Thanks to everyone who made PaizoCon Online 2026 a success this weekend! We'll be releasing VODs and audio of the seminars starting next week. If you missed the event or can't wait to give your favourite seminar another listen, the timecoded links are here: knowdirectionpodcast.com/2026/05/that...

It's #PaizoConOnline2026 day 2! Seminar 4: Impossible Magic Can Pathfinder fit more spellcasters and magic? Impossible? Find out about Impossible Magic's new classes and 240+ new spells. Featuring Joshua Birdsong. Starting at 6PM Pacific (9PM Eastern) www.twitch.tv/officialpaizo

It's #PaizoConOnline2026 day 2! Seminar 3: Influence Finders We all love Paizo's games but these influencers made it their whole online identity. Featuring James Beck, Runia the Witch, Phoebe Bane, and Mathfinder. Starting at 5PM Pacific (8PM Eastern) www.twitch.tv/officialpaizo

It's #PaizoConOnline2026 day 2! Seminar 2: Welcome to the Stage: The Luminary We give Starfinder's fabulous new class, currently in playtest, the attention it deserves. Featuring Dustin Knight and Aras Yazgan. Starting at 4PM Pacific (7PM Eastern) www.twitch.tv/officialpaizo

It's #PaizoConOnline2026 day 2! Seminar 1: Starfinder's Latest Buzz 3PM Pacific (6PM Eastern) The Starfinder team unveils the Secrets of the Swarm and looks at Absalom Station: Center of the Galaxy and Tech Core. Featuring Jessica Catalan, Dustin Knight, and Aras Yazgan. www.twitch.tv/officialpaizo

It's #PaizoConOnline2026 day 1! Seminar 5: Lost Omen Lore Of course Pathfinder is more than just a roleplaying game. The Myth Keeper tells us why Lost Omens is the best campaign setting. Featuring The Myth Keeper. Starting at 7PM Pacific (10PM Eastern)

It's #PaizoConOnline2026 day 1! Seminar 4: Ask the GMs These experienced Game Masters are here to help you up your game. Featuring Ivis Flanagan, James Beck, and Rick Sandidge. Starting at 6PM Pacific (9PM Eastern)

It's #PaizoConOnline2026 day 1! Seminar 3: Freelance Summit It wouldn’t be a PaizoCon without an advice seminar for freelancer writers and designers looking to get published. Featuring Jeremy Belabras C, Tony Saunders, and Katrina Hennessy. Starting at 5PM Pacific (8PM Eastern)

It's #PaizoConOnline2026 day 1! Seminar 2: Organized Play Update Hear the latest about the Organized Play program, and get a few hints at what’s in the PFS and SFS pipeline. Featuring Shay Snow and Jessica Catalan. Starting at 4PM Pacific (7PM Eastern)

It's #PaizoConOnline2026 day 1! We kick off PaizoCon Online 2026 with Welcome To PaizoCon Online 2026. It'd be weird if it was anything but our first seminar, really. Featuring Ryan Costello, Dustin Knight, and Ivis Flanagan. Starting at 3PM Pacific (6PM Eastern)

Can't get enough #PaizoConOnline2026? Starting 30 minutes before each day and between each seminar, Ryan Costello and any panelists who show up early will be having Couch Chats, in honour of the informal conversations around the hotel in-person PaizoCons were known for.

The PaizoCon Online 2026 schedule is now live! knowdirectionpodcast.com/2026/05/paiz...

Bask in the spotlight of the luminary, a new Charisma-based occult casting but skill-based martial class for Starfinder2e! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnj3...

We are honored to officially announce that PaizoCon is uncancelled! The Know Direction Network will host PaizoCon Online 2026. knowdirectionpodcast.com/2026/05/know...

Rob explores more ways you can connect other Pathfinder Adventure Paths to a Kingmaker campaign in the latest Investing In on the #KnowDirectionNetwork. knowdirectionpodcast.com/2026/04/inve...

Perram wrote a guest post for the Paizo blog!

If you love Alex and James squealing (and James having to bleed Alex's enthusiastic swearing), check out their review of Starfinder 2e Galactic Ancestries. The latest Know Direction Beyond is available now on the #KnowDirectionNetwork. knowdirectionpodcast.com/2026/04/know...

Can our Intrepid Heroes avoid suspicion through vexing legalize and genuine confusion? The latest episode of the #KnowDirectionNetwork's actual play of Pathfinder 2e's Hellbreakers adventure path is available now. knowdirectionpodcast.com/2026/04/intr...

Get the Night Vale TTRPG starter set pdf (and over 500 other games!) for only $5 by supporting the fundraiser TTRPGs for Trans Rights-Idaho. Back a good cause and get a ton of fun games, but most importantly back a good cause. buff.ly/2QznvFK

Rob Pontious‬ explores the ramifications of the Hellfire Crisis on the Inner Sea Region, as told by the latest Lost Omens hardcover, Hellfire Dispatches, in the latest Investing In on the #KnowDirectionNetwork. knowdirectionpodcast.com/2026/04/inve...

Edwin D. Benton II turned a desire to see better representative vocabulary in word games into a career designing and publishing tabletop games like Song Survivor. The latest Game Design Unboxed is available now on the #KnowDirectionNetwork. knowdirectionpodcast.com/2026/04/game...

"Bathfinder?" Only Note On Know Direction's Tear-Drenched April Fool's 2026 Idea Board knowdirectionpodcast.com/2026/04/bath...

Hell had it coming. Our Intrepid Heroes play their first Pathfinder2e adventure path, Hellbreakers, on the #KnowDirectionNetwork. knowdirectionpodcast.com/2026/03/intr...

Rob Pontious returns to Cheliax to root the new rebellion, resistance, and espionage themed options out of the Hellbreakers Adventure Toolbox in the latest Investing In on the #KnowDirectionNetwork. knowdirectionpodcast.com/2026/03/inve...

No offense to Rival Academy's Call The Ten, we just hesitate to choose any three-action activities in Pathfinder. That's *all* the actions!

The Pathfinder Spring 2026 Errata is here to erratacate the negative reaction to the recent ruling on Immunities, Weaknesses, and Resistances.

I've never been more disappointed with my Pathfinder group. THOMAS: There's a Lumberjack archtype. ME: And it's OK. And then no reaction! Nothing!

Rob Pontious shares the gaming influencers he appreciates, the ones he says make fandom feel lived in, in the latest Investing In on the #KnowDirectionNetwork. knowdirectionpodcast.com/2026/03/inve...

It's hard to believe there was a Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design Hall of Fame and Wayne Reynolds wasn't in it.

Tricky Pigs designer Steven Ungaro tells Danielle about how he went from unpublished to signing three games in a year. The latest Game Design Unboxed is available now on the #KnowDirectionNetwork. knowdirectionpodcast.com/2026/03/game...

Congrats to the SF2 team on the nomination!

Paizo’s Starfinder Society Developer Jessica Catalan updates Alex and James on the past, present, and future of SFS. The latest Know Direction Beyond is available now on the #KnowDirectionNetwork. knowdirectionpodcast.com/2026/03/know...

Considering how long Game Masters wait between "How do you want to do this?" and players settling on something resembling a plan, it's somewhat ironic that International GMs Day is March 4th. Nevertheless, we love our Pathfinder GMs and recognize all the work they do bringing our adventures to life.

The next Pathfinder Tales novel is an adaptation of Abomination Vaults written by @erikscottdebie.bsky.social? That's three things we love smooshed together!

EN World with an insightful breakdown of Cannibal Halfling Gaming's Five Tiers of RPG Publishing.

We're a week into the #Pathfinder2e Risks & Rewards playtest. How are the daredevils and slayers treating everyone?

Designer Kristen Mott tells Danielle about playtesting her games through play with her kids, but honestly, she had us at Stable Times. The latest Game Design Unboxed is available now on the #KnowDirectionNetwork. knowdirectionpodcast.com/2026/02/game...

Got SFS questions for Paizo's Starfinder Society Senior Developer, Jessica Catalan? Ask her at tonight's live recording of Know Direction: Beyond.

Who has a new TTRPG mini they're proud of?

Whether you're interested in Paizo's new partnership with One Page Rules to bring Paizo Printables 3D miniatures to OPR's Age of Fantasy miniature games, or you just miss Perram, this episode of Know Direction is for you! youtu.be/pJbqLIvQ7wg

If you've ever wanted to hunt down acrobats in #Pathfinder2e, you can now playtest the new Daredevil Slayer class!

Rob Pontious dives back into #Pathfinder2e 's occult texts, looking at Dark Archive Remaster in the latest Investing In on the #KnowDirectionNetwork. knowdirectionpodcast.com/2026/02/inve...

Exciting news for a lot of reasons! Perram talked often on the podcast about wanting a Pathfinder miniatures skirmish game and now he's helped make it happen.

Alex and James get to the bottom of mystery that is Starfinder2e Developer Mike Kimmel. The latest Know Direction: Beyond is available now on the #KnowDirectionNetwork. knowdirectionpodcast.com/2026/02/know...

"I’m more angry than sad..." Rob Pontious explains why he couldn't just write about the TTRPGs he wants to play in 2016. Not when a facist government's secret police are killing his fellow citizens. knowdirectionpodcast.com/2026/01/inve...

Get your John, Ron, and Jason Starfinder fix while you can, because Digital Divination is going into cryostasis! knowdirectionpodcast.com/2026/01/digi...

As is tradition, Danielle wraps up the season with a look back on her many great interviews (Matt Leacock! John D. Clair! Pete Petrusha!), and a look to the future of the show and her game design journey.

We all need to recover HP sometimes.

How it feels watching the news lately. And by lately, we mean for the past 15 years.

"I don't like PCs" -Ron Lundeen No, this Paizo developer doesn't hate your player character. In his and John's discussion about designing TTRPG adventures, Ron says he uses "the heroes" when referencing the player characters because he finds |PCs| too jargony. What is your preference?