It came from the Stars
You don’t have to go to the stars… they’re coming to you!
- Design by Colin McComb, Richard Pett, Michael Kortes, Clinton Boomer, and Scott Gable… and maybe YOU
- Full color illustrations by Roxxy Goetz
- Built and playtested for Pathfinder Roleplaying Game
- One-third player options, one-third GM options, and one-third adventures
- Starts at 96 pages and increases if project gets to certain levels past the initial funding goal
Beyond the Realms You Know
It Came from the Stars brings the mystery of the unknown and the weird to your Pathfinder Roleplaying Game with new player options, new monsters and other GM options, 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 and obstacles: 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 Weird
Join us in bringing the weird to your game. It Came from the Stars is wondrously illustrated by Roxxy Goetz (The Spoils CCG). It is devoted to offerings for both player and GM alike: roughly containing a third player options, a third GM options, and a third adventures. Player options include new classes, new options for existing classes, and much more, and GM options include new monsters, locales, obstacles, and more. 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 (or $6,000), we’ll add another 28 pages for a minimum of 128 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. It Came from the Stars 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.
It Came from the Stars 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, It Came from the Stars 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.
The Weird Cycle
This is the first offering in The Weird Cycle. Future offerings under this banner will further explore the conceptual boundaries of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, detailing themes such as post-apocalypse, psionics, steampunk, wuxia, warring against the gods, and more. And each book will have a handpicked dream team of designers–the perfect creative team for a given theme.
No matter what kind of game you want to play, we’ll have you covered!
