Paizo's Adam Daigle mentioned that each year he judges the monsters contestants submit, he makes a spreadsheet to track things like CR, ...

If you're interested in creating villains for the Pathfinder RPG and seeing them published, consider submitting something in the Villain...

Advice : If the premise of an ability is your interpretation of how the rules should work rather than what is actually written in the rules...

Last year, I blogged about a monster design tool I designed for D&D 5th edition. Using some of the same ideas, I started designing a spr...

Earlier this year, Jacob W Michaels and I founded Swords for Hire Development , a studio that runs projects for third-party publishers that ...

It's been a while since my last blog post. I've been traveling and generally busy with a lot of things, but I'm back and it'...

A Sword for Hire interviewed lead developer Neil Spicer about the epic interplanetary adventure saga Legendary Planet! The Kickstarter cam...

I interviewed Richard Moore, editor for Jon Brazer Enterprises. He discusses JBE's products, working with freelancers, and more!

Better late than never! Here are some of my personal highlights from PaizoCon 2015! (Yes, it was awesome!)

At PaizoCon 2015, besides having a blast, meeting great people (including the First Sword himself, Mikko Kallio), and learning a great dea...

Last year when I was writing my round 5 adventure pitch for RPG Superstar, I bought the Chase Cards deck because I wanted to include a chase...

Remember this contest? The earth will shake and tremble, When the monsters return. August 2015. Stay tuned!

At PaizoCon, a number of people mentioned they've found my advice articles useful, so I thought I'd make a link list about the artic...

In this week's guest blog, Ismael Alvarez discusses epic level adventuring. Readers, please discuss your experiences with epic / myth...

A few weeks ago, I announced a monster pitch challenge in the Blazing 9 thread on paizo.com. If you're interested in monster design,...

Here's the second part of the Emerald Spire review, written by guest blogger Neal Powell!

I've been quite busy lately, and haven't been able to post regularly. I'll soon be able to blog normally again, though! I have a...

Last year, I interviewed Marc Tassin about the World of Aetaltis Kickstarter . Last week, the Heroes of Thornwall PDF went up for sale on D...

This time I interviewed Steven Helt, a.k.a. RPG Superstar 2013 and Famine of the Four Horsemen . Steve was also one of my fellow judges on...

Swords for Hire Development recently announced an open call where you can pitch up to three villain concepts. If your pitches are accepted,...

click to enlarge I still consider myself a novice gm, but on February 8th, 2013, I was a true greenhorn about to run my 3rd session of ...

I heard the PDFs have already been sent to subscribers, and the print copies should be available soon as well! I wrote a few pages worth of ...

To quote the official announcement: " Swords for Hire Development (Jacob W. Michaels and Mikko Kallio) is excited to announce its fir...

Here's a 70-minute-long high-definition video slide show to set the mood on game night, or while you work on your Pathfinder designs. Be...

In to day's interview, Alex Abel talks about Flaming Crab Games .  

Figure 1 These images are examples of a technique that I plan to explore further. As you can see in figure 1, they're photos of the ...

Guns in D&D seems to divide community opinions. The introduction of firearms to Pathfinder came with no exception. Debates over real...

This time I interviewed Jo hn Ben nett, who discusse s Shadow s over Vathak and his career as a designer and developer.

 I recently started an open call for guest bloggers, and here's the first guest blog, a review of th e E merald Spire Superdungeon, writ...

In these 4 photos of the  yeti from  Pathfinder Battles—Rise of the Runelords  ( #44 ), I used plaster-of-paris to construct a snowy b...