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Message: <blockquote data-quote="deClench" data-source="post: 5697018" data-attributes="member: 27388">You don't have to go to the stars... they're coming to you!<a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1557256029/it-came-from-the-stars-adding-the-weird-to-your-ga" target="_blank">It Came from the Stars</a> is a new patronage project from <a href="http://zombieskypress.com/" target="_blank">Zombie Sky Press</a>, exploring the effects of the weird on your game. Join today! Beyond the Realms You Know<a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1557256029/it-came-from-the-stars-adding-the-weird-to-your-ga" target="_blank">It Came from the Stars</a> brings the mystery of the unknown and the weird to your Pathfinder Roleplaying Game with new player options, new monsters, and new adventures. Mystery, wonder, and terror from the starry vastness await you. Whether you play in a world that is already aware of what lies beyond or that has been so far oblivious, it's about to get ugly.Discover bold new options for characters: Fantastic psychic abilities. Strange alien technology. Mindwarping secrets. Will you stalwartly oppose the madness or will you give in? Can you twist the dark whispers to your own advantage?Confront challenging new foes: For instance, the dreaded star beasts (one is illustrated above). Each star beast is unique in personality, appearance, and power. What can you hope to do if one of these devastating forces comes to your world? Or any of the other new creatures, for that matter?Plunge into harrowing adventure: The stars are here! Stave off invasion. Discover derelict technologies. Plunge yourself into worlds unknown. How will you fare in the coming confrontation?Set Sights for the WeirdJoin us in bringing the weird to your game. <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1557256029/it-came-from-the-stars-adding-the-weird-to-your-ga" target="_blank">It Came from the Stars</a> comes in two parts, 64 pages each, wondrously illustrated by Roxxy Goetz (The Spoils CCG). The first is full of player options, including new classes, new options for existing classes, and much more. The second is full of new monsters and crazy adventures. Discover strange, new technologies and portals to other worlds. Meet odd monsters and take their stuff. Save the day or die as your world burns. (This product will be supported with Hero Lab, character generation software from Lone Wolf Development.) Who could bring you such a thing? Only masters of the weird, that's who: Scott Gable (Incantations in Theory and Practice, The Faerie Ring), Colin McComb (Dark Sun, Planescape, and Ravenloft Settings), Richard Pett (The Sixfold Trial, The Styes, We Be Goblins!), Michael Kortes (Entombed with the Pharaohs, Haunting of Harrowstone), Clinton Boomer (Incantations from the Other Side, The Infernal Syndrome). And you! You can join us in this craziness: contribute your designs, playtest the results, shape the final product, and have some crazy fun!As a milestone, if we can reach 150% of our funding goal, we'll create three parts, instead of just two: the bestiary and the adventures will each have there own 64 pages. (That means a minimum of 192 pages!)The Stars Are Here!Maybe the strange creatures are here to enslave! Maybe they're here to eat! Maybe they're here to mate!! Whatever the case, it probably won't be pretty. <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1557256029/it-came-from-the-stars-adding-the-weird-to-your-ga" target="_blank">It Came from the Stars</a> is not a setting but a set of tools for you to add the wonder of the stars to whatever setting you wish. It's an event to up the stakes of your game and shatter expectations. It gives you what you need in order to add an element of the unknown to your game. Mysterious abilities, strange technologies, powerful foes, and mind-blowing adventures. It's about discovering that you're not alone. That there is much more than you had ever realized out there. That you are in terrible danger always.<a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1557256029/it-came-from-the-stars-adding-the-weird-to-your-ga" target="_blank">It Came from the Stars</a> provides the means to launch your game in new directions. Spice up your fantasy with a taste of the stars--some Lovecraftian horror here, some space opera there, a splash of pulpy action. Add some mystery to your ancient cultures, giving them ties to things beyond the stars. Add an unexpected twist to the storyline, upping the stakes and revealing new possibilities. Create rich characters with backgrounds hinting at the stars and powers threatening to consume them. Stave off the invasion forces and discover new worlds. While a book of the weird, for sure, <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1557256029/it-came-from-the-stars-adding-the-weird-to-your-ga" target="_blank">It Came from the Stars</a> is fun and playable and still the fantasy you know and love. It's intended to shake up campaigns, pushing the limits--whether that's cthuloid squishiness or arcane science or weird psychic powers.There's weirdness out there. You ready to explore it with us? Follow along with the pre-launch discussion and teasers at <a href="http://zombieskypress.com/" target="_blank">zombieskypress.com</a> and <a href="https://plus.google.com/115513552209574032739/posts" target="_blank">Scott's G+</a>.<a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1557256029/it-came-from-the-stars-adding-the-weird-to-your-ga" target="_blank">It Came from the Stars</a> is the first offering in The Weird Cycle. Future offerings under this banner will explore... other weirdness! It Came from the Stars complies with the <a href="http://zombieskypress.com/pathfinder-roleplaying-game-compatibility-license/" target="_blank">Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Compatibility License</a>.</blockquote>

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