Know Direction

Convention coverage returns to the #KnowDirectionNetwork.

Listen to Paizo's #GenCon2025 panels on our podcast feed:

Pathfinder Battlecry & the Hellfire Crisis

Starfinder Launch Panel

This banner for the latest episode of the Upshift podcast posits that every Story Point tells a story, over a selection of Essence20 Core Rulebooks open to the Story Point section.

Ryan and Charles discuss how Story Points in #Essence20 are more than just a narrative control consumable, they're a tool for story telling.
The latest Upshift is available now on the #KnowDirectionNetwork.
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How about now?

We'll poke it.

Kitsune Alex, human James, and kitsune Dustin celebrate the eminence of the Starfinder 2e Player Core.

Starfinder designer Dustin Knight joins Alex and James as Starfinder 2e launched into orbit.
The latest Know Direction Beyond is available now on the #KnowDirectionNetwork.
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Welcome back!

A skittermander front and center of the Lost Omens Pathfinder Society cover.

Want to play a Pathfinder Society skittermander?

Play in or GM at least one #Starfinder2e Starfinder Society game by September 5th may create one Pathfinder Society character using the skittermander ancestry.
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It's its cosmic birthday and it will meltdown if it wants to!
The season finale of Intrepid Heroes is available now on the #KnowDirectionNetwork.
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The Now You Know banner in Starfinder 2e blues.

Ryan explains why he thinks #Starfinder2e won #GenCon2025 in the latest editorial on the #KnowDirectionNetwork.
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I'm not saying Paizo definitely timed it like that for that exact reason, but I would not be surprised.

You are a neglectful book daddy!

Who is grabbing the first Starfinder novel?

Jealousy over not being at Gen Con... rising.

Designer Pete Petrusha holds up his ENnie award and is posed next to the Chew Roleplaying Game in this banner for the latest episode of the Game Design Unboxed podcast.

Pete Petrusha tells Danielle about adapting the bizarre detective noir comic for foodies, Chew, into a #TTRPG.
The latest Game Design Unboxed is available now on the #KnowDirectionNetwork.
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A variant cover of Nightwing #118 by Nicola Scott, which features the modern Nightwing look front and center in front of the history of his past costumes, as well as the Essential Builds logo.

Ryan brings Nightwing, another member of the Bat Family, to #Essence20 in the latest Essential Builds on the #KnowDirectionNetwork.
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New #Starfinder party-based RPG video game coming soon? Sign us up!

Hm? Oh. We have to sign ourselves up.

*Opens Steam*

*Add To Wishlist*

Done!

Absolutely.

I'm looking!

Can't make it to #GenCon for the launch of #Starfinder2e?
The #KnowDirectionNetwork has the next best thing!

The cover of Battlecry!, the latest #Pathfinder2e sourcebook.

Rob Pontious shares the biggest hits from Battlecry!, the combat ready new #Pathfinder2e sourcebook, in the latest Investing In on the #KnowDirectionNetwork.
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A Starfinder 2e Plyer Core display at Paizo's Gen Con 2025 booth. Caption: IN 2017, PAIZO BROUGHT MORE COPIES OF THE STARFINDER 1E CORE RULEBOOK TO GEN CON THAN ANY PRODUCT EVE. IT SOLD OUT WITHIN HOURS OF DAY 1. THEY BROUGHT EVEN MORE COPIES OF STARFINDER 2E PLAYER CORE. HOW LONG DO YOU THINK IT WILL TAKE TO SELL OUT?

#Starfinder2e Player Core goes on sale today at #GenCon.

But for how long?

Reminder that Know Direction: Beyond is live TOMORROW, Thursday July 31st, not Wednesday the 30th as originally posted.

Reminder that Know Direction: Beyond is live TOMORROW, Thursday July 31st, not Wednesday the 30th as originally posted.

We're thinking about making a meme about Con Crud, for anyone else who doesn't know. Are you OK if we mention you in the meme's caption?

It's the catchall term for whatever illness you might leave a convention with.

Pathfinder's god of good times, Cayden Cailean, reminds you of the 1-2-3 rule of Gen Con survival: 1 SHOWER per day Present your best self to your fellow gamers and reduce the risk of Con Crud. 2 MEALS per day Fuel your gaming by sitting and eating at least two proper meals with greens and protein. 3 HOURS OF SLEEP per day You can game all night at Gen Con. You may want to game all night and Gen Con. You should not game all night at Gen Con. Get 3 hours of sleep every night, minimum.

Cayden Cailean may have ascended to godhood during a debaucherous bender, but for the rest of us mortals, the key to a good #GenCon is moderation.

Dang it. I knew that and I still got it wrong.

Ryan shares the ennui of experiencing #GenCon2025 from home in the latest Now You Know editorial on the #KnowDirectionNetwork.
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