A satirical 5e campaign supplement and resource book expanding the world of Monsters of Murka with new items, subclasses, and monsters!
Latest Updates from Our Project:
25k Unlocked! New stretch goal: Hardback and Deluxe books! Oh, and playtest games!
over 5 years ago
– Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 02:49:05 PM
Holy crap gang, you sent us over 25k. I literally don't understand.
I want to get into a long sappy story about how we got here, but there's a lot to talk about in the update, so I'll save that for the future. Lots to cover, as usual! Let's get to it. Today, we're talking about:
Stretch Goals, new and old
Playtest Campaigns
Your Official AMA Reminder
Alright, let's get started.
Stretch Goals, new and old
First of all, WE HIT 25k. WHAT. LITERALLY WHAT.
I guess you folx are getting pins! Our long-time friend Baerthe is currently designing them, and as soon as I have previews to share, I'll circle back and send them over! Chances are good we'll be going through Wizard Pins for our pins, as I've had a pleasant experience with them in the past. We're doing 4 pins, and I think y'all are gonna love them.
The stretch goal we're currently looking forward to at 30k is DICE ADD-ONS! I mentioned previously that we're still waiting on a good photo of them, but I can confirm they'll be styled after Guy Fieri's iconic black flame-pattern shirt, so you can roll with the best of them from dungeons to diners to dragons to drive-ins to dives, all across Murka!
And finally, the moment a lot of you have been waiting and hoping for: at 35k, we will get to do HARDBACK BOOKS! And not JUST Hardback books, we'll get to offer LIMITED EDITION versions as well! Below is a photo of what those books looked like for our first Kickstarter campaign. We'll start working on the design for the limited edition book immediately. We can confirm that it'll be red faux leather, with silver foil (as opposed to blue faux leather with gold foil, from the first book), and they'll look GREAT on a shelf together.
The hardback and limited edition books from the first campaign
Playtest Campaigns
We'll be running playtest games FOR you in our Discord! We're running two games per week, for 4-5 players at a time, every week from now until the end of the Kickstarter. This week's games are on Wednesday and Friday evenings (EST). We run them through Discord and use Roll20. If you'd like to hop into these playtest games,join our Discordserver and follow the instructions there! Anybody can join, anybody can play! All that we ask is that you have a microphone so we can hear your lovely voice.
Your Official AMA Reminder
As a reminder, we are hosting an AMA on Reddit on Thursday at 6:00 P. M. EST! We'll be posting here about 30 minutes before we start, so you can come in and ask fun and funky questions to all of us, about whatever you'd like!
So long, and thanks for all the kuo-toa!
That's all I've got for this update (as it turns out, it was shorter than I'd expected since we don't have the art I wanted to have). Thank you all so much for being part of this journey. Bless up. You all rock so hard and I literally don't know what I did to deserve your love and support.
I am so proud of the team that's come together to bring this book to life. Y'all are going to love reading their work, and I mean that. Each and every member of the team has done such a wonderful job of putting their own spin on parts of Murka, adding flavor and world-building and legitimately useful parody abound. I could cry.
BUT I WON'T BECAUSE I AM TOO BUSY TO CRY. HOLD THAT TEAR IN, YOU DAMNED TEARDUCT. WE HAVE WORK TO DO.
Cheers, gang. Talk soon.
Jaron R. M. Johnson
jrmj
20k unlocked! New stretch goals announced! Reddit AMA next week! 24-hour livestream!
over 5 years ago
– Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 05:47:53 PM
So, we've got a lot to cover today.
On the bright side, I will drop some wonderful art in this update to keep you happy any time it starts to get a little dry. Today we'll be talking about:
Hitting the 20k stretch goal
Upcoming stretch goals
Reddit AMA
24-hour livestream
Let's get started. But first, some art:
Our Hero.
Hitting the 20k stretch goal
Gang, we hit it, and we hit it hard! Thanks to you, now each one of our contributors, from our artists to our layout designers to our art directors and team leads to our writers will ALL receive a cash bonus for helping out. AND, with each additional stretch goal unlocked, that cash bonus gets BIGGER and BIGGER! Our entire extended Restaurants and Retail team thanks you for backing this project and believing in us!
Watch out for his pocket sand.
Upcoming stretch goals
Next up is the pins! Right now we're working on designs for these pins, and we're thinking about:
Monsters of Murka logo
Flavor Dragon with sunglasses
"Welcome to Flavor City" banner
Action Fiction logo
If y'all have other ideas, PLEASE let us know in the comments or on our Discord!
After we unlock the pins, at 30k we move on to the dice! These are also currently in design (you guys keep hitting stretch goals faster than we can keep up!). We've received one prototype so far, but it was below our expectations, and we feel sharing the images would be a poor indication of the final product. These dice will be based off of a particular flame-patterned shirt.
Now how did this picture of Guy Fieri get in here?
Reddit AMA
Next Thursday, September 17th, at 6 PM EST., we'll be doing an AMA on Reddit!
We've been designing games for a few years independently, and professionally for almost a year! We've done two successful Kickstarters, and we've worked with hundreds of writers and artists. We also have some other games in development. So, swing by and ask us whatever questions you have! We'll post a link in an update before we go live with it!
24-hour Livestream
In our last update, you may have seen that fish pizza clip. That was from last year's 24-hour livestream, which was a hoot. I'm posting here to remind you that on September 25th, starting at 9 AM, we'll be doing ANOTHER 24-hour livestream playing Restaurants and Retail content non-stop (well we may stop for food). The players will be the lead designers behind Murka, and the GMs will each be a writer on the project, showcasing some of their work, and wrangling us like sleepless cats.
Heckna! is 5e adventure story designed to take characters through levels 1 to 10. This book is both a setting and a campaign guide with plenty of replayability. Game Masters and players alike will delight in this whimsical, dark carnival setting.
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Heckna looks awesome to us. We were HUGE fans of the Humblewood setting, and the quality on the box set of Humblewood was out of this world. We can only imagine how much COOLER Heckna is going to be!
FULLY FUNDED IN UNDER 48 HOURS! TIME FOR STRETCH GOALS!
over 5 years ago
– Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 11:26:45 AM
WE DID IT. YOU DID IT.
Big-ass confetti storm over here in the Action Fiction house (okay, not really, but I did eat a toaster strudel in sweatpants this morning, and that's as close to a party as I've been in many, many years).
So, here's a quick run-down of what's in this update:
Talkin' about stretch goals
Talkin' about opening up more Kickstarter rewards
Touchin' base on add-ons again
Sharing a funny story about my middle names
So, let's get started
Talkin' about Stretch Goals
Our current Stretch Goals are for 20k and 25k: bonuses for contributors, and pins + menus!
20k
Our next stop on the Stretch Goal train is to add more art to the book, as well as to give a bonus to all of our contributors! Writers, artists, layout artists, and more will receive a cash bonus.
What's COOL about this Stretch Goal is that for EACH additional stretch goal we unlock past 20k, that bonus will increase in size! I wanted our contributors to feel like they had ownership of the project, because without them, this project would not exist. This was our way of showing thanks and appreciation, and making sure that if this project is a success, those contributors get to benefit from that success.
25k
Then, at 25,000, we will design printable player handouts with menus for each of the stores in Flavor City, the Hall of Murka, and for Walmoria! These are great little things to help build immersion for your players. Players LOVE handouts, and they'll be free to ALL backers!
Additionally, we're getting to work this morning on designing some neat pins that will be available to all you pin collectors out there! These will be available as add-ons, which you can add to any pledge level. If you have ideas on what kinds of pins you'd like to see, let us know by leaving a comment or joining our Discord!
Talkin' about opening up more Kickstarter rewards
We've just added two new rewards:
$30 - A DIGITAL SANDWICH
Get PDFs of both the core book and the Restaurants and Retail expansion for cheaper than MSRP!
$150 - OH DEAR, OH DEAR, GORGEOUS 2 - You're in
We opened up 10 more slots for people to be IN the book! These sold out SUPER fast, so we talked with our artists and decided we could do 10 more. After this, we aren't likely to open up more slots because a lot of art is already completed. So, this may be your LAST CHANCE.
Touchin' base on add-ons again
I'm re-pasting the add-ons text here as the Kickstarter body text is quite long. If you want any of our add-ons, like adding more books to a digital reward tier, or getting your hands on more of those sweet gold coins, read this!
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To get any add-ons, you can simply add the amount of the add-on to your pledge. You can also wait until the survey goes out after the Kickstarter campaign ends before purchasing add-ons. Shipping costs will be calculated after the campaign ends.
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Sharing a funny story about middle names
One of our writers, who quickly became the incredibly talented art director for this project, Snails, has been posting my secrets as a means of motivating people to donate. And, I promised them that if we funded, I would share the truth about my two middles names, where they come from, and what they mean.
It's sort of a long story, but it's also kinda funny, because I'm kinda funny, and I wrote it.
Anyway, folx, that's all I've got for you today. I'm about to go sit down and start working out some enamel pin designs. I would LOVE your feedback/suggestions, so please drop those below. Also, don't forget to join our Discord to hang out with us, and to get some SWEET Playtest sneak-peeks.
