Know Direction Network
The best & latest Pathfinder RPG News, Reviews, & Interviews. Ryan and Perram keep you informed twice monthly.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Episodes
- 225
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Digital Divination 143 – Top 3 Things from Starfinder GM Core
Jason, John, and Ron talk about 3 things they really like about the Starfinder 2 GM Core.
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Intrepid Heroes 166 – The Meet (Murder in Metal City Session 1)
A strange message beckons six strangers to Striving, an expansive megaplex city on Aballon, the planet of Machines. There, they gather in a neon-lit cafe, surrounded by androids and robots, to meet a…
Game Design Unboxed 122: License to Krill
In episode 122 of Game Design Unboxed: Inspiration to Publication, we talk with owner of MaKa Games and designer of License to Krill, Matthew Kambic, about how a pun inspired his debut game — and ho…
Upshift 048: Behind Essential Builds (fixed)
Ryan writes a blog about building elaborate Essence20 characters. Charles needs a new character for a G.I. JOE RPG campaign. Together, they solve crimes.
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Featuring Letter From Snake…
Digital Divination 142 – Gen Con Recap and Ron News!
Jason, John, and Ron recap their Gen Con Experiences and Ron also shares some big news!
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Ron Lundeen is an employee of Wizards of the Coast and his opinions are his own.
Intrepid Heroes 165 – Murder in Metal City Session 0
Welcome to Season 5 of Intrepid Heroes! Our new band of heroes will be taking on the Starfinder 2 adventure Murder in Metal City!
Meet our Season 5 Intrepid Heroes:
Jason Keeley, GM
Alex Speidel
Isis…
Game Design Unboxed 121: Shifting Stones
In episode 121 of Game Design Unboxed: Inspiration to Publication, J. Evan Raitt shares how an infamously frustrating game first sparked his interest in design, which eventually led to a make-your-o…
Gen Con 2025 Pathfinder Battlecry & the Hellfire Crisis
Logan Bonner and Jason Keeley take us on a tour of the latest Pathfinder 2e hardcover, Battlecry, and how it leads into the upcoming Pathfinder adventure path, The Hellfire Crisis.
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Gen Con 2025 Starfinder Launch Panel
Jenny Jarzabski, Mike Kimmel, Dustin Knight, Aras Yazgan, and Jessica Catalan (with special appearance by Thurston Hillman) of Paizo’s Starfinder team cracks open the pages of Starfinder 2e for revea…
Upshift 047: Story Points
Multiple Essence20 Core Rulebooks boldly call Story Points “The Great Equalizer”.
Ryan and Charles look at how this isn’t an exaggeration, and point out how this meta narrative control consumable can…
Know Direction Beyond 99: Starfinder 2e Is Here (featuring Dustin Knight)
Starfinder designer Dustin Knight joins Alex and James as Starfinder 2e launched into the ether, becoming one with the cosmos.
Recorded live on Twitch.
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Intrepid Heroes 164 – Season Finale!
Our heroes come face-to0-face with the creature causing all the problems on Absalom Station. Can they earn the victory and escape the ghost levels?
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Digital Divination 141 – Starfinder 2 Launch Day with Jenny Jarzabski
Starfinder Creative Manager Jenny Jarzabski join Jason, John, and Ron to talk about all the cool Starfinder 2nd Edition things going on at Gen Con for today’s Starfinder 2 release!
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Ron Lu…
Game Design Unboxed 120: CHEW: The Roleplaying Game
In episode 120 of Game Design Unboxed: Inspiration to Publication we talk with Pete Petrusha of Imagining Games about adapting the Eisner award-winning Image comic series, CHEW, into a Forged in the…
Upshift 046: Hawk’s Personnel Files
Ryan and Charles go through the contents and development of the latest Essence20 sourcebook for the G.I. JOE Roleplaying Game: Hawk’s Personnel Files. Anyone who preordered the physical copy from Ren…
Digital Divination 140 – Gen Con 2025
Jason, John, and Ron are all going to Gen Con next week! They share what they will be busy doing as well as what they look forward to the most!
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Ron Lundeen is an employee of Wizards of th…
Intrepid Heroes 163 – Meltdown!
Killer bees! A gross gravid mound! Charity station meltdown! It all comes to a head in the penultimate episode of the season!
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Game Design Unboxed 119: Cretaceous Rails
In episode 119 of Game Design Unboxed: Inspiration to Publication we talk with Ann Journey about what inspired her to create a game about going back in time to see the dinosaurs, rather than bringin…
Upshift 045: Welcome To Night Vale
Carlos (you know, the game dev?) Cabrera, the project manager of Renegade Game Studios’ Welcome To Night Vale RPG joins Ryan to talk about the development of the project, why Essence20 was the right …
Digital Divination 139 – Top Properties for Starfinder 2e Conversions
John and Ron talk about the top Science Fiction/Fantasy properties that they would like to see converted to the Starfinder 2e system. Surprise, there is no overlap between their lists!
Also, a much n…