The text is fine for reading, but illustration work starts to run dark, pixellating and/or losing shades of grey. It's the problem of making a copy of a copy. Unfortunately, the resulting quality of these books is not as high. We essentially digitally re-master the book. Also, a few larger books may be resampled to fit into the system, and may not have this searchable text background.įor printed books, we have performed high-resolution scans of an original hardcopy of the book. However, any text in a given book set on a graphical background or in handwritten fonts would most likely not be picked up by the OCR software, and is therefore not searchable. The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching. Most older books are in scanned image format because original digital layout files never existed or were no longer available from the publisher.įor PDF download editions, each page has been run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to decipher the printed text. These products were created by scanning an original printed edition. There are rules for scare and shock, moving about in space and dealing with the extraordinary abilities of alien beings.īe sure to check out the sequel They Came from the Stars II The rule system is an original one based around a 20-sided dice and the ability to roll under or equal to a given value. Thankfully character creation is very quick. Relive you favourite B-horror movie! Experience the terror of gruesome creatures from beyond! Combat in They Came from the Stars! can be very dangerous, since the players are dealing with interdimensional horrors and the like.

They Came from the Stars! fits shorter adventures, about the story span of a full length movie. Load up on 20-sided, 8-sided and 4-sided dice and start adventuring. They Came from the Stars! includes everything you need to play: an original and easy to learn ruleset, an introductory adventure, a huge catalogue of classic and novel monsters, and a selection of pre-made characters for fast play.

Play it as a cheesy movie from the 50’s featuring rubber suited aliens with ray guns, or play is as a bone chilling horror movie with brain eating parasites overtaking the Earth. If you are fond of the classic movies from the 50-70’s this is the game for you. They Came from the Stars! is a tabletop role-playing game featuring retro science fiction and horror aesthetics.

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