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. In Tenra War, this world is reconfigured so that the lands of Tenra are to the "South", the lands of Terra are to the "North", and they exist together in one giant Ringworld-like structure.These products were created by scanning an original printed edition. Tenra originally makes reference to the continent of India to Tenra's East. The world as imagined in the original Tenra Bansho game (1996–1997) and the original Terra the Gunslinger game was a huge planet with contained Tenra's "Japan" to the East, Terra's "USA" to the West. The game is using the Standard RPG System, a ruleset also used for Alshard, Alshard Gaia and Kaze no Stigma RPG There are variances for character generation, and there are additional extra rules for things like Fate and Asura, the latter meaning, in this context, the possibility of becoming evil.ĭifferences from source material Oriental and western characters fight against the angels that are arch-foes of humankind together. To emphasize the cultural mashup, classes are mixable: One could create a ninja gunfighter, a Taoist Sorcerer Catholic priest, a kugutsu (living doll) saloon girl, and so on.
There are over 40 character classes based on oriental and western cultures in basic rulebook, which include houshi ( buddhist monk), Jinguuke ( Shinto's agent belonging to the Jinguuke clan), ninja, onmyouji, samurai, Yoroi-nori ( mecha pilot), gunslinger, preacher and private eye, rocket ranger (member of US Army's special airborne forces), saloon girl and steam mage.
The basic setup of the game is two radical cultures joining together to fight off an alien invasion. That's when the mysterious alien "Angels" arrive, great psychic/magical creatures with strange and unknowable motives. The game starts from that point, after the two cultures have had some time to intermingle. After the war, the world was changed by the influence of great culture clash between oriental and occidental nations. The setting is based after the intercontinental war between two continents: Tenra (similar to a high-magic Japan in the Sengoku period) and Terra (similar to a United States in the Wild West).
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