe actually everything?)

2) Ordered a Limited Edition SFCRB

3) Selected 'Gen Con Pickup'

...

Now none of those products appear in my upcoming subscriptions.

Just want to make sure everything is in order. Don't want to show up for my books at the con and not be able to get them. :)

Thank you

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

I hope this delves into the Dimension of Dreams (likely more the Nightmare side). The tidbits in Occult Adventures are not enough for me!!! :D

They mentioned one of the adventures will be in the Dreamlands.

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.

Interesting. Will there be a play test?

No mention of any play tests yet.

Roleplaying

Nothing about a new class was mentioned. The corruption system is the only thing talked about character wise. May be a major part of the book.

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?

Dragon78 wrote:

So is this all the information so far?

Know Direction has an audio recording of the announcement but hasn't posted it yet.

Yeah, right now we are still at the convention and away from our studios.

Other seminars. Expect a lot of announcents tomorrow.

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.

Justin Franklin wrote:

During the Adventure Path Q&A seminar, The Strange Eons Adventure Path was announced! This will follow the Hell’s Vengeance AP and will be available August, 2016.

This will be a very Lovecraftian themed AP. Focusing on the Old gods.

Will have amnesiac players.
Will involve a lot of travel.
Dreamlands may be explored, meeting famous authors of books, such as the necronomicon, etc…

Back matter will have a lot of lovecraftian details.
Will explore new continents in Golarion!

I must be one of the only five geeks on the planet who is just not that into Lovecraftian stuff.

That said, the exploration of new continents ? That I like, a lot.

Sorry, spelling corrected. Typing all this out on a phone.

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

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